Includes index.

Introduction -- Know the sport: Equipment -- Know your terrain -- Getting started: Warming up & padding up -- Pushing off -- Basic skills: Moving, turning & carving -- Ollie -- How to flip the board -- How to make it grind -- Sliding a flatbar -- Dropping in on a ramp -- Rock & roll -- Rock fakie -- Backside 50-50 axle stalls -- Advanced skilled: Frontside & backside ollie -- Frontside & backside flips -- Pop shove-it & 360 kickflip -- Frontside boardslide & k-grind -- Slide 180 & the fakie kickflip -- Pumping a vert ramp -- Be fit, stay fit: Skatepark diet -- Injuries -- How the pros do it -- Glossary & index.

Specially designed to show you how to master sports and get maximum enjoyment from them. Using a combination of easy to follow text, step-by-step photography, and diagrams, difficult skills are made easy and participating in sports becomes even more fun.

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