well this is a skateboard well might be
a little scary to ride but shouldn't be
too worried they're pretty much just big
toys they're kind of like bikes once you
learn how to ride them well you really
never forget how much sense an Aussie
and I'm going to teach you how to ride
skateboards no prior skate knowledge
needed for today's lesson so you're
gonna easily follow me along today and
we're just gonna how to simply cruise no
tricks and nothing technical that's what
I like to do is just cruise time to grab
your board and let's get started first
thing you want to do is get comfortable
on your board so you want to stand on it
and you want to be going the right way
and that's finding your stance you're
still feeling a little uncomfortable
about your stance or if you don't even
know what your stance is you can check
out my other video over here where I go
over how to find your stance and then
maybe once you watch that you can come
back and visit me here and then we can
start rolling there aren't really rules
to skateboarding weather is kind of this
onesie curl it's called balance and most
people new to skateboarding they lack
balance and then you should get on their
skateboard and I kind of like low and
they fall on their butt and Nana we're
not trying to do that here today we're
trying to get you stirred you on your
board and ready to roll
so you know what you should do the first
place we should go to is the grass good
places to get started or your bolts you
can have your back foot on your back
bolts and your front foot on the front
pull this isn't the best way to ride
your skateboard but I mean it'll
definitely get you there similar to
driving when you're just driving ten
into I mean it looks kind of dumb you'll
still get to where you're going so you
want to spend a couple minutes bunting
your balance getting comfortable you
want to look at your driving noon just
chilling and just you know not going
anywhere in the grass like we are now so
if you want to start really rolling it's
time to bring this to the cement
hopefully by now you've gained enough
confidence in the grass and it's time to
move on to the cement and this is now
the real deal because we're gonna be
rolling we're gonna put your board down
next something pretty sturdy it could be
a pole fence gate hippo elephant I don't
even know what you want just something
that's gonna hold you you're gonna hold
on to that and just like in the grass
put your back foot on the back bolts and
before you put your front throw on the
front bolts make sure you're really
holding on because you're not trying to
fall right now
get that front foot on and once you get
that front foot on find your center
balance bend your knees get comfortable
in your stance you got to look forward
because you're not gonna be going
backwards you're gonna hit the back
you're not trying to do that so before
you do this bend and then push it off
and go well we're picking up some speed
right now probably a good time to teach
you how to stop good simple way to do
that is just put your back foot just on
the ground just like you're stepping off
a curb I mean that's what I do
okay yeah sorry I didn't know well copy
just came and kicked us out and if
you're new to skateboarding this just
happens so we're gonna have to relocate
and I'll catch up with you in a minute
so we just got to our new location
hopefully this time we don't get kicked
out like I was saying before we got
rudely interrupted by that policeman I
was going over stopping take your foot
off your board and slowly come to a stop
there are other ways of doing this
another way is called the toe drag is
when you put your back foot at the edge
of the board hang your toe off at the
end and just keep scraping the toe until
you come to a full stop the toe drag can
be a little bit easier than taking your
full foot off because then your balance
is still on your board not completely on
the ground another way to stop is the
dreaded tail drag which is when you lean
back and you allow all the plies on your
board to get shredded off but to prevent
that you can use the evolved heel drag
which is pretty similar it's another way
of stopping simply just because you're
scraping your heel and not wasting away
your board and the last way that you can
do is just jump off because I mean
that's the easiest thing but just
remember maybe I need to tuck and roll
up keep practicing and rolling around
stopping and going figure out which way
it works right for you and then once you
start doing that you probably want to
learn how to turn because otherwise
you're gonna keep going straight and
that's not gonna get you too far easiest
way how to turn a skateboard is carving
carving is pretty simple there's only
two ways to do it he'll slide toe side
not too hard when you lean toe side you
don't want to lean too far over
otherwise then you're gonna do some
belly flop on the cement which you're
not trying to do so you know make sure
you're lean
kind of back not too far you know keep
your knees bent when you lean in on your
toeside you're gonna turn inward and the
opposite of that is leaning he'll slide
and that's when you spin outward so you
should try to find a nice flat surface
with no incline and start rolling around
lean on your heels on your toes get a
few of the inner word in that where a
turn and you want to turn you in sharper
you can try to pick tacking tic tacking
is a faster way to redirect yourself
versus carving with tic tacking is
pretty simple you put your back foot on
the back of your tail and you keep your
front foot it's somewhat in the middle
and you're gonna lean back on your board
to gain a little bit of leverage and
you're gonna want to point your front
foot and on your shoulders where you
want to go pretty simple so we're on to
the last step and you've made it pretty
far and so you want to keep moving right
so you gotta learn how to push pushing
isn't that hard but you want to make
sure you're pushing right and similar to
stopping pushing is pretty simple you're
gonna make sure you're balanced first
before you do anything because then
you're gonna fall off you're gonna take
your back foot off you're gonna move it
up to about your front foot you know put
it on the ground while keeping mainly
your weight on your front foot and
remember that your back foot is your
leverage so you do want to have some
weight on it but when you lift off your
back foot
after a couple pushes when you're
feeling comfortable and ready to be back
on transfer your weight from your front
to your back get centered and keep
rolling
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some of you might find it easier or
might just do it instinctively to push
with your front foot and well that's
just not good and let's just try to be
back at the skate part that just looks
like and you're not trying to do that we
call this pushing and that's when
you're pushing with the front foot and
that's a big no-no because first of all
you look just dumb doing it and second
of all there's just no control I mean
that's why you push with your back foot
cuz that's how you keep and maintain
you're controlling your balance
hopefully I taught you something about
skateboarding today because we went over
standing went over carving we went over
stopping and we're never pushing so I
swear the more you do it the easier we
get I should take my own advice and just
keep doing it but I don't know ride to
school or add to your girl's palace ride
to the beach if you have the beach right
to like the mall ride to get ice cream I
don't know the more you do it just the
easier it's gonna get and if your mom
tells you to wear a helmet well you
probably should because it's not my call
anyways comment below let me know some
of the how to's and trick tips you want
to see
don't mention variable Clips because I
can't do them subscribe to ride over
here if you haven't already and I don't
know keep practicing and I'll see you
later next you're going to want to grab
your azer blade
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you