Skateboarding Lessons: HOW TO CARVE & TURN on a Skateboard in Pools, Bowls, Transitions, Skate Parks

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Here's some videos I recommend for learning as a complete beginner. Skatepark Lessons is a great place to start. [LINK] I highly recommend his videos on pushing & stance [VIDEO], carving [VIDEO], kickturns. [VIDEO], and stopping. [VIDEO] Braille's videos on falling: How to Correctly Fall in Skateboarding [VIDEO] and How to Fall Without Getting Hurt [VIDEO]. I also suggest learning Parkour Safety Rolls [VIDEO] and getting those movements ingrained in your muscle memory for when you fall at high speeds. Videos on how to how to cruise and commute: NinjaLifestyle's GETTING UP A CURB, [VIDEO] Never Stop Improving's How to Ride off Curbs and Ledges [VIDEO] and Lotfi's 6 tips to cruise through urban obstacles. [VIDEO] The last video is for longboards, but most of the tips are still relevant to skateboarding. If you're interested in learning how to ollie for your commute, I can't recommend Sarah Park-Matott's channel [LINK] enough. She's a freestyle skateboarder who breaks down tricks to their essentials. Check out her 5 step method for ollies [VIDEO] and her video on safety and board control. [VIDEO]

It might not seem super helpful when she says it, but your therapist isn't wrong - it *is* a logical thing to be afraid of hurting yourself, and it *is* a survival response. Humans *aren't* designed to huck themselves up a concrete wall on wheels, and one month isn't enough to retrain your brain to have a new level of acceptable risk. A big part of skating is conditioning and repetition. Every time you do something without anything bad happening, even if that's just pushing around, your brain goes 'oh okay, we survived that, that's okay'. You might not consciously feel that progress each time, but it's happening. Even if you fall, that's fine - accept it as a likely possible outcome, try to identify what happened ('I got nervous and leaned too far back' or whatever else), and go from there. Others here mention it, but echoing them - start small on a mellow bank, carving up and back down. Backside is usually a little less scary than frontside, since you can see more of where you're going. Come at it from an angle and envision an arched path up and down the ramp where you'll be travelling. Bend your knees, and if carving up backside, stay on your toes (frontside, you're leaning on yo…

As mentioned looser trucks really help with carving. Also being confident enough to put much of your weight on your toes and heels (FYI - being 215 is irrelevant)- I'm around 200 and ride Indys and Ace with stock bushings barely tightened over default maybe 1/4 to 1/2 turn on the back truck (really for fakies). Waxing where your wheels hit the board can be helpful too. This vid helped me sometime ago: [VIDEO] Skate On 💪🏻!

Ditto for the carves. Get frontside and backside carves down. Next you can try for grinds, and roll-ins. My buddy has a ton of videos that are great for ramp / park / bowl progression: [VIDEO] [VIDEO] There’s a ton there, check it out