You don’t need lessons or an older sibling to teach you how to skate. You can totally do it yourself, with help from some online videos and, optionally, a hand from your best friend.
Here’s a video we made to get you started, starring Jennifer Loughran, an instructor with the Uptown Skate School in New York, and Rachel and Julia from Supercute!
For beginners, we’d also recommend this book.
Special thanks to Rivkah Gevinson for editing help.
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Aw, I used to be learning skating years ago.
Log in to replyNow I can’t because my tendons are too weak (horse riding accident at 8, plus growth spurt later, so now I’m like dead if I do sports.)
I want so badly, still. I’d feel so cool, and all.
(BTW, great success with making the people behind the thing (Supercute members ie, but not only) more like close persons to us, even if it’s still the beginning.)
i have been putting it off for a while, but now it is official.
Log in to replyi am learning to skateboard.
My sis used to skateboard, but she was in a phase then… i wanna learn, i feel like its one of those thing that everyone does at least once in life. But first i will roller skate
Log in to replyI can’t even ride a bike, I’ve never had one. I have balancing problems, but I’m up for the challenge!
Log in to replyThis is soo perfect. I spent like 15 minutes today trying to skateboard after watching one of Jennifer Loughran’s tutorials online… Getting there :p
Log in to replyI like to longboard.
Log in to replyI can skate around just fine. A few years ago, I tried to learn to ollie. I can get the board in the air but then I turn it and land perpendicular to how I started. Then of course I fly off. Still pretty entertaining though.
Log in to replyOh my gosh, Rachel & Julia are the super cutest ever! My orthodontist forbade me from skateboarding, rollerblading, rollerskating, ice skating, or riding a bike when I was a teen. This video makes me want to borrow my brother’s skateboard so I can fall on my butt without my orthodontist’s censure…
Log in to replyI LOVE THIS! Although I got a little nervous because Julia and Rachel weren’t wearing knee pads :/ but they seemed fine!
Log in to replyI’ve been trying to learn to skateboard on and off since May, with little success. Hopefully one day I will learn! Thanks for putting this up.
Log in to replyThis video is really cute. It reminds me of my first steps on longboard.
Log in to replyjust bought a new skateboard a few months ago- now i’m sooo ready to get out, and skate!!!!!!!
Log in to replyI’m a girl and I love skateboarding :) no need to be a tom boy to be a skateboarder! I also love this girls’style!
Log in to replyI have a skateboard but, I haven’t been on it for a really long time. Now that I’ve seen this video I went get back on my board. This was really helpful, thanks!
Log in to replyman this would’ve helped when i was starting to skateboard
Log in to replyi love how fashionable you all look while rocking a skateboard….*applause*
Log in to replyI’m not too old to try skating again am I? Because I tried and failed miserably at 15 (like very bruised) but now I want to try again after watching that. Must find younger cousin with skateboard….
Log in to replyI learned when I was 39, so, no, I don’t think it’s too late for you, Stephanie!
Log in to replyI always wanted to learn to skateboard. My cousins tried to teach me. But I fell off once, and I hadn’t even been moving.
I was quite a roller-skater though. Never roller-blades. Nope…
Log in to replyI’ve been skating for a long time, but I’m kinda scared of falling off the board and if I wasn’t I could be so much better… :( haha.
Log in to replyT h i s,
Log in to replythis is what I’ve been searching for all my life :-)