How to ride a skateboard

    We must learn to walk before we can run. There are a few fundamentals before we really start to learn the tricks such as:
    • Standing
    • Moving
    • Turning
    • Stopping

     

    Standing
    Start by trying to stand on a skateboard and try to jump too until you are comfortable. Next, balance only on the front or back wheels until you are used to the feel of your board.

    Take note the position of your foot:
    • Regular stance(left foot front)
    • Goofy stance(right foot front)

    Moving
    To move, you have to learn to push the skateboard and get some momentum going. Go to a big empty space where there is no cars around. Put your front foot on top of the front wheel area and use your back foot to push the floor. Whenever you are slowing down, do give a soft push to keep going. Keep training until you are used to pushing.

    Turning
    Turning is really simple even though you are just learning how to ride a skateboard. All you have to do is to put your weight at the end of the board using your back foot and you will turn to the direction intended. Learn to put more weight on the skateboard so that you can turn more too.

    Lean your upper body to the direction that you want to turn to enhance your turning. If you want a sharp turn, bend your knees and crouch as low as you can on your skateboard.

    Stopping
    The basic of stopping is foot breaking where you only have to put your back foot on the ground and drag it until you stop. Ensure that you keep practicing and don't hit the ground to hard so that you do not slip.

    Keep learning these fundamentals until you are comfortable will it. Once you master the art on how to ride a skateboard, we'll continue with the skateboard tricks list

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How to varial heelflip





    What is varial heelflip?
    A varial heelflip is basically a heelflip and a frontside pop shove it combined. Therefore, you have to know how to heelflip and know how to pop shove it first.

    How to varial heelflip?
    1. Place your rear foot towards the bottom of the board and your front foot inwards the top of the board.
    2. As you do your pop, shove it about halfway slide the front foot up like a heel flip.
    3. As you are flipping, tuck your legs and stomp on the board when you are aligned with then board.

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How to do a kickflip on a skateboard



      
    What is a kickflip?
    A kickflip is basically just an ollie whereby your board spin underneath you while in the air. A perfect kickflip is when the you kick the board with the top-side of  your front foot, the skateboard flips and spins over at least once and land on the skateboard comfortably.

    How to do a kickflip on a skateboard?
    Do take note that you will most probably get hurt while doing this trick. Do protect yourself by wearing all your pads and helmet. Make sure that you learn how to ollie perfectly before learning this.

    1. Start by putting your feet like when you are doing an ollie
    2. Now hit your tail like an ollie but drag your front foot up the board and drag it toward the side of the board with a flicking motion. You will have to flick faster to make faster flips.
    3. Keep on top of the board while the board is flipping
    4. Once the board flipped completely, let the board hit the back foot. Your front foot should not be too far behind in getting back on the board
    5. Remember to land with your feet as close to the bolts as possible.

    It will take a lot of timing and skill if you want to learn how to do a kickflip on a skateboard as there is not a way to teach on landing a perfect one. Everyone individual have their own personal ways of doing it and therefore, keep on practicing and you are bound to land a perfect kickflip.

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How to grind on skateboard



    What is a grind?
    Grind is when the skateboarders slide on the hangers of the trucks. It's performed on any object that may fit the space between the wheels where the truck meets. A 50-50 grind is the most basic grind trick. Before learning this trick, make sure you know how to skateboard ollie first


    How to grind on skateboard?
    1. Do start slowly for this trick as you may get hurt easily with this trick and start off with a ledge that is not so high(around 6 inches high) to grind.
    2. Get your feet in the ollie position and ride towards the ledge at a very slow pace.
    3. Pop an ollie at the edge and try to stall a 50-50 on it.
    4. Keep doing step 1 - 3 with increasing speed.


    • When you do a fast pop on, bend your knees and keep your weight centered over the board.
    • Keep your weight balanced while grinding. 
    • Don't lean back and keep some weight on your front foot. 
    • Use your arm to help balance


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How to do a heeflip



    What is a heelflip?
    Heelflip is close to doing a kickflip. If you don't know how to kickflip, do learn how to do a kickflip on a skateboard first. Heelflip starts with an ollie but they kick the front heel of the skateboard when the board is in the air. The board will spin once and done! That's a heelflip.

    How to do a heeflip?
    1. Position yourself like doing an ollie and put your front foot s bit to the toe of your board so that the ball of you foot is about 3/4 of the edge. Your back foot should be placed so that the ball is in the middle of the tail.
    2. Hit the tail like doing an ollie and put pressure on the ball of your front foot as you go up and kick outwards.
    3. Raise your both feet so that the board is allowed to flip freely and when the board finish the rotation, hit the board and you've done a heelflip!
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How to 180 on a skateboard




    What is a 180?
    A 180 is when the skateboarder turns 180 degrees while in the air. Simple as that! Before learning this trick, you must know how to ollie first.

    How to 180 on a skateboard?
    1. Start with an ollie position again. 
    2. Twist your whole body around the direction you want to do the 180.
    3. When you are doing your ollie, swipe your front foot to the side and shift your whole weight to the direction you are spinning.
    4. Land and you just did a 180.

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How to ollie higher



    1. Perfect your ollie until you can land your ollie almost every time. 
    2. When you are going for the ollie, bring your legs high up. How high you can jump with both feet will determine how high you can do the ollie. So keep practicing on getting your both feet high into the air through the ollie.
    3.  Learn to ollie higher by putting something in your way. Start by something low and slowly add more height into the object.
    4.  As you improve and get your ollie higher, keep attention in getting your board level when you are going through the ollie. Get someone to see when you are doing the ollie or record yourself. If your board is tilting upward, raise your back leg faster and higher and vice versa if the opposite happens.

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