If you are a beginner skateboarder then you are probably trying to learn some basic skateboard tricks. There are lots of skateboarding tricks out there to learn however these five tricks are the ones you should try to learn first after you have the basic concept of skateboarding down.

What are the basic concepts of skateboarding you ask? Before learning these five skate tricks you should be comfortable on your skateboard and be able to push, ride forwards and backwards, turn, and tic tac, without falling off. Being able to do these basic moves with ease will help to ensure your success with these beginner skate tricks.

The beginner skateboarding tricks mentioned below are precursors to other skate tricks or are a part of more advanced tricks so mastering them first will help you progress your skateboarding to the next level.

These five skateboarding tricks which vary in difficulty and technique may come more easier for some than others, but like most things, practice makes perfect! Take the time to perfect these skate tricks and remember to never give up no matter what.

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Five Beginner Skateboard Tricks That You Should Learn First

1. The Ollie

The ollie is the most important trick you can learn on a skateboard. Although the ollie is one of the most basic tricks, it is essential for progressing into just about all other tricks on a skateboard.

Learning how to ollie properly feels great and you can also make your ollies look even cooler by doing them boned out. A boned out ollie is where the front of your skateboard dips down and your front foot does a karate kick while your back foot flattens out.

Read: How To Ollie – A Step By Step Guide

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2. The Pop Shove-It

The Pop Shove-It is a skateboarding trick that combines a ‘Shove-It’ with the pop of an ollie. The skateboard spins 180 degrees towards the backside of the skater using the back foot to achieve the spin before landing back on the skateboard.

The Pop Shove-It can be done frontside or backside. A frontside Pop Shove-It spins to the right if you are regular footed or to the left if you are goofy footed. A backside Pop Shove-It spins to the left for a regular footed skater and spins to the right if you are a goofy skater.

The Pop Shove-It is probably the first skate trick that will require you to really commit but once you have this trick down you will be able to handle more intermediate level skate tricks.

Read: How To Pop Shove-It – A Step By Step Guide

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3. Frontside & Backside 180

A 180 is an ollie combined with rotating yourself and your skateboard 180 degrees. There are two types of 180’s. A frontside 180 and a backside 180. The only difference between the two is the direction you rotate. For example, a frontside 180 is where the front of your body will face forward when rotating, or backside 180 is where the back of your body will face forward while performing the rotation. Landing and riding backwards is known as ‘fakie’.

The 180 is an important trick to learn and once you do learn it you will be able to combine other tricks to it such as a kickflip which would then become a frontside flip or a backside flip. You can watch this video tutorial to learn how to 180.

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4. The Kickflip

The kickflip is the most technical of the skate tricks listed above. The kickflip is where you combine an ollie with flipping the skateboard 360 degrees along the axis that extends from the nose to the tail.

If you are a regular footed skateboarder you flip the board to the left with your left foot, and if you are goofy you flip the board to the right with your right foot. The kickflip is all about timing and committing to the landing without hesitation.

Once you know how to kickflip, there are many other variations of this trick you can learn such as the frontside kickflip, fakie kickflip, varial kickflip, and 360 kickflip, to name a few. But you need to start with the basics before you can progress so focus on mastering this skateboarding trick first and the more advanced stuff will become much easier to learn afterwards.

Read: How To Kickflip – A Step By Step Guide

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5. The Manual & Nose Manual

A manual is basically popping a wheelie on your skateboard. To manual, lift up the front of your skateboard so that you are riding only on the back two wheels for as long as you can.

A nose manual is the same as a regular manual however your front foot is on the front of your skateboard and you lift up the back of the skateboard (so basically you do a nose wheelie).

Manuals are a fun trick that you can incorporate into a line at the skatepark or in the streets. To succeed at manuals you must have excellent balance and coordination.

Read: How To Manual – A Step By Step Guide

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Success?

Have you got these 5 beginner skate tricks on lock? Leave us a comment below if you have any questions or need some guidance with a particular trick.

If you master these 5 skate tricks your skateboarding is likely to progress immensely. Learning new skate tricks takes a lot of time and effort but it will pay off in the end. Keep shredding!