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Learning a variety of tricks you can perform on your skateboard is fun. It can also be a challenge though. There are some basic tricks you will want to familiarize yourself with first. That will boost your confidence level and then you can move on to some more advanced ones. Make sure you follow the directions too when you learn new skateboarding tricks. That way you can accomplish them without getting hurt.

The ollie is one of the most common skateboarding tricks out there. It is also one that you should be able to master in a short period of time. You can do this with one foot either at the tail or at the middle. Most people will tell you that it is easier to learn though with a foot at the back. You want to build up pressure with your front foot and then jump as high as you can with the back foot. The goal is to get it as high in the air as you can.

Once you have learned the ollie you can use some of that information to perform what is known as the kickflip. You want your back foot on the tail and the front one in the middle but slightly forward and to the left side. With a quick movement you want to pop the tail and move your front foot up. As the board is coming back down you want to jump as high as you can. You want to work on landing with both feet back on the board at the same time.  Read more... (607 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

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With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone—the flip trick—benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. A section devoted to the history of skateboa… More >>

Street Skateboarding: Flip Tricks

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Ramp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced … More >>

Skateboarding: Ramp Tricks

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Beginning Skateboarding is the perfect DVD for anyone wanting to learn and master the basics. Nic and Tristan Puehse (aka Skateboarding Twins) will teach you step-by-step how to become a good skater. Among the topics covered are: equipment, stances, ollies, kickturns, carving and pumping, manuals, dropping in, axel stalls, tail stalls, grinds, rock to fakies, ollie 180s, 50-50 grinds, fakie rocks, melon grabs, indy grabs, fakie half cabs, pop shuvits, roll ins, boar… More >>

Beginning Skateboarding: Tips and Tricks

We all know skateboard is an awesome sport. Extreme and fun, it just pushes one to the edge. Guys who play it are dubbed as really cool and adventurous. That’s why a lot of those who do not know this sport attempt to play it, even if it means toppling over and over again!

The beauty of skateboarding lies on the tricks that one can pull off. Without them, this game will turn out to be boring!

So what are your favorite skateboard tricks? If you are a beginner and you want to try this one heck of a sport, figure out the tricks yourself and which of those would be your favorite?

1. Is it the ollie?

A lot of skateboard aficionados believe that this trick is the core of skateboarding. Everything begins and ends with the ollie so if you are already good at it, then you are on your way to becoming a pro.

How does the ollie work anyway? It involves positioning your back foot on the skateboard’s tail, lifting your heel, putting some pressure on the balls of feet, placing front foot in the center, then kicking the tail down hard with your back foot and pulling your front foot up and leveling out the skateboard. After those, you bend your knees and roll on smoothly. Eric Sepulveda is one mean skateboarder who considers ollie as a cinch.

2. Is it the manual?  Read more... (735 words, estimated 2:56 mins reading time)