I am mentally incapable of fully committing and just sending it, regardless of whether I fall or not. I know full and well that most people agree, learning kickflips when the only other trick you know is an ollie is probably not the best way to progress, or maybe you think I'm just frust.
As a noob I've learned a few things over the last few months that have confirmed alot of what's out there. So I figured I'd just reiterate it for anyone who is as skeptical as me.
Benefits of just cruising and riding. Like most people as soon as I got a board I started trying tricks. There's a reason everyone says to just ride around alot first it might not be as exciting as doing a kickflip but it will pay off down the line and also make you just enjoy skating more. It makes your skating look alot better too.
Bending your knees. I'm just starting to utilize this great tool. It helps with almost everything. Dropping in It's very rare where either squatting or standing up from a squat won't be helpful for something. Practice switch alot, again not as fun as tricks but bigger payoff down the line. Also makes it easier for you when riding fakie and again makes your skating look better Manuals before flips.
I've noticed a larger improvement overall in my skating the more I practice manuals as well as more confidence control and pop. It's also one of the few tricks that I practice and have seen incredible progress. Also it feels sweet. Take off the headphones If your not skating alone. I've gained more friends and had a more fun at the park with my headphones off. You also can hear your skateboard which sounds great after a hard day. Also you will hear the other skaters around you, can't tell you how many times I've seen people run into each other or get hit by a board because they had their headphones on.
Last thing be PATIENT you will see alot of people here and at the park come and go because they didn't get an Ollie in a month or a week or they are not satisfied with how fast their progressing. Don't let the people on here and on YouTube sike you out. If it takes you months to get an Ollie or even years..
I've seen people get Ollie's in a day and then quit because they couldn't get a kickflip after a month. Be patient, be humble, have fun. Me and my dog a almost 3yr old pug were practicing tricks in my yard, a garage type area.
The thing about my dog is he hates kids so I just told him to sit and we kept skateboarding. After about 5 minutes they kept getting closer so I decided to go inside so they would leave. My dog stayed outside sitting keeping watch. Even my neighbors came out to tell the kids to go away. They did but came back just after my neighbors went back inside.
At this point they were all holding onto my fence pressing their heads In. I have now, right behind my back two really nice and soft ripsurf boards.
One broken by let it too much beneath the midday sun strenght of a very sunny summer It turned out that in my country, spain, there isnt a shit of a shop that sells either street surfing either razor, all the razor distros are focussed on electric rubish. There was a shop by the beach that had four ripsurfs in the back room and I think I-m going to buy them all myself, but Im not posting this to denounce again. I want to talk about how nice and unique and pro I felt with thwm and how comfyortable and happy I am to have learned them, bc I think each dessign has its own little rules.
Like if there were operative sistems for the computer or something. Ive tried the first a second hand and very wasted caster air, black, so f bauty, but I lost it one really stressfull day one day police came really viololently and we were sitting and came from the back and a stupid guy that asked me if he could ride itwas holding it and well The second was a street surfing, with the grid like chess table very sturdy yet little damaged but super smooth and compacted.
A little heavier than wanted but that give to it lot of speed realy and makes you feel more like fucking around in the streets. This one I gifted to one little friend of mine, just to remember that thing exists at least Then some neighbour saw me, every day fucking with the strange two wheeled skate and gave me one really cheap and bizzarre vogorboard, or so it said in the plastic, withe a huge metal bar and very precarious and toy like everything.
It helped me a lot to understand certain moves about the sinc of the body you had to do it very exhaustively and more exagerated than normal, it happily passed out one day. I also had imitations of the caster air, which very sadly broke very fastly Even though you can make you own like apparently with some ease, Im not so sure and I think is important experienced and technical people get involved and make things to skate them in real street like conditions. But I came to talk about ripsurf.
The board is little shorter than the caster air, sure is aimed more for girls. I'm 26 years old and I'm getting into skating for the third time now but still very much consider myself a "newbie. I started skating after one of my close friends at the time started. I learned how to ollie and drop-in on a mini ramp but I was more into looking like a skater at school than I was actually skating.
I quit altogether when I was 12 to focus on more conventional sports I was, and still am, really into baseball. I gave skateboarding another go 7 years later when I was I was out of high school and wasn't a good enough baseball player to play in college and, therefore, no longer played. I was forced to move back home from out-of-state college, kind of in a general rut in life, and I was bored and needed a hobby. Unfortunately, after a couple months I drifted away from skating once again because of jobs, girls, etc.
