Skateboard Trick Roadmap - The best skateboarding tricks for beginners to learn

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

I started skating around 1999/2000 with mates from school, weekends at skateparks, nights in carparks, trying to ollie, kickflip, jump off anything. No real direction, just whatever tricks we'd seen in skate videos or whatever our friends were attempting. That meandering approach is part of the fun, but sometimes it helps to have a roadmap. So I've put one together a skateboarding progression guide for you to follow, covering core tricks at different levels, split into Street and Transition so you can see what tricks to learn in what order.

Here's the progression I'd give any skater, from your very first push to tricks that take months to land.
There’s way more tricks I could add in, and honestly…everyone is different and has different skills, but hopefully this gives you a good start, and an idea of where to take it.

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How To Skate: Skateboarding Roadmap

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THE BASICS

Getting you started rolling with confidence

• stance: regular or goofy

• pushing and stopping

• tic tak and turning

• manuals on flatground (lifting up the nose for a couple of seconds)

• Tail Stops

• Fakie 180 pivots

• Hippie Jumps

• Rolling down a bank

• Kickturns on a bank

• Rolling Fakie on a bank

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TRANSITION (RAMPS) LEVEL 1

Starting out in skateparks

• pumping back and forth on ramps

• turning on ramps

• dropping in

• Backside ollie’s on banks

• tail stalls

• rock fakie (bank first, then quarter)

• rock and roll

• frontside kickturn

• Ollie fakie in transition

STREET LEVEL 1

The basics of flat ground, ledges and manuals

• Ollie

• Fakie Ollie

• Fakie b/s 180 (Half Cab)

• frontside 180

• fakie shuvit (pop shuv it)

• pop shuv it

• kickflip

• backside ollie

• Frontside 50-50 grind block/ledge

• Backside Boardslide

• backside 50-50 grind

• manual curb/low ledge

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TRANSITION (RAMPS) LEVEL 2

Mastering the basics

• 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

• Backside pivot on quarter

STREET LEVEL 2

Deepening the bag

• nose manual

• frontside 5-0 grind

• backside 5-0 grind

• fakie kickflip

• Frontside Boardslide

• fakie 180 (half cab )kickflip

• backside 180 kickflip

• ollie over 1-2 decks

• Switch Ollie

• heelflip

• frontside pop shuvit

• Nollie

• Nollie 180 (F/S and B/S)

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TRANSITION (RAMPS) LEVEL 3

Levelling Up

• 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

Getting Technical

• Frontside Flip

• kickflip manual

• Krooked Grind

• frontside smith grind

• backside tailslide

• frontside tailslide

• Frontside Nosegrind

• fakie heelflip

• backside bigspin

• frontside board slide rail

• backside feeble on a rail

• 360 flip

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Looking for more help getting started?

The Beginner Progression Roadmap is a PDF guide with 7 micro skills that build confidence from day 1, and the first 10 tricks I get every beginner to learn. Complete with explanations for each trick/skill.

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Beginner Progression Roadmap

A$19.00

Learn the first 10 tricks I recommend every beginner learns, along with 7 micro skills to build confidence and board awareness!

The roadmap is a PDF Plan with the 7 Micro-skills to give you confidence and improve your balance, and then the first 10 tricks I recommend learning before you start to Ollie. The Plan has a run down of how to do each one with images.

It also lists the next 20 tricks for you to learn once you’ve mastered the basics!

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