After you feel comfortable with cruising around, you will probably want to learn some tricks. Here are some good tricks to learn street following:
The Ollie - most skaters try to learn this trick too soon, I believe, but it is important to learn a trick!
Pop Shuvit - This is a great trick to learn along with Ollie, since it takes very different skills.
Manual - another trick differently, to help you balance the practice. And you can mix with the other hand tricks!
Rail Stands - sometimes also called Primo present, this trick is harder than it seems.
There are many more tricks you can try to cope and, like Kickflips, grinds and tricks for parks and ramps. But remember - learn at their own pace, and most importantly, have fun with him. Skate has to do with fun. Remember that above all - if you stop enjoying yourself, then slower, relax, and just go skate!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Getting Hurt Skateboarding and Getting Back Up
Skate can be a painful sport to learn. It is quite normal to get hurt while skateboarding. You can use pads all over his body, but fall, and it's likely to get injured before arriving good enough to catch yourself. In addition to wear a helmet and pads, there are some things you can do to help reduce the damage.
The biggest thing is when you fall, try to NOT use your hands to catch yourself. This might be kind of hard to learn, but if you lose your board and will smash into the ground, you should try and let your shoulder and body take it, rolling with the blow as much as you can. Advance with your hand is the best way to break a wrist, and while wearing wrist guards can protect you from this, it is dangerous to get used to using their hands, because at some point you will skate without the dolls ...
Therefore, those moments do get injured, what to do about it? The best thing to do is stand up if they can walk around and shake to deactivate it. Every time you fall, your body will learn to avoid doing so again. You should not go too badly injured skateboarding, but broken bones are quite common. If you think has broken a bone or hurt something bad, get tested. We hate you if you find out a month later he was badly injured, but the wound healed wrong and now things are twice as bad. If you see a doctor, take the advice of doctor! Healing the wounds and he was fine at any time. After you're better, most important of all is that you return to your board, and keep skating.
The biggest thing is when you fall, try to NOT use your hands to catch yourself. This might be kind of hard to learn, but if you lose your board and will smash into the ground, you should try and let your shoulder and body take it, rolling with the blow as much as you can. Advance with your hand is the best way to break a wrist, and while wearing wrist guards can protect you from this, it is dangerous to get used to using their hands, because at some point you will skate without the dolls ...
Therefore, those moments do get injured, what to do about it? The best thing to do is stand up if they can walk around and shake to deactivate it. Every time you fall, your body will learn to avoid doing so again. You should not go too badly injured skateboarding, but broken bones are quite common. If you think has broken a bone or hurt something bad, get tested. We hate you if you find out a month later he was badly injured, but the wound healed wrong and now things are twice as bad. If you see a doctor, take the advice of doctor! Healing the wounds and he was fine at any time. After you're better, most important of all is that you return to your board, and keep skating.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
How to Kickturn
After you feel comfortable stopping, starting and stature, it's time to start practicing kickturns. Learning to kickturn is vital.
Kickturning is when you balance in your back wheels for a moment, the swing and the front of your board to a new direction. We need some balance and some practice. If this short little instruction does not make it all clear to you, read How Kickturn for more detailed instructions, for some great ideas and practices.
Once you've kickturns a little, make sure you can kickturn both directions. Try kickturning while moving. Try that while on a ramp (climb a little ways and kickturn 180). The more practical, more comfortable you will become.
Kickturning is when you balance in your back wheels for a moment, the swing and the front of your board to a new direction. We need some balance and some practice. If this short little instruction does not make it all clear to you, read How Kickturn for more detailed instructions, for some great ideas and practices.
Once you've kickturns a little, make sure you can kickturn both directions. Try kickturning while moving. Try that while on a ramp (climb a little ways and kickturn 180). The more practical, more comfortable you will become.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
How to Skate at a Skatepark, and over Flow
You've practiced a little skateboarding on the streets or in a parking lot - but what about how to skate on banks, ramps, down the slopes, or in a Skatepark?
The curves in a pending Skatepark is sometimes called "flow". Inline skating on stream, and up and down the slopes and ramps is a bit complicated. The first key is to always keep your weight on your front foot. Thus, when riding in a large bump on a hill (beware that there are no cars!) For your driveway, or through a Skatepark, keep your weight on that front foot. That does not mean that everything tense - you need to relax, too!
There is a trick to this key - when you go up a ramp or slope, pause, and then ride down fakie, your front foot just changed. Do you understand? His front foot is not always right or his left foot, the foot is facing the direction that goes! Do, to ride a ramp or hill and down fakie, you want to transfer his weight from one foot to another to the right at the top. It might take a little practice!
The second key is to bend the knees. Keep your knees bent, as loose and as you can. This will help your body to absorb the shock and impact of potholes and changes. As a huge empire in skateboarding, the most relaxed and knees are bent, better than skating. And do not hunch your shoulders too much, either. Try to keep your shoulders a bit and relax. If a little hunch, that's ok. The main thing is to be relaxed.
The curves in a pending Skatepark is sometimes called "flow". Inline skating on stream, and up and down the slopes and ramps is a bit complicated. The first key is to always keep your weight on your front foot. Thus, when riding in a large bump on a hill (beware that there are no cars!) For your driveway, or through a Skatepark, keep your weight on that front foot. That does not mean that everything tense - you need to relax, too!
There is a trick to this key - when you go up a ramp or slope, pause, and then ride down fakie, your front foot just changed. Do you understand? His front foot is not always right or his left foot, the foot is facing the direction that goes! Do, to ride a ramp or hill and down fakie, you want to transfer his weight from one foot to another to the right at the top. It might take a little practice!
The second key is to bend the knees. Keep your knees bent, as loose and as you can. This will help your body to absorb the shock and impact of potholes and changes. As a huge empire in skateboarding, the most relaxed and knees are bent, better than skating. And do not hunch your shoulders too much, either. Try to keep your shoulders a bit and relax. If a little hunch, that's ok. The main thing is to be relaxed.
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