I’ve always been the type of boarder who can do heel flips well but never got to doing a kick flip. Well, here’s a great video I found that shows you how to do a kick flip in the most simplest way possible.

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Here’s a really cool stop-motion skateboarding!

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For those of you hardcore skateboarders, there’s good news that this Scarpar motorized skateboard might just do the job for all your off-roading ventures.  Holy Schmolly, this gadget is so tight except you can’t really do ollies on it.

Someone really needs to just mass-manufacture and market this guy. Right now, the current estimate for a retail price for a single Scarpar is somewhere in the neighborhood of two or three thousand dollars. Can we get that price to drop a little lower, please? Most extreme sports nuts can’t even afford skyboarding.

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Here’s a cool video of someone basejumping and skateboarding, a good thing he lived.

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lol, I didn’t know they had this skateboard amusement ride, where is it?

Yes i went on it, it was…really extreme scary. The more higher you get, the more twisting around you do…NOt a lot of people went on it lol. want to do it again. This is in China, Guangdong… i think that’s who u spelled it lol, it’s not in the USA or SIX FLAG lol

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Who knew old skateboard decks would make great jewelry?  They are durable, long-lasting, and made tough so custom jewelers like this one at Etsy can simply cut the old boards and re-make them into jewelry.

If you got girlfriend, this might be the perfect gift.  Even better, use your own old skateboard deck, send it to this custom jeweler to make you a very special skateboard jewelry.

Heck, I even got more ideas now, why don’t we use some trucks, wheels, and etc…etc..?

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Check out this cool commercial of Daewon Song on how to skateboard without shoes.  Well, actually, Daewon Song is sorta trying to “save” his skateboard shoes from losing its shinyness by not wearing it.  Kinda cool though how he can still pull off most of the tricks, I bet most pro boarders can’t do as well.

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Ouch, this hurts just watchin’

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Here’s a couple more skateboard accidents video for your viewing pleasure.

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lol, just don’t try too much, you won’t like the after-effects of skateboarding accidents.

Of course, keep tryin’ though, skate or die tryin’~

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Lol, wish he was skateboarding down that.

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Danny Way jumping over the Great Wall of China!  Awesome!

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Wow…

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Wow, this is kinda cool, the world’s longest skateboard 50-50 grind!

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I remember watching this video about 15 years ago on Danny Wainwright skateboarding in San Francisco, a 411 video.  Way cool, watch him do some really cool jumps.

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Here’s another cool video on how to ollie from Chad Muska.

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Here’s a video of Jason Lee when he was 14 years old, 3 years before turning pro, very interesting.

This rare video has Jason Lee with footage from around age 14 (Jason would turn pro 3 years later). Although the video is recorded as 1980, obviously it’s wrong since Lance Mountain’s deck was around 1984. Regardless, Jason Lee, at age 14 is doing tricks here that no pros were doing at that time. Radically ahead of his time with smooth kickflips when the flatground ollie itself was just invented, Jason shows that at age 14, he already had the style that made him the smoothest street skater ever. While the world was getting into invert circles from doing bonelesses for years, Jason already was proving that ollie tricks were the future. Now an actor, Jason is still credited with being the first to be street-tech with style and he is still the possessor of the greatest 360 flips. The end is Jason playing guitar in his hilarious singing style.

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Here’s Ryan Sheckler, young talent on skateboarding pro.

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Check out Patrick Melcher, as he does some odd and cool tricks.

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Wow, check out some of the jumps Richie does, even the camera man cannot follow him!

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Check out this cool time warp video of a skateboard ollie.  It’s amazing that the backfoot is never touching the skateboard although the skater admits he “feels” being attached.

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Lol, check out this jump and tell you can live if you don’t make it.

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1. Smoke some buds

2. Now you should be feeling really high so go ollie.

Okay, just kidding, here’s the real version:

1. Keep your front foot nearer to center than normally.

2. When you kick your board with the back foot, hit that thang hella hard!  (so your board goes near vertical)

3.  Then jump as high as you can while bringing your front foot up the board vertically and tuck your knees to your chest.

That’s it, you will have to practice a lot with timing though, it’s not as easy as said but if you keep trying, you should be able to ollie over a garbage basket no problemo.

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Well, here’s a couple more crazy skateboard tricks.   I like the guy at the end, “One More Time!”, poor dude.

You know what I like about skateboard trick videos?  It’s not just the skateboard jumps but the music too.

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Here’s another video of Ben Raemers, pro skater.  Whoa, he’s good.

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Here’s a great video tutorial on how to do finger skateboard tricks.  Of course, finger skateboard is basically the mini-version of skateboarding and can help you in real skateboarding too.

Enjoy dude!

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One of my favorite tricks on a skateboard is a heelflip.  Heelflip is basically the opposite of a kickflip where you use your heel to kick out instead of flipping in.

Heelflips can be great for jumping high too as you are kicking more “out” instead of trying to flip your board.

Well, don’t listen to me, watch as Tony Hawk and his friend shows you.

