finally some REAL beginner advice..not some edgy douche-bag calling certain tricks easy..i'm sorry (not really lol) if you think ollies are easy..they are NOT for a total beginner..please keep em coming for us older skaters, i speak for most ppl here!
You should like REALLY think about your movements and how you’re moving your body. It took me less than a day to learn ollies and most of my friends did it in a few days. Like if it doesn’t work a few times just record yourself doing it and you should see the problem. Try to really get that muscle memory as well by sliding your foot across the board while stepping on the tail.
I say it all the time, ollies are not easy and not the place for a beginner to start! It’s easy to rush and want to learn, but it’s not going to do you any good if you don’t have other simple basics down like board control, pushing, turning, stopping, manualing, etc. Everyone learns at a different pace for different factors. Time on the board being a big one. Let me know if I can help in any way!
@@SkatingwithAaron well obviously board control, and everything cruising is like the very basis of skating and where everyone should start, but once you actually want to start doing tricks the ollie is probably the first or second trick you wanna learn, if you can't ollie and you really wanna learn a trick a shuvit will be just as good to practice tricking. I can already heelflip and my manuals are shit, i can manual like a few meters. I say it's up to preference.
I expected it to be the standard skate content-farm stuff like "Ollie, Kickflip, Pop shuvit, Fs180, Bs 50-50" but instead you focused on things that people can actually attainably do and give a better comfort and understanding of skating. Serious props to you Ben for putting together some modest and well thought out tricks for beginners.
Agreed, this super basic stuff is usually not mentioned at all, which is a pity because getting comfortable on your board with these little drills is super beneficial. I feel like a lot of people drop skating because they don't feel like they're progressing at these extremely early stages where they really need to be feeling like a smooth 180 pivot is an accomplishment. There's a LOT to learn prior to the ollie.
@@kais2345 I don’t feel that these drills are super beneficial, but do think that starting skating and not learning shit is very frustrating. So I think it’s important not cause it makes you better over time but in the way that you feel like you’re progressing which will keep you motivated and stop you from quitting
@@idontdeserveaname1152 i think they're good because learning to be comfortable lifting your tail and moving around like that helps with doing bread and butter tricks like ollies. These are more of basics rather than tricks and are building blocks to get to your first trick
Some parking lot, a dumpster in the back, a curb ledge, an impossible stair set, a waist-high platform/ledge in the back, Now that's a core street spot right there hehe
That's the classis neighborhood shopping center skate spot right there bud. Almost exactly what I had as a young pre-teen skater and practicing the exact tricks he was doing in the vid too!
I use to skate something like this as a kid as well. Now that I’m older and just got back into skating this looks a little big for me. Lol. I prefer more of the smooth concrete at parks now. Gotta use what you have in reach though!
When I took my motorcycle class they told us the best place to practice is parking lots like schools. Riding a motorcycle fast is easy. It’s the slow speed maneuvering that needs the most practice. Whoever that is, they are just like us, taking the extra effort to improve.
Yup my brother does freestyle with sport bikes (standing on the tank and stuff) and he practices all the time in parking lots. Him and my motocross family members taught me the same thing, you get better going slower, not putting your feet down, and leaning.
Former motorcycle instructor and skater of 24 years here. Parking lots are your friend for both hobbies. Work your way up to third gear. You don't need to know how to kickflip before you can kickturn and you certainly don't need to be able to ride on the highway before you can make a tight turn in a lot. Stay rippin' and riding. 🤙😎🤙
They're riding boards like they can do all those tricks no experience like little kids trying to jump into their moms pocketbooks on that sugar rush lil omg let me have no style just chop the cube. It's okay. I spend time walking raving going to shows skating through town taking trains subways like going errywhere up on this east coast. I got 4 bucks to catch a train to get to nyc I spent a month homeless on the beach that was cold lol.
Y’all sound mad salty that kids are progressing fast, they’re not “rushing progression” just cause they are getting good fast. If you do a trick long enough you’ll eventually end up getting style. If the kids who “rushed their progression” can do a kickflip I guarantee that they could do every trick in this video
Wow. I’m a 40+ newbie skater just making my first attempts. I have no ambition about becoming a pro trickster, but just want to have fun. This video was really great and showed some moves I could actually do, and was just a massive confidence booster. 10 out of 10. Great stuff!
