Skateboarding Features
How To: Do a Briflip on your scooter
This is a short explaining the scooter trick known as the briflip; it's a fairly easy trick to land once you have enough air. The briflip takes about a week to learn and land perfectly on your scooter.
How To: Do a Casper Flip and Hospital Flip on a skateboard
Skateboarding trick tips on how to do Casper Flips and Hospital Flips.
How To: Skateboard old school kickflips
A skateboarding trick tip for doing old school kickflips
How To: Do a foot plant on a skateboard
The foot plant is one of the easiest and most basic types of plant tricks to perform. You simply stand on a spine with one foot, hold the board by the trucks, then drop back in! This video demonstrates the trick and teaches you how to perform it yourself, adding some flair to any spine transfers you may be aiming to perform.
How To: Walk the Dog on a skateboard
Skateboarding trick tip for walking the dog, also known as the dogwalk.
Photo of the Day: Australian Handplant
A skateboarder pulls an inverted handplant in a distant, upside-down land.
How To: Caveman on a skateboard
Come along with Melvin the Nerd as you learn to do "the caveman" on a skateboard. His charming personality, hilarious mannerisms and speech are fun to watch as well as educational. Learn this simple trick in just a few steps by jumping up with one foot, pulling the board under your feet and quickly leaping onto the skateboard. In just a few minutes you'll impress your friends with your new tricks and have had a great laugh while learning.
News: Plank + Wheels + 630-Horsepower = World's First V-8 Powered Skateboard
Australian racing organization V8 Supercars have built an oversized skateboard equipped with a V8 engine for Tony Hawk. Hawk was scheduled to ride the beast last week, but it appears no video footage has been posted yet.
How To: Make a skateboard rail without any welding
When it comes to skateboarding, one of the most coolest and difficult things to do is grind on a rail. It takes balance and the right footing to do so, otherwise it can result in damage to the feet or legs and even damage to the groin area. OUCH! So if you're brave enough and want to train to imrpove your skills this tutorial will help. Find out how to make a skateboard rail at home without the need of any welding. Enjoy!
How To: Do skateboarding tricks for beginners
In this series of skateboarding videos for beginners, Steve shows you tricks for skateboarding in streets and parks. He demonstrates how to do a 180 and a nose manual and even shares some of his thoughts on skateboarding video games. Watch these videos and some of his cool might just rub off on you.
How To: Do a toeside predrift on a longboard downhill run
Longboarding is one of the most fun things that you can do in a dry, hilly, sparsly-populated (if you value your life) area. This video will teach you how to do a cool downhill longboarding trick, a toeside predrift. It's gnarly, dangerous, and totally awesome.
SKATEISTAN: The Skateboarding Culture of Afghanistan
Photographer Noah Abrams traveled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009 to document the emerging skateboarding scene there. The results are (frankly) incredible:
How To: Master the basics of skateboarding
This is a quick video tutorial on how to master the basics of skateboarding. These skateboarding basics include how to maneuver, ollie and perform a pop shuvit on your board. If you know nothing about skateboarding tricks, this could be a good start for you. Learn about the trucks, the hardware, the grip, and everything else on the board. This is a great, not to mention odd, introduction to the world of skateboarding.
How To: Do a 180 on your scooter
This video will give you a how-to on how you can do a 180 jump trick on your Razor scooter.
How To: Grind on a ledge on a scooter
This scooter how-to will show you how you can do a grind on a ledge or a curb on your scooter.
How To: Frontside flip on your skateboard with Ryan Smith
Professional skateboarder Ryan Smith teaches you how to perform a frontside flip on your board in this video tutorial.
How To: Do skateboard carving at a skatepark
Park Skateboarding: Show Off Your Skills The first skateparks appeared in the 1970s, and nowadays, they're the epicenter of the skateboarding world, a place to see and be seen. That being the case, you don't want to show up to the park without your "A" game. Let our trick guide get you up to speed. Watch this video tutorial to see how to do skateboard carving at a skatepark.
How To: Do a boned ollie
Watch this video to learn the so called "secret" to pulling off a boned ollie on a skateboard.
How To: Grind rails on your skateboard
Mike V discusses and has another person illustrate the different ways to grind rails. He shows the 50/50 grind and the smith grind. After each segment, a recap is given.
How To: Do a tailwhip on a scooter
This is a how-to video tutorial on how you can do a tailwhip on your scooter. Tailwhipping takes about a day to learn.
How To: Paint your skateboard or longboard
This is a simple demonstration of how to design and paint your own skateboard, a great way of combining your art and your riding and bring more originality to your local skate park.
How To: Do a manual on a scooter
This is a tutorial explaining how to do a manual on a scooter. It covers different aspects of the manual, such as foot placement and control. With these tips, you should be doing a manual on your scooter in no time.
