Your Introduction to the World of Stunt Skating
Skatepark Basics – Trick List of Aggressive Inline Skating
With our Aggressive Inline Skating Skatepark Basics Trick List, you’ll lay the foundation for your personal skating career.
Experience the unique feeling of starting to feel comfortable in the skatepark and landing your first tricks – without injuries. Now’s the time to grow beyond yourself!
Being able to skate your first ramps and learning your first tricks is a special moment – your first drop-in, your first soul grind, your first air, or finding your flow through a bowl or your local skatepark – all of this motivates you to keep going and push further.
SkaMiDan's Skatepark Basics
Your Guide to Getting Started with Aggressive Inline Skating
Aggressive Inline Skating is a way of life – a mix of sport, art, and self-expression.
It demands endurance, focus, and a strong mindset. But the reward is immense: unforgettable sessions, personal achievements, skate friendships, and a vibrant community across social media and around the world.
That’s why Aggressive Inline Skating is more than just a hobby!
Motivation, Safety, and Fun in Focus
Especially when you're just starting out, good preparation is key. Our list not only helps you with the technical side, but also shows you how to train with confidence and joy – and where to begin.
Safety comes first:
In addition to technique tips and our step-by-step tutorials, our guide also includes recommendations for gear – helmet, pads, the right skates, and more.
This is exactly where our SkaMiDan Skatepark Basics Trick List comes in:
We’ve put together the most important steps to get started in Aggressive Inline Skating and stunt skating – and what better place to learn it all than in a skatepark? Exactly: nowhere else!
In our following trick list, you’ll not only find the first tricks for the skatepark, but also a comprehensive guide for your very first steps. From moving safely around the skatepark, understanding typical features like ledges, ramps, and pipes, to mastering the most fundamental tricks – this guide gives you everything you need to get rolling with fun, adrenaline, and safety.
Skatepark Basics
Our Trick List for a Successful Start in Aggressive Inline Skating
Unlike our other trick lists in the Aggressive Inline Skating category, our Skatepark Basics List is not sorted alphabetically.
Instead, we’ve arranged it in a sequence that we recommend for the easiest and safest possible entry into stunt skating.
Follow our Stunt Skating Basics Trick List and learn the most important steps, techniques, and tricks – in a chronological and progressive order based on our recommendation.
For our skatepark basics, we assume that you already have a solid understanding of general and fitness inline skating fundamentals.
If you practice each technique and trick in the order we present below, nothing will stand in the way of your safe yet adrenaline-filled start in Aggressive Inline Skating:
- Skatepark Etiquette
Respect and acceptance – this is how you’ll always be welcome. - Ramps, Pipes and Obstacles
Learn the terms and join the conversation! - Proper Body Posture
Learn the basic skate stance. - Learning to Jump Properly
Improve your posture, balance, and stability. - T-Stop / Drag Stop
Learn to brake without a brake or stopper. - Eagle Spinout
Learn to stop in place without a heel brake or cuff brake. - Back Step
Learn to brake while skating backwards. - Banks, Pyras and More
Learn to skate ramps and ride them up and down safely. - Quarter Pipes and Jump Boxes
Learn to skate pipes and ride them up and down safely. - Drop In
Learn how to drop into ramps and pipes. - Sit In
Learn how to sit into ramps and pipes. - Roll In
Learn how to roll into ramps and pipes. - Jump In
Learn how to jump into ramps and pipes. - Flat 180°
Learn to do a half-turn jump. - Flat Fakie 180°
Learn to jump a half-turn from skating backwards. - Frontside Stall
Learn how to stall on curbs & ledges. - Backside Stall
Learn another basic stall on curbs & ledges. - Pumping
Learn to ride micro ramps & mini ramps. - Frontside Stall
Learn your first stall in pipes, mini ramps and on other copings. - Backside Stall
Learn to stall in pipes, mini ramps and on copings. - Frontside Grind
Learn your first grind on curbs & ledges. - Soul Grind
Learn how to grind on curbs & ledges. - Gap Jump
Learn to jump your first gaps (clear obstacles and spaces). - Spine
Learn to skate a spine – probably the scariest obstacle for beginners.