34 learning to skate, here. Been watching your channels for some months now and I gotta say sometimes the skateboard aches make me feel much older, but the good days make me feel 15 again, and it's great.
35 year old here and two weeks in to skating. At first it sure was abit feeling like "Is this how midlife crisis looks?" :D But what I like the most, even with basic stuff I am doing right now, is thinking "Ok, I can do this" And then doing it. Seeing progress, even tiny progress, can feel so rewarding.
@SHAWN BLATTER yeah that's what really works best for me. At the beginning if I thought I nailed something (basic maneuvering mostly, nose stalls, etc no real tricks) I'd move on. Gotta drill it. And yeah I swapped from hard to kinda hard 56 wheels (100+ to 92), and also sized up from an 8 to a tapered 9 and it made a huge difference. Couldn't quite keep my clown feet comfortable on the small one, and I don't foresee flip tricks in my near future haha
I love this! I just turned 35 in September and just started skating again in June after about a 20yr gap. Been tough relearning at this age. Sadly enough I now think I’m better than I was as a kid. Less time to skate with a family and career so I’m planning ahead what I want to progress on and focusing on committing. Makes all the difference!
Thanks for focusing on REAL beginner tricks rather than what beginners like to rush into. Honestly, a beginner should spend the first 4 months learning to cruise and doing these 5 things (along with kickturns on ramps and banks) before even thinking about shuvs or ollies. I spend about 2 months learning to cruise before obsessing over the ollie only to plateau in progress and realize I didn't have nearly enough board control to progress. Not only did I have to go back and learn these, I now had to work out a ton of bad habits I developed learning the ollie before I was ready.
@@Ya_mamma That’s awesome keep it up! Gotta love the feeling you get when you first learn/ land something new. I think we’re all probably addicted to it! Keep pushing!
BIKER: "..and here are your top 5 beginner motorcycle tips...wait, I don't know why there is some skater over by the dumpster making all kinds of noise with his board, but I'll just keep recording." LOL.
Love the way you break things down, some of this I've been picking up on in my past month or so learning to skate, but it's great to hear someone else reaffirm some of those things, and have someone who pays extremely close attention to detail giving helpful little tips! It really makes a difference, thanks!
Thank you, that will help me get better on my board ... me ... 44 years old ... started skating a few month ago ... road to ollie! 😆😃 Greetings from Austria ✌
It definitely can be done!! Make sure you ride around on your skateboard as much as possible. It counts even more when older to get comfortable on the skateboard.
I don't consider myself a beginner anymore but these are great tips! I've seen too many skaters jump into trying tricks without getting their balance and fundamental movement down first. Super important 👍
your content is so good for beginners and nowhere near as lame or annoying as braille. may your channel grow and overtake them to the point where no one remembers they ever existed 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thanks for the vids man, I'm starting to feel that board control on the flat after following your tips, took it to the ramp today for the first time and I think it really helped me staying stable in the transition
I was like; 'wait, did Ben change his channels name?' 😂 glad to see that you're doing content which focuses on learning skating too! Love the main channel as well by the way
Exactly Ben, I always say to new skaters that everything they do on their board all builds confidence and skill/balance. Once you feel more comfortable you no longer have to think about moving around on the board leaving you to concentrate on just the trick itself 👍😊
Your lessons are great, it's been about 12 years since I skated. Lock down got me making ramps in the shed and I quickly realised I am not 16 any more. So I've been using your videos to get back to basics and reclaim some of my old skills, and also learn some new ones! Thanks heaps Also, the Motorcyclist was probably just a beginner looking to practice away from traffic. Whenever I've taught a new rider, the first thing I do is take them to an empty parking lot.
@@xrerxsm8035 so eat loads and fall on my soft ass? 🤣 Can actually jump onto my board while it's stationary and also do a nose stall. Has helped with confidence. Key to overcoming fear is to face it 😀👍
That shoe is EVERYWHERE now! It’s kind of crazy. Some reviews say it doesn’t wear at all, while others show holes but do agree it’s a great shoe for I believe the companies first skate shoe. I’d be interested to try a pair.
