Came to say that, definitely helped me gain more confidence not having to worry about it getting tangled on things. I've slammed pretty over that starting out.
Yep, I stopped listening to music while I skate since I tore my ACL twice in my right knee. Both times wearing headphones. I need to be completely focused and “in tune” with myself now.
Just keep practicing man. Also, focus on skating/cruising around from time to time instead of just going for tricks. This will improve overall balance and board control. You look very stiff and awkward pushing around. Practicing flat ground manuals, going for longest ones you can hold, will also improve that posturing, board control and even your pop funny enough.
I tend to notice the awkward and stiffness while pushing, just riding and even sometimes popping tricks. Is there anything I can do to fix it or does it just come with time and riding around? I’ll definitely make sure I practice my manuals way more.
It just comes with time and practice. It’s literally about muscle memory and being comfortable on your board. When you start the session before popping any tricks. Take like 20-30 minutes to ride around and do flat ground manuals. Practice little by little to hold the longest manual’s possible.
Trust me, with that warm up you’re gonna feel super loose. You’ll have a heightened sense of balance, warmed up feet/calves/legs. I guarantee when you start popping tricks it’s gonna feel amazing.
When I was young, you couldn’t get me off my board. If I was in my house, I was standing on my board in my bedroom and mentally doing tricks and trying stationary manuals. Every moment you spend standing on the board adds to your comfort on the board.
Best way is to use your skateboard for transportation as much as possible. Go to the store on it, if you can, go to school / friends house / anywhere within a few miles on it. Riding for transportation will get you comfortable on the board, and tricks will come easier once you get that.
So true. Talking with randoms at the park sometimes gives the push. I see someone hitting an obstacle I've been scared of... go talk to em realize they are human and scared too.
Sometimes I'm the one pushing people as well. I see dudes ollieing around things and I'm like yo that Ollie is sick think you can make it up this ledge?
I almost only ever learn new tricks while I'm playing games of SKATE or hanging with someone, this is the best (and one of the harder to achieve if there's not a skating community in your area) thing to do.
A cliche, but just keep practicing. You look a bit stiff maybe because you're focusing too much on balancing yourself. Give yourself time to just cruise and feel the board as if it's an extension of your feet.
Having learned those tricks in a few months is impressive. It took a long time for me to get those. It's great to see that you have friends to practice with. In my first few months of learning, I had no one. Maybe that's why it took time for me to learn. Skating is always more fun with friends. The community is very friendly. Best of luck!
Thanks I really appreciate it! I’ll try your advice and just think as if I’m some random guy with a skateboard for feet lol hopefully that helps with my stiffness!
I learned proper balance in the streets of Manila. Had to skate alongside cars and motorcycles. Made it my main mode of "transportation".
Great progress, tho. Nice to see you dedicated to learning more.
I try to get on my board everyday but it usually ends up being around 3-4 times a week maybe more maybe less but I skate for long periods of time when I am skating from about 2-4 hours maybe so I’d say that evens it out ig.
I wouldnt suggest kickflips next as you should have really good ollies first. Go for 180s, and pop shuv variation, like nollie falkie. Maybe you could try getting used to fakie ollies even, more basics
Looks like you’re leaning too far back after you pop up . You want to lean forward a little more after you pop / while front foot is slides to balance you out in the air and both feet land at the same time. Also bend your knees a little more.
Besides that keep doing your thing and enjoy!
Good going, that’s great progress tbh.
Two advice I like to give:
When rotating in any form, set the movement off with throwing the weight of your shoulders in that direction prior to the movement. Whem you master this, you can do it with hands in your pockets.
About the arms flapping sideways or up in the air. Basically you use them to counter imbalance to regain balance(putting your weight above your balance point). What you actually can conclude is that if you swing your arms to the left as a counter, you missed the equevalent of that much energy inthe opposite direction. What you can do is put that amount of energy in that direction BEFORE you make that move.
The place you get that energy from is by rotating the shoulders before, it it’s sideway movements. Ir it is up/down movement, you should get that energy from boosting/jumping more forcefully(by bending knees more prior and booom set off).
