casper slide

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 28, 2003 2:00 pm Post subject: casper slide

hey can someone explain how these are done on a skateboard for me. i dont know much about skateboarding but want to try one on the wakeskate on like a lowbox or something but am not sure how it is done. also whats an anti casper? is that just a tony hawk video game thing or is it real?

stussy · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 706

i dont know much about old school but a casper and casper slide is when the board is flipped upside down and your back foot is on the tail when its upside down and your front front (top of your shoe) is touching the griptape balancing the board up. And you slide like that, one of Rodney Mullens signiture tricks. Not 100% sure what an anti-capser is though

greg van wagnen · Posted: Oct 28, 2003 11:29 pm Post subject:

ya i know what it is but i want to know how to get into and out of it

Fredrick_Eisenhauer · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 2:57 am Post subject:

Anti-casper is just like fakie casper, im not sure if it gets called that very much though. You would need to get the feel of them on a skateboard first i would think. But i cant get the flip into them consistant but anyways flip the board as lightly as you can but instead of bringing it back up like a kick flip, keep it under there and catch it with your front foot then put your back foot on the kick and slide. To get out of them just do like a half heel flip. Sorry if the directions arnt very good but yeah doing its one thing teaching its another.

stussy · Backside 180 Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 706

i really find that all trick tips are pretty useless, i mean if you tell somebody how you do a trick, its not gonna be the same as how you do it. You just gotta go out and try it different ways. If you read like a 100 page manual on how to do a casper slide its gonna be useless compared to actually practising it. good luck with it, that would be nice to bring some old school into wakeskating.