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So how about this for an idea: a thread for people who would like to ask for advise on tricks they are struggling to do? ideal for beginners, and handy even for more experienced skaters! even if you're not good at giving advise and wanna help, maybe you know where to find a good video tutorial on the web or something?

Anyway, if you've any trick related questions, how about posting it here? maybe someone here can help!

Nice idea for a topic. I'm glad I started this subforum I mean someone had to.
But anyway what's up with hardflips? Is their an easier way to learn thoses?

hardflips are the biggest pain in the a** ever! i've only ever landed one properly in my normal stance and it broke my board at the same time. the only advise i could give is that if you can do fronside flips, you do that, but train your body not to follow. it feels really weird but that's how i managed to land the 1.

for some reason i find nollie hardflips relatively easy, and a hell of a lot easier than a normal stanced hardflip at least. i can do them as well as i can do my kickflips.

Some advise

kickflips are hard to explain, different people might tell you different things about how to do them. here's some tips before even trying the trick, may be obvious to some, but hey, it's free advice! lol

if you have a board that's not really professional, it's much harder. cheaper boards don't seem to be designed as well for doing tricks, i improved a lot faster once i bought my first decent priced board, it was one of the local skate shops own boards. if skateboarding is a major hobby to you, invest in a decent board

check you're trucks, ideally you want to go still be going in a straight line when preparing for the trick. steering side wards will put you off, also, if the wheels are sanding holes into the board, the trucks are probably too lose. try to have your trucks so they're not lose and will go in a straight line when you push it away in a straight line.

I'll do anther post trying to explain kickflips, although i don't know how good my advise on it will be

i've tried to explain how to kickflip but i'm just really bad at it. so instead, here's a youtube link of a kickflip tutorial taken from tony hawk's trick tips:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s1VPSipLt5k

sorry i can't explain, hopefully the link can help you out

i don't think i'll ever do a front side heel any time soon, it's justs like a real big stretch for me, i think the footing i'm use to makes it difficult to get the full rotation. i can only manage 2/3 of the way roughly.

fakie backside heelflips feel nice

yea uhm.... I'm part of a skate team called F.F.B and although i haven't perfected every trick, i sure as hell know how to do them, so if you need any help then either post here (i may not check this thread often) or PM me, ill be glad to help

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Same thing happened to me, my buddy Kurt broke it.. a good board too, served me well... Good enough explanation, too. Way better than I could have said it. cool