Skateboard Trick Tips

Here is a collection of my skateboarding trick tips from my skating blog. Hopefully these tips will teach you How to skateboard!

I am always adding new tricks to the list, and if you think of any I should add, just leave me a comment on the blog.

The tricks are listed here in a progression from easiest to hardest. If you are just learning, you should start at the top of the list and work your way towards the bottom.

How to practice skateboard tricks

Any time you try a trick for the first time, it's going to be a little bit scary . If you feel that collection of butterflies in the pit of your stomach, that's perfectly normal. The best way to start is with a trick that's only slightly ahead of your current skating level.

For example, first you learn simply how to stand on the skateboard. Then you learn to shuffle your feet forward and back a bit, getting comfortable shifting your weight on the board. The next step is probably learning to turn the board, both by shifting yoru weight without moving your feet, and also by pivoting your board...keeping your back foot on the tail, and slightly lifting the front foot as you rotate yoru shoulders one way or the other to pivot the board a bit at a time. Once you feel comfortable with these small pivots, you can move on to larger sweeps. These types of turns are initiated in the shoulders and followed by the hips and then the feet.. First practice spinning 180 degrees (to face the opposite whay that you started), and then you can even try doing 360 degrees.

I would consider this the basics of learning how to skateboard.

Got that down? Great! Now we can move on to the skateboard tricks!

Skateboard Trick Tips

Start practicing these tricks in the order listed. Don't move on more than a few tricks ahead until you have the first tricks mastered. Practice is the key to learning how to skateboard. Even the pros went through struggles trying to learn their tricks. Dew Tour three time champ Ryan Sheckler from Life of Ryan said in a recent interview that he used to 100 kickflips a day until they were second nature!

In general order from easier to more difficult, here they are:

Ollie
Kickflip
Heelflip
Shov-it
Nollie