Skaters who have mastered beginning and intermediate skills, along with veteran skaters, can benefit from the simple yet effective instruction offered in this book. The book covers detailed instructions for tricks and techniques to ride quarter-pipes, half-pipes, bowls, and to excel in both street skating and skate park skating, progressing through skill levels from low advanced to high advanced. It will help readers interested in upping their game become experts in no time, executing flawless manuals, stalls, and slides and impressing their friends with grabs, ollies, flips, and other tricks.

Contains photographic sequences with narrative text that describe thirty-four skateboarding tricks, including old school, spine, and new school stunts, and includes an interview with skateboarder and coach Steve Badillo.

Skateboarding provides safe and effective skateboarding instruction and programming as well as information on building and managing skateparks. You'll get all the tools you need to do everything from teaching fundamental skateboarding skills to designing and running a park to meet the needs of your community.

Colorful introduction to skateboarding for girls.

A step-by-step instructional guide for street skateboarders on how to execute a variety of curb tricks.

Ramp tricks—skate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipes—are a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.

An introduction to skateboarding's history, equipment, techniques, tricks, styles, and stars.