How To: Make a ledge grind-able for a scooter
This this is a tutorial explaining how to make a ledge slide. If you want to do this professionally, you need lacquer and a mason's stone, but for this video, only common materials were used.
How To: Turn on a skateboarding ramp
Turning on a skateboard ramp is an often overlooked skill that is tough to master. Get expert tips and advice on skateboard decks and tricks in this video lesson. Take action: go up ramp, put weight on tail while slowing down, use upper body to perform turn, and lead with the eyes and upper body. Shawn, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, has over twenty years of skateboarding knowledge. He has appeared in Slap, Thrasher and Transworld magazines and his sponsors include Vent...
How To: Do a Flamingo on a skateboard
This is the real deal - Kyle Bishoff shows you how to do a flamingo properly on a skateboard.
How To: Do a Double Rainbow longboard trick with James Kelly
Doing flip tricks on a longboard is freaking hard. If you are at the point where you can do a few, watch this video to learn from pro rider James Kelly how to do what may be a completely original trick, here deemed the Double Rainbow. It consists of a shove-it with a body varial in the middle.
How To: Make a peg for a scooter using old bearings
Watch this video on how to modify a scooter in order to make a BMX-ish peg for grinds and stalls using parts from an old scooter.
How To: Do A Kickflip On A Skateboard
So, you want to learn how to kickflip? As with other skateboarding tricks, this requires mental and physical practice.
How To: Do a primo flip
This is a video dedicated to the teaching of the skateboarding trick called the primo flip.
How To: Do a melon on a skateboard
Want to learn some new skateboard tricks? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform a melon on the skateboard. Before you attempt this move, you'll want to be familiar with executing ollies. When performing this skate board trick, you want to grab near the middle of your deck.
How To: Drop in on a vert ramp with Colin McKay
In this how-to video, professional skateboarder Colin McKay teaches you how to drop in on a vert ramp. What's a vert ramp? A vert ramp is a form of half-pipe used in "extreme sports" such as skateboarding.
How To: Do the cross step on the long board
The Cross step is a great looking skateboard trick. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform the cross step on the longboard. Be sure to wear safety gear when attempting this board trick.
How To: Do a 360 on a skateboard
Doing a 360 on a skateboard is easy with these tips. Get expert advice on skateboard decks and tricks in this video tutorial. Take action: keep your foot on the tail, turn the upper body first, balance on back wheels, front wheels lift slightly, and turn body in any direction. Shawn, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, has over twenty years of skateboarding knowledge. He has appeared in Slap, Thrasher and Transworld magazines and his sponsors include Venture Trucks, Ricta Wh...
Man About Town: The Elegance of Skateboarding
There's something hypnotizing about Kilian Martin's graceful moves set to the Tommy Edwards classic, It’s All in the Game. Beautifully shot. Great fashion. Completely elegant freestyle skateboarding. More evocative of Gene Kelly than the X Games.
How To: Do a flamingo flatlands trick on a skateboard
The flamingo is a somewhat obscure flatlands skateboarding trick in which the skater swings the board around their leg and stands in a flamingo-like pose for a moment, supporting the board at an angle with their legs, and then drops back into skating from there. No fancy ramps or rails needed for this trick, get practicing!
How To: Do a 1-foot backside 180 trick on a longboard
Many of the most popular longboard tricks are based on sliding, since jumping one of these boards is tough. If you're pretty good already and can do some backside slides, watch this video for tips on pulling a 1-foot backside 180, difficult but awesome.
How To: Make sharp turns on a skateboard
Making sharp turns on a skateboard is easy with these tips. Get expert advice on skateboard decks and tricks in this video lesson. Take action: put weight on heels to turn left, put weight on toes to turn right, pick up 2 front tires & pivot for quick turns, and lead with upper body. Shawn, the instructor in this how-to video from Live Strong, has over twenty years of skateboarding knowledge. He has appeared in Slap, Thrasher and Transworld magazines and his sponsors include Venture Trucks, R...
How To: Stop your skateboard by powersliding or dragging your foot
So, you've finally figured out how to stand up on your skateboard and ride it without having the thing fly out from underneath you. The only problem is, you don't know how to stop. Instead of jumping off when you're headed towards traffic, watch this video and learn how to stop your skateboard three different ways.
How To: Do skateboard eggplants at a skatepark
Park Skateboarding: Show Off Your Skills The first skateparks appeared in the 1970s, and nowadays, they're the epicenter of the skateboarding world, a place to see and be seen. That being the case, you don't want to show up to the park without your "A" game. Let our trick guide get you up to speed. Watch this video tutorial to see how to do skateboard eggplants at a skatepark.
How To: Stand up and balance on a skateboard
Skateboarding is fun, once you learn how to do it. The first step is sometimes the hardest. Watch this video and learn how to properly stand on a skateboard and balance. Don't watch the board fly out from under your feet ever again.