Manual

A manual , or wheeling , is a trick of Skateboard. Instead of rolling with the four wheels of sound skate concerning the ground, the skator carrying out a manual is satisfied to roll on the two aft wheels.

This position is reached by slightly moving the weight of the body on the back leg. The difficulty is to maintain this position, which requires much balance. Indeed, it is necessary to avoid falling down on four wheels or worse, to slip behind.

Alternatives

Nose manual

The nose manual is a figure equivalent to the manual , but carried out on the nose gear wheels. It thus consists in putting the skateboard in a position where only the nose gear wheels have a contact with the ground, to maintain this position in balance, the whole while advancing.

One-wheel manual

Instead of rolling on the two aft wheels, the skator carrying out a one-wheel manual tries to maintain his balance while rolling on the one of both aft wheels. The one-wheel nose manual is almost identical. Alternative of the nose manual , it is accomplished when the skator rolls on one of his two nose gear wheels.

One foot manual

As its name indicates it, the one-foot manual is a manual during which the skator only remains in balance on one of his two feet. If this position unijambist is reached whereas the skate rolls on the two nose gear wheels, one will speak about one-foot nose manual .

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