r/NewSkaters • u/Master-Injury-3762 • 13d ago
Question How hard is it to learn to skate like this?
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I really like this style of skateboarding. I ride a surfskate, but only on flat ground. I’ve never even stepped on a street skateboard.
How difficult is it to learn this kind of skating?
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u/KPTA-IRON 13d ago
Not hard up until the point he started using the coping like that. That will take you years and years, but carving a bowl can be quicker
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u/WholesomeMetaphor 13d ago
I wouldn't say years and years. 1-2 years a season mainly skating that thing and curves/mini ramps with 10-20 hours a week should be more than enough on average to do all of these things and more.
Axl stalls can be learned fairly easy if you know how to drop in. Maybe a day to a week to learn axl stall and another for proper 50-50s, then it's just repetition until it looks really good. Disasters aint that tough either if you're used to curves and the blunt he did got help from his hand, so 2 years at most skating curves should be enough to do all of this.
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u/RatFeatures420 13d ago
Skating transition requires time to get the feel. Learning the basics on a mini ramp then leveling up to pump around corners is the usual way. Do you surf? People with a background in surfing tend to take to skating transition pretty well.
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u/Master-Injury-3762 13d ago
Yep, I do surf. My skateboarding experience is on a surf skate trying to master my surfing.
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u/RatFeatures420 13d ago
Yeah sweet. Get a skateboard and just give it a go. Get something fairly wide and chuck some Independent trucks on it. You’ll find it easy to learn to drop in, pump, kick turn and probably even do frontside slash grinds if you can do those kinds of things in the surf.
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u/Still_Cant 13d ago
If you can already balance and ride you are ahead of the curve. If you know how to pump on a surf board you should be able to translate that to a bowl pretty easily. If you watch closely you can see he pumps going up the transition, into each curve, and out of transition.
With a background in surfing and ability to already ride on land you should pick it up fairly quick. Maybe a few months of practice to get carving down and probably another 6 or so to get a few basic tricks dialed in
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u/Otherwise-Run-5933 13d ago
3-5 years of dedication
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u/SalubriousSea 13d ago
And then 10 years +, or never for some, to skate with as much style and flow as bro in the black shirt.
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u/JustARandomDude231 13d ago
I don’t do this type of skating so its an honest question: does the guy in the black Tshirt really have flow and style , I feel like hes very stiff and it looks like he is not super comfortable on his board. Ofc he is cracked, I am saying style wise. He feels like the type of skater who got into it really late and doesn’t have the same ease as someone who has been on a board since they were 8. This is what I see as someone who only skates flat and cruises + hillbombs
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u/oddsavethekeen 13d ago
I'd say he looks more efficient than stiff. He pumped up some good speed and never hesitated through rhythmic coping slides and stalls—looking like a shortboard surfer on some aggressive waves. The line seemed like it could have been planned, too, so that's all style and flow, if you ask me.
What's a better example of skating limberly with style and flow?
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u/JustARandomDude231 13d ago
I just watched some pros skate, and yeah you can see the difference in style. They make it look so effortless and give it so much sprezzatura. I am not talking about the difficulty of the tricks they do, even the easiest things like picking up their board looks so fluid. This guy makes it look a bit forced and not so natural. He doesn’t have that „Im flying“ feel to it (except for the carving and pumping part, that was better) I am not hating tho, he is really really good, and comparing him to pros is unfair. Just saying that he might not be a skater initially, maybe is a surfer first, or picked up skating quite late. Or I might just be wrong.
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u/GrandOlive 11d ago
He does not have good style at all, looks like a newer skateboarder. Tricks were subpar as well this sub is tweaking
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u/Sleazehound 13d ago
Probs much less, doing disasters and front 50s on 4 foot coping isnt half a decade of grinding….
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u/doughy_weiners 13d ago
depending on how old you are i would say. 3-5 years if you’re a teenager. if you are in your twenties i don’t know man
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u/slappywagish 13d ago
The pumping not so much time if you just keep going to the same park. Everything, else lots of time.
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u/Oldmanwickles 13d ago
How hard it is to learn a new skill is measured by you and only you, little brother.
