Backside Tailslide

Taken at the wonderfully grimey Southbank Centre.

(30mm 1/1000, f4.2 ISO 400)

I don't know if backside tailslide is the correct name for this trick (the closest I've ever been to riding a skateboard was playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on my computer) but this skater was performing something a lot like the videos I checked out online for comparison.

It was a sunny day and I was set at ISO 100, but for this shot I bumped it up because I was shooting into shadows and wanted a fast shutter speed. I chucked it into shutter priority and fired off a couple of quick shots.

He didn't land the trick after this particular attempt, but his stance mid-slide looked pretty neat.