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.
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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!
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What skateboarding had failed to teach me about injury prevention, recovery, fitness and health, high performance surfing delivered by the bucket load. What started as an obsession to surf better became the start of a journey back towards skateboarding.
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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.
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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!
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Here’s the secret recipe for the ultimate recovery and inflammation blast drink. Sit down, relax, and recover from that skate session with Golden Milk.
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I’ve thought about skate shoes, obviously. Every time I look at my feet I think about skate shoes, but skate shoes and kick flip technique? Now there’s a fresh angle. An angle so fresh it edged a new idea into my mind, a new connection between my last 2 pairs of skate shoes and constant foot pain.
A connection such as this.
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Do you keep wearing holes in your shoes within a few days? Tearing through those fresh shoes too fast?
It’s inevitable. Skateboarding means dragging your shoe, repeatedly, over sandpaper (griptape). So it’s no shock that skaters wear through shoes frustratingly quickly. Shoe Goo was a good fix, but definitely not the best. It was, as it sounds, gooey. It dried rubbery which mean’t it wore out quickly too. (And looked awful)
Want to know what I use to make my shoes last 10 times longer?
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Introducing a new series on called ‘Trick of the Week’
Every week, if not every time I go skate I try to learn a new trick. Now in most sports, this would be an insane goal. But in Skateboarding? It’s very doable, with some many millions of skateboard tricks and variations, it’s a fun way to constantly learn new tricks.
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There’s not many things that feel better than skating down the middle of a street, then casually popping up a curb. It is one of skateboardings great joys and biggest freedoms. So, know you’ve got your basic ollie down, let’s take it to the next step and learn to ollie up a curb or onto a block.
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In order to learn how to Ollie (jump) on a skateboard, you want to be comfortable rolling and pushing around on the flat ground.
01. Snap - Crouch down low, then snap the tail by kicking down with your back foot.
02. Pop - As the tail hits the ground, you lift your arms as the board starts to pop and jump up.