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How To Get Better At Skateboarding With 3 Lasting Lessons

Lots of new riders want to know how to get better at skateboarding, but the answer is really simple: skate more. The more you ride, the more your body will adjust to the stresses and balance requirements of skating. Skating every day is the key. Sometimes you will not want to do it. Some days, […]

4 Common Mistakes Beginners Make Learning Tricks

When I first stepped on a skateboard, I wanted so badly to ollie that I tried continuously for weeks. I situated my wheels in a crack in the sidewalk so that they wouldn’t roll, and I smacked my tail over and over until I finally started getting off the ground. When I tried to ollie […]

Break Skateboarding Fear | Never Chicken Foot Again

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.” — Willy Wonka There is bailing, and then there is bailing before even trying the trick. Everyone who has ever tried to flip a board has done it. If you say you haven’t, you’re either a liar or a poser — or […]

How To Heelflip With 5 Simple Steps To Mastering

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 […]

4 Lessons on How to do a Kickflip on a Skateboard for Beginners

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 […]

How To Pop Shuvit – Here Are 3 Things To Help You Learn

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 […]

4 Keys For How To Do An Ollie On A Skateboard For Beginners

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 […]

How to Turn On A Skateboard – Learn With 3 Tried And True Techniques

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 […]

How To Stop A Skateboard – 4 Trusted Methods You Should Know

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 […]

How To Fall On A Skateboard and Live To Tell

Becoming a skateboarder means different things to different people. It opens doors to new friends and styles, and it fills a void in your life you didn’t know was there. Skating made me who I am today, and it will do the same for you if you let it. But, there is a price. As […]

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