How to ripstik

Have you ever seen those guys carving hard, drifting sideways, and never getting off the board to push? learn how here.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• helmet
• elbow pads
• knee pads
• ripstik
• flat, traffic free road

1. Read owner's manual.
2. Put on helmet and pads.
3. Start by placing your preffered front foot centered on the nose paddle.
4. Push off with your back foot, and place it centered on the tail paddle.
5. You probably fell off pretty quick, but don't get discouraged! Try again.
6. Get on the board again, and try tilting your left foot slightly to the left or right. You will see that the board will steer in the direction you tilt your front foot. Keep working with this to get a sense of balance, and to see how to turn the board.
7. Once you initiate a turn with your front foot, you can follow through with your back foot. Start with GENTLE turns.
8. Start alternating turns left and right. These are S-turns.
9. Shift your hips and weight as you do your S-turns. You will accelerate a little with each push (like pumping on a surfboard). Once you get on a ripstik, this is how you will keep going. You don't have to get off!!!
10. Once you feel more confident, you can push your back foot out farther with each turn. This will create a snowboard like effect, and you will drift along sideways as if on snow or ice.
11. Now go ride around and have fun!

Tips & Warnings

• You can ride down a slight hill to get a great snowboard feel.
• You can carve back and forth to get a great surfing feel.
• Caster board riding can be a hazardous activity. Caster boards can, and are intended to move and it is therefore possible to get into dangerous situations, lose control, fall off. Always wear safety equipment, and read your owners manual.