diff --git a/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/pokemon/gen1/SandslashModel.kt b/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/pokemon/gen1/SandslashModel.kt
deleted file mode 100644
index 52d676776c..0000000000
--- a/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/pokemon/gen1/SandslashModel.kt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2023 Cobblemon Contributors
- *
- * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
- * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
- * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
- */
-
-package com.cobblemon.mod.common.client.render.models.blockbench.pokemon.gen1
-
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.client.render.models.blockbench.frame.HeadedFrame
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.client.render.models.blockbench.pokemon.CryProvider
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.client.render.models.blockbench.pokemon.PokemonPosableModel
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.client.render.models.blockbench.pose.Pose
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.entity.PoseType
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.entity.PoseType.Companion.MOVING_POSES
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.entity.PoseType.Companion.STATIONARY_POSES
-import com.cobblemon.mod.common.entity.PoseType.Companion.UI_POSES
-import net.minecraft.client.model.geom.ModelPart
-import net.minecraft.world.phys.Vec3
-
-class SandslashModel(root: ModelPart) : PokemonPosableModel(root), HeadedFrame {
-    override val rootPart = root.registerChildWithAllChildren("sandslash")
-    override val head = getPart("head")
-
-    override var portraitScale = 2.0F
-    override var portraitTranslation = Vec3(-0.15, 0.0, 0.0)
-
-    override var profileScale = 0.8F
-    override var profileTranslation = Vec3(0.0, 0.55, 0.0)
-
-    lateinit var sleep: Pose
-    lateinit var standing: Pose
-    lateinit var walk: Pose
-
-    override val cryAnimation = CryProvider { bedrockStateful("sandslash", "cry") }
-
-    override fun registerPoses() {
-        val blink = quirk { bedrockStateful("sandslash", "blink")}
-        standing = registerPose(
-            poseName = "standing",
-            poseTypes = STATIONARY_POSES + UI_POSES,
-            transformTicks = 10,
-            quirks = arrayOf(blink),
-            animations = arrayOf(
-                singleBoneLook(),
-                bedrock("sandslash", "ground_idle")
-            )
-        )
-
-        sleep = registerPose(
-                poseType = PoseType.SLEEP,
-                animations = arrayOf(bedrock("sandslash", "sleep"))
-        )
-
-        walk = registerPose(
-            poseName = "walk",
-            poseTypes = MOVING_POSES,
-            transformTicks = 10,
-            quirks = arrayOf(blink),
-            animations = arrayOf(
-                singleBoneLook(),
-                bedrock("sandslash", "ground_walk")
-            )
-        )
-    }
-
-//    override fun getFaintAnimation(
-//        pokemonEntity: PokemonEntity,
-//        state: PosableState<PokemonEntity>
-//    ) = if (state.isPosedIn(standing, walk)) bedrockStateful("sandslash", "faint") else null
-}
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diff --git a/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/repository/VaryingModelRepository.kt b/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/repository/VaryingModelRepository.kt
index 698af06404..10bce3e553 100644
--- a/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/repository/VaryingModelRepository.kt
+++ b/common/src/main/kotlin/com/cobblemon/mod/common/client/render/models/blockbench/repository/VaryingModelRepository.kt
@@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ object VaryingModelRepository {
         inbuilt("ponyta", ::PonytaModel)
         inbuilt("psyduck", ::PsyduckModel)
         inbuilt("rapidash", ::RapidashModel)
-        inbuilt("sandslash", ::SandslashModel)
         inbuilt("tangela", ::TangelaModel)
         inbuilt("venomoth", ::VenomothModel)
         inbuilt("venonat", ::VenonatModel)
diff --git a/common/src/main/resources/assets/cobblemon/bedrock/pokemon/posers/0028_sandslash/sandslash.json b/common/src/main/resources/assets/cobblemon/bedrock/pokemon/posers/0028_sandslash/sandslash.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89e60918ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/src/main/resources/assets/cobblemon/bedrock/pokemon/posers/0028_sandslash/sandslash.json
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{
+  "portraitScale": 2,
+  "portraitTranslation": [-0.15, 0, 0],
+  "profileScale": 0.8,
+  "profileTranslation": [0, 0.55, 0],
+  "rootBone": "sandslash",
+  "poses": {
+    "standing": {
+      "poseTypes": ["STAND", "FLOAT", "HOVER", "PROFILE", "PORTRAIT"],
+      "animations": [
+        "q.look('head')",
+        "q.bedrock('sandslash', 'ground_idle')"
+      ],
+      "quirks": [
+        "q.bedrock_quirk('sandslash', 'blink')"
+      ],
+      "transformTicks": 10
+    },
+    "walk": {
+      "poseName": "walk",
+      "poseTypes": ["WALK", "SWIM", "FLY"],
+      "animations": [
+        "q.look('head')",
+        "q.bedrock('sandslash', 'ground_walk')"
+      ],
+      "quirks": [
+        "q.bedrock_quirk('sandslash', 'blink')"
+      ],
+      "transformTicks": 10
+    },
+    "sleep": {
+      "poseTypes": ["SLEEP"],
+      "animations": [
+        "q.bedrock('sandslash', 'sleep')"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}
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