Stopping correctly is an important part of skateboarding safety. Learn the basics of riding a skateboard with these video clip tips and instructions.
Kevin Wilson has been skateboarding for more than twenty years. He spends most of his time street skating, but enjoys challenging his skills on ramps and bowls. He believes skateboarding is a great way to stay fit and learn how to set goals for yourself.
When learning how to skateboard after learning how to go, it's inevitable that you want to learn how to stop. Stopping on a skateboard is relatively easy but a very important part of learning how to skate. The easiest way to stop on a skateboard or to slow your speed is to lightly depress the tail until it comes into contact with street. Then let the friction of your deck against the concrete be enough to slow your momentum. Let's try stopping with the tail with moderate speed. The important part of this maneuver is to shift most of your body weight to the tail. Remember the more pressure you have on your tail, the faster you are going to slow down. Another way of slowing down is to take your pushing foot and drag it off across the ground. While this needs more balance, it requires more balance, it can often times lead to less deck damage and stopping with your tail which can wear the back of your deck. Let's try stopping by simply dragging our foot to slow down. We're going to push ride remove the back foot and use the friction of the shoe against the ground to slow the skateboard. Learning how to stop in this manner is a good way to avoid doing a trick that you are not completely comfortable with and to stay out of peoples way when skating with other people in skate parks or other crowded areas.
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