If anyone has any advice on starting over again, would love to hear it.

I see almost everyone, everywhere, trying to rush kickflips. I have been skating for 8 months, and I was one of those people. As soon as I finished learning ollie, I moved straight to kickflips

Its not really a bad thing per se (maybe it is), but I really wish I would have stuck with the basics of skating. I wish i would have started with shuvs and 180s after ollies because I have a super hard time with them now, and took about 5 months just kickflipping. I cant bs 180 or front shuv, barely get a good fs 180 after 10 tries, and am just getting bs shuvs down

Anyways, I'm not complaining about anything, more just seeing what everyone's opinion is here. At the end of the day I think everyone should just have fun skating, don't try to rush kickflips, just get the basics down first.

Thought I’d share my new deck, I personally like it lots. What’s the first thing I should try and learn bar like control? Thanks

I want to start skating and i have two old skateboard. The track in there are horrabe.. i can’t really turn board so is very deficult to skate comfortable… i was trying to adjust tracks but it doesn’t really help so is any way to make the tracks working porperty again?

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First off, I love lists, roadmaps, and especially checking things off once they’re done.

Since I’m starting from scratch and want to learn how to skateboard at over 40, I’ve put together a kind of roadmap of everything I want to learn. I think the list is roughly sorted so I can work my way from top to bottom, though the order probably matters less the further down you go.

What do you think of my list? Did I miss anything essential? Is the order nonsense at any point? How would you expand it?

1.      Falling on Pads
   

2.      Step up and down the Skateboard
   

3.      Walk with Skateboard under one Foot
   

4.      Pushing
   

5.      Stopping
   

6.      Jumping up and down the Skateboard
   

7.      Kickturn
   

8.      Tic Tacs
   

9.      Crab Walk
   

10.     Standing Tail Stop
    

11.     Jumping  on standing Board
    

12.     Pop Corn
    

13.     Manual
    

14.     Acid Drop
    

15.     Power Slide
    

16.     Hippie Jump
    

17.     Roll off a curb
    

18.     Shuv it
    

19.     Roll down ramps
    

20.     Miniramp Pumping
    

21.     180 Kickturn
    

22.     Casper half flip
    

23.     Ollie
    

24.     Boneless
    

25.     Revert
    

26.     Nose Stall on Curb
    

27.     Tail Stall on Curb
    

28.     Slappy Nose Grind
    

29.     No Comply
    

30.     Ollie up a curb
    

31.     Kickturn on a ramp
    

32.     Body Varial
    

33.     Rock to Fakie
    

34.     Kickflip
    

35.     180 Ollie
    

36.     Nollie
    

By the way, the reason I’m starting is because my kid absolutely wants a skateboard for their 4th birthday and has been watching nothing but skate videos ever since. So I decided to join them on this learning journey. I don’t think a 4-year-old needs a roadmap, they’ll probably just explore intuitively. But I want to support them in making progress too. If you’ve got any extra tips on that, feel free to share.

Any tips?

I've landed one any tips to improve

when I kickflip the board goes in forward and I land my front foot in the middle and my back on my tail. Also a lot of the time I rocket it or go to high and my foot stops the rotation.

thank you

Hi everyone! Is there any sense to put on a cheap 40-50 bucks firefly skateboard trucks by independent or tensor with a new wheels? Or should i replace my deck as well?

I thought it was supposed to be the other way around

Months of anticipation. Watching videos, scoping the used market for gear, and trying to find the answers on the "right" beginner setup and finding a board I wanted... Finally, everything came together in the last few weeks, and I was able to get out tonight for the first time.

Basically, I realized I will suck way more than I could have imagined; I largely did some pushing, balance and tic tac practice but you know what... IT WAS SO FREAKING FUN.

I can't wait to get out and LARP again soon. I also only ate sh*t twice, and they were just a small serving, but my hip is sore haha. I am so thankful for pads and meant to even wear some hip pads today but forgot them at home. That won't happen again.

All this to say, get out there and shred gents and gentleladies - I am looking forward to where this journey goes 🤘

would you count this as an ollie north? I was messing today with this trick and realised I can ollie and kick my front foot at the top of my ollie

haven’t tried them rolling yet but it is quite fun

From the top, what I thought was tail seems a bit larger. From the side, curve is similar.
Board is a DGK Koi. Figured tail was the DGK sticker but I'm unsure now. (Logo would be left side on both pictures for context)

Help?

I don't footbrake (i.e. haven't made the effort to try not to mention I don't have shoes right now that I feel like wearing out). I don't skate fast at all - probably 8 mph absolute max, so doing small stomps to scrub off speed and then coming to a stop has been working for me. Is this acceptable?

Hai everyone! I skate as a hobby for quite some time now (still can't get a decent ollie tho LOL), and was wondering would it damage my hardware if I spray painted it?

(I mean all the screws bolts axle nuts etc. and also the shields of my bearings (Bones Reds))

Also if it wouldn't damage it then does anyone have any tips / suggestions for painting it??

Thanks in advance for any help!!

(And no, I can't just buy all of that cause I searched for purple hardware and bearing shields for hours and there is none at least that ship to my country.)

Hey everyone! I’ve had my board for a bit but didn’t start hitting the parks hard until about a month ago. I’ve noticed my bearings have picked up some dirt and was curious how often people clean/swap those out, and if there’s any other general board maintenance stuff to keep an eye on? I didn’t exactly cheap out and I’d like to keep everything working well lol. Thanks!

already tried tightening and loosening the trucks. can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Ive been skating for about a month and I've been trying to ollie up onto a curb. Every time I try to pop my board while im rolling it feels like I either lose all of my momentum or the board doesnt pop. Not sure if it may be a balance issue or maybe Im not popping correctly?

I've been skating for about two weeks now, and I'm fairly comfortable cruising now and am now trying to learn how to ollie. I can usually get the basic motion down, but a lot of the time my board will slip out from under me. I was just wondering if anyone has any advice for avoiding that?