Manuals Are The Most Important Trick in Skateboarding
Skate IQ6 skaters recommend it · 6 mentions, 2025 to 2026
192K views · 1 year ago · Tutorial · Beginner
Skate IQ tutorial on how to manual, with a focus on finding the balance point and weight placement. Argues that manual practice builds board control that carries over to every other trick.
Why skaters like it
Gets linked in r/NewSkaters whenever someone asks how to manual or find the balance point. Seen as a foundation video for board control.
“You need to find the balance point. Then ask yourself, how good are you at keeping your balance. …”
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What skaters said on Reddit
You need to find the balance point. Then ask yourself, how good are you at keeping your balance. Here's a skate iQ video 😁 [VIDEO]
Tip culture is getting out of hand. But fr learn to manual properly [VIDEO]. And practice tick tacks and skating faster. Take videos of yourself to analyze and compare why what youre doing doesn't look like people better than you.
Is it chalk? It shouldn't matter, griptape does lose grippiness as you skate it though, so you can usually feel a difference between fresh tape and tape that's been skated awhile Manual vid [VIDEO]