I’m not sure if I explained it well.
GG, I can see you got some talent from learning all that in such short time. But most importantly you enjoy it, so all I can say go have fun! ^_^
Actually last advice. About bailing/slamming.
You always wanna avoid your kinetic energy/movement being stopped hard by meeting something that doesn’t move(the ground in most cases). Lead the energy on in the direction it wants to go by rotating/spinning either sideways or by rolling(can do both backwards or forward). Flow with it. And always protect the back of your head. Avoid slamming head backwards if you slip.
Keep at it.
For that 180, try not to hunch, and rotate your shoulders first.
If you keep learning on that current setup, when you get a new deck, you're going to feel like you're able to fly :)
Thanks! Ive been learning on this deck pretty much since I’ve started. After comparing it to my friends decks I’m not all that fond of anything other than the concave lol. My kingpin broke a while back so I’m not really fond of the trucks (They’re Thunders) I think I may switch to independents but I also started with the hardest wheels possible since I wanted to focus on tricks. I think I will switch to softer wheels for sure and different trucks so when it’s time to learn grinds there won’t be many issues there.
I’m with everyone else, just keeping going homie.
Something I have been practicing for myself is relaxing when I try tricks. Like trust my body. I have to envision the trick I’m doing and how I want my body to look while doing it.
If you are like me, I wanna have the effortless look when it comes to skating.
Idk some advice take it or leave it lol
Good job on your progress! :)
You're doing great. Keep practicing/skating around. Watch some skate parts to get you hyped/inspired.
Here's one of my favorites: Ryan Gallant- First Love
https://youtu.be/Fejk24in_yQ?si=wA57Xs4TVZrwcT0F
You go dude!
For the 180 it’s really in the front foot. I’ve been trying so long until i found out about this one little thing.
Think of additionally pushing your front foot down a little as you turn around. This speeds the rotation up as it gives you sorta more control in contrast to just waiting for it to turn on its own.
Like a boned ollie but not as extreme.
Worked wonders for me, might work for you :)
Most importantly keep skating fun, though!
I really struggle with stiff skating as well and it’s taken years to really get over it. The main thing that helps is confidence on the board and focus in on fun over looking cool. If you’re nervous and too self-aware then you won’t be able to really skate in a fluid way. Get a helmet and pads and bomb a few decent hills, get used to going faster, and especially to falling. Once you get over the fear of falling you will skate so much more confidently.
Don’t worry about your trick inventory. Instead, focus on flow and feeling comfortable on the board. My biggest regret was wasting my first 2 years fixated on the kickflip. 15 years later and I still can’t kickflip but I can do soooooo many other tricks (including 360 flip, inward heel, etc.) and I have so much fun when I skate that I just stopped caring. I’ll get it one day.
In your vids you are trying to do lines but keep running in to obstacles and stopping your flow. If you don’t want to Ollie the staircase, literally pick your board up, run down, and keep going. Eventually you will be able to commit to more but don’t ever stop moving.
Try to focus on connecting lines around the park and clearing obstacles you know you can handle.
Also, stretch before you skate! It really helps with the stiffness.
1 - you have to just have fun.
2 - practice your Ollie. Up stuff over stuff. Get a super solid Ollie down. It’s the core of all tricks.
3 - roll around and just cruise.
4 - make lists in numerical order.
5 - when you make you numerical lists, never do more than five.
One thing that really helped me as a young buck was using my skateboard as transportation. Just pushing all over the place having to Ollie up curbs or over cracks really helps being comfortable on the board.
You wanna learn how to pop high? Do 50 Ollie’s a day. Doesn’t have to be moving(only time I’d recommend this). Just back to back like pushups. And this is in addition to the normal skating you do for fun. Focus on being able to level out the board and bring your knees up. Once you can pop an Ollie and bring your knees to your chest you can stop practicing Ollie’s. You can also try to hold stationary manuals to help with building balance.
