This page teaches you how to perform different tricks. These tricks are seen as the stepping stones for all other street skating tricks, as the techniques learned from mastering these moves are used in every other trick. We'll start with the most important, and build on from there. Each trick will have a video, allowing you to not only read our instructions, but visualize the technique mentioned in real time.
The ollie is the most important trick in a skaters arsenal. This trick is the basis for almost every other one, which makes learning this trick first the most crucial. The main technique behind this is popping your board on the tail end, and sliding your front foot up the board, to allow you to rise in the air.
The "Shove-It" and the "Pop Shove-It" are also incredibly important to learn for any beginner. The technique of these tricks involves using your front foot on the deck to make the skateboard rotate by 180, or 360 degrees. The difference between these two tricks is that the standard "Shove-It" is done without fully popping the back end of the deck, like you would with an ollie, whereas the "Pop Shove-It" is done by doing an ollie, and then rotating the board.
The 180 Ollie is done by combining the ollie, and turning your body at the same time, making you rotate 180 degrees. By learning this trick, you can then begin to try learning a plethora of other tricks, including the 360 ollie, the backside 180 ollie, the backside 360 ollie and many more. This trick is crucial for skating vert, so if you want to skate like Tony Hawk, make sure you perfect this trick!
The kickflip is the classic trick that looks, and feels awesome regardless of how experienced you are with skating. The main technique for this trick, is to pop the tail end of the board, as you would with an ollie, and push your front foot down on the bottom side of the board, to make it do a 360 spin. Even though it is a hard trick to master, it is one of the most fulfilling tricks to land, especially when landing it for the first time.
After learning the kickflip, the next stepping stone is the heelflip. It is essentially almost the exact same trick, but pushing your foot to the opposite side, to make it spin the opposite way. Heelflips are a little bit harder to get the hang of than kickflips, which is why they are usually mastered afterwards. Once you've learned this trick, you're prety much ready to start taking street skating to the next level.
Once learning all of the tricks on this page, you will be a fairly accomplished street skater. This is because, going forward, you will basically be learning tricks that combine the techniques of these tricks in some way. An example would be the "360 flip" (trey flip). This combines the technique of the kickflip, and 360 shove. We find the best way to learn is to watch some videos on the internet, and literally keep trying the trick until you get it (don't let how easy this sounds fool you, it could take weeks!).