This is bizarre but I learned these specific things when I was about 6 on my brothers board in about 1984. Couldn’t believe how many people couldn’t tick tack when I skated in the mid 90’s.
LOL. You are quite dorky and super wholesome. Love the positive attitude and... wtf why am I not subbed? I've followed your vids for a while. Anyway. Subbed.
no one else told me to learn it, i kinda stumbled on most of those myself trying to learn other "begginers tricks"... i wish someone would have. thank you for making this video!
My left hand is currently asking for a "How to fall without harming yourself". I know it's all about redirecting the impact instead of taking it all with one part of the body. But in most cases my wrists are damaged - for weeks or months.
whenever you fall bend your arms instead of straightening them out so your wrist and arm doesn’t take all the force that’s how you go to the er so just bend your arms and let your body absorb the fall and roll if you have too but a lot better then having a sprained or broken wrist
What some people need to realize is that skaters tend to make things look very easy because they're experienced, but many things are so much trickier than they look. The ollie is probably one of the best known, yet it's so tricky for a begginer, I've been practicing it for 3 weeks, and can barely get off the ground, so anyone else who's a begginer and struggling, know that many amazing skaters also failed the ollie 1000 times before getting it right, many falls and injuries involved before you get really good. So from a begginer, just keep practicing
This is honestly the best video I've seen explaining these beginner "tricks". These are all easy to pick up, and take a while to practice reliably. Thank you so much, I'm just starting to practice ollies, and these tricks are helping me get even more comfortable on the board 👍👏
A lot of people are like wow you can't even Ollie after only the TWO WEEKS that I have started skating. Thank you for setting realistic goals for real beginners.
I hadn't even considered the IDEA of practicing my kickturns/tictacs WITHOUT turning first to get familiar with the lifting.... there are so many things you just ASSUME you have to do that make things so much harder than they need to be..... lesson of the day.... if you're struggling with something you can almost always break it down into smaller parts
Thanks for the advice Ben, I’m teaching my son how to skateboard and it’s good to be reminded of these steps. Growing up as a kid in the 80’s you had to learn the tricks yourself or just watch Bones Brigade videos and dream of what you wanted to do. Skipping important steps has now led me to be able to rock’n roll on a half pipe but for the life of me can’t figure out how to do something as simple as a no comply.
I'm not a complete beginner anymore, just wanted to pass along that the last 4 of these and somewhat harder variations have become total child play now with the DLX true fit mold you helped me find. Greetings from Germany and thanks again.
This is the best beginner skate video out there. Everyone should start here. Rather than starting with "beginner tricks" like a shuvit or drop in (leaving a beginner with questions like "but where are my feet? but how do I land?") you're just breaking down the fundamentals of skating into a series of drills to learn best technique. I've been looking for this video since I started. Well done!
You learn how to transfer weight when on the board doing these simple tricks. It's very important as even the most fundamental trick, i.e. ollie, requires you to momentarily shift your weight from the nose of your board to the tail.
i just use tic tacs for moving, here are my first 5 tricks i think beginners should learn, ollie, pop shuvit, shuv it, some type of grind/slide, and a kickflip.
I'm going to aspire to be the sickest crab walker and tic-tacker in history. I'll have video parts where all I do is tic-tac and crab walk across perilous things. With style.
this kind of stuff is beyond important. i love seeing more people getting into skating these days but trying to drop in on a concrete quarter pipe when you don't have basic board control is really pretty stupid. i'm so glad my friends taught me how to tic tac before anything else cuz it teaches you how to be comfortable shifting your weight and moving around. everyone should really learn that stuff before you even try to ollie cuz it will help immensely
As a motorcyclist I will say , I always rip a few circles in a parking lot before a ride to get my tires warmed up snd practice looking throughly through my turns
Ive just realised ive not took the advice of getting comfortable on the board seriously enough, i thought i was comfortable but im realising im not and its why i cant land anything moving and feel uncomfortable with loads of speed
please help me so Im actually trying to learn the ollie but when I pop im not really flicking the board with my ankle im doing it with my leg which leads to when I pop my foot is touching the ground with the board please help Ive been trying a lot to flick with my ankle but its not working is there any tips I can have so I can flick with my ankle?
