1. Skateboarding
Fundamentals
By Ben Perry

2. Skateboarding
• Skateboarding started in the late 1940’s when
surfers wanted a way of doing their sport on
land so they combined surf boards with roller-
skate wheels.

3. A skateboard broken down
The Griptape is
what enables your
The Hardware is shoes to keep on
the nuts and bolts the board and not
which attach the slip off
deck to the Trucks
The Deck is pieces of
wood put together in a
specific shape so you can
ride the board
The bearing is what The Truck is the axel The Wheel is
makes the wheels of the boars which what spins
spin enables turning and round to make
connects the deck the board move
and the wheels forward and
backwards

4. Skateboarding Stances
• The stance is which way you stand on
your skateboard whether you have
your right or your left foot forward,
usually if you kick a ball with your
right foot you will skateboard with
your right foot at the back because it
will be your stronger leg this stance is
called regular stance.
• If you stand with your left foot at the
back of the board it is called goofy
stance.

5. Skateboarding stances continued
Regular
• Once you have found out which stance you
are there are other stances involved while
doing tricks such as ‘nollie’ ‘switch’ and ‘Fakie’
these are just variations of where you put Nollie
your feet.
• Nollie – is where you move your front foot
onto the nose and push down using that foot
instead.
Fakie
• Fakie – is where you are standing in your
normal stance but traveling backwards
• Switch – is basically standing in the opposite
stance to what you normally do e.g. if you
Switch
were regular you would skate goofy and it
would be called switch because your
switching your stance.

6. Basic Tricks
• The Ollie is the starting ground for all skateboarding
tricks, it is basically just a jump where you push
down on the tail of the board then slide your front
foot forward this should create the Ollie. From the
Ollie you can make variations of it such as a 180.

7. Tricks
• From the ollie you can then
progress onto more
difficult tricks such as the
kickflip where the board
flips 360 degrees in a
rolling rotation like in the
picture.

8. Ramps
• Ramps are a key part of learning how to
skateboard as most people find it impressive
when you go on a half pipe

9. Bibliography
• http://students.cis.uab.edu/gosk8now/street.html
• http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ueIq0KJKKQQ/TMkljmy-PiI/AAAAAAAAR7A/o9bCzGNWk-s/long-board-girls-crew-3.png
• http://www.a1skateboards.com/skateboard.gif
• http://know-how-to-skateboard.com/images/skating-stance.jpg
• http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8TfqRR8c1IE/Sdym33FCIlI/AAAAAAAAAJE/MVW1IBF0bsM/s400/trick%2Bkickflip.jpg
• http://www.board-crazy.co.uk/skateboarding-stances.php
• http://www.floridaskater.com/Kona_halfpipe.jpg