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.