Skateboarding- Starting Out
How often should I practice skateboarding?
If you want to be a pro skater you've pretty much got to skate every day. Everyday, as much as you can physically handle, and especially if you're training, if you want to be physically in peak condition, you've got to train, you've got to do it pretty much every day. I'd say it's all right to take a few days off and do therapeutic stuff, where you're actually not on the board skating, but pretty much every day has to be devoted to being a personal athlete.
What are some skateboard tricks for beginners?
When kids are entering contests, the first thing they want to learn is a kickflip. What I would recommend for kids to learn first are the basics. And that's like just being able to transition from a transition from flat land, being able to just get your board in the air and land it with or without your hands on the board, depending on your style.Like a frontside air is a good thing to learn. Like just fly in the air frontside and grab the board, grab the rail. I'd say the other things that are really cool to learn is just some basic balancing tricks, like manualling on the tail, or nose wheeling, or doing like a G-turn to where you turn on the nose and kind of come out switch stance. And then come back to your regular stance.What it's called basically is manoeuvring the board like footwork. Like even if you're not moving your feet on the board, you're moving the board with your feet.
Where can I practice skateboarding?
The best place to start out is just right on your driveway or whatever, or right on the sidewalk, or right in the street, or in a parking lot. An empty parking lot. An empty parking lot's perfect, I mean, for me, I still skate in empty parking lots.
What does backside and frontside mean?
Any time you're facing the wall you're frontside. Any time your back's to the wall, you're backside. It's the same as surfing pretty much. If you have the ability to switch stance and do all that stuff eventually that's cool because is just gives you more angles and more adaptability to different surfaces.
What kind of difference do skateboard wheels make?
It depends on what type of terrain for what type of tires you would use. The small ones are usually hard and they're used for streets and street skating because they're small and easy to flip around and kind of do the technical stuff on without them binding up or getting underneath you. The big wheels are usually softer urethane, which is a lower density of the durometer, which is the hardness of the urethane. Big wheels grip the road a little bit better and give you a little bit more control. They also roll really smooth and will have a tendency to gather a lot more speed. My favorite durometer as far as tires and size go is probably anywhere from a 60 to a 65 millimeter and anything from a 90 to a 95 durometer wheel.