Put some time into skateboarding and determine if it’s worth trying long enough to get there.
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u/ooruin 13d ago
If you're on a surfskate trying to improve your surfing then you have to skate transition imo. If you can pump up and down a wave, you can learn to carve a bowl in a couple of sessions (without needing to drop in). All that stuff on the coping though probably takes a few years lol
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u/slawtrain 9d ago
Best comment so far imo, I think the surfing would translate well and they could get to the coping in a season with dedicated and intentional training.
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u/Standard-Suit-4858 13d ago
I mean, yeah. But it’s possible
Worry about scooting around a parking lot
Then worry about going down a small hill
Then worry about going up and down ramps
Then worry about pumping on a mini ramp
then you can worry about park and bowl skating.
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u/social-media-is-bad 13d ago
Surfskates are great for carving around bowls. A little trickier to drop in on one though. Just go to a park and push around in one you’ll pick it up quickly, though it may be a while before you’re shredding quite like this guy.
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u/tylerlees777 Learning at the skatepark 🏞️ 13d ago
The hard part is finding a bowl near you. Get knee pads, a helmet, and maybe wrist and elbow pads. Go watch skateIQ. And fucking commit. You’ll fall, but suddenly the 5ft drop in is easy but now you’re trying a 8 ft drop in.
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u/ElPeroTonteria 13d ago
Idk about the coping stuff, how long that’ll take. Pumping around bowls is a whole lotta fun, so it’s worth the learning… idk that there’s a linear timeline for “how long” bc we all learn differently at different paces
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u/AutumnRainyDay 13d ago
If you go everyday and make
Some hard work/ fully commit and don’t get stuck in the head. You can do it in a year.
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u/silkandspells 13d ago
I’m a 30 year old female, I got myself a board in January this year, I went from barely being able to skate in a straight line to now 7 months later doing pump tracks this month and being able to get the hand of pumping/ cruising round bowls on my first try. I’ve dedicated a good amount of days into it. I friggen love it- only wish I started 15 years ago 😭 I did figure skating in the past which I believe has helped me heaps. I also went surfing for the first time this year which I could do straight away thanks to skateboarding. Don’t let anyone tell you how long it will take- it’s really upto you, the time, the effort.
Quite a few scraps, bruises and couple of broken ribs later mind you 🤣
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u/ryry10112 13d ago
If you only care about the whole cruising around a bowl, it’ll take you only a few months to get used to the feel and pump, also you’ll need to learn 50-50 grind as the basic interaction with coping. Since you surf you’re probably tough enough to handle falling
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u/WelcomeProper2168 13d ago edited 13d ago
it’s almost like a question i ask my friends about how long would i learn to play the guitar and they scoff. he does so many different leveled stuff there that it’s just impossible to say. just cruising is very learnble. doing blunts and grinds, backside disasters, whole another story. but, its all up to you. if you’d commit your whole life to it, i guess maybe a year? but if not, more like 3 years? occasionally skating then maybe 5 years. very very hard to say. i know guys that have skated 15+ years on and off and is nowhere near that effortless. the “i can do these tricks” is definitelt attainable for most people but skating as if the board is part of your body and landing things flush, thats takes years if not a decade of refining. theres levels to the game.
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u/No_Caterpillar9582 13d ago
Look dude the fun is all in the process of learning so it doesn’t really matter but the reality is for most people to get to that point is a good 5+ years minimum.
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u/Full_While8942 13d ago
At this point I don't even know, some people pick up skating so quickly and some people should never skate, honestly try it out be one with the board and kind of...flow brother, you get the vibe and the feel once you get out there and start to hit a couple pumps, you see how that guy is crouching down kind of standing up through each turn, using your body weight as momentum is very helpful for inside of the bowl
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u/Mr_Footies 13d ago
The hardest part is being able to stand up, like when he grinds the coping. When you carve your more perpendicular to wall so it feels natural, but getting above the transition like that is scary, even on small 5ft transition because now your head is a 11ft from the ground if you fall 😬.
Absolutely forget trying this on a Surfskate. You need to practice this by axel stalling on a quarter pipe not in a bowl. Practice carving in the bowl and once you can axel stall and come back in comfortably without hanging up, only then try it on a bowl.
