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Skateboarding skills
19 skills, beginner to advanced. 17 of them can be checked from a phone video with honest form analysis — no fake scores.
Beginner
5Regular vs Goofy Stance
Before anything else, you need to know which way you naturally stand on a board. REGULAR m…
Balance & Riding Posture
Good riding posture is the athletic base that everything else grows from. You stand with y…
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Pushing
PUSHING is how you actually move — the skill that separates skating from standing still. Y…
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Turning (Leaning)
The first way to turn is by LEANING — shifting your weight onto your heels or toes to tilt…
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Foot-Brake Stopping
Knowing how to STOP reliably is a safety essential — it's the difference between rolling t…
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Intermediate
5The Kickturn
The KICKTURN is a sharper, more active turn where you lightly lift the front wheels by pre…
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Tic-Tacs
TIC-TACS are small, rhythmic side-to-side nose swings — a series of tiny kickturns alterna…
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Rolling & Carving
CARVING is linking smooth, flowing heel-side and toe-side turns into continuous S-shaped a…
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Riding Fakie
Riding FAKIE means rolling BACKWARDS in your normal stance (the board moving toward your t…
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The Manual
The MANUAL is a wheelie on a skateboard — balancing and rolling on just the back two wheel…
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Advanced
5The Ollie
The OLLIE is the foundational trick of street skating — popping the board into the air wit…
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Pop Shove-It
The POP SHOVE-IT builds on the ollie: the board pops up AND spins 180 degrees horizontally…
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Ollie the Nose Manual
This skill links two fundamentals: you OLLIE up onto a ledge or box and land directly into…
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Frontside 180
The FRONTSIDE 180 is an ollie combined with a 180-degree body-and-board rotation, turning …
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Dropping In
DROPPING IN is how you enter a ramp, bowl, or quarterpipe from the top — one of skating's …
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Insane
4The Kickflip
The KICKFLIP is the iconic street trick — an ollie where you also FLICK the board so it sp…
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Ollie Up Curbs & Obstacles
Taking your ollie to REAL obstacles — ollieing up onto curbs, ledges, and boxes — is the b…
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50-50 Grind
The 50-50 GRIND is a foundational grind: you ollie onto a rail or ledge so BOTH trucks lan…
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Fall Safely & Protect Yourself
Falling is an unavoidable part of skateboarding, and knowing HOW to fall — plus wearing th…