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Plunge headfirst into extreme sports, and get busy living life on the edge. From skateboarding to bungee jumping, MotoX to BMX, eHow’s sporting experts offer step-by-step instructions that show you how to test your limits. Heading out for a mountain vacation? Get tips and advice on snowboarding, skiing, ice climbing and extreme snowmobiling with eHow. Live in the city but still want to experience the thrills? Maybe the street luge is for you.

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How to Prepare For Tandem Skydiving

By alanmd23

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Skydiving is a thing that frequently seen on television and movies, and while it looks fun, many people are too scared to do it. Going alone takes a lot of training and money, but many places offer tandem skydiving, where a trained professional ... more »

How to Pump Your Longboard

By Xenos

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The art of pumping your longboard is a useful skill when you don't want to keep putting your foot down to push. Pumping your skateboard is also referred to as "skumping.".. more »

How to Skog On Your Skateboard

By Xenos

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Skogging? What's that? It's kind of like jogging on your skateboard. Skogging takes a lot of balance and practice. For some this exercise has helped people lose weight... more »

How to Slide on a Longboard

By rajnrachu

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Longboarding is the term used for skateboarding with boards larger than the usual short board trick-oriented skateboards that you see in skateboarding competitions. Longboarding is closer to sidewalk surfing. A lot of longboarders use their ... more »

How to start skateboarding

By Tylerville

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You have to start with the basics, I will be writing other articles for specific tricks, tell me if you like my explaining on things to keep them as best as possible.. more »

How to tre flip aka 360 flip

By quinnellabella

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today i'm going to teach the tre flip aka the 360 flip invented by Rodney Mullen in the late 90s.. more »

How to varial heelflip

By Trialbyfire1

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A varial heelfip is a skateboard trick where the board rotates 180 degrees frontside under your feet while spinning a heelflip. It's pretty hard but with time gets easier... more »

How to Varial Heelflip on a Skateboard

By sk8erboy2007

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If you don't know how to pop shove-it and heelflip, don't learn this trick just yet.. more »

How to Become a Matador

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Knights would stage hunting contest during the Spanish War of Reconquest (711-1492 A.D.) when the Moors and Christians took breaks from killing one another. The most formidable opponent to hunt was the Iberian bull. These brave animals would ... more »

How to Choose A Sliding Board

By Xenos

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The art of sliding a skateboard sounds easy enough. But do you have the right board? Do you have a board that will pull you out of a sharp corner? Do you have a board that will help you snap back up in to your normal riding position? Well maybe ... more »

How to Do a Bar Spin on BMX Bikes

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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According to Mike Novelli, an 11-year BMX stunt rider, the bar spin consists of leaning back and spinning your handlebars while jumping. It's a cool trick to master, no doubt. With the help of this eHow, you can starting doing your own bar spin ... more »

How to do a Heelflip on a skateboard

By skatingfreak8

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I recomend you know how to Kickflip first then learn a Heelflip.. more »

How to do a kickflip

By Trialbyfire1

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Kickflip is where the board spins under your feet and is one of the first tricks many people learn. It is one of the most frustrating tricks ever so have fun learning... more »

How to Do a Nollie Frontside 180 on a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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A powerful street and ramp basic that can be taken to the sky!.. more »

How to do a power slide on a skateboard

By jimmynotto

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Power slides are one of the ways to slow down... more »

How to Do an Ollie

By SkateD

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This is a how to of doing an ollie so i hope you guys learn really quick.. more »

How to do an ollie on a skateboard

By camo-12-

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ollies man use my why it works.. more »

How to Get Skiboarding Gear

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Great skiboarding requires the proper gear. That includes skis, boots, bindings and helmets. Plus, there's clothing, bags to carry and protect skis, and waxes and tuning equipment to keep them in shape. Whether purchasing online or at a local ... more »

How to Learn Skiboarding History

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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In the 1960s, a new method of ski instruction was developed using skis of varying length, the graduated length method (GLM). A funny thing happened on the bunny slopes. Some of the instructors discovered that with the short skis they could do ... more »

How to ollie

By s8terchick

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how to ollie.. more »

How to ollie on a skateboard

By skaterpunk369

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if you are trying to learn to ollie you can read this and find out how.. more »

How to Paddle Out When Surfing

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Before you can really test out that surfboard, you've got to get out beyond the breaking waves, also known as "the soup" in surfer lingo... more »

How to Perform a Darkslide on a Skateboard

By BWare

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A darkslide is essentially grinding with your board upside-down on a rail or curb. It is a lot easier to do than it looks but still requires a good level of skill to perform... more »

How to Perform the FMX McMetz Trick

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Freestyle Motocross, or FMX, is an extreme sport. One of the popular advanced tricks is the McMetz. It is a combination of other FMX tricks and is for advanced FMX cyclists only. You must be able to perform all the basic tricks before trying to ... more »

How to Pop shove it (backside)

By JU5TxE7VJ0IxIT

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I'll teach you how to do a pop shove it in a few easy steps... more »