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    Stalefish grab - new

    New article · suggested by renec112 · Sep 20, 2026 15:26 · goes in "Beginner"

    New article: Stalefish grab

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    Stalefish grab

    Skill:
    land a straight air with a Stalefish grab
    Switch:
    Can be ridden switch

    The Stalefish is the back-hand cousin of the Method. Reach down behind your back leg with your back hand and grab the heel edge just in front of your back binding. Because the hand goes behind the leg, it looks harder than it is once the board comes up to you.

    Learn it on heelside straight airs off the L-kicker. Ride in on a mellow heelside edge and keep the board flat off the lip.

    Learn more here:

    YouTube video

    Video by Raph Trinidad

    Key tips

    • Back hand, heel edge, just in front of the back binding, reaching behind the back leg
    • Push the board a little forward in the air - it makes the grab easier to reach and looks better
    • Board up to the hand, not hand down to the board

    See a map of all grabs here.

    Where it goes in the course

    Getting Started

    • Welcome to Wakeboarding welcome
    • Water Start (Sitting) water-start-sitting
    • Your First Turn first-corner
    • Full Round full-round
    • Dock Starts sw-dock-starts
    • Toeside Turning toeside-riding
    • Straight Airs (S-Kicker) straight-airs-s-kicker
    • 50-50 (Box) fifty-fifty-box

    Easy Tricks

    • Switch Riding switch-riding
    • Jump Starts jump-starts
    • Ollies ollies
    • Side Slide side-slide
    • Surface FS 180 side-slide-180
    • Indy Grab indy-grab

    Beginner new article here

    • Switch Corners & Full Rounds sw-corners-and-rounds
    • Hard Edging hard-edging
    • Straight Airs (All Stances) straight-airs-all-stances
    • 50-50 (All Stances) fifty-fifty-all-stances
    • Forward Slide (Box) box-forward-slides
    • Frontside Shifty frontside-shifty
    • FS180 (Box) box-fs180
    • Stalefish grab stalefish-grab
    • Stalefish grab stalefish-grab
    • Backward Slide (Box) box-bs-slides

    Upper Beginner

    • Surface BS180 surface-bs180
    • Backside Shifty backside-shifty
    • Power Slides power-slides
    • BS Handplant bs-handplant
    • Ollie FS180 ollie-fs180
    • Kicker FS180 (S-Kicker) kicker-fs180

    Intermediate

    • Backside Lipslide (Rail) backside-lipslide-rail
    • Nollie Starts nollie-starts
    • Tail Press surface-wheelies
    • Tap tap
    • Tail Spray tail-spray
    • Surface 360 surface-360
    • Kicker BS180 (S-Kicker) kicker-bs180
    • Kicker 360 kicker-360

    Advanced

    • Nuclear Grab nuclear-grab
    • Backroll backroll
    • Rail to rail rail-to-rail
    • Ollie BS180 Blind Unwrap ollie-bs180-blind-unwrap
    • Heelside Transfer heelside-transfer
    • Nose Press nose-press
    • Method Grab method-grab
    • Kicker Tantrum kicker-tantrum
    • Raley raley
    • Toeside Transfer toeside-transfer
    • Mexican Roll mexican-roll

    Mastery

    • Scarecrow scarecrow
    • Backside 360 backside-360
    • Kicker heelside 540 kicker-heelside-540
    • Rewind Toeside BS180 rewind-toeside-bs180
    • Batwing batwing
    • KGB kgb
    • Whirly Bird whirly-bird

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