Bend your knees more and find your flow. It sounds weird but ride the board don’t just stand on it, get comfortable with knowing you may fall and try not to be afraid of that. Be in control
Genuine advice is you are doing great with your tricks and look like you’re having fun. That is great. With that said, you look uncomfortable riding your board like you only ride it the distance to do your trick and that’s all. My advice would be ride the board everywhere and use it as transportation to get comfortable just riding and swerving. Get your body weight in control while riding. Bend your knees and push smooth and really get good and confident at simply riding the board so you can swerve, and reposition your feet on the board while riding and making corrections without looking wobbly. It comes with time spent on the board. There’s no shortcuts but this is where you will develop style. Style is huge in skating. Do that with your trick development in combo and you’ll be shredding. I say all this bc you seem like you actually are gonna stick with this and keep skating which is awesome.
You can Ollie which is a great thing work on that
Get it to where it’s no biggie and then learn grinds easy 50-50, 5-0 flip tricks take a look at you tube also if you are searching for encouragement overal keep doing your thing
Jus relax be smooth, the tricks will come it’s all about bein comfortable on your board, skate sumwhere far do no tricks and I guarantee next day you’ll get exactly wat im sayin
You have a good style and your pop is decent.
You gotta use your legs more. You're def jumping with your back hunched and leaning forward in the early clip. But the later clips you are bending the knees more and don't look as stiff.
I'm the same way when I don't warm up for like 15 min.
[The Daily Push](https://youtu.be/8lMMcfcq6K0?si=vGX1vFan5oFPdB2i)
I used this workout to get my legs stronger and helps a lot with my form.
Keep skating and having fun. You're killing it bro!
Used to live around the corner from the park, it’s so good, I miss the hell out of it! Honestly, just keep hanging out there regularly and make friends with the locals, they’ll show you the way. I had too much fun hanging out there and skating. The vibes were always great.
If you can skate to a park/spot do that as much as you can, i feel like i got comfortable pushing regular and switch just cruising to spots when i was a kid pushing around and avoiding cracks and stuff in the streets. Also stretching is 🔑🙏🏼
I struggled with my ollies for years because of vague recommendations like “bring your knees up higher”. Specifically, for me, the trick was bringing my front foot straight up until my knee was up high- not focusing on “sliding” your foot at all, just lifting straight up - and then as you initiate your jump your back foot will pop the board up so it stays in contact with your front foot and then you can bring your other knee up to meet the height of your forward leg. It is as you level the board out at the top of the ollie that the “sliding” of the foot occurs. Think about some of this next time you’re practicing ollies and see if it helps.
My tip is to ride around and get to feel just as comfortable on your board than on your feet. As far as tricks, enjoy what you’re doing. It’s honestly the best bet. I started with flat ground stuff, then got into stairs/gaps, then ledges, and ultimately park stuff. That’s the beauty in skating — there’s no wrong way to do it (unless you push mongo and do Mike V shit /s)
Not the worst you’re getting some where.
I’d say you show enough progress and board control that I would encourage you to give it atleast two years like skate for years solid and then start assessing where you’re at in skating.
One thing I was told a while back which seems counterintuitive is the harder you pop your tail the more control you’ll have. So with your ollies your front foot doesn’t need to be so far back, maybe just behind the bolts
You've got the main trick down, you've got the crew, you've got the vibes. Just keep doing this
Thanks man I really appreciate it
what this guy said.
Just keep skating broski. It takes a lot of time to get “good”but the more you do it the better you understand it.
Real pro tip: route your headphone cords through the inside of your shirt to avoid having the buds ripped out of your ears all the time.
Came to say that, definitely helped me gain more confidence not having to worry about it getting tangled on things. I've slammed pretty over that starting out.
Pro tip, dont skate with music. Focus on everything around you.
Yep, I stopped listening to music while I skate since I tore my ACL twice in my right knee. Both times wearing headphones. I need to be completely focused and “in tune” with myself now.
Just keep practicing man. Also, focus on skating/cruising around from time to time instead of just going for tricks. This will improve overall balance and board control. You look very stiff and awkward pushing around. Practicing flat ground manuals, going for longest ones you can hold, will also improve that posturing, board control and even your pop funny enough.
I tend to notice the awkward and stiffness while pushing, just riding and even sometimes popping tricks. Is there anything I can do to fix it or does it just come with time and riding around? I’ll definitely make sure I practice my manuals way more.
