Serious skaters looking for unusual and innovative tricks will find them in this skateboarding instructional guide. The tricks run the gamut from classic old school to modern with an emphasis on diversification, creativity, and originality. Included are riding basics and tips for controlling fear, visualising, and focusing. Sequential shots detail every move needed to successfully re-create the various skateboarding tricks. The mechanics of the sport are also covered, including types of boards available, and the various wheels, bearings, and skateboarding surfaces.
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Grade 7 Up-Picking up where the authors' Skateboarding: New Levels: Tips and Tricks for Serious Riders (Tracks, 2002) left off, this book offers skaters 34 advanced tricks plus an interview with Badillo. For younger skaters seeking their roots, all the old-school favorites are covered, such as the frontside and backside boneless, judo air, airwalk, frontside 540 bertslide, and many others. There are step-by-step, captioned, black-and-white photographs for each maneuver, though the quality runs the gamut from clear and sharp to grainy and shoddy. However, Badillo never appears to wear any pads or a helmet, despite the safety disclaimer at the beginning of the book. His personal comments, such as "ride away with the song, `Like a Virgin,' on your mind," enhance the text. The resources section offers books, camps, skate parks, periodicals, and Web sites. Overall, this title will complement skateboarding collections, and enthusiasts will keep it in circulation.
Michael Giller, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville
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Michael Giller, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
About the Author
Steve Badillo is a touring pro skater and operates Skatelab Summercamp in Simi Valley, California. He is the coauthor of Skateboarder's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Skateboarding and Skateboarding: New Levels: Tips and Tricks for Serious Riders. His stunts have appeared in national ad campaigns, in music videos for bands such as Limp Bizkit, and on the MTV show Becoming Pink. He lives in Ventura, California. Doug Werner is the author of 15 books on sports and fitness, including the books in the Start-Up Sports series. He lives in San Diego, California.
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"Skateboard: Book Of Tricks", is an awesome book for beginners or for serious skaters. Anyone who is into skateboarding will love this book. This book is not like the rest of the trick tips books. This book tells and explains how to do new school tricks, old school tricks, and flat land tricks. This book helps an average 'good' skater master a combination of style and unigue tricks. Pro skater, Steve Badillo takes you through the steps of mastering these unique tricks. This book improved my skate skills and made me a better skater. I give this book 5 stars out of 5.
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Skating tricks,
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I found this book surprisingly useful as I read it. There are tons of photos and they help a ton to explain the different trick walkthroughs. The explanations are clear and simple and can help ANY skater improve on his game. I enjoyed it.
Two thumbs up, Caleb www.myboardshop.com
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This book is not a beginner book butit is agood book when u
know how to ollie& all beginner tricks.
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I learned most of these old-school tricks in the mid- to late '80s - back when riding jump ramps, skating ditches and building backyard halfpipes were the thing to do. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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I learned most of these old-school tricks in the mid- to late '80s - back when riding jump ramps, skating ditches and building backyard halfpipes were the thing to do. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
amateur contest organizer, tail foot, lead hand, front foot Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Big Brother (The Collected Works of Rex Ellingwood Beach) by Rex Beach in Back Matter
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- Skateboarding: to the Extreme! by Bill Gutman in Back Matter
- Extreme Skateboarding (Extreme Sports) by Pat Ryan in Back Matter
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