Koeryn's Trick Site

If you are looking for a certain trick tip, and you want it FAST, hit ctrl+f, type in the trick name, and it should find it for you. If it doesn't. that trick is either named differently, not on this page at all, or not even on my site.

Thank you for your cooperation

~Koeryn the Sober Irishman

Dream well and good hunting.

This is a READ FIRST kind of thing here, especially for begginers. First of all, Keep in mind that it took the pros YEARS to get to the level of skill they are at today, and they started young. I started when i was 13 or 14, and i came into it late. A kid who starts when they are 10, will tend to have a better learning curve, and be a better all around skater than someone like me who started when he was in his early teens, and had been skateing for about the same length of time. Of course there are exceptions, this is just the norm from what i have seen. Also, when learning how to skateboard, having an experienced teacher will help tremendously. The person who taugh me couldn't ollie, so it didnt take long for me to catch up to her skill level, but once we were there, we progressed at pretty much the same rate (ie, slowly). So get yourself a freind who skateboards daily, can not only balance, but can ride ramps, tre flip, backflip, whatever. It'll be better for you

I guess i should start off with the usual warning: "Skateboarding is a dangerous sport, and may cause serious injury or death." Anyone who has seen amatuer skaters on tv straddling rails or eating dirt can probably have guessed this. I have recieved my share of battle scars, so if your taking up skateboarding, expect to fall. With this in mind, its a good idea to wear a helmet. I know, everyone your local skatepark doesn't wear helmets! too bad. Its wear a helmet or severe head trauma. Your choice dude(tte).

Ok. Anyways, yuo should have a skateboard by now, and have probably allready messed with it a bit.

Regular- Normal stance is what most skaters you'll see ride. Left leg in front, right on the kick tail.

Goofy- My stance, also Tony Hawks (pretty sweet eh? haha). Right leg in front, your left on the kick

Switch- Is the opposite of your normal stance (ie, you ride goofy, you have your left in front instead) This is harder than it sounds

Nollie- Riding all the way up your board. Instead of having you back foot on the kick, its on the board proper, and your front foot is on the nose (very hard, Not a stance i suggest for begginers.). Its bassically riding switch, going back wards.

Fakie- Fakie is a lot of fun. Its a switch nollie! You ride switch, and nollie at the same time (you have your usualy front foot in the middle of the board, your kicking foot on the nose, and your riding) This is a lot easier than Nollie! If you can't ride it like this, try riding straight backwards. Its the same stance, but sometimes this helps.

Those are the stances. So go out and try all of them. The two youll use the most are probably your normal stance (goofy or regular) and fakie.

Frontside and Backside (fs / bs) are very confusing concepts for begginers, so I'll break it down for you.

With grinds, it's very easy. If the rail is in front of you, your grind is a front side. If it's behind you, it's backside.
Flip Tricks, if the board is spinning in front of you (you have to move forward to catch it) it's a front side. Frontside shuvit for example, is an easy trick to learn. See below for how to do it.
Now for spins, which is the more confusing part. If you ollie, and spin 180, with your chest facing out, it's a front side 180. These are the easy one's to learn. If you spin with your back facing front, it's a backside 180.

You got that?

Pushing Styles

There's two ways to push your boards. Mongo, and NOT mongo.

Not mongo is the most often used. You take your back foot off the board, and push with it. Mongo, is pushing with your front foot. Most people push mongo in fakie, and switch stances, though some people push mongo all the time, and stilll others never do. It's all a matter of prefence. Do what's natural.

The parts of the board? Skateboards are pretty simple. The main parts are the deck (thats the hard thing usually wood that you stand on), the grip tape (gives your feet something to stick to so tricks are easier to control), the trucks (allow the board to turn, lock onto rails, hold on the wheels) and the wheels (usually made of rubber, these grip the surface your on) and bearings (these are housed inside the wheel).


As a begginer, if its your first time on a board, and you don't have someone to teach you for whatever reason, find yourself a big (traffic free) stretch of SMOOTH concrete. Without moving, just stand on the board. Its harder than it sounds. Just stand on it. Once your comfortable standing, try leaning forwards and backwards. This is how you'll turn when you start moving. Once you can do that, put a foot down and carefully push yourself forward, and put the foot back on the board. Once your comfortable with this, do it again. Eventually you'll be able to cruise around at whatever speed you want, and you can turn too! Now its time to move onto some tricks! Ready?

