Skateboard Tricks
47 street, park and flatground tricks. Each one has a step-by-step how-to, tips, and a leaderboard of the best clips skaters have posted. Find your trick, learn it, film it and take #1.
Flatground Tricks
Flip tricks, shove-its and spins you can learn in any parking lot.
- Ollie6 clipsBeginner
The jump every other trick is built on: pop the tail, slide the front foot and level the board in the air.
- Nollie2 clipsIntermediate
An ollie popped off the nose while you keep riding your normal stance.
- Kickflip5 clipsIntermediate
Pop an ollie and flick the nose off the heel-side corner so the board spins a full rotation under you.
- Heelflip4 clipsIntermediate
The mirror of a kickflip: kick the nose out with your heel so the board flips the other way.
- Pop Shove-It4 clipsBeginner
Pop the tail and scoop it behind you so the board spins 180 degrees without flipping.
- Frontside Pop Shove-ItIntermediate
A shove-it that spins forward: scoop the tail in front of you for a 180 rotation.
- 360 Shove-ItIntermediate
A pop shove-it that spins the board a full 360 degrees.
- 360 Flip (Tre Flip)2 clipsAdvanced
A kickflip combined with a 360 shove-it: the board spins all the way around while it flips.
- Varial Kickflip1 clipIntermediate
A pop shove-it and a kickflip at the same time: the board spins 180 degrees as it flips.
- Varial Heelflip2 clipsIntermediate
A heelflip combined with a frontside shove-it, spinning the board 180 degrees as it flips.
- Hardflip2 clipsAdvanced
A frontside shove-it and kickflip together, with the board flipping vertically up between your legs.
- Inward HeelflipAdvanced
A backside shove-it combined with a heelflip, the board spinning inward toward you as it flips.
- Laser FlipAdvanced
A heelflip combined with a frontside 360 shove-it: the hardest of the basic flip combos.
- Frontside 1802 clipsBeginner
An ollie where you and the board turn 180 degrees, opening your chest to the direction of travel.
- Backside 1801 clipIntermediate
An ollie where you and the board turn 180 degrees with your back facing the direction of travel.
- Frontside Flip1 clipAdvanced
A kickflip combined with a frontside 180 body turn.
- Backside FlipAdvanced
A kickflip combined with a backside 180 body turn.
- BigspinIntermediate
A 360 shove-it while your body turns a backside 180 over it.
- ImpossibleAdvanced
The board wraps vertically around your back foot in a full end-over-end rotation.
- Switch Kickflip5 clipsAdvanced
A kickflip done riding in your opposite stance.
- Switch Heelflip1 clipAdvanced
A heelflip done riding in your opposite stance.
- Nollie Kickflip3 clipsAdvanced
A kickflip popped off the nose while riding regular.
- Nollie Heelflip3 clipsAdvanced
A heelflip popped off the nose while riding regular.
- Fakie Kickflip2 clipsIntermediate
A kickflip done while rolling backward in your normal stance.
- Manual4 clipsBeginner
A wheelie on the back wheels, balancing without letting the tail touch the ground.
- Nose Manual2 clipsIntermediate
A wheelie on the front wheels, balancing with the nose just off the ground.
- No ComplyBeginner
Step your front foot off and pop the board up with your back foot, then jump back on.
- BonelessBeginner
Grab the board, plant your front foot and jump, lifting the board with you.
Street Tricks
Grinds and slides on ledges, rails and curbs.
- 50-50 Grind4 clipsBeginner
Both trucks grind along a ledge or rail at the same time.
- 5-0 Grind1 clipIntermediate
Grind on the back truck only, with the nose held up like a manual.
- Nosegrind2 clipsAdvanced
Grind on the front truck only, holding a nose manual on the ledge.
- Crooked Grind (Crook)4 clipsAdvanced
A nosegrind with the board angled so the nose edge slides as well as the truck grinds.
- Smith Grind1 clipAdvanced
Grind on the back truck with the front of the board dipped below the edge.
- Feeble GrindAdvanced
Back truck grinds on a rail while the front of the board hangs over the far side.
- Boardslide8 clipsBeginner
Slide the middle of the board along a rail or ledge, perpendicular to it.
- LipslideIntermediate
A boardslide where the tail goes over the rail first, so you slide with your back to the direction of travel.
- Noseslide3 clipsIntermediate
Slide on the underside of the nose along a ledge.
- Tailslide1 clipIntermediate
Slide on the underside of the tail along a ledge.
- BluntslideAdvanced
Slide with the tail pressed on the ledge and the board pointing up, both trucks above the edge.
Park & Transition Tricks
Ramp, bowl and mini ramp fundamentals.
- Drop InBeginner
Ride into a ramp or bowl from the coping, the first thing every park skater learns.
- Rock to FakieBeginner
Ride up the ramp, rock the front of the board over the coping, then roll back in fakie.
- Rock and RollIntermediate
A rock on the coping, then a backside 180 kickturn back into the ramp.
- Axle StallBeginner
Stall with both trucks on the coping, then turn and drop back in.
- KickturnBeginner
Turn on the back wheels high on the transition to change direction.
- Frontside AirAdvanced
Launch out of the ramp facing the wall and grab the toe-side edge before landing.
- Backside AirAdvanced
Launch out of the ramp with your back to the wall, grab the heel-side edge and turn back in.
- Disaster1 clipIntermediate
Turn 180 degrees above the coping and land with the middle of the board on it, then drop back in.