Created by crea-ture Studios with passion and care for the sport, Session: Skate Sim is just pure skating your heart out immersion. It's perhaps the most realistic and authentic portrayal of the world of skateboarding yet, with its physics, graphics, playable characters, and real-world locations.
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There are endless amounts of special moves and tricks to try out with your board once you become skilled enough and not constantly falling off your board like a ragdoll. Here are some of the coolest you can accomplish that would make you a skater to be envied, although there's no scoring or competition in this game.
10 Lip Trick
A lip trick is a slick action to perform during successful runs on ramps. It involves steadying your board on the lips, or top edges, of any half-pipes or ramps. You keep either the tail or nose of your board pressed against the edge of the structure and hold the position for a brief pause, and you can even do small lip grinds along the top.
To readily access lip tricks in Session, you first need to enable them in the experimental settings of the menu. Doing so will immediately allow your board to rest on the top edge of any ramps you're sliding up.
9 Willy Grind
In skateboarding, grinds are when a board's trunk, the metal part holding together the wheels, makes contact with a surface such as a railing. Of the many attainable in Session: Skate Sim, the willy grind is a fun and satisfying one. It features your board scraping right down the middle at an angle as the trunks hang off the sides of the railing.
As with any grind or flip trick attempted in the game, in order for it to be successful, the controller sticks must be in a precise position. When approaching the railing and launching yourself in the air, hold the left stick up and the right stick down and to the left.
8 Higher Ollie
An ollie is one of the most basic moves you start with in skateboarding, as it serves as the catalyst for getting your board in the air to achieve flips or grinds on surfaces. And in Session, you can be even further airborne if you get a higher ollie maneuver down.
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It’s handy for getting over taller objects, such as large trash cans and long flights of stairs. To perform this, you begin by inputting the controls for a standard ollie and then, while suspended in the air, quickly flick and hold both the left and right stick up to remain a little longer in the air.
7 360 Inward Heelflip
This one may seem a little unconventional from the image alone, almost like you're frightened of the skateboard and avoiding it at all costs, but it's a pretty smooth trick once you get the hang of it. You'll need to turn the right stick clockwise in a half rotation and push the left stick to the right.
This 360 flip creates a powerful arch with the knees since the heels tuck into an inward position as the board flips beneath you. It's also one of those skate moves that are both rad and funny since it can look like your knees are flailing.
6 Bluntslide
The bluntslide is another type of grind you're able to complete in which only the trunk on the tail side of your board slides down the surfaces of ledges or rails. It's much riskier than the willy grind because it requires balancing on one end of the skateboard as you're sliding across.
And another thing even cooler about it is that you only need to deal with one stick to nail this trick. When you're about to strike the railing, simply nudge the right stick to the left.
5 Casper Flip
Unfortunately, this move isn't named after Casper the Friendly Ghost, nor does it mean you transform into a ghost. However, it feels like it should be since the trick mimics gliding, and you're almost floating in the air on your board. Caspers are another one of the more advanced options, so you'll need to find them in the experimental settings and set them to true.
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Once you're ready to go with that, sticking the Casper gets done by doing any flip you're already familiar with, and then holding down the right stick of your controller partially halfway during the flip’s rotation. The board should land flipped upside down with one foot planted underneath, and the other holding the nose or tail end on the ground like a seesaw.
4 Primo
Primos entail you balancing with both feet on the side of your board, and they make for clean finishes after a flip or even allow for a slide while remaining glued on the side. To hit the primo position, you’d need to simultaneously hold the controller’s left stick down and the right stick up. Note that these also require going into the experimental settings to make it possible for you to do them.
Primos are pretty versatile because you can do them in place for fun or flip onto railings and concrete blocks to achieve some primo slides. Session allows you to combine any trick in tandem, so you can transition from any flip of your choosing directly into the primo and really show off your skills.
3 360 Hardflip
The 360 hardflip makes for a fairly clean flip, even though the name suggests a lot can go wrong with it. It’s a more stunning and elevated version of a kickflip, combining it with a 360 pop shuvit, so the skateboard undergoes a complete 360-degree rotational spin while you're in the air.
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The control inputs on this one are definitely much harder to get down than a regular kickflip. However, they’re the exact opposite of the 360 Inward Heelflip, rotating the right stick counterclockwise halfway and flicking the left stick to the left.
2 Double Flip
What could be even cooler and top all these flips mentioned above? Well, how about a flip that comes in twos. That's right, a double flip can be a reality in Session and comes as easy as putting in the controls for a common kickflip. All you have to do is hold the left stick to the left for a tiny bit longer to get a second flip in.
As long as you don't prolong the left stick hold and topple over, this trick makes for a very clean double board rotation with solid airtime that's neat and exciting to see it land.
1 Darkslide
This is perhaps the most impressive and daring board slide in the move set. The setup here is precisely the same as with any flip transitioning into a slide, but your skateboard turns upside down, and you ride on its bottom side along a surface in a sleek style.
It's a more complex trick to get going, since it requires detailed navigation through the menu to initialize. You need to head over to the grind settings that are within the gameplay section of the options menu, and then set darkslides to on.
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