Skateboarding skills

Skateboarding skills

Ryan Stutt

Book - 2014

From selecting the right board, to learning which way to stand, to landing a kick flip, Skateboarding Skills provides critical instruction for young riders of all experience levels. New riders will learn essential skills to advance their riding ability while experienced riders will learn new tricks to add to their repertoire. Ryan Stutt shows riders the fundamental techniques that will lead them to success as they practice skateboarding's most important and widely used flips, grinds and slides. These include: ollies and nollies, manuals, boardslides, lipslides, noseslides and tailslides, 50-50 grinds, 5-0 grinds and nose grinds, smith grinds, feeble grinds and crooked grinds, kickflips and heelflips, pop shuvs, varial flips and 360 fli...ps. With Skateboarding Skills, riders will learn the building blocks that are the basis of all skateboarding tricks. Instruction for both flatground and vert skateboarding, plus real-time action sequences that capture the tricks step by step, will help riders learn how to execute the same moves that professional skateboarders use. All photographs show riders wearing the most essential of safety equipment--a helmet.

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Subjects
Skateboarding > Juvenile literature.
Published
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books 2014.
©2014
Language
English
Main Author
Ryan Stutt (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
"Everything a new rider needs to know"--Cover.
Physical Description
95 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781770852921
9781480669086
  • Skateboarding primer
  • Flat ground basics
  • Slides
  • Grinds
  • Flip tricks
  • Transition basics.
Review by Booklist Review

If terms like nollie, varial flip, and hubba aren'tin your vernacular, there's a chance they will be after reading this book. (Or, at the very least, you'll be able to identify a skate park.) Stutt crams a lot of information into a short book, from how to put a skateboard together and the pieces in a skate park to the tricks and dismounts that can be executed. The writing is kid-friendly, conversational, and progresses from very basic skills to more advanced tricks. There are plenty of color photographs to walk a would-be skateboarder through, step-by-step. If the book falls short, it is that the picture instructions sometimes read left to right and other times right to left. Fortunately, they're numbered, but it does make reading awkward. The photos of skate parks have captions with terminology and, for example, point out what a coping is especially helpful as it's not defined on the page, as the rest of the terms are. These quibbles aside, this remains a solid purchase for school and public libraries.--Linsenmeyer, Erin Copyright 2015 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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