Today, skateboarding is an extreme sport that requires a skater of an ideal feeling of equilibrium, impeccable control of its movements and complete concentration. These qualities, together with expensive and balanced skateboard, are able to force a skater to literally soar over obstacles and write out skillful pyruettes on completely flat sidewalks.
In this material you will familiarize yourself with light and complex types of tricks on the skate, as well as with the technique of performing some of them.
General principles of learning
If you wish to learn a professional and tricky ride on a skate, you need to start learning from the basics. Below will be key principles of learning, which will surely come up with beginners in skateboarding.
- Before each training, wear protective ammunition in the form of a helmet, elbows and knee pads. The most important element of the equipment is that the helmet is if the wounds in their hands and legs can heal, then the injured head is not so simple.
- First step - figure out which of your feet guide, and what a push . As a rule, the strongest is the strongest - right-hander is the right leg, and left-handed, respectively, left.
To clarify this moment, just get on Skate and try to push off every foot - the push will be the one that is more convenient for a speed set.
- Very important moment if you wish to learn how to skate - Choose the right platform . Beginners often make a mistake when they choose specialized skating sites with obstacles and slides - to begin with, you need to learn how to control the skate, and even smooth and smooth asphalt surfaces are best suited.
- "Click" The reception is called, during which the skate course makes the sharp kick on the deck and the force presses on its back. At the same time, the skateboarder is repelled from the Skate Platform and makes the jump on one leg.
- "Hood" - The second most important technique that needs to be honored if desired learn how to ride on a skateboard. During the movement of the foot of the guide legs, it is beaten inside towards up and forward - this technique allows you to lift the front part of the board into the air. While skate will turn over, the skateer hangs and presses his knees to the chest.
- It is very important at the time of the jump to monitor whether the skateboard has finished rotation . As soon as the moment comes, your task is to straighten up and catch a skateboard with my feet, pressed it to the ground. If it happened, just keep moving, with the maximum stabilizing the balance, so that the landing is comfortable and easy.
The knees should be bent, and the feet should stand on the site of the board bolts.
- Clicking together with the hood form a trick called "Ollie" . To learn how to perform these movements as accurately as possible, you will need to spend a lot of time. Your main task in the trick is to learn to control the movements of the skate and capture its turns during a jump for a smooth landing.
Safety regulations
Skateboard ride is not too safe sport from the point of view of injuries, concussions and fractures. Especially during training on a skateboard, such injuries will be difficult to avoid, however, with the help of compliance with some security rules, their number can be minimized.
- As one of the main principles of riding on a skateboard has already been allocated Mandatory presence of protecting ammunition However, in the event of a skate, such protection should be not only reliable and safe, but also take into account sharp movements, jumping and turning.
It must be the most comfortable ammunition that will not prevent your movements and deliver discomfort.
- Requirements for maximum comfort concern not only protection, but also Suitable clothes for skateboarding . Clothes should not argue movement, cause increased sweating or fatigue. Riding on Skate is a constant movement, regular work not only legs, but also hands, so it is better to choose spacious options for clothes. At first glance, this factor may seem insignificant, but poorly selected clothes are very strongly affected by the first impression of skateboarding.
- For driving on a skate Choose the sidewalks free from people . Try to avoid territories where you often run, ride bikes or walk with children. When choosing such sites is great, the chance to harm not only yourself, but also to others.
- The best time to teach ride on a skateboard - windless and dry weather . It is not worth starting training immediately after rich rain or early in the morning when the dew can still be on the sidewalk.
Moisture strongly affects the braking properties of the skate, as well as its maneuverability.
- As in any sport, Before training in driving on a skate, you must first strain the muscles . A small charge with squats, sipping and calm ride will prepare muscles to more serious loads. This will make it faster to feel skate and reduce the number of injuries from stretching.
- If For the first steps in teaching a ride on a skate, absolutely any skateboard will be suitable. In order to make minimal complex tricks, you will need to buy a high-quality and professional model with a non-slip deck, good control and depreciation.
When choosing a specific model, it is important to pay attention to its length, the height of the wheels, fasteners and decks.
All this indirectly affects the control over a skate - even one low-quality and cheap item can ever break or simply sum up, which will lead to serious injury. In addition, the skateboard must be constantly monitored to prevent its wear, cracking or roughness. Also regularly check the reliability of bolts and fasteners.
- To provide less pressure on bundles and leg muscles, During landing in all types of tricks, the legs are slightly - It will also provide minimal depreciation and will strongly help preserve the equilibrium.
The simplest options
Once you have mastered the main database of riding on the skate, learned to control his movements and learned all safety rules, you can start mastering the simplest and light tricks. For most of them, some special playground will not need - there will be a fairly smooth sidewalk with a pair of railing or borders.
