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Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Vol. 1 - Skateboarding Basics [VHS]

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This video is the best skateboard video I've ever seen! I bought this video about 2 months ago and I'm starting to get good at skateboarding. First on the video Tony Hawk shows you the board set up at the Boardroom skateshop in California. He also tells you what size and shape boards,trucks,wheels,and bearings are right for beginners. Next , Tony Hawk and Kris Markovich show you how to push,balance,and turn. Next,they show you how to do ollies,180 ollies,pop shove-its,kickflips,and heelflips. The good things they show you in these tricks are in goofy and regular footed and what you should be doing and what you shouldn't be doing and the most common mistakes. Next,they take you to mini ramp skating. They show you how to pump, kickturn,drop in,and rock to fakie. next, Tony and Brian Sumner show the boardslide. And that's about it. I would recomend you buy this video if you want to learn how to skate cause Tony,Kris,and Brian have sure showed me how to skate.

This is an excellent video for beginners (and parents of beginners!). My son is just getting started, after having watched Tony Hawk for many years and playing video games. This video really covers a lot of ground, which parents should also watch. It gives a great start for beginners to learn tricks. Definitely recommended.

I got this video for my 9 yr. old son just getting into skateboarding. We found it very informative and easy to follow. Skateboarding is certainly not what it was in my day and I'm glad I got it for my son. It gave us information on skateboard terminology, safety issues and how to build an appropriate board for my son. All tricks were visually easy to follow. The tricks explained by Tony Hawk and friend were easy to understand. We are now able to help my son practice the tricks he is learning from the video. We all educated ourselves in this hot, new sport. I highly recommend getting this video.

With skateboarding influencing smaller kids with Playstation's video games and ESPN's X-Games...kids can only need help. For instance, I can remember struggling to perform an olly and finally learning with help. This tape as I viewed it really showed how to do each trick and helped strengthen my friend's performance moves. If you need help with the board buy it.

The best video I've seen. It teaches you how to do many tricks in great detail, also in goofy and regular footing. It's aimes at beginning skaters, but more advanced ones could use it too. It teaches you how to set up your board, how to push, turn, and do tricks like the ollie, the 180 ollie, a pop shuvit, kickflips, and heelflips. He teaches you about ramps--pumping, kickturning,dropping in, and a rock and roll fakie. He teaches you rail tricks and ledge tricks like the lipslide, frontside boardslide, 5-0 grind and many more. I would recommend this site to all skaters.

I got this about a week ago on barnesandnoble.com. It just arrived today. I also borrowed my friend's skate video with Andy Macdonald in it and it was short and did not teach you the tricks that well (I mean that if you ask someone else who knows how to do it, they will say that Andy only said a little part of how to do the trick). His is the average skating video and the stough it teaches are as follows: Ollie, Kickflip, Shuv-it, Heelflip, boardslide, and to always wear a helmet. The video also only took about 30 sec. on each trick. Now, the stough Tony Hawk's trick tips vol. 1 skate boarding basics teaches you are as follows: boards, wheels, trucks ,bearings, safety equipment, pushing, turning, ollies, 180 ollies, shove-its, kickflips, heelflips, pumping on mini-ramps, kickturns, dropping in on mini ramps, rock to fakies, boardslides, lipslides, 50-50 grinds, noseslides, tailslides, 5-0 grinds, nosegrinds, and finally, crooked grinds. Tony also takes about 1-2 min. explaining each trick. What I am trying to say is this video teaches you way better than the competition. I highly recomend it.

Basically, they show tricks being done slowly and give advice on how to do them correctly. This can be very helpful or totally useless depending on how you use it. It is something that you only watch a couple times and then never watch again.

This is an excellent instruction DVD for beginners with no skating experience, thru intermediate skaters who want to move on to advanced techniques. Although Tony Hawk makes every trick look easier than walking and chewing gum at the same time, his instructions are thorough and understandable. This DVD will make you get off your couch and become a better skater. If you know someone who has a skateboard lying around the house, who used to use it years ago, get them this DVD - they'll be back on their boards having more fun than they ever had on it before.

My 12 year old son is very happy with this DVD saying he "wished he had found it a long time ago." Each trick seems to broken down in a step-by-step format that he found very helpful.

i'm James and i've watched the Tony Hawk's Trick Tips video and it is awesome because i'm only 12 and thanks to the video, I can
do an ollie, heelflip,pop shuv-it,kickflip,and boardslide.I can also nollie and feeble grind and manual.I've only been skating for 2 or 3 years and this video has been a big help. I would definetly recommend this video to a beginner.