How to Skateboard

Skateboarding Tricks - A Quick Guide

Doing tricks on a skateboard needs first of all some kind of athetic skills and a good blend of balance. But not only that, it also takes a great deal of courage to dare those skateboarding tricks. You could land at the emergency room with just one wrong move.

That´s why skateboard pros are worshiped in the skateboarding community. Many skateboarders love to practice new tricks that they see for example on television or at their skate park. There really is almost nothing like landing a perfect trick that one has been working on for weeks.

Aerials require the skater to basically float through the air while attempting to hold the board to his feet. These skate tricks may include flips or rotations and can be practiced in skate parks. A well-known aerial is the nollie 180. In that trick the skater rotates 180 degrees in the air and he lands on his feet facing the other direction that he went up.

There are also so called freestyle tricks in skateboarding. This is when a skater balances on the edge of his skateboard or on one or two wheels or even on the nose of his skateboard. There are so many skateboarding tricks to learn, that it goes beyond the scope of this little Guide of How To Skateboard. Anyway, the ones mentioned above will give you a great start into learning the basic skateboarding moves and tricks. Have fun and enjoy skateboarding!

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Skateboarding Videos

It sounds funny, but it is true: Skateboarding has its roots in surfing. In the 1950s, the surfers from California came up with the idea of "surfing the streets". They took their boards to the Californian streets and that is how skateboarding was born!

The first skateboards were primitive boards with roller skates strapped to it. In 1978, Alan Gelfand invented a maneuver, called the "Ollie Pop". In 1975 the very first skateboarding event was held at the Ocean Festival in California.

Even nowadays the ollie is the basic skateboarding trick. The skateboarder is slamming the foot on the tail end of his skateboard to lift the board and the skateboarder into the air. Tony Hawk is another famous name in skateboarding; at age 16 he became the world's best skateboarder.

Skateboarding is still changing and improving. When you watch a skateboard video today and one from 15 years ago, you will see an enormous difference. All kind of tricks are involved: Grabs, varials, grinds, flips, degrees and of course jumps.

Typing "skateboard videos" into google or youtube will bring up lots of skateboarding videos with definitions, descriptions, tips to help you learn and perform skateboarding tricks.