trick tips

ollie

put your back foot on the tail and your front foot in the middle. smack down your back foot hard then slide up your front foot and lift up your back foot at the same time. when you're sliding your front foot up just kinda jump up in the air.
click here to see zach ollie 5 boards

kickflip

put your back foot on the tail. then place your front foot in the middle. then ollie but kick(kinda hard) the board off the left side of the nose it'll flip and hopefully you'll land it. it helps to try to land it with your back foot first.
help w/ flip tricks- 1. get 2 chairs and set the backs of them about the length of a skate apart (around 3 feet). 2. put your hands on the backs of the chairs, and put your feet on the deck.Your in between the chairs 3. put all your weight on the chairs and either do a kick, or heelflip. Lift your legs high to let the board complete the spin, then land.*all your weight's on the chair, so you can set your feet down at your leisure. You should get it within a few times. 4. eventually put less, and less weight on the chairs, and more on the board. Then you should be able to do kickflips or heelflips
click here to see zach do a kickflip off a loading dock

heelflip

set your foot with the heel on the board and your toes hanging off kinda in the same spot as you would on the kickflip but on the opposite side of the board. then ollie and kick out but kick the board with your heel as you kick out.

pop shuv-it

it's all in your back foot, just scoop it around and jump up, it's not hard at all

180

place your feet as if you would an ollie but place your front foot right on the front screws. twist your body the way you wanna go, frontside is easier and use both feet to help it do the full 180.
click here to see me do a 180 off a loading dock

varial flip

it's basically just a kickflip and a pop shuv it so shuv it but kick

360 flip

first you're going to want to be able to do kickflip very consistantly.you then want to put your front foot alittle lower than when you are doing a regular kickflip.you want to put your back foot on the tail with your toes hanging off the edge. then you want to kick out with the front foot and scoop your back foot back as if you are walking in the air to rotate the board 360 degrees while it is spinning and jump as high as possible and then when you see the board fully rotate catch it underneath you while it's still in the air.

boardslide

these are really hard to get used to when you're first trying them. you have to go next to a rail, pipe, or whatever you're going to boardslide. do a 90 ollie and land on the rail, slide to the end then just turn off to regular or fakie at the end. some people can come off fakie better than regular, so try both

noseslide

ollie and put all your weight on your nose and put very little weight on your tail, when you land on your nose push it forward a little to get it started
click here to see john do a noseslide off 5 stairs

tailslide

do a 90 ollie and land on your tail, push down as hard as possible on your tail lift up your front foot some

50-50

ollie up on a rail, curb, whatever, and put both your trucks on it and you'll grind when you get to the end do a little manual to ride it off

5-0

first you want to learn how to 50-50 good and learn how to ollie to manual.you want to ollie at least a couple inches higher and then put all of your weight on your back foot with the back truck grinding and keep your balance.it will help if you go to a curb or rail that you can grind straight off of.

nosegrind

first you want to learn how to 50-50 good and learn how to ollie to nose manual.you want to ollie at least a couple inches higher and then push all of your weight on your front truck and keep your balance.when you get to the end just kinda nollie out, which is kinda hard
click here to see me do a nosegrind on my box

crooked grind

this is like a combination of a noseslide and a nosegrind, this is a lot easier backside. roll up to what you're going to grind ollie, get you truck on like a backside nosegrind but tweak it out and have your nose down. you have to push down extremely hard to get it to grind