- [ Trick Tips ] -
The Ollie:
The ollie is the basis of almost every trick there is. The ollie is performed by a number of fairly simple steps:
1. Stand on your board. You should have one foot on the tail (back) of your board. The other foot goes in the middle. Simple enough? Just wait.
2. Hit your tail. This is the gentle way of saying smash your tail into the ground with most or all of your might.
3. As you are "smashing", jump into the air off your smashing foot.
4. Lift up your front foot into the air.
5. Lift up your back foot into the air.
TIP!!! Both of your lifting feet should come up at pretty much the same time. Your back foot should follow your front foot upward.
TIP!!! A common mistake is not to lift up your back foot and keep it straight. It is important that you do so.
6. Get the board level in the air. Do this by catching up your back foot with your front foot.
7. Stay on your board and land. When you come down bend your knees to cushion your landing.
Congrats. You did it. It seems tough but keep your chin up, practice, practice, practice, and you'll do okay. If you think you are learning slow, just... don't think it any more. These things take time for everyone.
the KickFlip:
In order to learn the kickflip, it is necessary that you learn the ollie.
Now that you have learned it, I want you to get on your board in an ollie stance. Okay, we're going to have to alter this stance a little. Take you front foot and put it right before the front bolts. Now turn it 45 degrees. The ball of your back foot should be in the middle of your tail.
Now to actually do the trick. First you gotta pop down your tail real hard, just like an ollie, so you begin to get off the ground.
As you rise, you should slide your foot the way you do for an ollie, but you want to slide off the heel edge of your board also.
Now you better have your feet outta the way. However you gotta do it, do it.
Wait for the board to spin around, and stay well above it. When it comes around bring your feet back in and catch it. The best place for your feet to catch the board is right on top of all the bolts. You want to "catch" or "grab" it in the air with your feet, and then bend your knees a little because the ground is coming.
When your board hits the ground (and you should be on it at this point...), you need to use your legs like shocks on a car, and obsorbe the landing.
Ride away looking cool, because you just did one of the harder basic tricks to master.
The HeelFlip:
Note: There are different ways to do this, we will just explain our way. We're not perfect, and it's not normal. If you want perfect, go somewhere else.
Keep your back toe on the center of the tail. Your front foot should be at a little bit more than a 45 degree angle. It should be in the center of the board with your toe hanging over the toe edge.
Hit the tail. As you do this, slide your front foot forward at an angle and just before it hits the nose, bend your foot/angle it and flip the board over the toe edge with the toe of your foot. Jump.
Wait for the board to rotate. When it comes around, bring knees up and stop it with your feet.
When you land, as with the kickflip, don't look like a dumbass.
Ride away all siclike. Hell yeah!
the POP - SHUV IT
Before you attempt this trick, as for most tricks, you ought to know the ollie first.
The first thing you need to do is give it a "pop" (Slam down on that tail.) Now "shove-it" around with your front foot so that the board turns a 180, but you stay in the same place. You ought to learn it standing in place first, and then learn it fakie. After that you can attempt it moving forward.
You can place your feet in different positions for this trick. It all depends on you. Some put their feet sort of the way you would for a kickflip. Others put one foot about on the middle facing straight forward and the other facing straight forward on the tail.
Remember when you do it to jump forward. Because if you just spin out the board and stay in the same place, your board will just fly out and you will look stupid. We wouldn't want that...
the 360 FLIP:
To do a 360 flip, you should first be able to do a varial flip and 360 Pop Shove-it. First put your back foot on the back right edge of the board (back left edge if you are goofy) and put it at an angle so it is on the very edge of the tail. Then put your front foot a couple inches towards you from the middle of the board and then slant your foot the same way you did on your back foot. Now it's time to do the trick.
Set up bend your knees and hit your tail while sliding your front foot forward. Through your back foot behind you as quickly as you can as you hit your til spinning the board till it rotates all the way around. While doing this slide your front foot off the edge of the board using your toe to flip it. Your board does not have to go high just as long as it gets around. You can work on the hieght later. Once it has finished rotating catch the board with your feet and land on it. That's pretty much it. Oh yeah, and then ride away. Bet you didn't do it. If you did, good job.
THE 5050 FINGERFLIP:
here's a good fingerflip variation that looks cool and isn't that hard to learn. oh yeah, it's a stationary trick.
1. start by standing on the tail of the board so the nose is in the air. place your front foot under your front trucks.
2. swing the board around so that you can catch it in your back hand and just the tip of the tail is touching the ground. While this is going on you should be balancing on your back trucks with your front foot.
3. balance for as long as you can.
4. Now, flip the board, with your hand, so it's right side up.
5. land on the board and look for a spot to bust another sick trick.
THE OLLIE IMPOSSIBLE:
1. Place you feel like you were doing a reg kickflip.
2. Pop the tail and slide your front foot directly down.
3. When your front foot hits the ground jump and push forward with your back foot.
4. Your board should do a Full Back-Flip.
5. Hop with your front foot diagonal to the direction going and your board.
6. Spread your legs until the board is horizontle.
7. Land with your knees heavily bent if going of a drop so you don't crack open the tail.
Note: Do not try this trick going fast. Otherwise your nuts are in danger (unless you're a girl, but its never fun to smash yourself anyway, so avoid falling and getting hurt at all costs.)
THE TWISTED FLIP:
This a new trick. It is very sick when you do it off of stairs or loading docks. To do this, you have got to know how to kickflip, pop-shuvit, and the compnents of a sex change.You have got to place your back foot on the edge of the tail, and your front foot pointing at a 45 degree angle about 2 inches away from the first set of screws.
1. Ride along at good speed
2.Ollie as high as you can
3.Kick your back foot away from you like a pop shuvit
4.Almost immediatly kick your front foot out as far as you can like a kickflip
-Your board should now be doing a varial
5.As soon as you kick out, spin your body to the left like a body varial.
6.Stick it and ride away like a pro
THE SEX CHANGE:
This is a good trick to learn after you have learned how to kickflip and your to lazy to learn how to heel flip.
1. Start out with you feet in the normal position to kickflip.
2. Now smash the board down and do a kickflip but be sure to get high above the board.
3. Then while the board is spinning do a body varial and land it.
4. Try to land with both feet covering the bolts.
5. Ride away and see if the stupid person watching you even noticed the difference.
THE FRONT FOOT IMPOSSIBLE:
1.Put your feet in like a kick flip position
2.Ollie and kick like a kickflip but not all the way just so the board go sideways on your foot.
3.And while its on its side,you make your leg go in a circular motion so it can rap 360 degreez around you foot.
4.Now you gotta land it,just catch it with your back leg and and stomp down with your front foot.
This trick isn't that hard,just practice and and you'll eventualy get it.
From Herman G.
REST TO COME LATER!!!BUT DON'T WORRY THERE'S LOTS MORE TO COME YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!!