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 2026!)

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. Working from Easiest to Hardest, 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 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 covering core tricks at different levels, split into Street and Transition.

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!

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How To Skate

Skateboarding Roadmap

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The Basics

• stance: regular or goofy

• pushing and stopping

• tic tak and turning

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

• Fakie 180 pivots

• Hippie Jumps

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Transition (Ramps) Level 1

• rolling into banks

• Kickturns on banks

• rolling fakie on banks

• 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

• stance: regular or goofy

• ollie

• fakie b/s 180

• frontside 180

• fakie shuvit (pop shuv it)

• fakie ollie

• pop shuv it

• kickflip

• backside ollie

• Frontside 50-50 grind block/ledge

• backside 50-50 grind

• manual curb/low ledge

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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

• nose manual

• backside boardslide on a rail

• backside 180 a hip

• frontside 5-0 grind

• backside 5-0 grind

• fakie kickflip

• fakie 180 (half cab )kickflip

• backside 180 kickflip

• ollie over 1-2 decks

• heelflip

• frontside pop shuvit

• Nollie

• Nollie 180 (F/S and B/S)

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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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