Skateboarding for beginners

Are you rookie in skateboarding!? Want to start but don’t know what to do first!? Then you are in the right place! Skateboarding for beginners will help you to learn the most important basics about skateboarding.
Skateboarding is one great thing, because you can express your self in many ways. You can create new style – YOUR style, you can get many friends and it’s healthy to have active lifestyle and skateboard will help you to be active. I guaranteed that!

What do you need to know before you buy skateboard
Before you buy skateboard, you need to know what you want to do with it. If you want to be poser, than you don’t need to buy expensive deck, you can buy cheap skateboard in supermarket. But if you want to skate with your deck then you need some good skateboard. From my experience I advise you to do not skimp your money and buy good and resistant deck in skate shop, not in some supermarket. Be right-minded and don’t buy cheap decks which will preclude your upgrowthink

How to choose the right skateboard
To choose the first and right skateboard for you, I advice you to require help for the skate shop salesman. Tell him that you are beginner, what you want to do with your skateboard and I guaranteed that he will help to choose apropos skateboard exactly for you.

What to do next
Now, when you have your skateboard you should start to use it. First of all you need to ascertain are you goofy* or regular*. After that you just need to start riding. Do not try tricks before you feel comfortable and stabile on the deck. Learn how to move skateboard front from one side to other, learn how to ride manual – riding only on two wheels, and other basic things. In the beginnings I advise to start skating in asphalted ground. Do not go to skate parks before you feel ready.

Tricks
When you feel ready and you know how to do the basic things, you can start learning tricks. First and important trick which is the basic of all tricks is ollie – it is when you jump with your deck. It is simply trick, but you must learn it very good, because if you don’t know how to do ollie, then you can’t do other tricks. After you had learn ollie you can learn other tricks like pop shuvit, kickflip and else. (More in trick tips)
I advice you to buy special skate shoes, because with those shoes is easier to make trick than usual shoes.

Skateboard concepts

Regular – when you are riding skateboard with left leg front of deck
Goofy – when you are riding skateboard with right leg front of deck


Deck – skateboard wooden surface where are you standing
Trucks – metal constructions which are holding wheels with deck
Nose – front part of deck
Tail – back part of deck
Hardware – screws which are holding trucks together with deck
Grip tape – flint paper which are glued on skateboards surface to improve adherence with deck and your shoes.
Slip Tape – Slip tape is a clear piece of self adhesive plastic that sticks to the underside of a deck. It helps protect the board's graphics and can allow the board to slide better.
Poser - people who had bought skateboard for proving

Trick tips (new trick tip every week)

Ollie

Ollie is trick when you jump with your skateboard.
Ollie is the basic of all tricks. If you don’t know how to ollie then you can’t learn other tricks.

1. place your foots like this











2. Push your back foot down till skateboard tail hits the ground and then slide your front foot all the way up to skateboard nose.





















3. Then catch your board with both foots and land it.

KickFlip

1. Set your foots like you are going to do ollie, but the front foot put litle bit closer to nose and like your heel is over the edge. Like in the picture.

2. Then pop your back foot down till tail hits the ground, but the front foot slide up like ollie but in the end of deck slide your foot down the edge to let the deck rotate.

3. You must jump so high than deck can rotate under you.

4.Wait till deck is truly rotated and then catch deck with your foots and land it.

Remember. Kickflip is quite complicated trick and don’t think that you will learn kickflip in 2 days. Some peoples cant learn kickflip for years, but some people learn kickflip in one week. It’s all on yours! Good luck!