I am a beginner skater and I want to start to skate more and get better but I can’t really get out to ride because of COVID and because I’m not allowed to go places by myself due to my age and I don’t have enough space anywhere near my house to skate what would you advise for me to do?
I like your tutorials among the different and suppose to be 'great teachers of how to' in videos.It's very clear, no bs and have a good amount of replay footages or slow mo for us the begginers..Thanks a lot for making and sharing it
I subscribed after seeing your 3 tips for an ollie. That together with this video makes me feel like youve gor the best progression tips out of any other channel I've seen yet. As a beginner, its this sort of stuff that keeps me skating🤙 Cheers
@@fastfaps cheers dude. At 27, picked up skating to get me out the house during lockdown and finally make my teenage self proud. Get some looks when you're this age kicking about in all the protective gear 😂
Now Ben I love ya man been watching you from the beginning probably a few years ago..but Bro didn't you do a video on waxing your pivot cups and washers lol. Those are squeaky haha. 😁😁
finally some REAL beginner advice..not some edgy douche-bag calling certain tricks easy..i'm sorry (not really lol) if you think ollies are easy..they are NOT for a total beginner..please keep em coming for us older skaters, i speak for most ppl here!
You're right!
Indeed.
You should like REALLY think about your movements and how you’re moving your body. It took me less than a day to learn ollies and most of my friends did it in a few days. Like if it doesn’t work a few times just record yourself doing it and you should see the problem. Try to really get that muscle memory as well by sliding your foot across the board while stepping on the tail.
I say it all the time, ollies are not easy and not the place for a beginner to start! It’s easy to rush and want to learn, but it’s not going to do you any good if you don’t have other simple basics down like board control, pushing, turning, stopping, manualing, etc. Everyone learns at a different pace for different factors. Time on the board being a big one. Let me know if I can help in any way!
@@SkatingwithAaron well obviously board control, and everything cruising is like the very basis of skating and where everyone should start, but once you actually want to start doing tricks the ollie is probably the first or second trick you wanna learn, if you can't ollie and you really wanna learn a trick a shuvit will be just as good to practice tricking. I can already heelflip and my manuals are shit, i can manual like a few meters. I say it's up to preference.
I expected it to be the standard skate content-farm stuff like "Ollie, Kickflip, Pop shuvit, Fs180, Bs 50-50" but instead you focused on things that people can actually attainably do and give a better comfort and understanding of skating. Serious props to you Ben for putting together some modest and well thought out tricks for beginners.
u cant skate is the issue buddy
Agreed, this super basic stuff is usually not mentioned at all, which is a pity because getting comfortable on your board with these little drills is super beneficial. I feel like a lot of people drop skating because they don't feel like they're progressing at these extremely early stages where they really need to be feeling like a smooth 180 pivot is an accomplishment. There's a LOT to learn prior to the ollie.
@@TheFountainOfGrace23 Why are you even here
@@kais2345 I don’t feel that these drills are super beneficial, but do think that starting skating and not learning shit is very frustrating. So I think it’s important not cause it makes you better over time but in the way that you feel like you’re progressing which will keep you motivated and stop you from quitting
@@idontdeserveaname1152 i think they're good because learning to be comfortable lifting your tail and moving around like that helps with doing bread and butter tricks like ollies. These are more of basics rather than tricks and are building blocks to get to your first trick
He : doing the tic tac
RUclips subtitles : [applause]
lol
Some parking lot, a dumpster in the back, a curb ledge, an impossible stair set, a waist-high platform/ledge in the back,
Now that's a core street spot right there hehe
That's the classis neighborhood shopping center skate spot right there bud. Almost exactly what I had as a young pre-teen skater and practicing the exact tricks he was doing in the vid too!
I use to skate something like this as a kid as well. Now that I’m older and just got back into skating this looks a little big for me. Lol. I prefer more of the smooth concrete at parks now. Gotta use what you have in reach though!
