Skateboarding is one of the hardest athletic things to do, period – if it were easy, they’d call it football! All jokes aside, most new skaters struggle at some point with the sheer amount of practice and blood, sweat, and tears that go into improving. While some of these developmental hurdles are unavoidable, there are...

Trick Terms: Regular: Your “normal” riding stance. This can be tricky for new skaters to grasp, since they’ve probably heard about “regular” vs. “goofy” stances (riding a skateboard with your left foot forward vs. right foot forward, respectively). Skateboarding tricks done in one’s preferred normal stance would be “regular”. Most people don’t use this phrase...