Some skateboarding tips for beginners here folks. If you want to hear of a few moves and tricks you can do then step right this way ladies and gentlemen! Let the fun begin and no pushing at the back.
OK so I looked at the Ollie in the last post down below, which you know you really got to get your head around and learn this as soon as, cos it is the basis for many other sweet tricks, oh yes sirree.
To recap, the Ollie is a move where you jump in the air with at least one of your feet touching the skateboard at all times, the hands are not used at all and the back foot slamming on the back of the board gives you the impetus to leap into the air, along with you bending your knees, you then control the angle of your leap with your front foot. Cool huh?
Now lets look at some more skateboarding tips for beginners.
The Kickflip follows on from the Ollie and is harder to learn but a great trick.
So here goes: You are going at a nice lick on your skateboard, with your backfoot on the tail of the board, and your front foot near to the centre or maybe just past, with your heel off the side of the board.
You then push down fast and hard on the back tail, and with your front foot and toes you spin the board around. As the board spins around under you,you leap up into the air and as it spins back into its original position you fall back on board with your knees bent to both lessen the impact and have control of the board, and then you skate off. Just like that!!
Thats all folks from skateboarding tips for beginners, to be honest its way past my bedtime and I need my energy levels topped upto the max! See you soon.
Thursday 28 May 2009
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Learning Skateboarding Tricks
I want to use this blog to give any one out there a quick guide to learning skateboarding tricks. Lets look at a few moves, there are oodles of different tricks but this is just one or two of them to be going on with.
Once you get to learning skateboarding tricks, and feel comfortable doing them, you really start to gain confidence on your board, and you will be flying.
OK here we go with a few:
A Kickturn. Kickturning involves balancing on your back wheels, and then swinging the front of your board to a completely different direction. This will seem real hard the first few times you attempt it, but let me tell ya practice makes perfect, and the kickturn is a pretty cool manoeuvre once you have mastered it.
The Ollie. One of the first you need to master, but it aint that easy to begin with. You should try this with a moving skateboard as it is much easier.
OK, so place your back foot on the tail of your board, and place your front foot between the middle and front trucks of your board. This is your starting position for an ollie, but if you feel better witha slightly different stance thats cool too.
Now you are ready to ollie, so bend your knees, and the more you bend the better height you will get. Then slam your back foot right down on the tail of the board and with your bended knees jump up by pushing off from your back foot, so as the boards tail goes down to the ground you are pushing up fast. You have to get as much height as you can with your back foot.
With the outside of your front foot you guide the front of your board. Your knees need to be as high as poss, they can hit your chest and once you are at the top of your jump try to level the skateboard out and have your feet at the same height.
Then as you come down to hit the ground, bend your knees and roll the board along. Perfect!!
The 50-50, or the truckstand as it is also known as, is simple enough. All it involves is having both feet on the tail of your skateboard and balancing as you move along. Its a neat trick to learn.
Learning skateboarding tricks is great fun, and you can soon look a real pro with a few of these in your pocket. Stay cool.
Once you get to learning skateboarding tricks, and feel comfortable doing them, you really start to gain confidence on your board, and you will be flying.
OK here we go with a few:
A Kickturn. Kickturning involves balancing on your back wheels, and then swinging the front of your board to a completely different direction. This will seem real hard the first few times you attempt it, but let me tell ya practice makes perfect, and the kickturn is a pretty cool manoeuvre once you have mastered it.
The Ollie. One of the first you need to master, but it aint that easy to begin with. You should try this with a moving skateboard as it is much easier.
OK, so place your back foot on the tail of your board, and place your front foot between the middle and front trucks of your board. This is your starting position for an ollie, but if you feel better witha slightly different stance thats cool too.
Now you are ready to ollie, so bend your knees, and the more you bend the better height you will get. Then slam your back foot right down on the tail of the board and with your bended knees jump up by pushing off from your back foot, so as the boards tail goes down to the ground you are pushing up fast. You have to get as much height as you can with your back foot.
With the outside of your front foot you guide the front of your board. Your knees need to be as high as poss, they can hit your chest and once you are at the top of your jump try to level the skateboard out and have your feet at the same height.
Then as you come down to hit the ground, bend your knees and roll the board along. Perfect!!
The 50-50, or the truckstand as it is also known as, is simple enough. All it involves is having both feet on the tail of your skateboard and balancing as you move along. Its a neat trick to learn.
