TRICK TRIPS with Minor Threat Trevor Jacob: How to Handplant a Wallride

When Peter Line turned twenty-one, the TRVA turned second trimester.

I first met Trevor Jacobs four years ago while lapping the main park at Mammoth. All the nine-year-old Malibu-born regular-footer could talk about was his favorite rider, Shane Flood. It didn’t take long for Flood to find out that he had a pint-sized superfan in the park, and Shane spent the rest of the winter relentlessly harassing Trevor. The pinnacle of Trevor’s torment occurred one busy Saturday when Flood rode up in the middle of Trevor’s deck-rail boardslide and pushed his ninety-pound frame off the jib.

Four years later, Flood is over it and claiming “retirement,” and Trevor has earned a place in history as the youngest person to make the men’s halfpipe finals at the US Open. Anyone who saw Trevor’s David vs. snowboarding’s Goliaths performance will never forget the one thing that he alone was doing at the end of each Open run: smiling. Of course, you’d flash your pearls, too, if you just had your braces taken off. None too soon to make your national TV debut, either.

Village Crips represent!

Name: Trevor Daniel Jacob
D.O.B.: 8/6/93
School Grade: 8
Favorite Subject: Science
Favorite Teacher: Mr. Armstrong
Years Riding: 8
Riding Hero: Mason Aguirre
Riding Buddies: Ross Baker, Greg Bretz, Garrett Warnick, Jordan Jacobs
Favorite Trick: Frontside invert
Favorite Video: That
Favorite Food: Sushi Cali roll
Favorite Movie: Blades of Glory
Best Band: Killswitch Engage, Eazy-E, GG Allin, Peaches

Stance: Regs
Width: 21.5”
Front Angle: 18°
Rear Angle: -15°
Board: Forum Mini Youngblood 145
Boot: Forum Destroyer
Binding: Forum
Goggle: Oakley A Frame
Jacket: Bonfire Volt
Pants: Bonfire
Gloves: Dakine
Shoe Sponsor: Nike 6.0
Resort Sponsor: Mammoth

HITTING WALLRIDES
1. Look for a wall with enough steepness, but if it is too steep, when landing you will drop all the way to the tranny below. Make sure it’s not too quick of a transition, or it will throw you off balance.

2. Approach the wall flat-based. You want to be looking ahead at the wall and at the coping. If you focus on the transition, you won’t be set up for any kinks when you get to them.

3. Crouch low and suck up the transition. Stay flat-based all the way to the top of the wall or you will slide out.

4. Do your trick, stall, handplant, or whatever. Make sure you complete your move fully and your nose or tail is pointed in the direction you want to come down.

5. Ride out, crouched low and flat-based. Head all the way back uphill before turning away from the wall to keep the tranny and runway from getting rutted.

Five Wallriding Influences
Jeremy Jones
Aaron Biittner
Peter Line
Shaun White
Shane Flood

HANDPLANTS

1. Find a feature that goes to vert or at least comes close. Approach it flat-based, looking at the lip the whole time. Go straight up the feature and don’t drift or slide across the snow.

2. When your back foot hits the vert, pop off the lip with pressure from your back leg while leaning back. For frontside inverts look over your leading shoulder, and for backside handplants look under your rear shoulder.

3. Once your board leaves the ground, put your planting hand on the lip in the spot you were looking at and then grab your board. Method is the easiest grab for backside handplants and Indy is the easiest for frontside inverts.

4. Let gravity do the work from here. Land solid and try to do another plant as soon as possible.

5. Don’t be scared of handplants. When people fall, they put their hands out. With inverts, your hands are already there. Don’t ever plant below the lip, and remember, Village Crips represent!

Five Handplant Influences
Pat Moore
Shaun White
Shane Flood
Travis Rice
Peter Line

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