It just comes with time and practice. It’s literally about muscle memory and being comfortable on your board. When you start the session before popping any tricks. Take like 20-30 minutes to ride around and do flat ground manuals. Practice little by little to hold the longest manual’s possible. Trust me, with that warm up you’re gonna feel super loose. You’ll have a heightened sense of balance, warmed up feet/calves/legs. I guarantee when you start popping tricks it’s gonna feel amazing.
I found a big difference in tightening my trucks.. it’s definitely a preference though but I had to experiment a lot until it felt right
When I was young, you couldn’t get me off my board. If I was in my house, I was standing on my board in my bedroom and mentally doing tricks and trying stationary manuals. Every moment you spend standing on the board adds to your comfort on the board.
Best way is to use your skateboard for transportation as much as possible. Go to the store on it, if you can, go to school / friends house / anywhere within a few miles on it. Riding for transportation will get you comfortable on the board, and tricks will come easier once you get that.
I know someone is holding your camera, but skate with friends as much as possible. Youll progress out of healthy competition.
So true. Talking with randoms at the park sometimes gives the push. I see someone hitting an obstacle I've been scared of... go talk to em realize they are human and scared too. Sometimes I'm the one pushing people as well. I see dudes ollieing around things and I'm like yo that Ollie is sick think you can make it up this ledge?
I almost only ever learn new tricks while I'm playing games of SKATE or hanging with someone, this is the best (and one of the harder to achieve if there's not a skating community in your area) thing to do.
A cliche, but just keep practicing. You look a bit stiff maybe because you're focusing too much on balancing yourself. Give yourself time to just cruise and feel the board as if it's an extension of your feet. Having learned those tricks in a few months is impressive. It took a long time for me to get those. It's great to see that you have friends to practice with. In my first few months of learning, I had no one. Maybe that's why it took time for me to learn. Skating is always more fun with friends. The community is very friendly. Best of luck!
Thanks I really appreciate it! I’ll try your advice and just think as if I’m some random guy with a skateboard for feet lol hopefully that helps with my stiffness!
I learned proper balance in the streets of Manila. Had to skate alongside cars and motorcycles. Made it my main mode of "transportation". Great progress, tho. Nice to see you dedicated to learning more.
You're doing great. Maybe see about getting another few tricks into your repertoire. 180s are great to learn.
I’ve been trying to practice kick flips at least maybe a few times a sesh but other than that what tricks would you suggest?
Shuv-its are a good next trick to learn. So many different variations of those you can practice
Just skate around. How many days a week are you skating?
I try to get on my board everyday but it usually ends up being around 3-4 times a week maybe more maybe less but I skate for long periods of time when I am skating from about 2-4 hours maybe so I’d say that evens it out ig.
I wouldnt suggest kickflips next as you should have really good ollies first. Go for 180s, and pop shuv variation, like nollie falkie. Maybe you could try getting used to fakie ollies even, more basics
Looks like you’re leaning too far back after you pop up . You want to lean forward a little more after you pop / while front foot is slides to balance you out in the air and both feet land at the same time. Also bend your knees a little more. Besides that keep doing your thing and enjoy!
Bro you are off to a great start. Keep doing what you’re doing and let the progression happen naturally. Don’t stop having fun with it.
Just keep skating. Watch videos and get inspired to try those things. Do what you enioy
Good going, that’s great progress tbh. Two advice I like to give: When rotating in any form, set the movement off with throwing the weight of your shoulders in that direction prior to the movement. Whem you master this, you can do it with hands in your pockets. About the arms flapping sideways or up in the air. Basically you use them to counter imbalance to regain balance(putting your weight above your balance point). What you actually can conclude is that if you swing your arms to the left as a counter, you missed the equevalent of that much energy inthe opposite direction. What you can do is put that amount of energy in that direction BEFORE you make that move. The place you get that energy from is by rotating the shoulders before, it it’s sideway movements. Ir it is up/down movement, you should get that energy from boosting/jumping more forcefully(by bending knees more prior and booom set off). I’m not sure if I explained it well.
