How To Ride A Skateboard

Hello I'm Bryce Campbell, a sponsored skateboarder of 10 years and we're here today at LCB to look at how to ride a skateboard. It's a sideways sport so you're going to be moving sideways so you need to find which way to go basically. Some people will skate with their right foot forward, moving in a direction of that way and some people will skate with their left foot forward, moving in a direction of that way.

Now this will stick with you for the rest of your skateboarding lives so it's quite important to figure out which way. Some people will naturally want to go that way or that way, it's like being left or right handed. First of all, you wanna have one foot over the tracks or the bolts on the skateboard positioned about there, like that.

Next thing, you want to have one foot here. As you take your foot up, you put pressure on the right inside leg and place it on the back. Feet apart, the wider apart the more balance you've got - similar to a ninja stance.

Now by having your feet wide it means you'll have a lower center of gravity which is going to allow you to stay on board longer and cause less injury. So looking how to push on the skateboard if you're imagining that I was moving this way forward, you'll want to put pressure on this leg so that you can completely lift this leg up off the ground, putting one foot down, and moving all the pressure onto this left hand leg so you're completely balanced on this leg and free to push and then as you push, you want to have this foot in front of you leaning on here and almost in a hopping motion, push. And by doing that you have complete balance as you push.

And as you push releasing the pressure from this leg up onto this leg and then back. One quick movement. And that is how you ride a skateboard.