To cruise on a skateboard, stand on the board sideways with your feet lined up with truck screws. Angle your front foot forward and gently push off the ground to start moving. Shift your weight to make a turn, and drag your foot on the ground when ready to stop. Choose the right board with wider decks than conventional skateboards, as they can be used on smooth pavement without changes. However, you will need to replace the skateboard wheel with cruiser wheels.
To cruise like a pro on a skateboard, maintain a relaxed stance, focus on your center of gravity, and keep your knees in place. Skateboarding is one of the most popular and iconic street sports, and you can convert a regular skateboard into a cruiser or get a complete skateboard. Picking the right parts depends on what, where, and how you want to cruise.
To avoid standing with your feet together on a skateboard, have your legs apart and your knees bent. Use resistance pushes by sliding your back foot on the ground or using resistance pushes (same idea as pushing, but actually using your foot-ground contact). If you only plan on cruising or going longer distances, a cruiser board is recommended.
In summary, cruising on a skateboard requires a relaxed stance, focus on your center of gravity, and proper footwork. By following these tips, you can confidently navigate curbs, ramps, and obstacles with style and precision.
📹 How to Skateboard for Beginners | Footing, Pushing, Stopping, Turning, Cracks & Curbs | Tactics
Ready to try skateboarding? This quick skateboarding tutorial will take you through all the basic fundamentals of skateboarding.
📹 LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD EPISODE 2 : CRUISING
This is our second day out skateboarding. A couple days ago we practiced the basics like pushing, pivoting, and kick turns at a …
Tonight was the first time I ever tried to skateboard. I’ve been embarrassed to learn from someone my whole life I never bought one or tried, but I finally bought one yesterday and had time after work today, so I pulled this article up and waited until it was like 11pm so I could fuck up in my yard without anyone seeing. This is literally the ONLY tutorial that made even a lick of sense to me. Thank you so so much, my man. (I can balance pretty well and I can roll about 5 feet!! And I didn’t fall once!!)
Great tutorial. I went out with my 8 year old son with a skateboard and rollerblades we found for free at a recycling hall. Just 1 hour later, we had such fun like never before. I don’t know what happend. I just stepped on the board, and off I went. Such a feeling of freedom. I’m 54 years old, and wanted to start skateboarding at 10 in norway. At that time, it was forbidden, and police actually took the skateboard. Now, som 40 years later, i finally got the wheels under my feet. And together with my son. Best gift I had for a long time. Thanks’ for the tutorial! Made me realise I’ve done pretty much everything in an ok way.
45 years old and just started skateboarding, one thing I’ve already learned about rolling over cracks in the road, is don’t roll over them straight/head on with both front wheels inpacting the crack at the same time, instead try to approach the crack with the board at a slight angle, this helps smooth it out and there’s less risk of the front wheels suddenly coming to an abrupt stop on the crack and throwing you off. Hope this little tip helps other beginners like me 👍
I agree with Mr Madhatter. This is the best tutorial I’ve seen so far. After perusal countless other articles, you’d swear that the ollie is the only thing you know to be either a beginner or a pro. I turned 56 in May and bought a longboard last week to learn on. An ollie is the least of my worries…lol
I just bought not only my first skateboard ever after 6 months of research but an almost complete in 8.25 from you a couple weeks ago and just got it last week and I’m so happy to see this article online because I have no idea how I should stand on it at my size, or height and my foot size being a 10 medium so I really appreciate this.
This is the best intro article I have ever seen. And I have been perusal them for 25 year. Too bad I quit riding 10 years ago after almost killing myself. Too old now. This article covers EVERYTHING you need, without overstating the obvious or talking about what fashion to wear. Watch this article 10 times as a newbie. You can watch other articles for the minutia of anything said here.
Thanks so much for this article, I just got a board this week and having never been on one before this is some great theory on how to get started. Feeling so happy I can ride my board up and down the street without having to hop off every 5 seconds 🙂 and that’s only the beginning of course. Keep up the good work!