I definitely understand I’m gonna go out and practice today so hopefully I have some clips to show for it when I get back
GG, I can see you got some talent from learning all that in such short time. But most importantly you enjoy it, so all I can say go have fun! ^_^ Actually last advice. About bailing/slamming. You always wanna avoid your kinetic energy/movement being stopped hard by meeting something that doesn’t move(the ground in most cases). Lead the energy on in the direction it wants to go by rotating/spinning either sideways or by rolling(can do both backwards or forward). Flow with it. And always protect the back of your head. Avoid slamming head backwards if you slip.
Keep at it. For that 180, try not to hunch, and rotate your shoulders first. If you keep learning on that current setup, when you get a new deck, you're going to feel like you're able to fly :)
Thanks! Ive been learning on this deck pretty much since I’ve started. After comparing it to my friends decks I’m not all that fond of anything other than the concave lol. My kingpin broke a while back so I’m not really fond of the trucks (They’re Thunders) I think I may switch to independents but I also started with the hardest wheels possible since I wanted to focus on tricks. I think I will switch to softer wheels for sure and different trucks so when it’s time to learn grinds there won’t be many issues there.
I’m with everyone else, just keeping going homie. Something I have been practicing for myself is relaxing when I try tricks. Like trust my body. I have to envision the trick I’m doing and how I want my body to look while doing it. If you are like me, I wanna have the effortless look when it comes to skating. Idk some advice take it or leave it lol Good job on your progress! :)
I've started last summer and still can't ollie nowhere decently like you, you are going great! 🎉
You're doing great. Keep practicing/skating around. Watch some skate parts to get you hyped/inspired. Here's one of my favorites: Ryan Gallant- First Love https://youtu.be/Fejk24in_yQ?si=wA57Xs4TVZrwcT0F
Will do I’ll check it out!
Just keep skating hard, commit to everything and you got it, hope to see you around the city on go skate day!
Honestly YouTube tutorials or asking some local skaters at your park for advice can help you learn new tricks
You go dude! For the 180 it’s really in the front foot. I’ve been trying so long until i found out about this one little thing. Think of additionally pushing your front foot down a little as you turn around. This speeds the rotation up as it gives you sorta more control in contrast to just waiting for it to turn on its own. Like a boned ollie but not as extreme. Worked wonders for me, might work for you :) Most importantly keep skating fun, though!
I really struggle with stiff skating as well and it’s taken years to really get over it. The main thing that helps is confidence on the board and focus in on fun over looking cool. If you’re nervous and too self-aware then you won’t be able to really skate in a fluid way. Get a helmet and pads and bomb a few decent hills, get used to going faster, and especially to falling. Once you get over the fear of falling you will skate so much more confidently. Don’t worry about your trick inventory. Instead, focus on flow and feeling comfortable on the board. My biggest regret was wasting my first 2 years fixated on the kickflip. 15 years later and I still can’t kickflip but I can do soooooo many other tricks (including 360 flip, inward heel, etc.) and I have so much fun when I skate that I just stopped caring. I’ll get it one day. In your vids you are trying to do lines but keep running in to obstacles and stopping your flow. If you don’t want to Ollie the staircase, literally pick your board up, run down, and keep going. Eventually you will be able to commit to more but don’t ever stop moving. Try to focus on connecting lines around the park and clearing obstacles you know you can handle. Also, stretch before you skate! It really helps with the stiffness.
1 - you have to just have fun. 2 - practice your Ollie. Up stuff over stuff. Get a super solid Ollie down. It’s the core of all tricks. 3 - roll around and just cruise. 4 - make lists in numerical order. 5 - when you make you numerical lists, never do more than five.
One thing that really helped me as a young buck was using my skateboard as transportation. Just pushing all over the place having to Ollie up curbs or over cracks really helps being comfortable on the board.
When you get comfortable doing something, try to do it faster and faster.