"the journey to get a trick is also a trick"
- mark gonzales
We all have to start somewhere, and starting is half the battle. The rest is deciding to commit!
When I took my motorcycle class they told us the best place to practice is parking lots like schools. Riding a motorcycle fast is easy. It’s the slow speed maneuvering that needs the most practice. Whoever that is, they are just like us, taking the extra effort to improve.
Yup my brother does freestyle with sport bikes (standing on the tank and stuff) and he practices all the time in parking lots.
Him and my motocross family members taught me the same thing, you get better going slower, not putting your feet down, and leaning.
Former motorcycle instructor and skater of 24 years here. Parking lots are your friend for both hobbies. Work your way up to third gear. You don't need to know how to kickflip before you can kickturn and you certainly don't need to be able to ride on the highway before you can make a tight turn in a lot.
Stay rippin' and riding. 🤙😎🤙
Thats real cool lol
It's so important. It's gives you s natural style or just style. So many youngsters just rushing the process and have zero style
They're riding boards like they can do all those tricks no experience like little kids trying to jump into their moms pocketbooks on that sugar rush lil omg let me have no style just chop the cube. It's okay. I spend time walking raving going to shows skating through town taking trains subways like going errywhere up on this east coast. I got 4 bucks to catch a train to get to nyc I spent a month homeless on the beach that was cold lol.
mikeisradasfuck damn dude you sound rad af
tight ass trucks i realized they all have
Y’all sound mad salty that kids are progressing fast, they’re not “rushing progression” just cause they are getting good fast. If you do a trick long enough you’ll eventually end up getting style. If the kids who “rushed their progression” can do a kickflip I guarantee that they could do every trick in this video
No
Wow. I’m a 40+ newbie skater just making my first attempts.
I have no ambition about becoming a pro trickster, but just want to have fun. This video was really great and showed some moves I could actually do, and was just a massive confidence booster.
10 out of 10. Great stuff!
34 learning to skate, here. Been watching your channels for some months now and I gotta say sometimes the skateboard aches make me feel much older, but the good days make me feel 15 again, and it's great.
Awesome!
Wat rad comment..well put👍🏿
35 year old here and two weeks in to skating. At first it sure was abit feeling like "Is this how midlife crisis looks?" :D But what I like the most, even with basic stuff I am doing right now, is thinking "Ok, I can do this" And then doing it. Seeing progress, even tiny progress, can feel so rewarding.
@SHAWN BLATTER yeah that's what really works best for me. At the beginning if I thought I nailed something (basic maneuvering mostly, nose stalls, etc no real tricks) I'd move on. Gotta drill it. And yeah I swapped from hard to kinda hard 56 wheels (100+ to 92), and also sized up from an 8 to a tapered 9 and it made a huge difference. Couldn't quite keep my clown feet comfortable on the small one, and I don't foresee flip tricks in my near future haha
I love this! I just turned 35 in September and just started skating again in June after about a 20yr gap. Been tough relearning at this age. Sadly enough I now think I’m better than I was as a kid. Less time to skate with a family and career so I’m planning ahead what I want to progress on and focusing on committing. Makes all the difference!
Thanks for focusing on REAL beginner tricks rather than what beginners like to rush into. Honestly, a beginner should spend the first 4 months learning to cruise and doing these 5 things (along with kickturns on ramps and banks) before even thinking about shuvs or ollies. I spend about 2 months learning to cruise before obsessing over the ollie only to plateau in progress and realize I didn't have nearly enough board control to progress. Not only did I have to go back and learn these, I now had to work out a ton of bad habits I developed learning the ollie before I was ready.
4:51 found my new ringtone
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Love this video! Really appreciate this as a beginner
Glad you liked it!!
Me too. Hey man, good luck on your journey
Thank you. Good luck as well on your journey
@@868SagaBoi thanks! Today, I actually learned how to grind, go up a quarter pipe, and drop in, all at the skatepark today.
@@Ya_mamma That’s awesome keep it up! Gotta love the feeling you get when you first learn/ land something new. I think we’re all probably addicted to it! Keep pushing!
