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Some of the common mistakes you'll experience while learning how to front side nose slide
to fakie will usually have to do with your weight going in the wrong direction, and sending
you forward. Sometimes it has to do with sticking, and sometimes it has to with things that you
could fix. Like setting your shoulders in the right direction. So while you're rolling
up to the ledge, and you get into the front side nose slide position, the objective is
to go to fakie, so even though you're heading in a way that you can't see, you're going
to want to slide, and then after you're done sliding, that's when you being your fakie
movement. A lot of people mistake this for being one motion, but what you want to do
is ollie into the front side nose slide, slide, and then pop it out into the fakie. One of
the major mistakes people make while they're learning how to front side nose slide to fakie
are that they don't approach the ledge in the right direction. What they have to do
is roll a little more parallel into the ledge. This is going to help you slide further. The
further that you slide, and the more balanced you are on the nose, will allow you to come
out more steadily because you're ready for the fakie position when you get there. So
what you're going to want to do is head into the ledge as parallel as possible. Angles
like this come too directly into the ledge, so you're not going to slide this way very
far. So the more parallel you're traveling, ollie into the front side nose slide, and
the more balanced you are on top of the board, the more ready you are when you get to the
end and you pop out to fakie. And this will help you learn how to do front side nose slides
to fakie better.