Gama and Nguyen [‘Finding short lattice vectors within Mordell’s inequality’, in: Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, New York, 2008, 257–278] have presented slide reduction which is currently the best SVP approximation algorithm in theory. In this paper, we prove the upper and lower bounds for the ratios $\Vert { \mathbf{b} }_{i}^{\ast } \Vert / {\lambda }_{i} (\mathbf{L} )$ and $\Vert {\mathbf{b} }_{i} \Vert / {\lambda }_{i} (\mathbf{L} )$, where ${\mathbf{b} }_{1} , \ldots , {\mathbf{b} }_{n} $ is a slide reduced basis and ${\lambda }_{1} (\mathbf{L} ), \ldots , {\lambda }_{n} (\mathbf{L} )$ denote the successive minima of the lattice $\mathbf{L} $. We define generalised slide reduction and use slide reduction to approximate $i$-SIVP, SMP and CVP. We also present a critical slide reduced basis for blocksize 2.