Skateboard Trick Roadmap - The best skateboarding tricks for beginners to learn (UPDATED!)

I’ve put together a guide for people learning to skateboard, to help you know what tricks to learn and when. (UPDATED 2024!)

UPDATE: Ok so I’ve finally got around to updating this skate trick roadmap for you all, I’ll try to keep adding to it, improving it, and linking tutorial videos over time. It should help give some direction for what order to learn tricks in if you’re unsure. I’ll also start linking through tutorial videos for tricks as I do them to make it even easier for you to learn online.

I started skateboarding sometime around 1999/2000 with my friends from school.

Skating around the local streets at the weekends, going to car parks or skateparks trying to learn to ollie, kick flip, jump off ledges. Anything we’d seen in a skate video that got us excited.

We didn’t have much direction aside from watching professionals in skate videos. We just tried whatever tricks we felt like trying, or our friends tried. Sometimes even just whatever tricks we seemed close to performing.

The meandering life of a grommet is fun, but sometimes it helps to know what the next few steps are when learning a new skill, to see a roadmap for what’s ahead. So to help you all learning to skate, I’ve started creating a skateboarding roadmap. It outlines some of the basic skills and then puts some core tricks to learn as different levels. I’ve also decided to split it up into Street and Transition tricks.

If you’re learning to skate and wondering which tricks you should be learning, take a look below and think about where you are on the diagram. What is the next step for you? If you need a hand, just drop us an email to learn@howtoskate.com.au and we can help.

This is obviously just a guide, we all learn different tricks at different times. Some people find certain tricks easier, or certain obstacles more fun or less scary to skate, so take this with a pinch of salt. Either way I hope you find it useful!

If you need some more personal guidance, checkout our online skate coaching where you can purchase it one session at a time!

How To Skate

Skateboarding Roadmap

The Basics

Transition (Ramps) Level 1

Street Level 1

Transition (Ramps) Level 2

  • axle stall

  • rock n’ roll

  • backside pivot

  • frontside 5-0

  • backside 50-50 grind

  • frontside disaster

  • fakie rock/switch rock to fakie

  • ollie to fakie

  • frontside 180 ollie

  • kickflip fakie

  • drop in 5ft ramp

Street Level 2

Transition (Ramps) Level 3

  • frontside 5050 grind

  • frontside rock n’ roll

  • backside pivot to fakie

  • frontside smith grind

  • backside 5-0 grind

  • backside disaster

  • frontside tailslide

  • backside tailstall

  • backside 180 ollie

Street Level 3

  • kickflip manual

  • Krooked Grind

  • frontside smith grind

  • backside tailslide

  • frontside tailslide

  • fakie heelflip

  • frontside 180 kickflip

  • backside bigspin

  • frontside board slide rail

  • backside feeble on a rail

  • 360 flip

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