| Skateboarding is one of those sports where you | | | | slide your front foot forward. This way when you |
| need to learn and be able to do a lot of tricks or you | | | | are doing your Ollie, you just slide your foot up and |
| just are not going to make it very far in the | | | | out to start learning flip tricks. After you have |
| skateboarding industry. You need to be able to land | | | | learned some of these you are probably getting |
| all the tricks that you can do as well as execute | | | | pretty good. |
| them. | | | | You will do grabs whenever you do a big air on a half |
| Aerials are the types of tricks you do on a half pip or | | | | pipe or quarter pipe. All you do is get your air off the |
| a quarter pipe or maybe even a little kicker ramp so | | | | transition and then grab your board when you get air. |
| get high up in the air. You will want to get a lot of | | | | It is the easiest trick to do because you are just in |
| speed so you can hit a good transition and get off | | | | the air holding the board. There are grabs called indys, |
| the wood and into the air. You will want to learn how | | | | roastbeefs, stalefish, Japan air, there are all kinds of |
| to do these tricks on a half pipe or quarter pipe | | | | names for grab tricks when you are in the air. You |
| before you start trying to be a pro. | | | | just need to learn how to get air before you can |
| The Ollie is the first trick that anyone should learn | | | | even start learning these tricks. You can also do |
| when they are trying to learn to skateboard. You are | | | | these tricks on a kicker or launch ramp. |
| going to have both of your feet not to far apart | | | | The grind is another basic trick I think you just start |
| when you are setting up for this trick. You will have | | | | on a mini half pipe and use the coping at the top |
| your back foot on the tail and your front foot slightly | | | | which is the metal and you just try to grind and grind |
| in the middle of the board or 4 inches before the | | | | the metal with the trucks of your skateboard. |
| screws in front of your front foot. This way you will | | | | Slides are tricks which you use a metal rail to slide |
| have enough time to pop the deck and slide your | | | | your skateboard across while still being on the |
| front foot up to get the ollie down. | | | | skateboard and sliding on the rail. These tricks are |
| Flips tricks come as you get better you will want to | | | | going to be harder then you think and you might hurt |
| try to flip the board after you have learned the Ollie. | | | | yourself or at least fall several times before you try |
| After you can Ollie about a foot or two you will | | | | sliding wood on metal. |
| want to try to start kicking your foot out when you | | | | |