How to STAND ON A SKATEBOARD for the FIRST TIME!

There are no shortcuts, really, skateboarding is all about time on the board and muscle memory. To stand on the board, keep your feet over the bolts and knees bent - balance your weight equally down into your feet. Start off on the grass as you get used to balancing, and practice the movements of taking your back foot off the board to push, and pivoting your front foot. Building up this muscle memory before you start moving on concrete is a useful hour spent. Vid: [VIDEO] Find an empty car park or basketball court etc and practice pushing up and down it, focusing on getting to the stage where your feet automatically go to their correct positions without having to think about it, or look down at them. Also focus on balancing on your front foot on the board, with your back foot dangling to the side, and gliding along like that - when you push you want to keep your body weight over your front foot and on the board, and not putting your weight down on the ground through your pushing foot. Watch how skaters do this to get the idea - and if you had a scooter you'll know what I mean. Next key things to learn once you're comfortable pushing and balancing: [VIDEO] Have fun!

how to stand [VIDEO] Improve balance after comfortable on board [VIDEO] How to fall [VIDEO] Pushing, footing [VIDEO] Have plenty more however once you watch those it should put some more in your feed in you use the app! Have fun!

I rolled my ankle pretty badly last fall, within the first couple of weeks of really starting to skate again at 30. I had to follow the “RICES” procedure to get it back to health, including wearing an ankle brace for multiple days, and not skating for a full week. It was a bummer to have to pause once I was already hooked! This video is pretty helpful on the basics of standing on a skateboard early on: [VIDEO] The big thing is: keep your knees bent. Practice keeping your weight over the middle of the board. It can be helpful to practice hopping on and off, and helpful to start this on grass or carpet. Beyond that, wear some protection! A helmet it’s most critical… a brain injury would be horrible for you and your family/friends. But also, especially early on, wrist, elbow, and knee pads are pretty awesome. I feel so much more free to try some riskier stuff if I’m not too worried about what falling will do. It’s great to just pop up after a wipeout! Take it slow, keep it up, enjoy the process, and be patient. It takes many, many hours to get good at skating, but it’s so worth it!

r/newskaters is a good subreddit for all the newbie questions we might have lol, just started skating too. this [VIDEO] video helped a lot. takes a bit to get used to the kinda balance u need for skateboards. some1 else said it, u gotta commit, if ur too hesitant climbing up slowly ur more likely to make urself slip. try not to be afraid of falling, it’s natural to be hesitant cuz u don’t wanna fall, but the first time u fall it makes it a lot less scary afterwards which honestly makes u do better cuz ur not tensing up every time u lose balance slightly which actually makes u more likely to fall yea tdlr balance practice