Skateboarding

An Ollie kick flip is a very complicated trick to master. It involves two tricks, the Ollie and kick flip, and both take a level of skill that many skaters never achieve. To master it, you will...

Grinds are a common freestyle skateboarding maneuver. Unfortunately, they are one huge reason why skateboarding is not allowed in a lot of areas. But if you can find a safe haven for skating such...

This freestyle skateboarding trick better for advanced skaters. You should already be able to do an ollie and a switch ollie as well as a frontside nose grind. Since this is a grind, this move is...

Make sure you have your ollie down and can control it well before trying this freestyle skateboarding trick. The hip is the part of a pyramid ramp where the two flat sides meet at a point or edge....

This is a freestyle skateboarding trick that can be done on flat surfaces or by jumping off of ramps or curbs. You need to have the basic ollie down solid to move onto this trick and grab the...

The first trick any skater should learn when they begin riding switch is the Ollie. This simple jump tests your coordination with the other side of your balance. Once you have this mastered, you...

Once you've mastered the Ollie in your regular stance, give it a shot when you're riding switch. It's a way to improve your balance and coordination, and it gives your tricks around the skate park...

Not only is the Ollie good for creating tricks at the skate park or on a ramp, but it's also great for clearing gaps and other obstacles in the streets. One basic way to use the Ollie during a...

If you love fingerboards, you probably already know the ollie and the nollie. But you can learn many other flips, grabs and spins that you can learn on the fingerboard. Read on to learn how to...

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...

Skateboarding is a popular sport and activity for kids and teens. A lot of kids want to show off for their friends so they experiment and try a bunch of tricks. An ollie is one of the most basic...

Skaters all know how useful the ollie is. Not only is it good for creating tricks at the skate park or on a ramp, but it's also great for clearing gaps and other obstacles in the streets. One...

The switch ollie's a challenging variation of the classic ollie. Although it's great for improving your coordination and learning multi-directional tricks in the skate park, it's equally at home...

Once you've mastered the ollie in your regular stance, give it a shot when you're riding switch. It's a good way to improve your balance and coordination, and it gives your tricks around the skate...

Not only is the ollie good for creating tricks at the skate park, but it's also great for clearing obstacles in the streets. If your streets are smooth and you can't find any good objects to jump,...

The switch ollie's a challenging variation of the classic ollie. Although it's great for improving your coordination and learning multi-directional tricks in the skate park, it's equally at home...

Not only is the ollie good for creating tricks at the skate park or on a ramp, but it's also great for clearing gaps and other obstacles in the streets. One basic way to use the ollie during a...

The half cab's essentially an ollie with a half-twist. Since it uses the same fundamental technique as the ollie to pop the skateboard into the air, the half cab makes a good move for hopping over...

The ollie's a fundamental skateboarding move that forms the basis of many advanced tricks and flips. Although it's great for pulling tricks in the skate park, it's equally at home on the streets....

Skaters all know how useful the ollie is. Not only is it good for creating tricks at the skate park or on a ramp, but it's also great for clearing gaps and other obstacles in the streets. One...

Lots of skaters get frustrated on a particular trick or even the whole sport of skating when they reach a plateau or constantly have the same problem with something. As an observer, you can help a...

Since the ollie's such a fundamental skateboard trick, it should be one of the first tricks you learn when riding switch. Fortunately, the technique for performing the switch ollie is exactly the...

The Ollie is one of the most basic skating tricks and usually one of the first that skateboarders learn on the street. It gets it name out of respect for Allan "Ollie" Gelfand who first performed...

Riding a switch ollie is a great feeling, and you feel even better when you hit a smooth landing. The trick to the trick truly is in the foot action, where you place your feet and how you let your...

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...

Doing a nose manual on a skateboard is a cool trick. It's a trick that beginners can do, but as you get better and better at the trick, you'll be able to add speed and go over bigger and bigger...

The switcheroo is a beginning skateboard trick that's easy to learn and fun to do. If you're new to skateboarding, learning the switcheroo is a good way to prepare for performing harder tricks...

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...

Tech Decks are the miniature finger skateboards that let you ride even when you're stuck in class or any other physically confining situation. As in skateboarding, the ollie is the first trick to...

Invented by a Floridian skater in the 1970s, the ollie is skateboarding's fundamental trick. Most skaters start by learning the standing ollie on a soft surface like grass or carpet. Transitioning...

When you're unable to ride your skateboard but still feel the need to "skate or die," you may turn to a fingerboard to help you scratch your itch. When you've mastered the ollie and other basic...

You can use many rails with your skateboards: from handrails to railings on public outdoor staircases. It takes some practice, so grab your skateboard and get jumping.

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...

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...

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...

If you're going to make any real progress skateboarding, you have to start with the ollie. The ollie not only lets you skate around the city or skatepark without having to get off the board at...

Landing an Ollie on a skateboard is a cool trick. Not only that, you'll find that once you master this, you can combine it with others to make even more cool tricks. Consider this one of the...

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...

The switch ollie turns your skateboarding style upside down by placing what's usually your front foot on the tail of the board and your back foot up front. Learning to switch ollie is an integral...

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...

* 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.

Do you want to know how to do a KICK FLIP. It's easy, let THE_HOW_TO_GUY show you the way. First of all the kickflip is the essential basic skateboarding move that will need to be mastered to get...