- 50-50 grind . This skate trick is also called the jump "on the edge". In order to do it, you need to find a smooth surface with a border. The first step - we accelerate to high speed and take the standard rack (legs bent and put wider shoulders). The second step - we concentrate attention to the place where you want to jump and push off from decks like with Olli, but not removing the feet from the board. If everything happened, you have a couple of moments on the spot, balancing, or descend down, after performing Olli again.
- BS POP SHOVE IT . This is one of the basic tricks that you can teach any novice for half an hour. The feature and simplicity of the trick is that it does not require strong overclocking and does not need special inclined surfaces. During the stunt of the sketer's legs, they make a light jump, during which the push foot pushes the deck, which should scroll into 180 degrees. This trick is also based on Olli, but does not require slipped foot on the deck after clicking. In addition, this trick does not require widespread legs - the guide foot during clicking is in the middle of the deck, and the joke is at the rear end of the deck.
- Nolly . This trick is considered to be a variation of Olli - during him the guide foot is put on the nose of the board, and the joke - in the middle of the deck. Then you should nail and jump in such a way that the back of the deck is above the front. Legs during the jump are pressed close to the deck, and the skate itself does not twist. During the flight, the deck is leveled for a convenient landing.
- Olli +180 . This trick can be carried out both the front and rear side of the skate - depends on the push legs. In order to make a classic front Olli +180, you need to put your feet into a classic rack, then slightly sit down and bounce (lifting the back of the skate), by consistently turning your body and shoulders towards the back.
The feet at the same time are not lagging behind the deck, so that the position of the skate is adjusted to the sketeer's feet.
- Kick-flip - One of the most popular tricks among beginners. At the heart of the reception lies classic Olli, however, with the impetus to the area of the skateboard during the jump. Light push provides a turn of a skate around its axis, while the skaters controls the position of the deck and lands on the straightened skateboard.
- Pop Shawit . This trick reminds Olli +180, but in this case a strong jump is carried out, during which the feet do not come into contact with the deck. The execution scheme of this trick is as follows: the back leg is sharply rebounded with a slight click, while the front bends in the jump and rises up along with the deck. The feet during turn should stand in the direction of the jump. The board during repulsion 180 degrees turns in flight and sticks with hands during landing on the pavement.
After performing these basic tricks, you can start moving to their more complex variations: boiled kick flip, double kick flip and others.
Complex tricks
If you managed to exhaust the most basic tricks on the skate, then it was time to turn to more complex tricks that require greater dexterity and impeccable equilibrium feeling.
Below is a list with the names of the most difficult tricks on the skateboard.
- Types of type Bord-slide is called all tricks on the skate, which will use Olli at the edges of the platform or rail At the same time, the deck is parallel to the surface of the railing and slides on them. It is best for this trick to choose slippery surfaces covered with varnish - otherwise the slip will not be so effective. Sequence of actions: Type a small speed, then turning with Olli by 90 degrees, jump on the railing so that the deck was perfectly perpendicular to them.
The main task when sliding is to maintain equilibrium and balance until the end of the railil, after which it can be returned to the sidewalk with the help of Olli (do not forget to bend your knees).
- Hard-flip It is a complicated version of the kick flip. In the event of this trick, the back leg is located on the very edge of the deck, and the front leg should stand strictly in the middle of the deck at a small angle. During the trick, the pushing foot spends a strong click, while the front makes a dropping movement with a slip around the deck to give a skate to turn up vertically right between your feet. If everything is done correctly, the deck should twist 360 degrees, after which it is fixed in the footsteps. In principle, this technique can be considered a hybrid of a kick flip and pop shuita.
- Flip on 360. (Some are also called the trick of this type of triple flip). This technique is considered the most beautiful, but also the most difficult among existing tricks on the skate. In this case, there is almost the same implementation technology as in a hard flip, but the knees are not so much and the deck makes 360 turns and kick-flip, and pop showitis.
The main condition in this trick is to catch the moment when the deck will be in a horizontal position - this is a sign in order to carry out the decisions with the feet.
- Hill Flip. It is considered the exact opposite of the kick flip. In this case, the front leg protrudes the turning. The trick begins with a classic position as in Olli, then the front leg, which is initially located in the center of the deck, slides to the front edge of the board, which is turned over with a heel around its axis. The main subtlety of this reception is to always keep the board in front of your own eyes and press your knees as much as possible, so as not to interfere with the board rotate. If the board makes a full turn around its axis, it should be seized with heels and get started to depreciate the landing.
For a better understanding of the technology of performing some tricks, you need to familiarize yourself with the video lessons of professional skaters - fortunately, such materials are not a problem on the Internet. Look below the movie about the five simplest tricks for beginners.