This site is made for those of you who are in the early stages of pursuing your interest in skateboarding! It is intended to teach ...
This site is made for those of you who are in the early stages of pursuing your interest in skateboarding! It is intended to teach you the very basics of skateboarding before the more technical and stylistic elements of skateboarding come into play. Specifically, this section hopes to impart on you a familiarity with what you should try to learn before you get to what is arguably the most important trick of them all, the ‘ollie’. These basics include information about the components of the board itself, as well as the simple maneuvers of pushing, tick-tacking, manualing, power sliding (this ones actually not so easy!), and ‘shoving’ your skateboard.
We recommend learning the maneuvers listed above in that order. Please take a look at the guide below for more detailed information as well as further links on each of them. The basics as listed above will often times take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to get comfortable with, so don’t feel like you’re in any rush. Enjoy the basics!
1.SETUP | Getting Your Own Skateboard
2.BASICS (Mount, Move, Stop)
You’ve got your brand new (or your newly inherited hideous hand-me-down) skateboard and you’re ready to go for your first ride. Congratulations! Before you get to it, you should learn some basic motions and practice them for your safety. It is very dangerous to ride a skateboard without knowing how to do so. So please, read the article below and get ready to enjoy your first ride!
3.PUSHING
Obviously this part is similar with parts of the link that are available above, but you will need to learn how to push repeatedly and while in motion to achieve higher and higher levels of speed. In the previous section you practiced a single push. This time, practice as many pushes as the space you have in front of you will allow.
4.TICK-TACK
Obviously this part is similar with parts of the link that are available above, but you will need to learn how to push repeatedly and while in motion to achieve higher and higher levels of speed. In the previous section you practiced a single push. This time, practice as many pushes as the space you have in front of you will allow.
Once you get comfortable with moving while on your skateboard as well as with increasing speeds, the next maneuver which is worth your while to learn is a trick called “tick-tacking.” So long as you have developed a comfortable sense of balance while standing and moving on your skateboard, the tick-tack should come quite naturally and easily to you. It’s a great way to further improve your sense of balance and agility while you are on your skateboard.
*Keep in mind that, while it may be slightly more dangerous and necessitating an even greater sense of caution and care, you can practice your skating down gentle slopes as well as a variety of flat grounds. Navigating gentle downward slopes helps to improve your skills and is really quite fun. So long as you do not feel like you are putting yourself or others around you in danger or disrespect, think creatively and turn whatever surface you can into a spot to skate!
5.MANUAL/NOSEMANUAL
Once you jedi-master the tick-tack, try manual-ing next. A manual is a maneuver in which you balance yourself on only one of either the front or back set of wheels. It is one of the best exercises to improve your balance on your skateboard. It can take quite a long time to become familiar enough with the manual to be able to do so over long stretches of distance, so start with small goals!
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