Skateboarding Instructional Guide: Rocket Flip

Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualising, and focusing. Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are also covered, including types of boards available, and the various wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.

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Kickflip Underflip Tricks

With sequential photos and step-by-step instructions, this guide to a performance cornerstone—the flip trick—benefits skateboarders of all skill levels. Often combined with curb tricks and applied to such obstacles as handrails and ramps, flip tricks are commonly used as the final touch on a more complex maneuver, and, with this guidebook, readers learn the basics of such tricks while progressing toward veteran moves. A section devoted to the history of skateboarding is included with an in-depth look at the individuals responsible for the creation of flip tricks and how they came to invent this aspect unique to skateboarding.

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Skateboarding Explained: The Instructional Video

Skateboarding. Such as sports and lifestyle develop. Every year skateboarders growing populous. Is it possible to vibration, or perhaps sheer technical and accessibility of sports? for any reason, Skateboarding is an activity interesting to do. For me, drowning me in Skateboarding large active outlet in high school. I also find music and video art through a variety of gliding. The only problem for me, and many others who decided to take on the challenge of skateboarding is the level of difficulty. I remember when learning to ride a board I want to learn how to ollie, and follow the rough ugly picture and a brief sentence instructions on how to do tricks on the website. I slowly better but my friends are growing much faster than me. I even got Tony Hawk Trick Tips (1.2 and 3) They help a little but I really do not see a huge increase in capability or feel my skateboard.

Here I am a college student, I decided to go back where I left off in class 9 on skating. I guess it helps that I am much older now, but I started taking my old tricks better and I've got more style and ease on the board. I must really want to increase again. I was surfing through youtube when I found someone recommend this video as a good instructional videos, so I watched the sample clip 360 flip and I was impressed how quickly understand how to actually try the trick. I decided to order the video is based on a variety of testimonials, thinking it could not hurt my skating.

After I received the video, I was really impressed. I looked through the basic instructions on how to ollie and just watch the video I understand how I could actually lift me high ollie into a few extra inches. And MacFarlane, creator and instructor in this video really simplify any particular trick and explains it in a style that is very easy to follow every age. Any tricks he teaches (from Ollie, Pop Shove Its (BS / FS), Kickflips, heelflips, 360 Flips, Slides Council) he emphasized the important key points every time. Watching him do the trick in slow-mo, Its easy to copy and apply them on your skateboard. I did not experience the ease of learning and applying instructional skateboard watch other videos.

After watching the video already had it for a week and a half, I've improved my ollie higher, I encourage the increase of pop and get a clean frontside 180 ollies and kickflips come under greater and varial flip down .. His tips in the way of the mini is too big.

And not only provides great tips tricks (emphasizing pre-requisite prior to trick each) He also teach the basics of skateboarding. How to encourage, how to find out where the attitude of a beginner is, how to change correctly. These tips will help any beginner to successfuly join the club. He teaches you how NOT to skate (Mongo) is important because as many skateboarders, skaters I see disgust as many around me pushing Mongo. After basic troubleshooting, it gives you 8 fundamentals that you can apply to the level of experience in skateboarding. I feel that these tips really help any skater and is something that makes video and more prominent.

I recommend this video for all beginners, intermediate and pro skaters, it will make you slide off the best ever. I can not wait until the next installment.

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Skateboarding Explained

Skateboarding Explained: The Instructional DVD

In the Skateboarding Explained: The Skate Instructional DVD , skating instructor Dan MacFarlane guides you through an instructional program, packed with all the basics as well as tips for doing tricks. It contains fully illustrated segments on street and ramp skating, boardslides, pop shoves, ollies, nollies, frontside flips, noseslides, varial kickflips, heelflips, backside flips, and more.

Noseslide: Skateboard Tricks

Noseslide: sliding the underside of the nose end of a board on a ledge or lip.

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Nollie: Skateboard tricks

Nollie is a variation of the ollie, where the skateboarder uses the front foot to pop the nose down and the back foot to scrape backwards to achieve lift off of the ground, as opposed to an ollie where the rider uses the back foot on the tail to pop and the front foot to scrape forwards. It is similar to a switch ollie riding backwards.

It is not to be confused with a Fakie ollie (which is an ollie where the rider uses his/her original foot position but riding backwards). (wikipedia)

Skateboard Trick Tips Video: Nollie 360 Flip

Mike McGill

Mike McGill (born 1964) is an American skateboarder. He is best known for inventing the McTwist, an inverted 540 degree mute grabbed aerial which he first performed on a wooden half-pipe in Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in a concrete bowl when he returned to the US. He was inspired by Fred Blood, who had performed a 540 on roller skates. It was a groundbreaking trick that dominated skateboarding for many years afterwards. Only a handful of pros were able to learn it at the time. The trick was named by fellow teammate Rodney Mullen, and is derived from "Mc" in McGill's last name combined with Twist, which had already been coined by Lance Mountain and Neil Blender with their invention of the Gay Twist – a Mute grabbed fakie 360 degree aerial. Fellow teammate Tony Hawk, inspired by the McTwist, went on to invent a 720 degree aerial, (essentially a double Gay Twist), and as a homage to McGill, named it the McHawk.

