winter/spring 2026 skateboard highlights

Author: cberes

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+title: My winter/spring 2026 skateboarding highlights
+date: 2026-06-28
+---
+<p>
+  This is the winter 2025-26 and spring 2026 installment of my skateboarding highlights.
+  At the end of every season I make a short video of all the tricks I learned.
+  Except this time when I skipped winter and combined it with spring.
+</p>
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+  title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0"
+  allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
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+<p>Here's a list of all the tricks</p>
+<ol>
+  <li>FS pivot</li>
+  <li>Nose stall BS revert</li>
+  <li>Shove to fakie</li>
+  <li>Switch shove to regular</li>
+  <li>Switch blunt</li>
+  <li>Willy grind</li>
+  <li>Switch FS 50-50 over the dirt pile</li>
+  <li>Nollie flip</li>
+  <li>Nollie BS bigspin</li>
+  <li>Switch BS 50-50</li>
+  <li>FS 50-50 on a rail</li>
+  <li>Ollie down a 4-stair</li>
+</ol>
+<p>
+  I did the switch blunts back in January.
+  I was happy to land these two.
+  Only recently have I tried them again.
+  They don't come as easy as blunt to fakie.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The willy grind was supposed to be a BS 50-50, which I've been practicing frequently.
+  I missed the BS 50-50, but I thought the willy grind looked <em>neat</em>.
+</p>
+<p>
+  Nollie BS bigspin was something I tried on a whim on a trip to Canada.
+  It only took a few tries.
+</p>
+<p>
+  I've done switch FS 50-50s before, but I liked this one because it was over the dirt pile.
+  I've been practicing switch <em>BS</em> 50-50s, and I finally landed one.
+  It was dirty, but they always are the first time you land something.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The last time I tried a 50-50 on a rail was April two years ago.
+  I thought I would get one, then I landed on my face and broke my front tooth.
+  I finally mustered the courage to try them again.
+  I know I can do it, it's just very scary.
+  I finally did one, with a reverse crosslock, but at least I landed it.
+</p>
+<p>
+  The ollie down the 4-stair was another terrifying one.
+  The scary part is staying parallel to the board as you go over the stairs.
+  I was glad I had the knee sleeves on, otherwise I would have scraped my knee pretty good.
+  Eventually I landed three of these.
+</p>