Learn to Skateboard Helping you become the next Tony Hawk!

Hey, Riley here.

And this is my uncensored post about how you can accelerate your skateboarding progress and become as good as Tony Hawk. I'll be sharing with you the personal secrets that professionals like, Tiger Woods, Tony Hawk and Michael Jordan used to become the best in their respective fields.

Note: This is a review though, if you want to see the guide that showed me the secrets of skateboarding, click here.

Why am I writing about this? Well, I'm looking to become a skateboarding instructor and I figured that by starting my own blog, I can connect with beginners to the sport and learn from them on how to improve my teaching skills all together.

If you are looking to learn to skateboard, then I'm sure you have heard of Tony Hawk. In fact, he has probably inspired you to pick up the skateboard in the first place.

But what you may not be familiar with is the accomplishments that Tony Hawk has achieved during his career so far.

It is estimated that Tony Hawk has won 103 pro contests. Out of these 103 contests, he has won 73 of them and he placed second in 19. He has been crowned the World Champion of Skateboarding.

Impressive huh?

Now you may be thinking that Tony Hawk is a natural skateboarder and that he is born with that talent.

This is where you are wrong. I am trying to become a skateboard instructor and this is one thing that I researched in detail.

Many scientists have proven that natural talent doesn't exist. To become an expert like Tony Hawk, you have to invest at least 10,000 hours practising your skill in a very deliberate way. This is known as deliberate practise. It is a specific way of practising and I will describe this in detail further.

Tony Hawk started skateboarding when he was 9 years old. By age 16, he became the best skateborder in the world.

So how did Tony Hawk learn to skate?

According to his official biography, "Tony was really hard on himself and expected himself to do many things". "If Tony didn't do his best it killed him".

What Tony Hawk incorporated were the natural principles of deliberate practise.

The characteristics of deliberate practise are as follows:

• It is a exercise that is designed to improve performance. It is really specific and you have a certain goal in mind. For example, the ollie is one of the most basic and fundamental skateboarding tricks. Many trips expand on this basic move. You could have your specific goal to be getting a certain number of successful landings and after you have succeeded you can work on the height of the ollie.
• Deliberate practise must be repeated. High levels of repetition is needed  in order for mastery to occur.
• It must be physically challenging. You must attempt to push yourself and always try to raise the bar each time you practise.
• Lastly, you need consistent feedback on your results to make sure that you are doing things correctly. A coach is vital for correcting your technique and making sure that you are doing it right.

The first three aspects of deliberate may be accessible for you, but the last tip about the coaching may not be available for you. This is why you have searched "learn to skateboard" on Google. A mentor is really important to succeed in skateboarding, however you can get very good results without a mentor.

There is a really good skateboarding guide that has helped me perfect my technique.

Click here to see guide that helped me master the skateboard!

This guide is highly recommended because it provides detail step by step instructions and trouble shooting for loads of tricks and furthermore, it has some tricks to accelerate your whole learning process quickly, so you will get good at skateboarding in just weeks. The only gripe that I have about this guide is that it doesn't come with a built in daily journal to keep a log of my successful tricks performed in. I believe that a journal would be hugely beneficial to track your progress and plan out your progress. But no matter, I go just go out and get one myself.

Combined with the principles of deliberate practice, you can become really good at skateboarding in just weeks. Now I'm not expecting you to devote 10000 hours to skateboarding to become an expert. But if you apply these principles and practise 10 hours a week or so, you will learn and grow faster than your friends and become the best skateboarder in your social group. Now that's pretty much all you want right?

I hope this post helped and I hope you will try out the methods mentioned in this post!

-Riley