Intermediate Skateboarding

Intermediate Skateboarding

Skateboarding - How to do a Knee Slide

Skateboarding - How to do a Knee Slide

How to Drop Into a Ramp on a Skateboard

How to Drop Into a Ramp on a Skateboard

How to do a Stall on a Skateboard

How to do a Stall on a Skateboard

How to do a Grind on a Skateboard

How to do a Grind on a Skateboard

How to do an Air on a Skateboard

How to do an Air on a Skateboard

How to do a Disaster on a Skateboard

How to do a Disaster on a Skateboard

How to do a Kickflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Kickflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Heelflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Heelflip on a Skateboard

Intermediate Skateboarding

Intermediate Skateboarding

Advanced Skateboarding Tricks

Advanced Skateboarding Tricks

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Pivot to Fakie

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Pivot to Fakie

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Blunt to Fakie

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Blunt to Fakie

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Fakie Smith

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Fakie Smith

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Front Side 5-0

Skateboarding Ramp Trick - Front Side 5-0

Skateboarding Street Trick -  Varial Flip

Skateboarding Street Trick - Varial Flip

Skateboarding Street Trick - Varial Heel

Skateboarding Street Trick - Varial Heel

Skateboarding Street Trick - Backside Heel & Flip

Skateboarding Street Trick - Backside Heel & Flip

Skateboarding Street Trick - 360 Flip

Skateboarding Street Trick - 360 Flip

Intermediate Skateboarding

Intermediate Skateboarding

How to do a Kickflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Kickflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Heelflip on a Skateboard

How to do a Heelflip on a Skateboard

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Brian Tucci

Pro Skater, Independent Trucks, Circle-A Skateboards

Brian is a fixture in the D.C. skate scene - a professional skateboarder for over 20 years. Tucci’s power, intensity and speed are all parts of his unique approach to skating.

How to Drop Into a Ramp on a Skateboard

Skateboarder Brian Tucci demonstrates how to drop into a ramp on a skateboard.

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Brian Tucci: Hi, I am Brian Tucci. I am here at State of Confusion Skate Park and I am going to show you some more of the intermediate skateboard skills. The next skill I am going to show you is the drop-in. Basically, with the drop-in, now that you have mastered the knee slide, you should be ready to move on. So you are going to pretty much set yourself back up on the top of the deck, put your tail over the edge of the coping, the ball of your foot on the tail. It's going to want to be -- the ball of your foot will be centered in the tail, you are going to want to put your front foot with all your weight on your back foot in front of the bolt, it's a little bit behind the bolt. Now as you -- you are going to center yourself over the top of the ramp and make sure your center of gravity is over your wheelbase. Basically, you are going to lean forward and stop your front foot down into the transition of the ramp. As soon as you do this, you are going to take off. So be sure that you are ready. Use a ramp that is not too big to start off with. Also, sometimes if you feel comfortable you can grab the nose of your board to get to the center of your weight over your wheelbase. Once you have got that feel, then you are just going to lean forward and stop your front foot into the ramp. This is going to make you take-off like this. Here are a couple of different angles of the drop-in. Be sure that you keep your weight centered over your board and push your feet all the way down to the ramp. Alright, so that was a brief overview of the drop-in. The next skateboarding skill we are going to learn is an Axle stall.

How to Choose a Skateboard Deck

How to Choose a Skateboard Deck

How to Choose Skateboard Trucks and Wheels

How to Choose Skateboard Trucks and Wheels

How to Apply Grip Tape to a Skateboard

How to Apply Grip Tape to a Skateboard

How to Attach Trucks to a Skateboard

How to Attach Trucks to a Skateboard

How to Put Bearings in the Wheels and Wheels on the Skateboard

How to Put Bearings in the Wheels and Wheels on the Skateboard

Finishing the Skateboard - Tightening the Trucks

Finishing the Skateboard - Tightening the Trucks

How to Skateboard

How to Skateboard

Skateboard Stances

Skateboard Stances

How to Push a Skateboard

How to Push a Skateboard

Skateboard - How to do Tic Tacs

Skateboard - How to do Tic Tacs