10 Things To Learn Your FIRST WEEK Skateboarding 🛹

A lot of beginner skaters spend their first hours with their new board learning simply how to ride a skateboard (push, balance, and coast) and once they're able to do that, they're not sure what comes next. Is it the ollie?

*I wouldn't recommend it!*

Instead, I'd say it's a much better idea to start out with some other maneuvers, the first 10 of which we'll be going over in this video, so that you can start to actually get more and more comfortable on your board and set you up to succeed as an advanced skateboarder in the long run.

So, grab a helmet and some pads and let's get into the list of my top 10 most useful tricks and techniques that you should be focusing on learning during your first week of skating.

As promised in the video, here are some links to some other videos that cover a few of these topics in more detail:

Chapters
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0:00 Quick Introduction
0:26 Safety and Falling
1:43 Propelling Yourself Forward
3:29 Steering and Tic-Tacs
5:28 Stopping
6:13 Manuals
7:05 Riding off of a Curb
7:26 Throw Down/Running Start
8:38 Caveman
9:24 Board Pickup
10:03 Pumping on a Half Pipe
12:03 Kickturns on a Mini Ramp

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Have an awesome day, and follow me on Instagram @justinlauria for some funny behind the scenes content from this shoot.

[YoungAspect]

Kid walking up to the park
*see’s him throwing himself softly onto the ground repeatedly*
“Rough night bud?”

[multiskill]

I Love how he said to wear a helmet always, and he never wears one in his tutorials

[tanyaknight]

Guys I literally just landed my first ever Ollie this is 🔥🔥🔥

[rcgldr]

Old guy here (69 years old), started to skateboard again about 2 weeks ago for the first time in decades. I bought a new board with the large soft wheels, so pebbles are not an issue, and I won't be dong any grinding stuff, so the very sticky wheels aren't an issue. Surprisingly, I was able to to tic tacs much easier than simple pushing, since I'm old school and pretty much avoided touching the ground with my feet. I spent sometime learning to balance on the front foot pointed forwards for pushing practice, but I'll be mostly using tic tacs to propel the board. Once at speed, you can propel the board similar to tic tacs, but without lifting the front wheels. If doing a series of kick turns in the same direction, I steer and push the front wheels outwards before doing the kick turns to propel the board a bit more. One issue with the new board is the trucks were set way too tight, making balance an issue because the board didn't turn well. I loosened both wing nuts about 2 turns each to get it to turn what is "normal" for me.

[simo]

41 and learning with my 12 and 7 year old girls. This is great.
Thank you for making these videos.

[c_n_uh]

This video gave me a burst of motivation because after feeling stuck in my progress because my brain is too scared to do an ollie. But I am excited to go back to the basics and master this before trying ollies.

[stephaniegroat]

At almost 30 I literally rode a skateboard for the first time today. I'm addicted now and can't wait to get my own board and start working on these

[t-rextheskateboarder]

Honestly, I wish I can watch this when I started skateboarding

[fixedfocusfilm]

So, no one's gonna mention how my guy yeeted that floor mat to the land of Narnia? Gotta keep that frame clean! I appreciate this more than I likely should...

[brownpunk]

this guy is a gem...he doesn't try to sell us some cheap gimmicky course and when he explains he actually falls down to re-iterate his point....you have a viewer for life..cheers from India

[inf]

I feel like this video is a little ambitious. New skater here, and my first week of skating is basically just trying not to die. Getting comfy balancing on the board, learning to push, carve and flirting with kick turns. No way in hell I'm gonna try a caveman just yet.

[zebraneighbor]

So I've been practicing the throw down or running start for a couple days, and I found it's especially important to put your front foot on the board before it totally hits the ground. Otherwise the board might bounce, especially if you have softer wheels like I do, and it ruins the throw down because the board bounces away from where you were gonna hop on. If you stick your front foot on the board as it's falling though, your body weight prevents the board from bouncing up and it stays right where you intended for it to go.

[davion]

In the first day I have to learn how to properly push first, I swear it’s the hardest thing ever to actually learn, unless you only want to do like little awkward looking steps

[ALKIEN]

Started learning when I was about 13... skated for 7 years pretty consistently(I'm 29 now), I was the best out of ALL my friends in terms of hills, cruising. Speed and balance were no problem. I could bomb the biggest hill on one foot, no problem. I could chug a 40 while one footed slamming down a hill... looking so cool...


BUT, I could never master an ollie, a manual, and never took the time to learn a mini-ramp. This has got to be THE best beginner video I've ever seen. If I had this even a couple years into my riding I could've been a much better skater.

I found my old board and started riding again at the park and some hills... I'm gonna be starting over with this video.

THANKS.

[cyberneticpotato]

Hey man. This is one of the BEST and EASIEST skateboarding tutorials/tip video i have ever layed my eyes on. Many others do not compare. Ive never been on a skateboard frfr. But you make it simple and easy to understand. Youre very good at explaining this stuff

[andrewkoch]

Just practiced falling today at one of those playgrounds with fake turf. It is so soft. If you are worried about getting hurt, that is where it is at to begin practicing your falling techniques. And so much fun 😁

[CltParth]

Thank you so much for this video! I have been practicing for 1 year now and still haven't landed my first ollie yet, these tricks might be a good start for me as I might level up my skateboarding.

[jusztinnemeti]

I just started again today after many years. Funny, I was practicing all of these up until the caveman. I'm starting slowly, following these videos.

[alisniper]

great video! An actual easy to follow and useful little plan to get you started on the sport, I've started around a week ago and have been loving it, I've even started skating to places I need to get to instead of cycling or walking. I'll definitely be trying out all of these 10 steps next time I skate, so thanks for the vid!

[coolbrotherf]

Being into free running definitely helped me before skating since falling safely was something that is very important there as well. Avoiding really jagged and rocky areas too is important as a beginner as small rocks and gravel will absolutely tear up your skin if you're falling on it a lot. If possible stick to well maintained roads and skate parks for the first few months.