BIKER: "..and here are your top 5 beginner motorcycle tips...wait, I don't know why there is some skater over by the dumpster making all kinds of noise with his board, but I'll just keep recording." LOL.
LOL!!!!!
Love the way you break things down, some of this I've been picking up on in my past month or so learning to skate, but it's great to hear someone else reaffirm some of those things, and have someone who pays extremely close attention to detail giving helpful little tips! It really makes a difference, thanks!
Happy to help!
the last 60 seconds made my week
Thank you, that will help me get better on my board ... me ... 44 years old ... started skating a few month ago ... road to ollie! 😆😃
Greetings from Austria
✌
You can do it!
It definitely can be done!! Make sure you ride around on your skateboard as much as possible. It counts even more when older to get comfortable on the skateboard.
I'm 45 and female and started two months ago. It's hard, but fun.
And I thought I am old with 34 :) I started in July. Regards from Germany
@@DyonFilms Hehe, dann viel Spaß beim Skaten! ✌🛹🇦🇹
Great vid thanks! Would be cool to see more of these!
I'm starting out, and this is BY FAR the best and most helpful ACTUAL beginner video I've seen
I don't consider myself a beginner anymore but these are great tips! I've seen too many skaters jump into trying tricks without getting their balance and fundamental movement down first. Super important 👍
:D
I really appreciate this thank you this helped MORE THEN YOU KNOW
your content is so good for beginners and nowhere near as lame or annoying as braille. may your channel grow and overtake them to the point where no one remembers they ever existed 🙇🏻♂️🙇🏻♂️🙏🏻🙏🏻
I doubt that will happen.But thanks for the compliment.
Thanks for the vids man, I'm starting to feel that board control on the flat after following your tips, took it to the ramp today for the first time and I think it really helped me staying stable in the transition
Great to hear!
I was like; 'wait, did Ben change his channels name?' 😂 glad to see that you're doing content which focuses on learning skating too! Love the main channel as well by the way
*This was dope, your "Turn around" tip changed my life*
3:00 i been skating for like 4 years now and i still always show people this trick 🤭
Exactly Ben, I always say to new skaters that everything they do on their board all builds confidence and skill/balance.
Once you feel more comfortable you no longer have to think about moving around on the board leaving you to concentrate on just the trick itself 👍😊
Your lessons are great, it's been about 12 years since I skated.
Lock down got me making ramps in the shed and I quickly realised I am not 16 any more.
So I've been using your videos to get back to basics and reclaim some of my old skills, and also learn some new ones! Thanks heaps
Also, the Motorcyclist was probably just a beginner looking to practice away from traffic.
Whenever I've taught a new rider, the first thing I do is take them to an empty parking lot.
:D That's what I figured too.
thank you so much you actually said beginner tricks without rushing into ollies
Truth! Gotta get time on the board if you want to progress! Great starting points with this one!
YESSS I WAS STARING AT THAT DROP THE ENTIRE VIDEO AND YOU ACTUALLY SKATED IT
Honestly dude, your tutorials are probably the best thing anyone could find. Get some Just Keep Skating decks designed and I’ll buy one 😎
My style is Lolita. Can I still skate if I have a dress on?
My board snapped yesterday 😭 I'm watching this to get over it
Bummer :(
What size board is that, it looks perfect pls tell me
I tried the first trick and feel backwards and sprained my wrist. Actually shattered my confidence and it's taking ages to build it up gain.
try to learn how to fall properly. that’s what helped me. don’t give up
@@xrerxsm8035 so eat loads and fall on my soft ass? 🤣
Can actually jump onto my board while it's stationary and also do a nose stall. Has helped with confidence. Key to overcoming fear is to face it 😀👍
thank you this is a great video seriously!!!
I see ben is skating the official youtube skater shoe, the cariuma.
Pretty sure he got sent some by them to review. Seem like a solid shoe from what I've heard
That shoe is EVERYWHERE now! It’s kind of crazy. Some reviews say it doesn’t wear at all, while others show holes but do agree it’s a great shoe for I believe the companies first skate shoe. I’d be interested to try a pair.
