What are the best skateparks to learn at in Sydney. Considering things like obstacles, sizes, ground, shade, lights, and crowds. You want to be choosing a skatepark that can match your needs and the outcome of the session you want to have. Finding a suitable park will make your skating more enjoyable, and help you progress faster. So let’s look at some of the best options for beginner, intermediate, and advanced skaters when it comes to skateparks in and around Sydney and the northern beaches.

Skateboard Coaching in Sydney: Learn Faster, Land More Tricks, and Skate with Confidence. Offering beginner and intermediate skate lessons across Sydney and the Northern Beaches with Olympic-level coaching experience. Book a session with a trusted coach who gets real results.
1-1 lessons for adults, beginners, kids, teens, and intermediates as well as small group sessions. We teach skating at Mona Vale, Terry Hills, Cromer, Manly, and the parks around the area.

How To Skate has online skate coaching available to easily purchase online. Learn new tricks, get help with areas you’re struggling with, and improve your skating today. The easiest way to improve your skating starts here.

Whether you dream of taking Gold at the Tokyo Olympics for Skateboarding, or being named Thrasher Magazines Skater of the Year and releasing the best street part ever, it’s good to have a dream and chase it. ESM Australia is helping develop Aussie action sports athletes to help build their career.

Are you looking to improve your skating? Struggling with a specific trick or how to progress? Online coaching could be just what you need to help you improve. Whether you’re skating at home, at the skatepark or out in the street all you need is an internet connection and a phone that can record video. Remote lessons will help you get to the next level, get on board!

How to kick flip, with all the details you wish you’d been told.

This tutorial is one of the longest, most in-depth videos I’ve made so far. The kick flip is such a landmark moment for any skater, it really takes a lot of time and dedication to learn. I’ll show you the exact technique to learn kick flips as well as what you might be doing wrong, how to fix it, and a few hacks to help you along the way.

t’s Thursday which means another tutorial for you. This week, it’s the ledge basic - Frontside 5-0 Grinds.

I absolutely love this trick and I think you will to. I’ve gone into a heap of detail about this one, breaking the trick down into 4 stages and also showing 3 different ways to do the trick.

Enjoy!

Get the mini ramp trick of your dreams with the pivot fakie. One of the best feeling tricks on transition.

This short tutorial will show you just what you need to learn this trick.

Learn how to progress your skating with the shuvit and pop shuvit, if you can roll on your board and do small Ollies, then you can learn this!

This one is all about the back foot. For the shuvit, the back foot sits right in the pocket and scoops the board. For the pop shuvit, the back foot sits more in the middle of the tail, kicking down to get the pop and then scooping back to get the board to shuvit.

Wondering how to get sponsored in skateboarding or surfing? Here are some thoughts and resources to help you navigate the world of sponsorship and a career in skateboarding or surfing. Thanks to some great articles from STAB magazine and the AVNI interviews with Mikey Taylor and Eric Bork. Enjoy

Zion recently had an interview with The Nine Club to tie in nicely with his new Nike SB edit ‘Jupiter Rising’ (have a watch below..it’s insane) and with that, the stars aligned to bring us some amazing content. So with all this new content coming from Zion, what can we learn?

With the X-Games just finished down in Sydney, It’s got me all excited for the Olympics. The level of skateboarding and the entertainment the X-Games brings is undeniable.

Here’s a look into the Olympic level skate training facilities currently popping up around the world. Which park would you most want to skate?

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

Coaching for development is a more holistic approach. It revolves around asking questions and building a set of problem solving skills which will help solve this problem here, but also the next problem and so on into the future. It’s a process of personal development.