How to Manual on a Skateboard

Series Summary

Skateboarding has been an increasingly popular hobby and sport since the 1950's when the popularization of surfing in California created a new craze dubbed “sidewalk surfing”. The first skateboard consisted only of a wooden plank attached to roller skate trucks and wheels, but today the sport has evolved as fast as the boards themselves, which now have much improved trucks, wheels, ball bearings, and boards. Even though the focus has shifted from vertical ramp skating from the 1980's to street skating, skateboarding remains a popular hobby, sport and mode of transportation for young people around the world.

In this free video series, our expert Justin Van Zandt will show you how to do a manual, nose manual, kickflip, 360 flip, 50-50, backside 180 kickflip, frontside 180, frontside pop shove-it, half-cab, half-cab kickflip, heelflip, kickflip body-varial, nollie, nollie flip, and a frontside nose grind. There's tons of free advice and lots of free tips on how to do skateboarding tricks and stunts in this free video series, so grab you board and let expertvillage kick start your skateboarding career.

Video Transcript

"JUSTIN VAN ZANDT: My name is Justin from the YMCA on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to be teaching you the manual which is way you push down on your tail and put your nose up and balance on your back wheels. Place your feet, one foot on the bolts and the back foot around your tail so you can press down on it. You got your board up and you want to balance while have your front [INDISCERNIBLE] lift and just to get balance. Just keep practicing. It's all about balance being comfortable on your board and just keep balancing."