This is bizarre but I learned these specific things when I was about 6 on my brothers board in about 1984. Couldn’t believe how many people couldn’t tick tack when I skated in the mid 90’s.
LOL. You are quite dorky and super wholesome. Love the positive attitude and... wtf why am I not subbed? I've followed your vids for a while. Anyway. Subbed.
no one else told me to learn it, i kinda stumbled on most of those myself trying to learn other "begginers tricks"... i wish someone would have. thank you for making this video!
My left hand is currently asking for a "How to fall without harming yourself". I know it's all about redirecting the impact instead of taking it all with one part of the body. But in most cases my wrists are damaged - for weeks or months.
whenever you fall bend your arms instead of straightening them out so your wrist and arm doesn’t take all the force that’s how you go to the er so just bend your arms and let your body absorb the fall and roll if you have too but a lot better then having a sprained or broken wrist
What some people need to realize is that skaters tend to make things look very easy because they're experienced, but many things are so much trickier than they look. The ollie is probably one of the best known, yet it's so tricky for a begginer, I've been practicing it for 3 weeks, and can barely get off the ground, so anyone else who's a begginer and struggling, know that many amazing skaters also failed the ollie 1000 times before getting it right, many falls and injuries involved before you get really good. So from a begginer, just keep practicing
Oh you meant beginner beginner
This is honestly the best video I've seen explaining these beginner "tricks". These are all easy to pick up, and take a while to practice reliably. Thank you so much, I'm just starting to practice ollies, and these tricks are helping me get even more comfortable on the board 👍👏
A lot of people are like wow you can't even Ollie after only the TWO WEEKS that I have started skating. Thank you for setting realistic goals for real beginners.
Great Vid Man.👍👍👍 Now i got some stuff in my arsenal. And this will help me in the future when I do bigger tricks.
I hadn't even considered the IDEA of practicing my kickturns/tictacs WITHOUT turning first to get familiar with the lifting.... there are so many things you just ASSUME you have to do that make things so much harder than they need to be..... lesson of the day.... if you're struggling with something you can almost always break it down into smaller parts
I think it should be Ollie, Shuv, Pop Shuv, Kickflip, Treflip
Thanks for the advice Ben, I’m teaching my son how to skateboard and it’s good to be reminded of these steps. Growing up as a kid in the 80’s you had to learn the tricks yourself or just watch Bones Brigade videos and dream of what you wanted to do. Skipping important steps has now led me to be able to rock’n roll on a half pipe but for the life of me can’t figure out how to do something as simple as a no comply.
I'm not a complete beginner anymore, just wanted to pass along that the last 4 of these and somewhat harder variations have become total child play now with the DLX true fit mold you helped me find. Greetings from Germany and thanks again.
Man, this is so fcking good that I'm actually pissed I didn't find it before. Holy shit dude. like, seriously, gold.
BTW the third trick, the "crab walk" is known as a "monster walk" in freestyle skateboarding. They always try to make 90 or 180 degree pivots though.
This is the best beginner skate video out there. Everyone should start here.
Rather than starting with "beginner tricks" like a shuvit or drop in (leaving a beginner with questions like "but where are my feet? but how do I land?") you're just breaking down the fundamentals of skating into a series of drills to learn best technique.
I've been looking for this video since I started. Well done!
can u put us a link from where you bought those pair of shoes
These have been very helpful. While I practice these kids think I can already do advanced floor moves. I love skating but no tricks for me.
You learn how to transfer weight when on the board doing these simple tricks. It's very important as even the most fundamental trick, i.e. ollie, requires you to momentarily shift your weight from the nose of your board to the tail.
i just use tic tacs for moving, here are my first 5 tricks i think beginners should learn, ollie, pop shuvit, shuv it, some type of grind/slide, and a kickflip.
I'm going to aspire to be the sickest crab walker and tic-tacker in history.
I'll have video parts where all I do is tic-tac and crab walk across perilous things. With style.
