Hey,

I just started skidding just few months ago. It is hard to comprehend from the usual non-fixie instinct.

All you do is to stand up from your saddle and move your body forward (practically on the handle bar) and then you lock your rear wheel. You should immediately start to skid. Only problem is the fear factor. The first skid really frightened me; nearly p33ed in my pants. But once I learned how to balance on the handlebar, I started to skid well.

Learning how to use it to stop is another problem, but once you figure out how to skid, it should be self-explanatory. (If you can't figure that one out, ... you should go back to non-fixie. Yep it's real easy.)

The major problem is how to get from there to "skip-stop" which is more practical. It took me a great deal of thinking and watching other people do it to figure out just a small bit of it. I still wiggle dangerously sometimes. ... A lot more to learn!

People tells me from here you go to "skid-power-slide-stop" but I haven't reached this far. I have seen it once and it looked good. Which is a reason enough to learn how to do it.

Good luck practicing,

T

P.S. Try this site:

http://www.oldskooltrack.com/