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How to Bert Slide on a Skateboard

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The bert slide is a simple trick move used in skateboarding. Surfer Larry Bertleman inspired the trick which consists of planting one or both hands on the ground while turning 180 degrees. Learn the basics of this classic move by reading the ... more »

How to Buy a Child's Bike Helmet

By Elizabeth McGuire

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Protect your child’s precious noggin when it’s speeding around on a bicycle, skateboard or scooter. A properly sized and frequently worn helmet can help prevent injuries. Here is how to find one... more »

How to Care for a Skateboard

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Keep your skateboard rolling smoothly by taking care of it. After a long day at the skate park, check your skateboard over for any wear and tear, dirt or damage that needs to be addressed. Do routine upkeep of your board before you put it away so ... more »

How to Choose The Right Helmet

By L1onherd

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There are about 85 million bicycle riders in the US alone. About 67,000 of those 85 million will sustain head injuries within the year. Unfortunately, two thirds will result in death from brain injury. Just think, these numbers could have been ... more »

How to Do a 180 Casper Disaster on a Skateboard

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Do the 180 Casper Disaster on a skateboard. This skateboarding trick is really a fun move to do on a flat surface. It was first performed by Bobby Boyden, who had such pale skin that his nickname was Casper. Do this freestyle trick while you roll ... more »

How to Do a Fakie Big Spin

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This trick is a combination of a 360 Shove It ridden in a Fakie position into a 180 Body Varial that moves in the same direction as the Shove It. The way your body turns in the air with the board (the varial) gives this street trick its name of ... more »

How to Do a Finger Flip in Skateboarding

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Do the Finger Flip trick on your skateboard and impress all your skating friends on the street. While skateboarders make it look easy, it really is more difficult than it looks. A good trick for freestyle skating, you'll make the board flip in ... more »

How to Do a Frontside 180 on a Skateboard

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The frontside 180 is a trick that can score you big points at the skate park or on the street if you can pull it off and land it. Combining the jump of an ollie with a 180 twist that begins with your back foot, the 180 spins you through the air ... more »

How to Do a No Comply Grab on a Skateboard

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The No Comply Grab on a skateboard is one of those skateboarding tricks that skaters call old school because it's been around for so long. It's also a great one for beginners to learn because it's fairly easy. If you do this trick without ... more »

How to Do a No Hand 50/50 to Finger Flip Out on a Skateboard

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Do a No Handed 50/50 to Finger Flip Out on a skateboard. This skateboarding move is very popular among freestyle skaters, mainly because it is very hard to learn. Done right it looks really cool. This is the stationary trick where the skater ... more »

How to Do a Nollie Double Kickflip to Backside Crooked Grind

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Impress the best skateboarders with a Nollie Double Kickflip to Backside Crooked Grind. This sequence of skateboard tricks appears hard, but with practice, you'll have it down and ready to wow your friends. Make sure you have your nollies, ... more »

How to Do a Tailstop to Casper on a Skateboard

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Do a Tailstop to a Casper while skateboarding freestyle. For this trick you should already be good at flipping the board out of the Casper position where the skateboard is caught between your feet on it's side while flipping over. This is a cool ... more »

How to Find Skate Spots in New York

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You've skated in Portland, Maine and Boston. Continue your westward track and skate in the next big city, New York City. New York City is even bigger than Boston and Portland combined, and so number of skate spots increase. Read on to find skate ... more »

How to Generate Speed on a Freebord

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The need for speed is the reason to ride a Freebord. Here's how to get the velocity you desire... more »

How to Look Like a Skater Chick

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There's no denying that skater girls have a sexy, edgy and magnetic look. The baggy pants, skate shoes and skate company hats make the skater chick style one of the hottest looks out there. But you don't have to actually skate to look like a ... more »

How to Slow Down on a Freebord

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Just as pointing your board's nose downhill will make you go faster, pointing it sideways will keep your speed under control. Use your edges, and slide to control your speed... more »

How to Do a Nollie Backside 180 on a Skateboard

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Another powerful street and ramp basic that can be powerfully popped and styled!.. more »

How to do Pop ShovIts!

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Not many people can master the art of skateboarding, but those who can – practice, practice, and practice. One of the many skateboarding drills that a lot of newcomers start out with is known as the “Pop ShovIt” also knowing as popping your board ... more »

How to heelflip

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This article will tell you how to heelflip on a skateboard... more »

How to Add Style to Your Ollie on a Skateboard

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The ollie is the central trick in all of skateboarding. If you've learned the ollie but are finding that your style leaves something to be desired (or that friends are laughing hysterically even when you land the trick) then it's time to make ... more »

How to Buy a Freebord

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There are several different ways to get your hands on a Freebord - a relatively new invention in the skateboard world that infuses downhill skating with the feel of snowboarding. Try them in the following recommended order... more »

How to Determine if You're Regular or Goofy Foot

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In snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding, you're a 'regular foot' if you keep your left foot forward, a 'goofy foot' if you keep your right forward. Here are three ways to tell which you are... more »

How to Do a Backside 360 Ollie on a Skateboard

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Spin like a top - amaze your friends!.. more »

How to do a Pop-Shove-it on a skateboard

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This may take up to 1 month to learn, be patient.. more »

How to do an Ollie on a skateboard

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* before you learn anything in skateboarding, learn to do an ollie first. It may take you up to 2 or 3 months to learn it so be patient... more »

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