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How to Do a 180 Boneless on a Skateboard

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The 180 Boneless is a beginning flat ground skateboarding trick. Although it only features a half-spin, the trick has a style that's undoubtedly unique and pretty appealing. Even more importantly, though, the 180 Boneless is a good foundation ... more »

How to Do a 360 Board Walk on a Skateboard

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This is a freestyle skateboarding move that resembles a trick a surfer would do on a surfboard. It's called a surf style walking trick. Basically, you'll walk across the skateboard in a kind of cross over step. This is a good one for the longer ... more »

How to Do a 360 Flip on a Tech Deck

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The 360 flip is a basic Tech Deck trick that will help you move on to more difficult stunts. The 360 is a controlled movement in which the tech deck is flipped up, rotated 360 degrees and then flipped once before it lands. The skateboarder uses ... more »

How to Do a 360 Slide on a Freebord

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In the 360 slide, one of the more difficult slide moves on the Freebord, the real key is to switch edges after the first 180. Try the trick both frontside and backside to see which way works best for you... more »

How to Do a 5-0 Stall Kickturn on a Skateboard

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Skateboarding is a recognized sport, no longer the arena of urban and beach dropouts lost in an underground culture. Anyone can ride a skateboard, but it is primarily a sport best left to the young, who can heal easily from broken bones. It is a ... more »

How to Do a 50/50 Finger Flip Saran Wrap on a Skateboard

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Do a 50/50 Finger Flip Saran Wrap on a skateboard. This is a freestyle skateboarding trick that is usually done while stationary. It's a nice trick to place in the middle of a freestyle sequence when you need to catch a breath between bigger ... more »

How to Do a 50-50 Grind on a Tech Deck

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Once you learn the basics on a Tech Deck, it's time to begin a little more advanced technique. You can keep busy for quite a few years learning flips, slides, grinds and combinations. One of the first more advanced tricks to learn is the 50-50 ... more »

How to Do a 50-50 Saran Wrap on a Skateboard

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For those of you who can do basic skateboard tricks and hunger for something more challenging, try the 50-50 saran wrap. It's a cool move, no doubt, and will wow the crowd. It takes some time to learn, but this eHow can help... more »

How to Do a 540 Gazelle on a Skateboard

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This freestyle skateboarding trick is a smooth combination of a 540 Shove It while you turn your body 360 degrees in the same direction that the board is pivoting. It's a smooth trick that makes you look as light in the air as a leaping gazelle... more »

How to Do a 540 Shove It on a Skateboard

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This is a freestyle skateboarding trick that even the pro skaters find difficult to pull off. Once you get it down solid you have moved yourself up a notch in the skating universe. Make sure you can land a 360 Shove It well before attempting to ... more »

How to Do a Backside Crooked Grind on a Skateboard

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A backside crooked grind on a skateboard is a good freestyle skateboarding trick to learn on a waxed step or low ledge. The crooked grind is a cross between a nose slide and a nose grind... more »

How to Do a Backside Ollie Kick Flip on a Skateboard

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This is a new variation on the freestyle kick flip where you flip the board into a backside 180 while at the same time turning your body into a backside 180. You'll begin this rolling forward, but the skateboarding trick will finish off in the ... more »

How to Do a Basic Skateboard Stall

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The basic board stall is a move that allows you to rest on your skateboard at the top of a ramp. It's a good trick to know because it not only adds style to your routine, but it also creates time during your session for you to plan other tricks. ... more »

How to Do a Bean Plant on a Skateboard

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Do the Bean Plant on a skateboard. This is a skateboarding trick that skaters call old school because it has been around for a long time, since the 1980s. This trick works best on ditches, but it can be done well going up on ramps, too... more »

How to Do a Board Stall on a Skateboard

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A skateboard stall is a stepping stone to other, more advanced tricks. You can perform a stall on many different surfaces, such as curbs, stairs and ramps. Although it's not one of the more difficult tricks, it does require that you know the ... more »

How to Do a Board Stall to Fakie

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The board stall is a trick you can throw into your skate park routines. To do it you'll need a ramp with a well-defined lip and is lined with coping. Once you've got the basics of the stall down, you can use it to transition into other tricks ... more »

How to Do a Boneless in Skateboarding

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A Boneless is a street skateboarding trick that is classified as a footplant trick in skater lingo. They are done best on a longboard (48 inches) and it's a fairly easy trick to perform. Basically you grab the board, jump, and then land back on ... more »

How to Do a Casper Hop on a Skateboard

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Most Caspers are performed in a stationary position. This one is done while the board is rolling. This freestyle skateboarding trick has also been called a 180 Casper Hop even though you don't pivot your body around 180 degrees. Instead you make ... more »

How to Do a Fake Heelflip in a Board Float on a Tech Deck

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This is a simple combination of an ollie (or board float) with a fake heelflip. Your mount is flatter, your pop is higher and your risk of shooting the board into the awe-struck crowd is much greater, so you should practice often... more »

How to Do a Fakie 180 on a Skateboard

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The half cap trick in skateboarding starts with a fakie (you skating backwards, with your tail foot forward) that ollies into a 180 to set you back to skating forward. The trick is fun, impressive and useful for transitioning out of tricks that ... more »

How to Do a Fakie Half Cab Skateboard Trick

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A fakie half cab is a cool trick to add to your skateboarding repertoire. Once you can do an Ollie and a 180, you can do the fakie half cab skateboard trick. A fakie half cab is, according to Cody Demory, a backward half cab. The trick just takes ... more »

How to Do a Fakie Late FS Bigspin

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Basically, this skateboard trick is a fakie pivot to a shuvit. With a bit of practice and patience, you can perform the fakie late FS bigspin like nobody's business. Once you've got it down, add your favorite moves to the mix and make the trick ... more »

How to Do a Frontside 180 No Comply on a Skateboard

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This freestyle skateboarding trick gained popularity during the 1980s. It has also been called a step hop as well as a no-handed boneless. It's a great trick to work into the footwork portion of a freestyle program... more »

How to Do a Frontside 360 Boneless to Fakie on a Skateboard

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This is one freestyle skateboarding trick that should be done smoothly. Any Boneless tricks are going to look sloppy if you don't have great flow, so once you have this down, practice it until you can do it as smooth as cream to look like a master... more »

How to Do a Frontside 360 Nollie on a Skateboard

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Do a Frontside 360 Nollie on a skateboard. This freestyle skateboarding trick has also been called a Helipop back when the great Rodney Mullen invented this move. He'd even do a Helipop over a skateboard sitting on the ground. But before you ... more »

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