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05 useful tips to avoid longboard accidents

Riding a longboard is not only a fast way of traveling but also might unwind your mind from all the daily chaos and stress. However, before even trying, it is vital for you to ensure to take the right steps in order not to end up bloody. The reason is riding a longboard can be quite dangerous sometimes. I have known many people who have to stop riding the longboard since they get injured and scared, even though they used to fancy this sport.

I possess myself a longboard and often spend time with my friends riding it after work in the afternoon. So I might say that I have enough experience and knowledge to share with you some small but vital tips to avoid yourself from suffering when you enjoy your fun time.

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How to Footbrake on a Longboard

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When riding your board on the road, it is very important to know how to footbrake in case you need to slow down your speed immediately. Sometime you will need this skill to avoid falling, crashing or burning as some things passing across your way suddenly.

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01 – This skill is suitable for not only longboard but also other skateboards. Mastering it and you can be safer on your streets.

02 – Change your feet position as your front foot facing forward. Your above body should also be turned to face to the nose of your desk also.

03 – Keep your back led straight when changing your weight to your front foot slowly. Move your back led out of the desk and lower it to the land lightly.

04 – Remember to keep your body balance by your front foot.

05 – Apply a little bit pressure by your back foot to the ground at first. Use your bottom of your shoe, do not use this skill when your foot is nude. Then apply more pressure slowly until the speed is slow down enough as you want. [Read more…]

How To Frontside Ollie

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For beginner, fontside Ollie trick is the next move to practice after Ollie. This is the second step to go on the way of mastering difficult tricks of a skateboarder. It’s basic, but not easy for beginner, so that, remember to be perfect your Ollie move first, then try it. This would be easier for you when performing frontside Ollie trick.

It is needed to distinguish between frontside Ollie and backside Ollie. Frontside Ollie is a little bit easier thanbackside Ollie when you try to turn your board and yourself also to front. So, master this move, then you can try next backside Ollie. Be careful to avoid falling down. Good luck guy.

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How To Backside Ollie

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After mastering Ollie trick, then frontside Ollie, you should try to practice this trick also: Backside Ollie. It does not mean that you change the direction of riding but you have to turn your skateboard and your body 180 degrees in the air then continuously ride away. This move is more difficult to handle than the Ollie and frontside Ollie, so that, start slowly the fundamental steps.

Remember what will you do first, than try to make it come true by poping clearly and smoothly.

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01 – Ride with a normal speed. Keep your body, your feet as you are starting to Ollie.

02 – Bend your knee, prepare your shoulders and body to make a turn of 180 degrees. Twist your body. Keep balance.

03 – Imaging the trick in your mind, crouch your body, prepare for the Ollie move.

04 – Start popping, try to focus on the move of lifting yourself up to the air then turning half round to the backside.

05 – Use all your body, especially your arms and shoulders to make the rotation. Try to perform the move as smooth as possible.

06 – When starting to get off the floor, the tail of your skateboard would hit the ground, lift up your front foot first then popping into the air all yourself and your skateboard. You will have only a second for rotating so try to concentrate as much as possible. [Read more…]

How To Rock Fakie

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After you can perform dropping and pumping, you should try this trick – ROCK FAKIE as a next foundation skill to be a skateboard master. Doing rock fakie is to pause yourselves on a moment before ride down to slide to the opposite side of the skatepark bowl. Remember to keep yourselves in balance and your wheels up on the coping. Good luck guys!

How to rock Fakie

01 – Ride the skateboard head to the bowl wall with a normal speed, which enough for the front wheels would exit the coping when you reach the top. Stand with your front foot at the middle of the board and the last foot at the end. Keeping balance. [Read more…]

How to Ollie the longboard

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You are a longboard lover, you are interested in the tricks that many longboard skateboarders do on the street but you don’t know how to do it yourselves? So, this site is your smart choice to find out the key for all of your wondering.

In this article, I will share with you the easiest and quickest way to Ollie the longboard. Follow my share, and you can learn more tricks of this sporting game.

For anyone having no ideas of Ollie, the Ollie is a jump off the back foot that causes the tail to bounce off the ground and the slide of the front foot to level out the board. You can do this trick when you ride down the streets and meet some road obstacles, even when you are in a stationary position. Let’s follow eight steps below and practice many times to improve your Ollie performance. [Read more…]

How To Frontside 50-50

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Hey, if you already mastered Ollie and ready to learn another trick, try FS 50-50. FS 50-50 or 50-50 grind is one of the most basic tricks for skateboard riders. It is when both trucks are on the rail. FS 50-50 can be easy done on the backside or frontside, can be perform on a large surface by beginners or on a long rail by an expert rider. An advice when start to learn FS 50-50 is choosing a ledge that is not too high. And remember to make sure that you are perfect on Ollie move.

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How To Boardslide – Sidewalk Basics

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One of the basic tricks for beginner is broadslide. It is easy, but, definitely, you have to learn it properly unless you wanna be hurt by falling down. Step by step, we would show what you need to master this trick. One thing is you should concentrate to perform the technique perfectly from the beginning then you can easily smoothly enjoy it.

Remember to master Ollie move first. Then, try the trick with a low flat bar until you feel confident to perform it on the handrails. Goodluck!

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How to Nollie

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To beginners, choosing a style to practise is overwhelming already, but then they have to learn how to do it properly. If somehow its direction is wrong, they can meet personal injuries. That is why there borned this series of skateboard instruction for beginners. First things first we come to the nollie. To ones who have been researching, nollie is sounded familiar with anything? Ah, that is the ollie I mean! But this trick is the n-ollie, which means the nose ollie. The ollie you do with the tail of the board, but the nollie you do with the nose. This is a basic trick that you should try to better enhance the other more difficult tricks in the future. Notice that you may not be able to jump as high as the guy in the instruction, but you will as long as you are patient. And your poping skill enhancement will mean something. Here is the instruction step by step !

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How to 360 Flip

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After a time of getting to know your skating board and experiencing enough, you will feel necessary to a few new tricks. 360 flip is a great choice for most people because of its attempt and medium-skill requires. Many people do love this 360 trick!

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360 flip trick seems to be an easy and appealing trick when looking from outside. But when you get into practising it, you’ll see some really challenging problems on the way to the mastery of this trick. So in order to avoid or at least ease down the problems’ hardness, you will have to be sure of your basic knowledge on skateboard in general and this 360 flip trick in particular. That’s the point of this writing. We’ll show you how to do the 360 flip properly with the position, moves and the right result. [Read more…]