10 Things Every Beginner Should Know How To Do Well

Get comfortable riding it around. And I mean VERY comfortable. Ride it to school, the store, to your friends house, whatever. Trust me, being comfortable on the board will help A LOT when learning tricks later on. Learn how to drop off curbs, kickturn, and even how to roll over little bumps/cracks by lifting the front of your board over them and hopping off your back foot a bit. Check out this youtube vid below, it certainly provided me with some guidelines. [VIDEO]

Skate more often, if you are only going out once a week (or less frequent) the board isn't familiar enough. Spend at least 10-15 minutes a day on the board, just do simple stuff like pushing around, carving, tick-tacks, kick-turns and manuals, whatever you know. The key to landing on the board is just being comfortable on it. The more time you spend just standing on the board & staying on it through the basic beginner stuff, you'll be building confidence. If you feel uncomfortable from the moment you step on the board (things just don't feel natural, the board feels foreign under your feet, or you are just stiff and not loosened up / relaxed) then just work on that for a week or two. If you skate every day for the next few weeks, I guarantee you will at least make some progress. This [VIDEO] video by VLSkate is stickied for a reason. When you don't skate for a long period of a week or more, you start to lose it... Stay in the groove and try and get out at least 3 times a week. Don't go out and focus on landing a certain trick like it's a job, just mess around on the board & do what you want - have fun. If you grind (like grinding boars in an MMO, repeating the task over and over) t…

get a good helmet lined with EPS foam & look up videos on how to fall safely! here's Braille Skateboarding's "how to skateboard" [VIDEO] here's VLSkate's "10 things every beginner should know how to do well" [VIDEO] these two channels are gonna be your best friend for sure haha. best of luck and i hope you have a lot of fun!

Check out the stickied post on 10 things every skateboarder should learn to do well. The video covers everything you need to know including stopping. [VIDEO] <---here's the stopping section but seriously watch the whole video.

Good luck, just remember to have fun and shred. Be safe and have fun. Also I want to add this advice for any new skaters, Don't be afraid of other skaters or to show up at a park, nobody is going to make fun of you for learning, everyone was where you are now at some point, skateboardings not a team sport you never have to be as good as anybody else, just try to get a little better at some aspect of skateboarding everytime you go out, skaters might look like a bunch of hard punks but they're all just people who decided flipping around a slab of wood is what they like to do for fun. Also check out VLSkate on youtube, he's got amazing videos for beginners like this one [VIDEO], look through his library he has things to work on for every skill level are really breaks them down so you can understad them.

In general they say it takes about 30 days to break a habit or develop a new one. I'd suggest just pushing regular a little each day and build from there. Before you know it your brain will "click" and it'll become your new normal. Emphasis on doing it each day, helps build the muscle memory. For reference check out VLSkate's beginner tutorial Here [VIDEO] and Justin Lauria's Here [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] Make sure you got the things in the first video down, then you can move on to the videos below. [VIDEO] [VIDEO] [VIDEO] After these beginner tricks, you should just go for all the classic ones, kickflips, pop shuve its, 180s etc.

I'd recommend checking out VLSkate on Youtube. [VIDEO] He's got a lot of beginner-friendly learning content [VIDEO]