So good to see quite a few “older” people skating instead of feeling like it’s really a teenage/early twenties thing. I’m 43 myself and ordered my first board which should arrive this week. I can’t wait to especially jump ONTO a curb and not per se off them. I know muscle pain will haunt me for a while though lol since I don’t exercise whatsoever. I can see myself now carrying groceries in both hands, balanced in weight and weeeeeee back home I go 😆
honestly this stuff is so important. I remember in middle school starting out, we could hardly ride around, didn’t ever feel comfortable on the board or be able to go off/up curbs and whatnot but we started trying for tricks right off the bat.. getting back into skating as an adult I find more fun in hauling ass and having good board control, flowing, feeling comfortable. Then the tricks came soo much more natural and easy.
It’s never too late to start and if you want to get better never give up. Also never let anyone deter you from what you wanna do. I had a lot of anxiety about people judging me for how bad i am at my age (I’m 26 and newb). Remember everyone learns at a different pace don’t be discouraged if you don’t make progress as quickly as you want just keep working on it and you’ll accomplish whatever you set out to do. You will likely fall at some point so there’s absolutely no shame in wearing pads or a helmet. Have fun. Love y’all.
I got my first board the same month this article was posted. I always wonder how they push and curve the board so easily in the beginning but I can ride it wherever I want to go now and it’s awesome. I’m really comfortable with ollie, kickflip, heelflip going fast since you build a habit of falling correctly which doesn’t hurt at all. The only way you can get hurt is not committing and doing stuff you know you’re not capable to do.
Thank you for this article. 3 days ago I decided to buy a board and start skating at the tender age of 36. The first 2 days were spent falling over and not being able to complete one push or kick off. Today I got on the board and successfully done my first push/kick off. 2 hours later and I was semi-comfortably kicking off a few times in a row and staying on the board for a good 10-20 meters at a time
My brother and his friend have parts for thrasher. My brother worked for Frog with my boyfriend for years. My boyfriend and dad own a logistics company and my boyfriend skates around the warehouse frequently. I found an old board of my brothers and plan to surprise my boyfriend one day by skating with him. Thank you so much for the article!
Just got my 8 year old a board for his birthday. I used to cruise and actually be part of a club in Middle school but that was like over 10 years ago. I’ve forgotten how to do basics and my balance! Holy cow! We’re gonna learn together. He can do the tricks. I just wanna cruise. This article was excellent! I was reminded of some techniques and learned some new ones too! Thank you!
my partner and i just started skating a few days ago (we’re in our 20s), and the best advice i have so far is to wear a helmet! also go to a local skate shop and tell them you’re a beginner. we are in love with the boards we got, and they were built with stability in mind. also, the coolest thing you can possibly do is not care about how cool you look.
None of my friends skateboard anymore, and the ones that did back in highschool I fell out of touch with so it was literally my first time skateboarding since highschool (7 years at least) and I did pretty ok. Landed an ollie on to the curb a few times, didn’t bail much. Almost did a kickflip, I am happy with where I left off. Some of my friends from highschool though… damn dude I thought they’d be the next tony hawk.
I started skating last month…I’m a 30yr old man that grew up living a rough life and chose gangster life…but now I’m calmer and trying to do good things ….I always respected and loved skateboarding culture, since a kid . Here I am now lol ….I can Ollie and form a kick flip but can’t land it…but articles like this are real educational..thank u guys ..is $170 a fair price for a Brand new Complete set up Baker skate board?just making I wasn’t played….and is pushing mongo still frowned upon? Smh embarrassing..(Poser)jk …but I’m fixing everything before I’m too dedicated and comfortable with my stance. Thanks homies 💯
Im learning this at 12 and the first step is..to get someone to get me a skateboard, plus i have a lot of space to skate and a lot of the kids ride scooters, bikes, skates, i usually ride my motor scooter and skate’s but since i want a skateboard and i want stop asking for one until i get it i will ride my skateboard more, plus falling is the fun part of learning, ty for this article and this might help me when i do get one 😀