Trick tips!

Ollie
Trick Tip 1

With both your feet on the board, lift up the heel of your back foot so your weight is on the ball of your foot and your toes. That part of your foot should be centred at the tip of the tail. Your front foot should be about 2/3 of the way up the board, angled slightly forward. Your toes should be near the toe edge of the board and, depending on shoe size, your heel may be hanging off of the heel edge. Smack the tail to the ground with your back foot and jump off of that back foot--getting the timing down is probably the hardest part. As you jump, your front foot slides up to your nose, pulling the board into the air. At the peak of your ollie, level out your board, then wait for the landing. Always land with your knees bent.

50-50 Grind
Trick Tip 6
The 50-50 is the most basic skateboard grind. To do this trick, go pretty fast then pop an ollie, push the board towards the curb and land. Both of your trucks should be on the surface. Now, just keep balance and slide.When you're finished with that pivot off the curb, or ollie off.

Hints: If your having problems landing both trucks on the curb, try stalling. Just stand next to the curb, pop an ollie, land both trucks on the curb, and pivot off. Do that a few times and you'll be able to do the real grind with ease.

Boardslide
Trick Tip 7
This is also an easy grind and will get you used to the feeling of how your board slides on different obstacles. It also serves as a good warm-up trick on an obstacle for more advanced skaters, in order to gauge how that particular obstacle slides. Approach the object at a very mellow angle. Pop an ollie and get your nose and front truck up and over the object, landing on the deck between the trucks. Center your weight over the board and slide until the end of the obstacle. When nearing departure from the object, start to turn yourself and your board 90 degrees, but don't be too anxious or your wheels will hit the object before you come off. A slight bounce off of the end of the object allows you to fly off the end instead of dropping straight down to the ground. Depending on the obstacle, this trick sometimes requires you to lift your front truck over the obstacle while coming off. To do this, put pressure on your tail as you turn off the object, as if you're doing a kickturn in the air. The tough part of this grind is balancing, so you don't lean too far forwards and get jolted off the front of the board and so you don't lean too far back and land on your arse! The only real way to perfect your balance is practise.

Shove-It
Trick tip 8
To do a shove-it, put your front foot where the front truck bolts are and your back foot on the tail. Pop the tail and as you jump of the board push your trailing foot to the heel side. This should make the board spin. Unlike in an ollie don't slide your leading foot forward, just keep it in place. This will make the board level out eventually. As the board finishes spinning 180 smack it down with both feet.

Tips: All this move needs is practice. Once you get really good at shoving try doing a shove it tail grab and a 360 shove it. If you do, remember to sort of pick a point and make the board spin around that point. It'll keep the board from flying away from your feet.

Kickflip
Trick Tip 2
To do a kick flip, put your feet in the same position as in an ollie, but your leading foot should be hanging off the board by about two inches on the heel side and should be at a forty five degree angle. Pop an ollie and as you slide your leading foot forward slide it off your board with a fast motion. Sort of kick it off. This should make the board spin. While it's spinning bring your leading foot back. As it finishes spinning catch the board and smack the board down with both feet.

Hints: Don't try to pop your board too high at first. Instead just pop it high enough for it to make a full turn. This makes landing it a lot easier. Try to keep both feet directly above the board during the trick. Once you get really good at kick flipping try doing a double flip. All you do for it is put your leading foot further back, kick it out harder and jump slightly higher, thus spining the board faster. (It's two kick flips in one).

180 Flip
Trick Tip 3
A 180-flip is a kickflip and a 180 shove-it put together. If you know how to do both of those tricks pretty nicely, you'll get this pretty fast. You have to position your feet as you would in a kickflip, except that your leading foot should be hanging off by about an inch. Then, that pop an ollie, move your trailing foot to the heel side, kick your leading foot off the board to the heel side, let it spin, and land. This is one of those tricks that come differently to everyone. It might take you two days, it might take you two weeks.

360-Flip
Trick Tip 4
A 360-flip is the same thing as a 180-flip, except that you do a 360 Shove-It instead of a 180 one. You should learn the 360 shove-its before trying this move. It's pretty hard, but you have to be able to land the 180-flip perfectly. All you do is spin the board a little faster and jump a little higher. This is one of the more advanced moves, so once you get it, you can consider yourself really good.

5-0s are pretty hard. Before you even try to do them learn how to do a tail manual. After that just do everything like the 50-50, but land on the back truck so that the tail isn't touching the curb. When you're done sliding pivot off.

Hints: If your having problems landing the back truck on the curb, try stalling. Just stand next to the curb, pop an ollie, land the back truck on the curb, and pivot off. Do that a few times and you'll be able to do the real grind perfectly.

Heelflip
Trick Tip 5
Heelflip

To do a heel flip, put your feet in the same position as in an kick flip, but your leading foot should not be hanging off the board as much. Your toes should be lined up with the toe side of the board. Pop an ollie and as you slide your leading foot forward kick it off your board to the toe side. This should make the board spin the opposite way of a kickflip. The important thing is that you have to get your leading foot out of the way. Then, when it spins halfway, bring it back, and as the board finishes spinning smack it down with both feet. Some people get this trick really quickly, others find it very difficult, it just depends. Good Luck.