How to Ride Onto Curbs on a Skateboard

Series Summary

The development of skateboarding coincides with the popularization of surfing in California around the 1950's. Since that time, skateboarding has seen many rises and falls in popularity, with several generations of young skaters developing the sport and their own skateboarding tricks and techniques. The current generation of skateboarders is more accepted and less rebellious than previous generations, and often skate on city built skate parks designed for a variety of skateboarding tricks.

Now it's time to take those skateboarding skills and tricks to the street! In this free video series, our expert will show you how to perform a number of fundamental moves for street skating, starting with riding on and off of curbs. From there, you'll learn about finding focal points, fakie footing, and skateboard safety. Finally, our expert will give you tips and demos on a number of tricks, from ollies and grinds to manuals, nose manuals, and flip tricks. Street skateboarding builds off of the basics, and eventually these tricks will be basics to you!

Video Transcript

"I was going to talk about a fundamental part of street skating which is riding onto a curb not having to ollie onto. You just want to approach the curb, put your weight on your tail, lift up your front trumks. When you feel your wheels on the top of the curb, put your pressure on front of your board. Lift up your tail and roll away. The key to this is performing all in one solid motion. Let's see it in action. Practice trying to keep your back trucks from hitting the curb and rolling away smoothly by putting all your weight in front of the board. Learning this trick will help you prepare for olling on the curbs and help you stay out of others skaters ways in places like this at a skate park. "