That brings me to present-day: another 7 years after my second attempt, more settled in life, I'm on my third attempt at skateboarding after randomly stumbling across some kid's 1-year progression video on YouTube. The itch came back; I bought a Globe complete off Amazon and I started re-re-learning how to ollie.
After about a month now, I've gotten my ollies higher and sweeter than ever in my life and I'm starting to get the shove-its back. I've messed around with kickflips but have never really came too close to landing one but, although that's my end-of-year goal.
So, I guess I'm really just curious if there is anyone out there in a similar place as I--not a teenager and just getting started.
If so, how old are you, how long have you been skating, and what tricks can you do? Hoping to find a little positive motivation. During the past week I went skateboarding 4 days in a row. Learned to ollie consistently, and I'm still trying to break the habit of mongo pushing. In fact I tried learning tricks with my not so comfortable side of riding and after a couple of days learned to ollie, but I said screw it and rather learn to push with my left foot.
Anyway, last day I was determined to learn to kickflip, but the leg pain is unbarable for me anymore. Sadly I'll need to take a couple of days off Before I start with my list I wanna tell my story how I came back to skateboarding. I started skating again 7 months ago after an about 11 years break. Back then I skated for maybe a summer and quit, for whatever reason.
I think it was because I was young and didn't have much opportunities to go skate in the upcoming winter, as well as the fact that my skate friends quitted before me and I was alone with this hobby During the last 11 years I picked up my old board for serveral times after a break up and I even upgraded some parts. However, I didn't really have the guts to go outside and expose myself and my inability to other people at a park or the streets, so this didn't last very long. Now we come closer to the present days.
So I met a guy at the gym with whom I got good friends with. His dad knows a guy who skates and sells used gear for little money. When I saw the board I was astonished! I tought he'll get a piece of trash, a chipped deck or so. But it was such a good setup, barely used. Thunder trucks, Emillion deck, Bones bearings you know. I couldn't resist and I had to ride around with it and I couldn't stop anymore! This feeling, the sound, the speed…. It remembered me of my childhood btw. I asked if his friend can sell me one too, but in the end I had to buy one myself.
My old board, sad story here, was thrown away by my dad because "I didn't even use it". Shit happens. I didn't expect much of myself and how far this skating-thing will go, so I bought a cheaper complete a decent one tho online.
I couldn't stand it. It was horrible, it was nothing compared to my old setup. I ended up with spending even more money for an absolute new setup, but I don't regret this decision, as well as all the broken decks, destroyed shoes etc in the last couple of months. So I started skating when I was a little ass kid, probably like 5 or 6. And I learned to Ollie in my early teens, but I never really learned many tricks or anything like that until I was like I finally started practicing and had kickflip, heelflip, fakie big spins, variable, tre flips, and ollies pretty consistently on flat.
I had also gotten pretty decent on mini ramps and was learning more intense stuff on transition. What do you guys do to stay motivated after a long day at work? How do you keep yourself from putting ass to couch and playing video games? I feel like I want to skate every single day, and then after work I just come home and want to drink a beer and play something instead of exerting any energy at all.
I want that to change. I watch King of the Road episodes every day on repeat and it gets me so pumped to skateboard, and I want to latch onto that feeling and make it an integral part of my daily life. Also, what do you find is the most efficient way to lock in and KEEP tricks? Hey there since i found out about this subreddit i thought i should share my story too. This all happend around last years summer.
So lets set the scene. There is this skatepark in my hometome i really like since i started to get back into skating about two years ago and i met some really cool people there.
Two of them will be importent to the story so i will just name them D and M. Its located in a parl with a baskedball field and a small area for people who want to do parkour next to it. The parkour area gets often mistaken as a playground. There are two entrances to the park and at each of them there is a sign with the rules of the park.
Those rules are just there to prevent accidents and it usually works out pretty well. Most of us dont even care if we have children riding their scooters around the park as long as they follow rule 4. So i was standing at the side of the park watching D learning to kickflip off the funbox and smoking a cig.
Then he lands it really sweet and comes up to us grinning in joy not knowing that his day will be ruined soon. D: Guys have you seen that! Me: yes man oretty sweet! D: Can one of you film it for me? M: sure i will. He was around 8 years old and no parent in sight. Befor i even think of what could go wrong he starts speeding into the bowl slightly delaid to D who starts to go for his run. Now everything went way to fast.
D starts his trick kid moves infront of him M yells out something and bang. Both D and the kid are lying on the ground. D starts swearing and holding his wrist and the kid starts to cry. M runs over to D while i check the kid. And here come our entiteld mo. So happy to find this subreddit. I just have one goal for now: Reach the kickflip in case of someone ask me to do it when i'm crusing. Sounds stupid but this is my everyday motivation ahahah. I'm currently bringing my board everywhere, just to cruise and after work i put all my effort in learning tricks.
