Basic Skateboard Tricks: Pushing

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. Just like crawling comes before walking, so do pushing and cruising come before Fakie Ollies in skateboarding. In this free video series, a skateboarding instructor will demonstrate skateboarding basics before moving on to some of the easier tricks for beginners. Some of the tricks performed and explained are the Ollie, the Nollie, the Frontside 180, the Backside 180, as well as several variations on these skateboarding tricks for beginners.

Video Transcript

"If you're going to learn how to skateboard the first thing you're going to need to learn is how to push. The easiest way to figure that out is to have a friend stand behind you and push you forward whichever foot you step forward with is going to be your front foot. I usually step forward with my right foot meaning that I would ride goofy. Which is with your left foot in the back, right foot in the front. But some people may ride regular which is right foot in the back, left foot in the front. And the important thing to keep in mind when you push is to aim your foot in the direction that you want to go. And it's pretty much just a kicking motion against the ground, controlling it from that point on. And like I said, this is pretty much the basic foundation of everything in skateboarding. You're going to need speed to perform the tricks that I'm going to be teaching you in the rest of the series. So just keep in mind to aim your front foot forward or wherever you want to go because where you aim your foot is the direction that the board is going to send you."