Product Details

• Actors: Tony Hawk
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Redline Ent
• VHS Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000051S4L
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,470 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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• This is item 1 in The Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Series.

Editorial Reviews

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Skateboarding idol Tony Hawk leads beginners through an introductory course, starting with selecting the right equipment and ending with intermediate tricks. Hawk teaches the basics of several of the most popular styles, including street, vert, and grinds on rails, with help from Kris Markovich and Brian Sumner, two other pro skaters. The 39-minute video starts out with Hawk and his sidekicks demonstrating balance on the board and the correct way to push and turn. Then they move on to the ollie, kickflip, shove- it, heelflip, and 180s, and finally more complicated moves like dropping into the mini-ramp and how to kickturn and rock-to-fakie. For the finale, they teach the correct way to boardslide on a rail. These pros spend about five minutes explaining in detail how to carry out each trick correctly (and incorrectly--all of the pros take some entertaining intentional falls showing how not to do a trick; fortunately, they wear helmets and encourage all skaters to wear them). A helpful popup dialogue box offers information about the subject.

This well-produced video is fun to watch, whether or not you are trying to learn tricks, since it also contains skateboarding humor and the culture of boarder life. It's a great video for beginners, and it will still be useful once you master the basics. It also teaches more advanced tricks that will provide a challenge for quite a long time, since, as Hawk himself says, it takes years to master them. --Neal Marks

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Vol. 1, February 3, 2002

By	Justin Ray (Johnston City,IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tony Hawk's Trick Tips, Vol. 1: Skateboarding Basics (DVD)

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.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 28, 2003

By	Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Tony Hawk's Trick Tips, Vol. 1: Skateboarding Basics (DVD)

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.

57 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Trick Tips, aint a jip, November 25, 2000

By	Michael Roffman "pinball wizard" (Haddonfield, Illinois) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.