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RIDING BASICS SKATE SUPPORT

Braille Skateboarding6 skaters recommend it · 7 mentions, 2014 to 2019
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307K views · 13 years ago · Tutorial · Beginner

Braille Skateboarding Skate Support lesson on riding basics, with Aaron Kyro demonstrating stance, pushing, turning and stopping. Includes 3D animation by Chris Taylor. Filmed and edited by Lance Silber in 2013.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked in newbie threads as a starting point for riding basics before ollies. Also comes up in debates over tail dragging as a way to stop.

“My best suggestion is just go thru Braille's basics on YouTube Im sure they have a video for tips to get comfortable on your board and then just move on to ollies, shuvs, and 180s”

u/ItsSuperMcNasty

What skaters said on Reddit

u/unerds2014 · 8 points

Braille Skateboarding [LINK] Riding Basics [VIDEO] How to Push [VIDEO] also, /r/newskaters

u/ixAp0c2016 · 2 points

He is saying to learn it but shows a demonstration a few seconds seconds later with a heel drag [VIDEO], it seems even Aaron Kyro is trying to preserve his tail and avoid dragging it completely... I'm just saying it's a shitty method to stop, once I was hauling ass on a slight downhill & tried tail sliding, and slid like 40 feet and had to stop with my foot because I was about to hit some busy traffic. The board just

u/Brokenstar122016 · 2 points

Right here at roughly 3:20 [VIDEO] Andy said it somewhere in a really old video, can't remember what it's called. I like to preserve the tail too, that's why I don't tail drag to stop all the time. I only learned it because I thought it would help me with my ollies, and only did it like 4 or 5 times till I was comfortable at it. Took no more than 20 minutes to learn it, then I figured out how to use my heel to drag a

u/ItsSuperMcNasty2019 · 2 points

My best suggestion is just go thru Braille's basics [LINK] on YouTube Im sure they have a video for tips to get comfortable on your board [VIDEO] and then just move on to ollies, shuvs, and 180s Those videos definitely helped me the most with all the basics, best of luck brodie!

u/mrguitarbhoy2014 · 2 points

This guy here might help as a point of reference: [VIDEO] Also heres a vid of him giving a guy further tips: [VIDEO]

u/Shaaaww2016 · 1 points

hm do it 10000 times, but hard to explain:D in the skatepark i often just roll against the wall/obstacle or some other shit:D or just slide the tail on the ground. You can also stop by just putting your foot on the ground or jumping off of it [VIDEO] here you can see how to push and how your legs can look while pushing. Braille offers really good content on skateboarding, you should definitely check it out

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