Everyone who begins skateboarding eventually wants to learn how to heelflip. Most new skaters learn to kickflip pretty quickly, but heelflips can seem like a holy grail. This tongue-in-cheek video shows heelflips through the history of skateboarding and plays with the mystery of the trick. It even has a trick tip for back-foot heelflip, but […]
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Learning how to do a kickflip on a skateboard for beginners is tough. There are many things you have to learn before you can flip your board, and flipping the skateboard is only part of the trick. If you hope to ever kickflip over, onto or off of obstacles, you need to catch the board […]
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In the early days of street skateboarding, only the best skaters could do shuvits — sometimes spelled shove it. The progression of the sport has been a beautiful thing, though, and now the shuvit is pretty much the first trick most riders learn. Once you have the basic shuvit down, you can step up your […]
Continue readingHaving a skateboard ramp of your own means always having something to skate. There are nearly as many varieties of ramps as there are skateboards, so the first thing you need to do is to decide on what type of ramp you want. The first thing you need to know about how to build a […]
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The ollie is the keystone trick. It unlocks the world of street skating, from board slides and grinds to gaps and stairs. The simple fact is that you need to be able to ollie if you hope to skate street. Trying to figure out how to do an ollie on a skateboard on your own […]
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When you first start skating, the little things go unnoticed because there are so many bigger things to consider. After a while, though, the little details become more obvious. One of the things new skateboarders seldom take into account is the application of grip tape to a skateboard. A good skateboard deserves a flawless grip […]
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If there’s one component of a skateboard that gives beginning skateboarders fits, it is bearings. From which ones are best to how to take care of them, the learning curve with bearings is steep. Getting the wrong ones or installing them incorrectly can make a good setup useless. The reward for doing everything right is […]
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Skateboarding would be extremely boring if all you could do was go in straight lines. Luckily, that’s not what skating is about. At its core, skating is about freedom of movement. Anytime you step on a skateboard, you will need to turn it one way or the other. So, it is a good idea to […]
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Getting moving on a skateboard is the easy part, but stopping is more critical to your physical well-being. Like most things in life, there are many ways to get it done. The important thing at first is that you learn how to stop a skateboard, and yourself, to avoid wrecking. Learning to reliably stop will […]
Continue readingSkateboards get dirty. Pushing your board around the street and sliding on random objects means you are tracking around road funk everywhere you go. And, while it’s useless to worry about the filth piling up on your board for the sake of looks, knowing how to clean a skateboard can keep some of that dirt […]
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