Welcome to Skateboarding Tips. I started skateboarding when I was just a young kid, somewhere around 10 or 11, the Bones Brigade had just formed and a Powell & Peralta skateboard deck was the most desired item on any young skateboarders list of wants (or needs). There wasn’t a lot to skateboarding back then, just push and roll, maybe some 360’s or tic-tacs. Downhill riding was pretty scary as the trucks tended to “wobble” once any kind of speed was reached, making you jump off and twist your ankle or if you didn’t you’d eventually “bail” and graze, wound, or break some new part of your anatomy that you didn’t even know exisited.
As videos started to come out with the “pro” skaters doing amazing tricks, we, the young kids tried to emulate our heroes. Of course, we had inferior equipment, and no-one to teach us, or give us any good skateboarding tips, so that we might rise in ability equal to, if not greater than, our favourite hero. It was every young skateboarders dream to enter a competition against Tony Hawk, and be so good at skateboarding that Tony would lose… If only we had known that he would stay at the pinnacle of skateboarding for many years to come!
Jump forward a few more years and skateboarding has really taken off, the return of skate-parks is abundant, at least three of your skating buddies have got a back-yard ramp, and the progression street-skating is phenomenal. Gone are acid-drops and foot-plants, now its kick-flips, 360-flips, shuv-its, pressure flips, impossible ollies, crooked grinds, feebles, nollies… It was hard to keep up with new moves, let alone go out and learn them, perfect them, and then bust them out in-front of your friends to impress them. Then they’d ask you how you did it, and you’d say “I dunno, I just did it”. Or, your mates would do a trick, and try as you might, you just couldn’t get it yourself, no matter how many times you watched them do it, or how many times they gave you their skateboarding tips.
Yet, there was still no-one to teach and pass on those excellent skateboarding tips….
Fast forward to today and I don’t get out the skateboard very much. But, when I do I like to be able to do some tricks, the same as when I was young and learn some new ones. It was lucky that I came across The Secrets Of Skateboarding, this guy has opened up a whole new lease of life for me. Now I’m nailing more tricks than ever and having them dialed a lot faster than when I was a kid. Going and hitting the park is crazy, all the young kids stop and stare at the old guy ripping up their skate-park. I just laugh and tell them to get good skateboarding tips they need the Secrets of Skateboarding.
