Trick Tips

I have been skateboarding since June of 96 and still counting. During those years have learn a ton of tricks, I am not pro or am but I am pretty good. If you have a trick tip please send me some!

Ollie

The ollie is the most basic tricks. It is the stepping stone for most tricks.

1. First try this trick standing still.
2. Put your front foot just behind the bolts and your back on the tail
3. Next bend your knees
4. Here is where the trick gets tricky. You are going to have to pop the board up,jump and slide your front foot up all in one smooth motion.
5. Pop the board up by smacking down on the tail, then jump,then slide your front foot up to the nose to level out the board. Once you have leveled out the board, land!
6. If you dont get it the frist time keep trying because it will take a long time to learn. Some will learn faster than others, it took me 4 months to ollie!

Pop Suvit

The "Pop Suvit" is a easy trick, It does not really invole the ollie at all.

1. First put your front foot like you are going to do a ollie.
2. Put your back foot at the croner of the tail.
3. Roll at a medium pace.
4. Bend your knees, pop the board and kind of push it down and out.
5. Dont use your front foot at all. when you pop the board just take your front foot off the board just enough to let the board spin.
6. Watch the board spin around and catch the board.
7. Land and roll away.
8. It sounds alot easier than it sounds. so keep at it!

180 Ollie

Once you have learned the ollie the next step is to take it to the next step!

1. Place your front foot in the ollie postion
2. Pop a ollie
3. Once you pop a ollie, twist your upper half of your body. It can either be frontside or backside. You choose!
4. Once you twist your upper half of your body, the lower part of your body with follow automaticly!
5. Try to get the twisting and the ollie in one smooth motion.
6. When you land you will be riding switch. So get use to the feeling of riding switch by just riding up and down the sidewalk or something
7. Land and ride away!

Kickflip

This trick is a b&%#h to learn! It can take two days to master or like me, a year!

1. Put your feet in the ollie postion, with your front foot a little bit of to the edge of the board.
2. Pop the board like a regular ollie, only this time you are going to side you front up and out to the side, ficking the board with your toe
3. Bring your front back in and level your feet out, watch the board flip underneth you.
4. When the board levels out catch it with your feet and land
5. If you try it and you land only with your back foot, try bringing your front foot back in to the board more.
6. This trick is hard to learn, so keep at it, and one day you will get it!

Heelflip

This trick is like the kickflip, only this time you flip the board the other way around.

1. Put your feet like you are going to do a ollie, with your toes off the board and the balls of your foot on the board.
2. Pop the board like a regular ollie and "flick" your heel out and off the board
3. Do the same as the kickflip, bring your foot back in and level out.
4. When the board levels out catch and roll away.
5. If you have trouble flipping the board, remember to "flick" the board with your heel. You will know when you "flick" it because it will feel like you are "flicking" it!

Variel Flip

This trick involes the pop suvit and the kickflip, so learn them well!

1. Put your feet like you are going to do a kickflip and pop suvit.
2. Pop your board like a pop suvit and kick it out like a kickflip at the same time.
3. Bring your feet back in and catch the board
4. Roll Away!
5. If you can't land it or flip it just remember it is just like do a kickflip and a popsuvit so keep at it!

360 Flip

This trick almost like the Variel Flip except that it adds another rotation to the spin

1. Do the same as the vareil flip only this time put your foot off the taila little more
2. Pop the board push back really hard
3. Watch the board spin underneth you and catch it
4. Roll Away
5. If you cant land it try leaning back more and suving it harder!