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Hey guys, what's up? This is Jacob from the Skateboarding Skateboard Park in Hempstead,
North Carolina. Today we're going to learn how to do a tail tap on a skateboard. Before
you can do a tail tap, there's a couple of tricks that you must know. Dropping in being
the first, which actually emulates a tail tap when you drop in, and being able to ride
backwards on your skateboard at a constant speed to get back up to the coping, where
you originally dropped in from. To do a tail tap it's much like a drop in. You want to
come up backwards, right before you get to the bar, you want to put all of your weight
on your back foot, slamming the tail into the platform, your wheels and trucks, into
the coping, giving you this locked in position and it should feel comfortable, when you do
it properly. You'll know you've done one right when you hear a nice crisp sound, when you
lock your tail of your board and your wheels and trucks in. So, now I'm going to demonstrate
a tail tap.
That's how you do a tail tap on a skateboard.