I'm learning Ollie and try to fght my fears when it's come to ollie in mouvment. I'm pretty pretty close maybe i will post later a short film to ask you adivces what i'm doing wrong. So what i do wrong?
Seriously did skaters have 10hours shoes lifetime? Do i use my front foot too much on my grip? If you can advice me good skate shoes with good fellings i love my nike sb because i think i'm like foot naked on my board. So this was in like 5th grade, i was at my schoolyard which also worked as a skatepark on the weekends, and it was a saturday i think. Everything goes well until these three girls show up on their bikes.
This winter i went to a indoors skatepark, and landed my first t. I've been skating for about 4 years. After a 2 year break i decided to get back into it and have been having alot of fun. But recently, I've really been trying to apply myself and learn some new tricks and master some that I already know and in doing this I realize how bad I am at skateboarding. After 4 years of skateboarding nearly every day I can barely do a decent ollie half the time. I feel very inconsistent on a skateboard and it doesn't feel like I'm progressing at all.
No matter how many hours I put into a trick, it doesn't seem to help. I feel stupid and like my brain must completely suck ass for me to be so incompetent in learning tricks. I'll use the kickflip as a good example. I used to practice this trick for hours daily. I'd go skate at like midnight and just kickflip, kickflip, kickflip.
Non stop. I've watched every tutorial video known to man so I know how to do the trick. And I ever learned it at one point! I was doing them 1 out of every 3 tries. I learned kickflips. Until the next day, when my shit brain decided it forgot how I did it.
Then I'd spend the next several weeks in frustration because I can't do it anymore. This happened recently as well. I learned it, got it down pretty good. Then the next day I couldn't even get close. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Helpful tips Why does my board fly away when I kickflip?
Helpful tips. Ben Davis April 19, Why does my board fly away when I kickflip? How do you stay over on a skateboard? Can you land back foot on kickflip? Why is the varial kickflip hated? Like for a regular shove, your back foot does all the work. The difference is you want to pop first and then scoop as soon as you hear the snap of your tail.
If you struggle to complete the full rotation while rolling, you could give fakie shove-it a go before learning them in regular stance. The best starter trick has to be the Frontside Rotations are typically harder to perform standing still. Speed helps to gain the momentum needed to complete the full Although, you will probably learn them by pivoting before being able to do the full rotation.
The Half-cab takes its name from its creator, pioneer and long-time pro skater, Steve Caballero. He was the first person to land a fakie backside , nicknamed caballerial, or full cab. The Half-Cab, or fakie backside , is a great introduction to backside rotation tricks. If you have your fakie ollies down, start by pivoting fully at first to understand the shift of balance between your front and back legs. The Fakie Bigspin is a trick where your board does a shove-it while your body does a , all this going fakie.
You want to adopt the same foot positioning as for a regular shove-it. Lean slightly more on your front foot and keep your upper body open, ready to turn.
Going fakie helps to scoop the board , hence why Fakie Bigspins are much easier than regular ones. To perform a Nollie Shove, scoop your nose with your foot going straight in front of you, and jump at the same time.
The major difference lies in the foot positioning. Once you got the fakie shuvit down, move on to the regular shuvit. I may be completely biased here, but I think the shuvit is harder to learn than the fakie variant. The shuvit requires commitment but is probably easier than an olie, so first things first. From there you can do frontside, backside, shuvits, big spins, etc.
Wear a helmet though. A pop-shuvit requires the tail to hit the ground and is a bit more aggressive compared to a regular shuvit. Practice until you drop! Make sure you can do both frontside and backside, it will help you move on to flip trick combos.
According to Wikipedia, It was John Lucero that invented the no comply but Neil Blender named it and made it mainstream. When you feel comfortable you can move away from flat and move on to jump from objects or try it on a quarter pipe. A great creative trick that opens a lot of other options. This trick can be done both front side and backside and is name the half-cab when you ride fakie.
You can do this trick both frontside and backside. A bit harder but some actually prefer this side. A well-executed heelflip is always appreciated,. In order to learn a kickflip, you really need to know how your board reacts and feels very comfortable riding.
Skipping the basics will only make you progress slower and can be frustrating. This used to be a popular trick back in the 90s but less so nowadays. If you know how to shuvit and kickflip, this should not be too hard to learn. The varial kickflip was again invented by Rodney Mullen over 3 decades ago
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