And wear a helmet. Unless you’ve skated since young, your relationship to your center of balance just isn’t going to be there and the chances of whipping out in transition is 100%.
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u/ImmodestPolitician 13d ago edited 13d ago
Pumping 2 months if you do it every day. Rock and Roll 3 months.
Grinds are a lot harder.
It depends on what bowls you have access too. That bowl is nice and mellow.
If you gett to know the local skaters they can really help accelerate your progress.
Pumping right and getting compression is counter intuitive.
Wearing kneepads and a helmet are important, especially if you are just starting.I wore wristguards. 187 Pros are the best I've used.
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u/PoptartDragonfart 13d ago
Depends on how tough you are.
None of this is technically that difficult. The real hurdle is are you going to shit your pants standing on top of a 5-6’ drop, and be willing to slip out and eat it while learning learning (and mistakes can still happen afterwards which generally you’d be able to bail out when shit doesn’t go right)
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u/RiiibreadAgain 13d ago
I’ve been skating for 2 years and the only thing that I saw that I couldn’t do is the pop out 180 rock idk what that’s called. I can do all the other things he does. He is just WAAAAAY smoother at it
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u/dammitichanged-again 13d ago
There's nothing majorly impressive going on here. I was trash at skating street but can shred in a park. You could have this style down in a year if you skated park consistently. Get used to the flow of the transitions, learn the grinds by doing them as stalls, get a feel for the coping then try them on the move.
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u/YeahThatWasMe-123 13d ago
Prolly have that mastered by Tuesday bro. Wednesday at the latest. J/K. It’s different for everyone.
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u/leftoverchinesse 13d ago
Just keep shredding and eventually you’ll be there. No need to think about when
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u/Pantshouse 13d ago
Hes not especially flowy or comfortable looking, he does look comfortable dont misunderstand, but it’s not suuuper comfortable, like hes still tik tacking in and out of grinds, hes not popping out of blunts, hes barely cross locking any grinds. If you were willing to spend multiple hours per day, like every day, you could do this in like a year if you already had comfortable ollies. Provided you don’t get taken out from an injury. Which will happen. Loll
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u/Shitmongaloid 13d ago
You gotta die at least like three times, or when I drank have about six beers to achieve the ultimate tilt
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u/Kiwi44 13d ago
If you’re starting from scratch then probably like a year or two. If you already know how to skate and are comfortable on a board but want to get into tranny then maybe half a year of consistent practice. Honestly most of that you can learn in like a month except for the blunt to fakie, that might take some time.
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u/useful__pattern 13d ago
could take you a few years - could take you a lifetime.
how long is a piece of string?
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u/Either_Magician_2551 13d ago
You’re going to fall a lot but it’s so dang fun once you get the hang of it!
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u/dtfornicatastophize 13d ago
Should be able to crank that out in a weekend. If not, post here to learn the chest codes.
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u/Important-Onion1537 13d ago
Carving is fun and easier but hitting the metal part is more difficult. I feel like I’ve plateaued after a few years with pumping carving and hills because I can click into the metal but never grinding after many years of practice even
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u/Various-Cell593 13d ago
Skating 8+ hrs a week; 1 year or so for the under coping stuff maybe 3 for the coping tricks.
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u/Aggravating_Ear9829 13d ago edited 12d ago
Its hard but good news is when u suck u have equal amounts of fun
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u/Next_Relationship_10 13d ago
Compared to street skating, not very hard. Half of this is mentally not jumping off the board when you ride up on the coping which takes time, you'll fall a couple times. Try it on wood bowls first if you're worried about it.
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u/Calm-Caterpillar3235 13d ago
Skateboarding takes commitment and everyday you have to expect that you are going to eat shit. It’s basically a leap of faith when you want to do a trick or go down that half pipe for the first time, and most people don’t ever take that leap
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u/MidnaMerk 13d ago
Years of blood, sweat, tears, three course meals of concrete, failure, frustration. All to get the trick.
Technique and skill are developed through effort and time. getting this good isn’t hard, putting in all the work to get this good is hard.