McGill was also a member of the Bones Brigade, an elite team of skateboarders sponsored by Powell Peralta who dominated much of professional skateboarding (both in contests and in popularity), for much of the 1980s. McGill mainly skated vertical, and when street skating began to dominate the industry, McGill turned to the business side of skating. He started his own skateboard company, "Chapter Seven" (which is now defunct), and opened his own skate park. Today he owns a skate shop in Encinitas, California, as well as marketing a line of beginners' skateboards, safety equipment and portable skate ramps, rails, and Air Speed skate shoes through Wal-Mart. In 2006 McGill was featured in a commercial for the Discovery Channel as the inventor of the McTwist. McGill has also teamed up with Powell Peralta and reissued his signature boards from the 1980s. He continues to skateboard. (wikipedia)

• Mike McGill's McTwist Video!

Mongo-Foot: Skateboard Tricks

Mongo-foot: a style of pushing where the back foot is kept on the board and pushing is done with the front foot.

McTwist: Skateboard Tricks

McTwist: is an aerial where the rider performs a backside 540 (usually while grabbing Mute (front hand grabbing the toe side of the board). Invented by Mike McGill, who first performed it in public in 1984 at a Del-Mar Skatepark contest. (wikipedia)

Kickflip: Skatebboard Tricks

Kickflip: a variation on the ollie in which the skater kicks the board into a spin before landing back on it.

Grind: Skateboard Tricks

Grind: scraping one or both axles on a curb, railing, or other surface, such as:

• Crooked grind: grinding on only the front truck while sliding
• 50-50 grind: grinding on both trucks equally
• 50-50 grind by Diego Bucchieri
• nosegrind: grinding on only the front truck
• 5-0 grind: grinding on only the back truck
  

Goofyfoot: Skateboard Tricks

Goofyfoot: riding with the right foot forward, the opposite of "regular foot".

Frontside: Skateboard Tricks

Frontside: when a trick or turn is executed with the front of the skater’s body facing the ramp or obstacle.

Fakie: Skateboard Tricks

Fakie: skating backwards—the skater is standing in his or her normal stance, but the board is moving backward (not to be confused with "switch stance")

Crooked Grind: Skateboard Tricks

Crooked grind: grinding on only the front truck while sliding.

Carve: Skateboard Tricks

Carve: to skate in a long, curving arc.

Caballerial: Skateboard Tricks

Caballerial: a 360-degree turn performed on a ramp while riding fakie (backwards), named after skater Steve Caballero.

Backside: Skateboard Tricks

Backside: when a trick or turn is executed with the skater’s back facing the ramp or obstacle.

Skateboarding Tricks: The San Fransisco Flip

The San Francisco flip: is a type of truck transfer where the rider enters a no handed 50-50 stand and does a no handed carousel to cross footed no handed 50-50. The trick has been recently made popular by sailor and freestyle skateboarder Mike McCabe. He has also been known to do them blind folded. Gunter mokulys has also been known to do the trick.

Source: wikipedia

Skateboarding Tricks: Sal Flip

Sal Flip

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Sal flip: it's invented by Salvador Lucas Barbier (Sal Barbier). In motion this trick mimics a Fingerflip and a 360 Pop Shove-It. While riding forward, the rider mildly hits the tail like a Backside Pop Shove-It. At about 45 degrees into the rotation with the leading hand, catch the nose with the palmside of the hand touching the grip tape (thumb underneath) with an elbow motion, flare the board forward and outward for the rest of the rotation (315 degrees) with the feet up and out of the way until the rotation is complete . depending on air time the feet may 'catch' the board in mid air or casing the trick at touchdown. On flat ground this trick may not 'flare' as much and may look similar to a (palmside) Fingerflip that 'pirouettes' vertically using more of a wrist motion as opposed to an elbow motion. The higher the rider goes the more exaggerated the movement can be, IE instead of a wrist or elbow rotation the rider can actually 'flare' the board with a shoulder motion.

Tricks to do Sal Flip on a skate board (Melanie Hammontree)

• Ride your skateboard in an Ollie position. This is where you are on the balls of your feet toward the front-side edge (the edge closest to your toes.) Your front foot will be back a little more than usual. Ride the board gaining a little speed so you will have momentum to do the trick.
• Pop the board up and put your back foot on the ground. You will catch the board in your left hand with four fingers on top and the thumb on the bottom. You can try practicing popping the board while you are standing still and then turning the board. This can help you when you are moving. If you get the movement down while you are standing, it will be easier to accomplish in movement.
• Take two steps while you are turning the board 180 degrees. This will all be done in a fluid motion. After the board pops, you are walking and twisting the board.
• Let go of the board and jump on to it as it falls. This will be tricky because you need to make sure the board is completely turned around and it will need to land flat. Jump high enough so that you jump on the board while it is still in the air. You do not want to jump on the board when it lands.
• When you land the trick, you will go into a manual and ride the trick out. This is where you will apply a little pressure to the front of the board and the back wheels come off the ground. From here, you can go into your next trick.

Source: wikipedia, ehow