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8 contributions to The Online Skatepark
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Another day another Ollie 🤘🏾🛹💚
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2 likes • 18d
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Welcome to The Online Skatepark! 👋
Welcome to The Online Skatepark! 👋 Good to have you here. Whether you've never stepped on a board or you've tried before and want to finally learn it properly, you're in the right place. Here's what to do now you're inside. Step 1: Introduce yourself Drop a comment below — what's the one thing you most want to be able to do on a skateboard? Step 2: Start the free lessons Head into the classroom and open First Push. Standing on the board, pushing, stopping, and how to fall without hurting yourself. Do those four and you'll be rolling. You'll also find Session Replays and the Podcast in there. Go at your own pace. Step 3: Show up and ask questions Post your wins. Post where you're stuck. Help someone else out when you can. And ask me anything — technique, gear, what to do next, whatever you need. I read every comment and DM. Step 4: When you're ready, unlock the full course 🔓 Roll with Control picks up where the free lessons stop. Turning, carving, tic tacs, board walks, your first transition - the whole beginner foundation in the order it should be learnt. I'm still adding lessons! Buy it now and you get every one of them at no extra cost. If there's something you want covered that isn't in there yet, tell me and I'll look at building it. One payment, yours for good. 30 day money back, no questions. $29 until 31 October, then $99 — Get Roll with Control
Welcome to The Online Skatepark! 👋
0 likes • Aug 29
Hi Ian, obviously every situation is different but I hope this helps. I've been skating a bit over a year, and was 68 when I started, so it is possible. My reason for starting was to work on and improve my balance, which it certainly has, but no expectations of doing anything sensational; I consider just skating around without injuring myself an achievement. But am working on some basic tricks. My advice is go slow, take things easy and always try to think about what you're intending to do first, work out the best way to try that thing and then have a go. Tons of informative videos on YouTube. Hold onto things, walls, bars, cars whatever to prevent falls and injuries. It took me about 6 months to feel comfortable just pushing. Good luck.
The guide I wish I could hand every adult who asks
For the last few weeks I've been writing it down properly. Every week, someone messages me asking "what board should I buy?" — and most of them are worried they'll get it wrong. So I wrote the answer. All 13 pages of it. You can download it at the very start of the First Push Mini Course in the classroom. Free, no email required for you guys — you're already in. Read it. Take the shopping list to a real skate shop. Or purchase online. It's up to you! If you spot anything I missed — or you have any questions or feedback — please let me know. I want to make this the most helpful version it can be. Download 👉 https://www.skool.com/onlineskatepark/classroom/4e0472e7?md=531666e76a054061a1ca4152ede1810b
The guide I wish I could hand every adult who asks
1 like • May 20
Spot on though IMO
1 like • Jun 17
@Theo Bridgeman I've been really thinking about your suggestions and looked further into it, wanting to better understand the reasons behind it (just me probably, I'm like that). Anyway just got myself a new board - Globe G0 Reverb 8.5" complete as the extra width makes sense. It came with 99a wheels which I've swapped over for the 95a Slime Balls I'd mentioned as it seemed best staying with those for a while longer. Took it to the park today, first time in 3 or 4 weeks I think - just miserable weather! Despite the obvious rusty skating I felt very comfortable on the new deck immediately due to the extra width; I'll definitely benefit from this, so thanks again. Also tried the old 8.00" board with the new 99a wheels, and would you believe it they felt fine! I'd convinced myself I needed to upgrade incrementally, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway I'll keep things as they are for now to see how everything goes. Manuals have improved a little bit too. Cheers 👏👍
✨NEW✨ to the "First Push Mini Course" - Lesson 4: How to Turn
Been leaning with your upper body and feeling like you're about to fall off? This lesson fixes that — turns are all about knee bend and foot pressure, not throwing your body around. In this lesson you'll learn: ✅ The difference between toe-side and heel-side pressure ✅ Why bending your knees is the key to staying balanced through turns ✅ How to progress from tiny snakes to full pump carves If you're ready to keep going, the full fundamentals course picks up exactly where this left off: 📌 Lesson 5: How to Backside Carve 📌 Lesson 6: How to Frontside Carve 📌 Lesson 7: Introduction to Kickturns 📌 Lesson 8: How to Tic Tac 📌 Lesson 9: How to Board Walk 📌 ...and many more lessons still to come 👉 Founding members lock in $9/month for life — the price only goes up as the course grows. Upgrade to premium
1 like • May 31
Thanks Theo, just followed your directions and made myself a carpet board today 😀, so feeling quite pleased with myself. On the other hand it was quite fiddly and slow for me to do, unlike in your video as you raced through it very quickly, so took me a while but I learned quite a lot in the process. By the end of it I could only manage a short try out - manuals, ollies and shuv-its, which I think I'll probably be focusing on for now. Anyway very pleased with the overall result and think it will be very beneficial, so thanks again. Am looking forward to practising more with it and expect to be able to take some videos too.
1 like • Jun 1
Yay, sunny day for the first time in ages, so went to the park. Very interested to try out the new board set-up and really liked it, very smooth and the wheels weren't a problem at all, actually great. On the other hand I was very clunky as it's been so long, so just did some basic stuff which went okay. Looking forward to the next one.
If you could…
Skate anywhere in the world, skate park or not, where would it be?
2 likes • May 29
I haven't been there yet but I hope to get there before too long as it's consistently rated very highly here in Sydney, so for now I want to skate at Mona Vale.
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Mick Hempstead
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Started one year ago at 68 and now 69, so no unrealistic expectations, just want to keep learning and improving, get some basic skills.

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