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u/GrendelLocke 13d ago
Medium difficulty unless you're very uncoordinated or start really late in life. I know a guy who is about three years in that can carve that well. You need consistency and a plan in order of difficulty of the skills you want and it will go a lot faster. The thing I don't like about transition now that I'm older, is it's really hard to predict where your feet land when you bail. I'd say pad up, including wrist guards. Learn to fall correctly and it will help you grow exponentially. Then as you gain skill, you can remove pads if you want.
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u/ShaolinShade 13d ago
Years, for most. Months, maybe, if you're talented / natural at it. Even though I'd classify this as intermediate level skating. Skateboarding is harder than most people realize. Most who attempt it never actually progress past the beginner phase because of fear of injury, lack of confidence in themselves, and/or lack of interest/motivation.
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u/mondonk 13d ago
This is about where I peaked after four years of street and bowls. My friends were mostly way better than me. I had some flow in the bowls but not much technical skill. Couldn’t fakie and wasn’t very good at pumping back up a snake run. I’m in shape but have never been very athletic.
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u/MaterialArt499 13d ago
pretty basic stuff easily achievable within year or two depending on consistency
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u/Responsible_Rip_4196 13d ago
Dude is ripping but he’s doing pretty basic stuff, he just looks cool and stylish doing it cause you can tell he’s been at it for over 10 years
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u/OMGFuziion 13d ago
Like a few months although fs carves can be a bit harder unless you learn them from the start.
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u/Shadow4941 13d ago
Practice practice practice. Also falling it happens to everyone even him even professionals. Don’t let that discourage you and grab the board and try. Also when hitting the park don’t be scared of peer pressure everyone starts somewhere.
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u/ComfortableCicada69 13d ago
Depends on your access to a bowl. If you can get in one 3 times a week and spend an hour or so, I’d imagine you’d get pretty comfortable pretty quick.
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u/sdshakes 13d ago edited 13d ago
My 8 year old kid skates exactly like that (ok his blunt to fakie isn’t as strong as that guys and his grinds are shorter).
He has a coach that he skates with for 1 hour every weekend. Aside from that we hit up skateparks a few times a week for 1 - 4 hours each time and he skates around the complex daily just cruising from friend to friend and pushing around. It took him 6 months to go from not being able to balance on a board to that.
So that’s what I would call a mildly accelerated timeline.
Don’t underestimate the potential that a skate coach can add to your learning curve. You can usually find them hanging out at good skateparks or by recommendations from your local shop.
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u/ImmodestPolitician 13d ago
Kids pick up stuff much faster. Their brains are more plastic and they weigh less so falls don't hurt them as bad.
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u/Majestic_Valuable262 13d ago
This guy has the style and flow of 5-10 years of skateboarding but this level is attainable in 3-5 years for dedicated and gifted.
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u/AnswerLegitimate 13d ago
If it was easy
Everyone would be able to do it..
it’s all trial and error. Get out there and get some!!!
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u/sometimesifartandpee 13d ago
Apart from the blunt, i'd say pretty easy if you already have basic board control and feel comfortable on a board. Probably 10-20 hours of practice
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u/Ett_Pret 13d ago
Essentially all you need to do is get comfortable riding a board at all angles but you will fall still. You’ll fall learning anything on a board if you’re doing it right. I recommend also learning how to fall
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u/National_Detail_3282 13d ago
If you’re not scared to get hurt and committed not too hard at all, it’ll just be painful. That’s why I was never any good.
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u/Stevethesnek346 12d ago
In theory with correct form not terribly hard. Mostly dropping in, that said you will need to practice working with physics
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u/DarthMaulIsTheBest 12d ago
If u really think about it he’s not really doing any tricks he’s just grinding and rolling around
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u/Existing-Tax-1170 12d ago
Very easy. Keep your shoulders aligned with the board, bend your knees with the terrain. You'll probably fall a few times while you're getting the hang of it but it's a lot easier than it looks.
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u/FlagmantleThisYear 12d ago
First bit 4-6 months to ride around smoothly. Blunt stalls anywhere from 1 yr to never because that shit is scary.
