Online Skate Lessons
In this course, we will cover basic knowledge needed to get started with skateboarding. We will also cover more advanced and technical skills to progress your riding to the next level! Soon, you will have the tools needed to move forward with your skateboarding journey. This course is ideal for parents who are interested in teaching their kids how to skateboard without the commitment of in person lessons, or those who live too far away to book in person lessons with Coach Josh!
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Chapter 1 - Know Your Equipment
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Lesson 1: Applying Grip Tape to your new Skateboard!
If you just bought a new skate deck, odds are it didn't come with grip tape on it unless you requested the shop you bought it from install it for you. Most people prefer to install it themselves so let's walk through the process!
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Lesson 2: Assembling your Skateboard
In this video we walk through the different parts of a skateboard and how they all go together!
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Chapter 2 - The Basics
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Lesson 1: How to stand on your board
In this video, I want to show you some common mistakes I see when coaching regarding how people stand on their skateboards! This is crucial to build your balance and center of gravity!
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Lesson 2 - Pushing Properly
Let's start working on pushing, in this lesson we go over proper form, and building the balance needed to push properly! Start small, build to perfection!
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Lesson 3 - The Tick-Tack
In this lesson, we are going to learn the Tick-Tack. This is a basic fundamental of most skateboarding tricks and will build the balance needed to progress onto more technical stuff that we will learn in the next few lessons!
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Lesson 4 - Pivots
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to Pivot. This is an essential skill to learn before progressing to things like kick turns and manuals!
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Lesson 5 - Manuals
In this lesson, we are going to learn our first trick, the manual! This is built off the tick-tack from the previous lessons and takes it up to the next level!
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Lesson 6 - Kick turns
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to kick turn! This is a building block from the pivots we learned in the previous lessons and a big milestone in skateboarding!
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Lesson 7 - Riding off Ledges
In this lesson, we are stepping it up a little bit and learning the proper way to ride your skateboard off a ledge or curb. This is built off the techniques we worked on in previous lessons so make sure you or your kiddos are comfortable with everything we have learned so far!
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Chapter 3 - Lets Get Technical
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Lesson 1 - Your First Ollie
In this lesson, we are moving on to the more technical side of skateboarding and learning how to Ollie! This is the basis for almost all tricks in skateboarding and is a very important first step to doing them!
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Lesson 2 - Riding Down Bank Ramps
In this lesson, we learn the proper technique for riding down hills such as bank ramps! This will get you guys skating around the park and able to get some speed behind you!
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Lesson 3 - Dropping in on Quarter Pipes
In this lesson, we cover dropping in! This is another huge milestone in skateboarding but can also be one of the scariest things to try. Having the proper techniques and knowledge covered in this lesson will be extremely helpful in learning how to drop in!
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