Ok, for some people, the ollie is a very hard trick. For others, its really easy. Either way, this is the most important trick in skateboarding, as nearly every trick there is either based off it, or needs it to get the height. Remember, first learn how to balance on your board while moving before trying this.

Another helpful thing is to do this trick while standing still, either in the grass, or with your back wheels stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, either method works. Now onto the trick!

When your learning the ollie, you want to put your front leg two (2) inches behind the bolts, like in the picture below. This will give you more control when your in the air and moving.

Now, your going to want to crouch down a little bit, and Jump UP. While your starting to go up, SLAM the tail into the ground. This will cause the board to jump up under you. Now slide the side of your front shoe straight up the middle of the board, this drags the board up, and levels it out at the same time. You should look about like this when your doing it at this stage:

Note that my arms are going Up. This is going to help with blance, and it gives you a little boost for more air and hang time.



Now get your feet over the bolts and land. If you dont have your feet over the bolts, you run the very high risk of breaking your board and hurting yourself, so keep over them bolts!

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 Now, Heres Newersumm with this off a kicker!

Ok, this is a very hard trick for begginers, so make sure you are VERY comfortable with your ollies before even thinking about trying this one. it helps if your ollies are high.

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1: Put your feet in a kickflip position. Yours will probably have your front foot at a 45 degree angle, with your heel hanging off the back a little, this seems to work best.
2:  Start the kickflip by crouching down and popping the tail, just like the ollie
3: Now, instead of sliding your foot up the middle, you slide your front foot off the heel edge of your skateboard to make it flip. (Heel edge: Edge with your heel facing it, or hanging off)
4: While the board starts spinning, get your back foot way up outa the way, and suck your front foot back over the board (its HARD)
5: This is probably the hardest part right here! When you see the grip tape again, stop the spin with your backfoot, then plant your front foot on your board.
6: Level out your board and bend your knees a little, to absorb the shock (knee surgery sux, you don't want it).
7:Land and roll away SMOOTH cause you just did a KICKFLIP! (Koeryn: "See? Wasn't that bad was it?...Now when do I land one?")

~Newersumm~

Heelflip:
For some people, this is harder than the kickflip, for some a lot easier. I find this trick much harder than kflip. Anyway.. It's good to know how to kickflip before trying and of course your ollie has to be perfect.

OK let's do it
1: Set your feet in a heelflip position with front
foot somewhere in the middle of deck with toes hanging
off the board.
2:Put your back foot in the corner of heel edge or on
the tail (like when Ollieing) whatever is easier for
you. (Koeryn: "Crouch down again, It gives you more air to jump with, and a more powerful pop. See the pics.")
3: Pop (SLAM) down hard and slide your front foot of the toe side edge of the skate.
4: Suck your feet up and wait for the griptape to come up
5:when you see griptape catch it the same way as you catch kickflip. (Koeryn:"Back foot first to stop rotation, front foot to balance the landing")
6:level out deck and land perfectly! (Koeryn: "Won't happen the first time. Practice practice practice, and you'll land one!")

yeah


Newersumm

Koeryn: "Once again, another well done set of pics from Newersumm. Now for me, the hardest part of any flip trick is getting your feet back over the board. You should find this easier with heelflips then with kickflips. Remember, on heelflips, you HAVE to make sure your heel gets the board over and leveled out, otherwise, you get popsickled."

As Usual, Trick tip was originally done by Newersumm, and redone by Koeryn

Pop Shuv-it:

(Newersumm:"My pop shove its are kind of shitty so... whatever...")
(Koeryn:"Myne look good till you get to the fact that I can't land them...")

1: put your feet in an ollie position. It may help to have your back leg a little closer to the toe edge of the board.

2: Do an normal ollie.

3: When you are in the air (Koeryn:"Or even while your still popping it"), scoop your back leg behind you. This will make the board rotate.

4:Jump a little forward. (Koeryn: "This is to stay over your board.")

5:Catch the board in the air. (Koeryn:"Harder then it sounds..."

6:level it out. (Koeryn:"Feet over bolts. Always have your feet over the bolts!")

7: L A N D (Koeryn:"Bend your knees to absorb the shock of the landing, becuase you do not want knee surgery.")


~Newersumm~
What it looks like off a kicker: