How to Indy on a Skateboard

1. Do an ollie but crouch down a little before ollieing.
2. When you pop the tail down for a ollie, immediately reach down for the middle of the board with your rear hand.
3. Grab onto the board, holding it for a bit.
4. Once about to land, release the grab.
5. Land on trucks and roll away.

How to Drop in on a Halfpipe With a Skateboard

1. Set your board up on the coping with the trucks over the edge of the ramp.
2. Get a friend to hold the end of the board and let you stomp like you were a child having a temper tantrum on the truck bolts as hard as you can. This way you won't actually drop in.
3. Ask you friend to let go so you can actually drop in.
4. After your friend moves out of the way do the same stomping motion in the same place on the board this way you will drop in.
5. Once you get rolling into the pipe place your feet more evened out and lean the way the pipe is shaped.
6. When you get to the other side of the pipe, bend your knees right before you get to the coping. This is called pumping, and it speeds you up enabling you to go back and forth.

How to Do a Hardflip on a Skateboard

1. Be able to do kickflips and frontside pop shove-its adequately before attempting this trick.
2. Place you rear foot on the tip of the tail, like you would for an ollie, but slightly closer to the heelside.
3. Your front foot should have the same angle as you normally would have it for a kickflip, but it may help to move your front foot slightly closer towards the middle of the board.
4. Face your torso about 45 degrees away from the nose.
5. When you pop, pop the rear of the board as hard as you can.
6. Your front foot should make a kickflip motion, except it requires significantly more effort this time.
7. You need to jump straight up almost as hard as you can.
8. Catch the board with your front foot, and bring your rear foot back in.
9. Land and roll away.

How to Ollie Down Stairs on Skateboard

1. Get yourself a skateboard, obviously.
2. Don't try anything you don't feel comfortable doing.
3. Learning to ride a skateboard can be a long and hard process, but don't let this put you off, just keep at it.
4. Eventually you will feel comfortable riding and pushing around on your skateboard.
5. At this point, you should think about investing in a better skateboard, preferably one from your local skate shop.
6. Go for the Ollie! This is the fundamental skateboard trick and almost all other tricks incorporate the ollie into them at some point, so at this point you should think about learning to ollie.
7. Start small, try ollieing off a small curb at first, to do this you want to roll up to the curb at a moderate speed, mainly one you feel comfortable ollieing at.
8. Then as you see the front of your skateboard near the edge of the curb, pop your ollie. You should then be in the air. Land and roll away.
9. After you feel comfortable doing this, try to find a bigger curb to ollie off.
10. Try a small 2-step stair, then 3, then 4, and so on.

How to Fakie Shuv It on a Skateboard

1. Push off in fakie going either slow or moderate speed whichever feels more comfortable.
2. Bend your knees and pop down your foot a little bit make sure the end of your board does not touch the concrete
3. Scoop it with the foot you used to pop
4. To scoop the board, kick your foot backwards
   • You dont have to suck your knees up because your board won't come that high up off of the ground.
   • Be sure to watch your feet to make them land in the middle of your board and roll away.

How to Casperflip on a Skateboard

1. Step on Your skateboard, if you are new to skating find your balance.
2. Make sure you are not wearing any shoes you don't want messed up, this WILL scratch up your shoes.
3. Put your front foot on the backside middle part of your board.
4. Put your back foot on the frontside part of your tail.
5. Quickly flick your front foot while raising your back.
6. Land with your front foot underneath the board in the middle, and your back foot on top of the tail, wheels facing the sky. (casper position)
7. Make sure there is an clear area around you, as with most tricks it takes space.
8. Lift your back foot up, and quickly flick the board with your front foot to make the board flip.
9. If you want to rotate the board the time is right after you flick it, quickly add in an extra twist to the flick.
10. Land on top of the board, preferably front foot on the screws and back foot near the tail for skating off after the trick.

How To Ollie

1. Stand on the board. Get a good feel for its shape, the tightness of your trucks, and the size of your wheels. Ollies are always easier on a familiar setup. If your trucks are too loose and you can't keep in control while crouching, then tighten them until things are smoother.
2. Adjust your feet to the appropriate position. This can be the first really tricky part of an ollie to master. The idea is you're on the balls of your feet, which will help you greatly when crouching. This can be tricky because if you just go up on your tippie-toes, chances are you'll start turning front-side 'cause when just cruising on your board, the balls of your feet will usually be closer to the front side edge of the deck. (If you weren't already aware, the front side edge is the one nearest your toes). There are two good ways to reposition your feet. The first is a tiny little jump, just big enough to let you land with your feet where you need 'em. This is the best and quickest way, but also the trickiest. The other way is to just shuffle your feet into position. It's a slower, less accurate method, and it ruins your shoes pretty quick unless your grip tape is dead--which it shouldn't be if you want to be able to ollie well. The actual position of your feet is very important. The ball of your back foot should be half hanging off the edge of the deck's tail. The ball of your front foot should be central to the deck, somewhere between the bolts. How far forward/back you choose to have your front foot is mostly a preference thing, but it can affect your ollie too. Huge monster ollies will require your foot to be further back, but will be more difficult. Little kurb-hoppers can be easily done with your foot further forward.
3. Bend your knees and crouch down, getting ready to jump. Balancing your crouch properly is crucial. Don't bend your back too much and don't stick your butt out too far. Try to drop down and keep your shoulders level with your feet.
4. Kick down (known as popping) when you jump off the board. Its a good idea to jump forward so you don't spin in the air. A good strong pop is very important. It's the power behind your ollie. It's called a pop 'cause of the noise of your deck hitting the ground, which will make it bounce. I'm sure if you've had a skateboard in your hands you will have tried the fundamental noobie maneuver of stamping on the tail to make it jump at you? It's the same principal with a pop, 'cept you're doing while stood (actually, more like jumping above) the board. Split seconds after you pop, drag your front foot toward the nose of the board. At this point, you are starting to ollie and creating friction between your front foot and the nose of the board. Bring your front foot up, using the grip tape to carry the board with your front shoe.
5. Jump. Yes, as if off the board. That board's going nowhere with your weight on it, so the beginning of an ollie maneuver is to jump.
6. Slide your foot Turn your front foot inward and slide up the front of the board. This will cause the board to level out. This step must be performed at the same time as jumping.
7. Doing an ollie over skateboard
   Pull your knees up towards your chest. Exactly how far you need to do this depends on how high your ollie is, but that board can only go as high as your feet, so if you want your ollie to be high you have to bring those feet up.
8. Level out. Leveling out means making the board level to the ground while in mid-air. In other words, don't have the front of the board sticking up in mid-air. This technique will help tremendously when you get to jumping gaps.
9. Try to land both feet at the same time, preferably with your feet as close to their respective trucks as possible. If you land an ollie with both feet in the middle of your deck, it's gonna snap. Likewise if you land on your nose and tail, they could break off. Also, landing with your feet too close together can be hazardous to your health, since your balance will be compromised.