Soul grind
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The 'soul' is a grind used in Aggressive Inline Skating. It is one of the most basic sole based grinds done using both feet. The leading foot is placed on the object in the frontside position (with the toe of the skate pointing towards the object) and the trailing foot is placed in the Makio position (with a soul plate resting on the object).
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[edit] Variants
There are many variants of the soul grind. They differ by the positioning of the feet.
[edit] Topsoul
Topsoul is the name given to a soul done topside.
[edit] Torque Soul
A Torque Soul is a grind similar to the Soul grind, the only difference being that the leading foot is placed in the 'torque' position, with the outside of the boot touching the object and bending inwards.
[edit] Soyale
A Soyale is an alley-oop version of the Torque Soul. Alley-oop means grinding backwards instead of forwards.
[edit] Training Wheel
A Training wheel is normally done topside. Your trailing foot should be in the Fishbrain position while the back wheel of you lead foot should be rolling along the obstacle. Normally done on ledges or grind boxes this trick is one of the easier topside tricks and should make Topacids and Topsouls easier.
[edit] SNAFU / AWOL
A variation of the Soyale (see above) where the lead foot (the foot grinding on the soul plate) is sliding on the toe end of the soul plate.
[edit] Stub Soul
The Stub Soul uses the same back foot position, (so the foot is sliding on the positive soul plate), but the front foot, instead of grinding in the h-block, is sliding on the negative, or inner, soul plate.
[edit] Biscuit
The Biscuit is similar to the Stub soul, the difference being that the leading foot is twisted round 180 degrees and is sliding on the positive soul plate. This is quite a difficult grind and requires the skater's legs to be flexible.
[edit] Nine-bar
The nine-bar is a rare old-school trick that is similar to both the Soyale and AWOL. The difference is that the front/toe wheel of your soul foot should be rolling along the obstacle while the Royale foot is in Soyale position.
[edit] External links
- A photo of a skater doing a Soul Grind
- A photo of a skater doing a Soyale
- A photo of a skater doing a Topside Torque Soul
- A photo of a skater doing a Topsoul
