30 THRASHER MAGAZINE
BY STEP
180° SHOVE-IT-TO-NOSE PIVOT /Tony Assini 1. Ride straight toward the lip with more speed than you need for a regular pivot. 2. Scrape your tail and twist the deck around. 3. Watch the board
and wait until the nose is right over the coping. 4. Push down and land in a nose pivot. 5. Lean forward and ride it out like a regular pivot. Also try pivot-to-fakie, revert and shove-it back in variations.
TAIL GRAB ALLEY-OOP/Christian Hosoi 1. Go up as if you're going for an alley-oop. 2. Hit your back wheels if there's big coping and hit your tail if it's small. 3. Wait until you're at the peak then grab
the tail. 4. Nose-bone it and dive bomb it back in. 5. Tuck it in. 6. Afterwards, use all that speed to blast a big Judo or a straight up and down Indy air.