You'd Be The World's Best Skateboarder If You Did This
Skate IQ21 skaters recommend it · 26 mentions, 2025 to 2026
244K views · 1 year ago · Tutorial · Beginner
Skate IQ tutorial on how to bail and fall safely on a skateboard. Mitchie covers soft knees, the eject button, buttslides, runouts, shoulder slides and bailing boardslides, hips, step ups and stairsets.
Why skaters like it
Posted in r/NewSkaters whenever someone asks how to fall or get over fear of slamming. Commenters call it the best place to start and show real bail examples.
“This one is great because it gives you examples of various fall/bail techniques in real scenarios.”
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What skaters said on Reddit
[VIDEO] The rest of his channel is a gold mine for tutorials.
Its part of skateboarding. Bend your knees and stay low, the lower you keep yourself the less harder of a fall you would have versus standing up straight falling over like a tree. Also Id seen and heard to learn how to roll with your fall so you arent trying to stop the fall but to catch the momentum of the fall and roll with it so you dont just crash into the ground like. Here's a video, Its Mitchie Brusco how to fa
I second this. There is a nice video from SkateIQ if you don’t know how to do it [VIDEO]
You’re on the right track. Skate as much as you can and just comfy, don’t worry about tricks. If you want a good guide for progressing I recommend the SkateIQ YouTube channel, they have good videos for basically everything in skateboarding. This video [VIDEO] about how to fall properly is the best place to start. To commit to carving learn to sit in the carve, the same way you sit in a chair. The hardest part of comm
Comments here have good explanations. Check out skateIQ for some visuals and balance drills to get that board feel fast. Tutorial for pushing [VIDEO] Flat-Ground Tricks including a basic stop/brake [VIDEO] Adding to basics though, definitely learn how to fall and bail [VIDEO] This will keep you safe and healthy so you can keep progressing^^
There are a lot of things you can do to improve your balance and make getting on your board feel more natural. The biggest thing is to build up the muscles that control the fine movements you need to stay centered on the board. The first thing to do is to just practice standing on the board. I usually recommend doing this over carpet, but you could also use those trainers over pavement, or just tighten down the wheel
Watch this video, and watch a bunch of their other videos. And just go out and skate and get comfortable on your board first! [VIDEO]
This one is great because it gives you examples of various fall/bail techniques in real scenarios. [VIDEO]