That was great! Exactly what I needed! Thank you! 👍🤙
I’ve skated for 15 years. None of this applies to me. But I watched the whole thing
Great Job!
this kind of stuff is beyond important. i love seeing more people getting into skating these days but trying to drop in on a concrete quarter pipe when you don't have basic board control is really pretty stupid. i'm so glad my friends taught me how to tic tac before anything else cuz it teaches you how to be comfortable shifting your weight and moving around. everyone should really learn that stuff before you even try to ollie cuz it will help immensely
As a motorcyclist I will say , I always rip a few circles in a parking lot before a ride to get my tires warmed up snd practice looking throughly through my turns
Found this really helpful. I've been skating since 1985.
Ive just realised ive not took the advice of getting comfortable on the board seriously enough, i thought i was comfortable but im realising im not and its why i cant land anything moving and feel uncomfortable with loads of speed
Hallo ben! Can you make some deep explanation about nollie frontcrook? Thanks
i thought you were gonna tre flip it at the end
please help me
so Im actually trying to learn the ollie but when I pop im not really flicking the board with my ankle
im doing it with my leg which leads to when I pop my foot is touching the ground with the board
please help Ive been trying a lot to flick with my ankle but its not working is there any tips I can have so I can flick with my ankle?
Dont forget that your shoes will get torn and worn off so be prepared for that investment as well.
Best tutorial I have ever seen. This one really makes sense for everyone who just about to learn how to ride on a skateboard. Well done 👍
a little lithium grease on the bushings and the pivot cup.. bro I cant stand the creaky board sound
I am a beginner skater and I want to start to skate more and get better but I can’t really get out to ride because of COVID and because I’m not allowed to go places by myself due to my age and I don’t have enough space anywhere near my house to skate what would you advise for me to do?
Precious vid!!!! Thanks from a fresh 48 yo new skater !!!
You think you can do 5 intermediate tricks you should know ? Like kickflip, bigspins, those types
I will get there.
@@justkeepskating8888 ok thank you :)
i fuckin' love ya!!!!! this video is very usefull! don't stop to make video like this!
is this the building (pub????) by the port mann bridge? LOL
I like your tutorials among the different and suppose to be 'great teachers of how to' in videos.It's very clear, no bs and have a good amount of replay footages or slow mo for us the begginers..Thanks a lot for making and sharing it
2 dudes were riding around on motorcycles in the business park I was skating last night, who knows?
This is a great “5 easy tricks”. The pivoting skills are very important. Thanks!
Cool. I learned crab walking without knowing it during practice.
Just started skating 2 days ago and this is very useful, thank you.
Actually i struggle with heelflip to 50-50 shuvitout.
keep the videos coming. many use skateboard as an escape for depression. love your positive vibes
Name trick 4
It feels good when you can already do them ;)
List of tricks to do on my board
Tic Tacs
Krab walk
And fakie piv it
Superb stuff, thanks man!
Keep em coming
What about a fakie nollie switch beta flip to dark slide to emerald flip and late kick flip impossible out
I subscribed after seeing your 3 tips for an ollie. That together with this video makes me feel like youve gor the best progression tips out of any other channel I've seen yet. As a beginner, its this sort of stuff that keeps me skating🤙
Cheers
Keep skating bro, you'll learn more every time you step on your board
@@fastfaps cheers dude. At 27, picked up skating to get me out the house during lockdown and finally make my teenage self proud. Get some looks when you're this age kicking about in all the protective gear 😂
Loving the vibe of your vids. Just snapped my left wrist doing a bloody no comply!! 47 years old. Gonna take a while to heal.
Ouch!! I'm so sorry to hear that!! I know how you feel all too well :(
I hope you heal well.
When was this channel a thing!?! I wish I knew about it sooner.
My Dad who was a teen in the 70's called the third on a "Granny Walk"
Why does it kinda look like ramps from zeke and Luther
Best
Now Ben I love ya man been watching you from the beginning probably a few years ago..but Bro didn't you do a video on waxing your pivot cups and washers lol. Those are squeaky haha. 😁😁
yea I finally did that when I bought my first wax and I knew I heard it from somewhere thanks for the reminder lol
is this the parking lot of boomers sport and grill bar LOL
I can ollie and fs 180 after like 10 tries
These are also great tips for learning to ride switch
Thank you so much this is so helpful
greeaaat for me as a beginner! thank youuuu🤗