Learning skateboarding tricks is great fun, and you can soon look a real pro with a few of these in your pocket. Stay cool.
Tuesday 26 May 2009
History Of Skateboarding
In this blog we are taking a walk down memory lane and looking at the history of skateboarding.
It started off as "side-walk surfing" and was closely related to surfing back then, a kind of offshoot. Fact is that skateboards we are pretty sure originated in California, so you can see the connection.
They were developed at first it is believed in the 1940`s, but only began to gain popularity in the 1960`s onwards. Surfers used them as a kind of dry surfing run, and kids who couldn`t get to the beach found skateboarding as the next best thing.
The first skateboards were surfboard shaped, but the board widened as people started using skateboards more inventively, and ramps started being used.
The history of skateboarding shows us that once skateboard parks came onto the scene things really started to rock and roll! People started all sorts of cool tricks.
They started doing nose wheelies, which is riding on the front wheels, and the 360 was invented, which is spinning around on the back wheels. I hope this isn`t dullsville for you, but I like finding out about the history of skateboarding, its neat to know how things are connected, and how sports develop and grow.
The ollie was the first skateboard trick of the modern era, and after the ollie things really hotted up.
If ya don`t know what the ollie is, it is to fly off the ground with the board, but not holding onto the board, and then landing back on the board. You can use your feet to press against the board in all types of ways for various manoeuvres and tricks. This must have been ultra exciting when this was first created.
By the way,do you know where the name of the ollie came from? It was the creators middle name Alan Ollie Gelfand.
So thats a brief history of skateboarding. It doesn`t always get the respect it deserves for the complexity and subtlety of the tricks and the imaginative moves.
To learn all the best skateboarding tricks in rapido time click on SkateboardingSecrets
It started off as "side-walk surfing" and was closely related to surfing back then, a kind of offshoot. Fact is that skateboards we are pretty sure originated in California, so you can see the connection.
They were developed at first it is believed in the 1940`s, but only began to gain popularity in the 1960`s onwards. Surfers used them as a kind of dry surfing run, and kids who couldn`t get to the beach found skateboarding as the next best thing.
The first skateboards were surfboard shaped, but the board widened as people started using skateboards more inventively, and ramps started being used.
The history of skateboarding shows us that once skateboard parks came onto the scene things really started to rock and roll! People started all sorts of cool tricks.
They started doing nose wheelies, which is riding on the front wheels, and the 360 was invented, which is spinning around on the back wheels. I hope this isn`t dullsville for you, but I like finding out about the history of skateboarding, its neat to know how things are connected, and how sports develop and grow.
The ollie was the first skateboard trick of the modern era, and after the ollie things really hotted up.
If ya don`t know what the ollie is, it is to fly off the ground with the board, but not holding onto the board, and then landing back on the board. You can use your feet to press against the board in all types of ways for various manoeuvres and tricks. This must have been ultra exciting when this was first created.
By the way,do you know where the name of the ollie came from? It was the creators middle name Alan Ollie Gelfand.
So thats a brief history of skateboarding. It doesn`t always get the respect it deserves for the complexity and subtlety of the tricks and the imaginative moves.
To learn all the best skateboarding tricks in rapido time click on SkateboardingSecrets
Friday 22 May 2009
Skateboard Stance
This blog I am going to look at things to know when you are starting out skateboarding. First things first you need to find out what is the best and natural skateboard stance for you.
OK, there are two basic skateboard stances, and these are the regular stance and the goofy stance, I kid you not!
With the regular stance you stand with your left foot forward to the front of the skateboard ( the front of the skateboard being where the board curves slightly upwards ), with the right foot at the back, and with the goofy stance, well go figure, you stand with your right foot forward to the front of the skateboard, and your left foot to the back.
Huh? So how do you know which one is the right way for you?
OK well as you can probably guess with a name like regular skateboard stance, this is the more common stance, and this is the one that right footed people use.
How can you tell if you are right or left footed? S`easy, get someone to throw a ball at your feet. Which foot does it feel natural to stop and control the ball and to kick it back with? If it`s your right foot then you are right footed.
There are a lot more right footed people in the world than left footed, but if you are left footed like me then you will favour the goofy skateboard stance.
So why go this way if you are left footed and vice versa? Well basically you will feel more comfortable in the goofy stance if you are left footed, it will just feel right, and don`t let anyone tell you that it ain`t right cos it is for you!