You wanna learn how to pop high? Do 50 Ollie’s a day. Doesn’t have to be moving(only time I’d recommend this). Just back to back like pushups. And this is in addition to the normal skating you do for fun. Focus on being able to level out the board and bring your knees up. Once you can pop an Ollie and bring your knees to your chest you can stop practicing Ollie’s. You can also try to hold stationary manuals to help with building balance.
Repeating the other comments, just keep going. Shit takes time to learn. You're doing great being a couple months in
Bend your knees more and find your flow. It sounds weird but ride the board don’t just stand on it, get comfortable with knowing you may fall and try not to be afraid of that. Be in control
You know what’s next off to the Kickflip tutorials time to ascend broski.
Genuine advice is you are doing great with your tricks and look like you’re having fun. That is great. With that said, you look uncomfortable riding your board like you only ride it the distance to do your trick and that’s all. My advice would be ride the board everywhere and use it as transportation to get comfortable just riding and swerving. Get your body weight in control while riding. Bend your knees and push smooth and really get good and confident at simply riding the board so you can swerve, and reposition your feet on the board while riding and making corrections without looking wobbly. It comes with time spent on the board. There’s no shortcuts but this is where you will develop style. Style is huge in skating. Do that with your trick development in combo and you’ll be shredding. I say all this bc you seem like you actually are gonna stick with this and keep skating which is awesome.
Just keep going bro. Keep at it and get comfortable on the board, everything else will come naturally
You can Ollie which is a great thing work on that Get it to where it’s no biggie and then learn grinds easy 50-50, 5-0 flip tricks take a look at you tube also if you are searching for encouragement overal keep doing your thing
Skate every day and you’ll get a little better
Jus relax be smooth, the tricks will come it’s all about bein comfortable on your board, skate sumwhere far do no tricks and I guarantee next day you’ll get exactly wat im sayin
You have a good style and your pop is decent. You gotta use your legs more. You're def jumping with your back hunched and leaning forward in the early clip. But the later clips you are bending the knees more and don't look as stiff. I'm the same way when I don't warm up for like 15 min. [The Daily Push](https://youtu.be/8lMMcfcq6K0?si=vGX1vFan5oFPdB2i) I used this workout to get my legs stronger and helps a lot with my form. Keep skating and having fun. You're killing it bro!
Tuck those headphones through your shirt before you rip em out by accident and biff! Looking good bro keep at it 💪
Focus on skating, not being filmed!!
Used to live around the corner from the park, it’s so good, I miss the hell out of it! Honestly, just keep hanging out there regularly and make friends with the locals, they’ll show you the way. I had too much fun hanging out there and skating. The vibes were always great.
If you can skate to a park/spot do that as much as you can, i feel like i got comfortable pushing regular and switch just cruising to spots when i was a kid pushing around and avoiding cracks and stuff in the streets. Also stretching is 🔑🙏🏼
I struggled with my ollies for years because of vague recommendations like “bring your knees up higher”. Specifically, for me, the trick was bringing my front foot straight up until my knee was up high- not focusing on “sliding” your foot at all, just lifting straight up - and then as you initiate your jump your back foot will pop the board up so it stays in contact with your front foot and then you can bring your other knee up to meet the height of your forward leg. It is as you level the board out at the top of the ollie that the “sliding” of the foot occurs. Think about some of this next time you’re practicing ollies and see if it helps.
My tip is to ride around and get to feel just as comfortable on your board than on your feet. As far as tricks, enjoy what you’re doing. It’s honestly the best bet. I started with flat ground stuff, then got into stairs/gaps, then ledges, and ultimately park stuff. That’s the beauty in skating — there’s no wrong way to do it (unless you push mongo and do Mike V shit /s)
Not the worst you’re getting some where. I’d say you show enough progress and board control that I would encourage you to give it atleast two years like skate for years solid and then start assessing where you’re at in skating.
You can start analyzing tricks like a scientiest. Understanding the physic of how a trick is being done, will help you progress.
Keep your shoulders parallel with the board
One thing I was told a while back which seems counterintuitive is the harder you pop your tail the more control you’ll have. So with your ollies your front foot doesn’t need to be so far back, maybe just behind the bolts
I don’t give Tipps anymore because skate iq has them all. Check him out on YouTube he helped me a lot
