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By Xenos 1 comments
The term longboard refers to skateboards that are over 40 inches in length. Whether you’re cruising for chicks on the boardwalk, commuting to school, or just cruising around running errands, getting a board to suit your style is essential. ... more »
By BWare 0 comments
Follow these steps to do a Casperslide... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
Doing a kickflip is a fun trick most skateboarders master fairly early on. The most important part of the kickflip is being able to catch the skateboard with your feet before you land back on the ground; otherwise, you could land on the board ... more »
By Xenos 0 comments
Tired of a slow skateboard? Find it getting harder to push yourself around? You have a case of dirty bearings. I'll show you the easiest way to speed up your skateboard... more »
By BWare 0 comments
Standing around the skate park or at the top of the half-pipe, you can always make yourself sound infinitely more skilled than you really are by knowing the proper terminology for different tricks. In fact, if you don't embarrass yourself by ... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
Perform a 180 Pivot on a skateboard by turning your skateboard 180 degrees in midair. If you do it correctly, you'll land the nose where the board’s tail started. When the skateboard is turned on the ground, it is a kickturn or revert. Once you ... more »
By gillco 0 comments
This trick is usually thought to be pretty hard, but this should soften it up for you..... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 18 comments
Grinding on a skateboard - in other words, sliding your board along an object - is all about weight, the angle of approach, and speed... more »
By zachknowshow94 5 comments
this will show you how to show a boneless on a skateboard.. more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
A feeble grind is a skateboard move that is similar to a 50-50 and a boardslide. It is a more advanced move so be sure you know how to do the requisite parts of the skateboard trick before you try to put them all together in a feeble grind... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 2 comments
Here's a way to put that frontside 180 ollie to good use... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
The heel flip is a fun trick to learn after you've mastered the ollie. This trick begins as an ollie but after popping the board into the air, you flip the board around with your toes, then land on it. Here are the steps for landing a heel flip ... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 4 comments
The nollie kickflip is a modern classic... more »
By London 0 comments
You'll learn how to do a Nose slide, where the front of the board goes forwared towards the ground---simple... more »
By andylukosevic 0 comments
The impossible is a challenging trick that involes the ability to do a nose manual and a high ollie... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 1 comments
Do impressive ollies with great pops into the air while skateboarding. Though the ollie isn't an easy trick, it is one of the first tricks skateboarders learn so you want to be able to do them well. It's named after Allan "Ollie" Gelfand who ... more »
By bjr61339 3 comments
you will learn how to do different skateboard tricks... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
Grinds are a type of skateboarding trick. To do one on a rail involves sliding your board along it in a certain way. Grinding a rail on a skateboard takes practice. This skateboarding trick is all about the way you approach, the balancing of your ... more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
The type of skateboard you use makes the greatest difference in how you perform. Being able to identify the types of skateboards allows you to know what works best for you and helps you become a better, stronger and more knowledgeable skateboarder... more »
By Trialbyfire1 0 comments
Inward heelflip is a trick that will spin inbetween your legs while doing a frontside heelflip. There are two ways to do this but I'm only doing the one... more »
By sk8freind 0 comments
the way to do a kickflip to me are 2 ways flicking it or stomping on the board. Stomping the board on the siade were u would flick gose quick.So be prepared, i recomennd if ur want to realy learn the kickflip go on youtube and search aronl. so ... more »
By sk8erboy2007 2 comments
If you don't know how to ollie, don't learn this trick just yet.. more »
By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor 0 comments
Learning to skateboard a vert ramp by watching movies and video is an excellent way to gain some basic know-how about skating vert without diving headfirst into the ramp. Vert videos reveal common mistakes and challenges that any skater looking ... more »
By sk8freind 0 comments
you will learn on the get a spin on a 180 and how to land it.. more »
By thehowman444 0 comments
Hello. This is my first official article on EHow, yet I can assure you that when it comes to skateboarding, I know what I'm talking about. The ollie is the single most fundamental and neccesary trick in skateboarding, and every other trick in ... more »