You want your controlling foot, the one you kick with, at the back of the skateboard as you control the board in the main with your back foot.
Of course you can be a really cool cat who feels just as comfortable in the goofy as the regular stance, and can switch from one to the other with ease. In that case you do as you please! Hey lets face it you can always do as you please, don`t ever forget that.
If you want a neat guide to learning all the skateboarding tricks in just a few weeks time click on SkateboardSecrets
This is a master guide that will teach you every trick in the book, as well as a lot of tricks that have never seen a book!
Catch you soon,
OK, there are two basic skateboard stances, and these are the regular stance and the goofy stance, I kid you not!
With the regular stance you stand with your left foot forward to the front of the skateboard ( the front of the skateboard being where the board curves slightly upwards ), with the right foot at the back, and with the goofy stance, well go figure, you stand with your right foot forward to the front of the skateboard, and your left foot to the back.
Huh? So how do you know which one is the right way for you?
OK well as you can probably guess with a name like regular skateboard stance, this is the more common stance, and this is the one that right footed people use.
How can you tell if you are right or left footed? S`easy, get someone to throw a ball at your feet. Which foot does it feel natural to stop and control the ball and to kick it back with? If it`s your right foot then you are right footed.
There are a lot more right footed people in the world than left footed, but if you are left footed like me then you will favour the goofy skateboard stance.
So why go this way if you are left footed and vice versa? Well basically you will feel more comfortable in the goofy stance if you are left footed, it will just feel right, and don`t let anyone tell you that it ain`t right cos it is for you!
You want your controlling foot, the one you kick with, at the back of the skateboard as you control the board in the main with your back foot.
Of course you can be a really cool cat who feels just as comfortable in the goofy as the regular stance, and can switch from one to the other with ease. In that case you do as you please! Hey lets face it you can always do as you please, don`t ever forget that.
If you want a neat guide to learning all the skateboarding tricks in just a few weeks time click on SkateboardSecrets
This is a master guide that will teach you every trick in the book, as well as a lot of tricks that have never seen a book!
Catch you soon,
Thursday 21 May 2009
Skateboarding Planet.
Welcome to Skateboarding Planet!. Everyone is welcome here, the young, the old, the beginner, the expert, the geeky kids, the kids with two left feet, the dudes and the chicks!!
This blog is for anyone who is interested in skateboarding, it is going to be a living, breathing creature that gets updated at least once a day whether you like it or not! I am going to try to pack it with as much information as I can, and I sincerely hope that there are lot of skateboarders, or wannabe skateboarders, out there that are going to find this informative, instructive, fun, maybe a little goofy at times, and hopefully a useful and good place to hang out for skateboarding fanatics.
Now don`t worry if you don`t know your varial kick from your ollie, or your kick flip from your heel, or you wouldn`t know a 360 flip if it bit you on the bum, in the not too distant future we will be covering all bases. If you are the type of person who likes to push mongo or ride goofy we got it all down here.
And the more input I get from anyone of you people out there who love skateboarding the better.
I am going to pack this blog with tips on various moves, write out beginners guides, give info on the latest trends and fads. There will be info on gear to buy, where to get the coolest boards etc.
So I hope you find us, stick with us and enjoy the ride. I will make this as fun and smiley as possible, as life sucks if you can`t let yourself go and enjoy it.
For all who love to get out and express themselves by skateboarding, I will see you soon.
This blog is for anyone who is interested in skateboarding, it is going to be a living, breathing creature that gets updated at least once a day whether you like it or not! I am going to try to pack it with as much information as I can, and I sincerely hope that there are lot of skateboarders, or wannabe skateboarders, out there that are going to find this informative, instructive, fun, maybe a little goofy at times, and hopefully a useful and good place to hang out for skateboarding fanatics.
Now don`t worry if you don`t know your varial kick from your ollie, or your kick flip from your heel, or you wouldn`t know a 360 flip if it bit you on the bum, in the not too distant future we will be covering all bases. If you are the type of person who likes to push mongo or ride goofy we got it all down here.
And the more input I get from anyone of you people out there who love skateboarding the better.
I am going to pack this blog with tips on various moves, write out beginners guides, give info on the latest trends and fads. There will be info on gear to buy, where to get the coolest boards etc.
So I hope you find us, stick with us and enjoy the ride. I will make this as fun and smiley as possible, as life sucks if you can`t let yourself go and enjoy it.
For all who love to get out and express themselves by skateboarding, I will see you soon.
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