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Here’s a video of a skateboarder doing a triple kickflip.  A triple kickflip isn’t too different from the regular kickflip except you do 3 flips.

How to do it?

Practice doing double kickflips by kicking the board harder while you jump.  If you master the double kickflips, try doing a triple simply by kicking the board harder. (or flippin’ it)

Once you get the hang of triple kickflips, it can get easier than a regular kickflip because you can kick it harder, therefore jump higher too.

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Well, I’ve noticed on our twitter account that user skateparks has a website called Skatepark Directory where you can find skateboard parks in your area using Google Maps API.  I typed in “94132″ and pretty much got the above screenshot, it seems it’s missing some parks near San Francisco where I live but heck, nice job with it.

I am sure the directory will get better and larger as we go along but feel free to check it out.

Skateboardpark Directory

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Here’s a nice compilation of the best skateboard tricks.  The music kinda sucks but it’s a good video with the mute button on.

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Here’s a really funny iPhone skateboard deck you can get.  Too bad it’s not actually functional but if Apple made one that was real, all the skaters would buy it.

Price: $59.95 on Zazzle

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If you are a hardcored skateboarder and you have a cabin up in Tahoe, make one of these cool log skateboards for some indoor fun.

Oliver Schulze created this Flintstone-worthy skateboard called My Uzi Weighs a Ton No. 0 – a reference to a Public Enemy No. 1 lyric.

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For those of you commuters who want to skateboard to school or work, you might just be able to do that in style with the OrbitWheels.  They are compact enough to fit in your backpack so you don’t have to bring your skateboard to school or work.

I find that these OrbitWheels could keep your skateboard/snowboard muscles in shape during regular days.

Price: $114.88 at Amazon

The Orbitwheel actually looks pretty easy to ride, but then I said that about the skateboard when I first saw one and quickly proved myself wrong with a comedy, tooth-cracking faceplant. The hub-less wheels mean you have the bump-soaking abilities of a large wheel combined with a low sense of gravity and, as the instructional video (below) tells us, you can pump your way along in a skateboard tic-tac motion.

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The other day I noticed my skater friends had one of these subskate devices.  This thing is great for practicing your crazy jumps without risking yourself to injury by jumping into the pool while you ollie 360.

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Here’s Lyn-Z Adams Hawkin, gettin’ squirrely on the skateboard!  I haven’t seen many female skateboard pros but she’s good.

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This Boondoggle promo skateboard video is pretty cool huh?

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You thought Jason Dill couldn’t skateboard?  Well, you thought wrong!

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Here’s an interesting questions and answers from pro skate Rob Dyrdek.

“GET EXTREME!”

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Here’s an interesting “life” video of Mike Vallely, who turned pro in 1987.

I turned pro on May 31, 1987 at a vert contest in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This really pissed off my sponsor at the time, Powell Peralta as I entered and skated in that contest against their wishes. I was in their eyes a “street skater” and they didn’t want me doing anything to tarnish my image. Getting last place in my first professional competition on a vert ramp wasn’t exactly how they wanted me to start my pro career.

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Mike V’s YouTube channel

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Here’s a cool video of how to do a 360 degree flip on a skateboard.

You probably need both of these skills before you can attemp this although I find it easier to do this than a kickflip.

1. Ollies

2. Kickflips

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Some skateboard/computer genius created a homemade DIY skateboard game controller for Tony Hawk skateboarding game.

This is awesome, I wish they made one for real and so you can do real ollies with the whole bells and whistles.  (Yes, that means a fitness trailer too)

The deck uses a Wiimote to capture accelerometer data and send it over Bluetooth to software on the PC. This software then sends emulated keystrokes to the game in response to your movement on the deck. It looks like this was presented at GeekCon, and the creators also hacked some of the game skins to put the presenters’ likenesses in the game. Slick.

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Steve Caballero now on YouTube.

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Here’s another cool howto video on doing nollie flips by Bobby Worrest.

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Here’s a fun video on how to break your skateboard and more…

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Here’s some good skaters from the promo video.

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Here’s a cool skate video I guess didn’t make it anywhere but YouTube.  Checkout use whatyouknowbout on YouTube, he’s got some wild skate vids.

This is a montage of footage that I was not able to use in ‘Where I’m From’. It is actually one of my favorite parts in the extras too. Anytime you can that much Sean Mullendore footage in a part, I am hyped.

Skaters in order of appearance:
Sean Mullendore, Matt Willigan, Bobby Worrest, Jimmy Pelletier, Ronald Flores, Adam Graham, Jake Rupp, Darren Harper, Scott Lefever, Dusty Ditch, Neilson Warfield, Sam Wientzen, Travis Pettit, Pat Smith, Mike Sullivan, and Paul McElroy

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Yey, more vids on how to do a frontside kickflip. Knock yourself out!

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Here’s a cool video of Rodney Mullen doing some 900 flips.

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Check this out cool video on how to do 360 kick flips if you don’t know how. Pretty good video plus instruction/slow-mo vid.

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Check out Rodney Mullen’s skateboard tricks, he can do some really cool ones.

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