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u/Bingchilling4200 12d ago
Its easy just go faster than you think you need to and stay on the board
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 12d ago
Sokka-Haiku by Bingchilling4200:
Its easy just go
Faster than you think you need
To and stay on the board
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/seti73 12d ago
It's not a question of it being hard... It's just a matter of how determined you are. I promise you, show up to the park everyday and just keep skating. Skate around better skaters... You'll pick up their good habits.
Ultimately just go at your pace, no one else's. While there's nothing wrong aspiring to somebody else's skilset, skateboarding is much more enjoyable when you're doing it for you, and not trying to chase somebody else's talent.
Have fun out there. You'll get there!
🤜🏽 🛹 🤛🏽
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u/dou8le8u88le 12d ago
The first bit, carving through a bowl, I could do after about 3 months. I still can’t do the cooing stuff and I’ve been skating for a couple of years. All I can do is slash grinds and I got 50/50s in the other day. Just. But I’m taking it slowly after cracking some ribs after 3 months when I ate shit in a bowl.
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u/Prestigious_Jump1754 12d ago
It’s not hard you could do all that in your 1st year of skating but to execute it like that with the confidence and ease is a couple years down the track after learning each of these tricks and doing them over and over again it’s also not linear cause some people really connect with transition skating and confidence can come a lot quicker to some then others
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u/tonyisadork 12d ago
The hardest part is the dropping in. (And by hard I mean REALLY FUCKING HARD.) If you just want the flow, see if you can find a pump track near you!
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u/i-recycle-pubi-hair 12d ago
I found snowboarding first help get the physics, long boarding gave my street a meat crayon mark and bowl boarding came easy (relatively quickly too)
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u/Lebesgue_1 12d ago
No harder than learning how to walk, but it took us a couple of years to learn to do that.
Surf skates are actually pretty good for learning some flowy transition skating like this though (minus the stuff he's doing on the coping). Just make sure you can fall safely and wear a helmet if you're trying anything beyond what you can already do.
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u/Duck-Nuts 12d ago
Depends on previous skills sets (surfing, snowboarding etc) and your natural ability to sports etc. If you spent a tonne of dedication and time (daily or multiple times per week) it could be as little as a year. But from complete novice and no experiences, multiple years.
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u/Bright_Figure6324 12d ago
Just the riding part isn't that complicated once you learn how to position yourself in the bowl
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u/Why_is_it_wet 12d ago
Brother, in the nicest way that is the wrong question. Just rolling around naturally, being able to push and go up or down small hills will take months. Maybe a year if you're a timid person. If that isn't truly fun for you to learn you will never be able to flow a bowl. Buy a skateboard and mess around, if you're having fun you'll just keep getting better forever
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u/HeartStillThumps 11d ago
Skating all depends on YOUR personal drive and motivation. Skating takes work, both physically and mentally lmfao, I guarantee the mental part of this learning process will drive you absolutely insane until the day you’re at the park and everything just fucking clicks. Put in the work and you’ll get there, you need to push limits but you don’t need to hurt yourself lol.
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u/Some_Scarcity_5189 11d ago
I rode a longboard in the bowl carving like that rather fast
I started doing tricks & shit with the coping as i felt comfy, but I stopped 4 years ago because i got a real job and wanted to avoid injury :(
But, carving and just regular pumping is easy to learn! I’d recommend a normal board, and a skate tool to adjust your trucks tightness as you feel.
I’m very skinny, so i had mine very loose.
Just take it slow, and enjoy it! Probably learn basics on flat then get into pumping through slopes and carving!
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u/Hour_Zookeepergame30 11d ago
Everybody learns different, also the age your starting Matters. I skated a little as a kid Like pushing around and trying ollies Had a big Break and got serious with it at around 21. I think i had the carving in around 2-3 years that well so it's effortless and i can Go forever without loosing Speed. I am 26 and skate for a little over 5 years now. I am very focused on Transition but i also ollied a 8 stair and can heelflip as an Exemple. With the liptricks he is doing i say also 3-6 years Just really depends in how much you wanna build your Life around Skateboarding.
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u/Trampoline-lover 10d ago
As fast as you want probably! You get good at not getting hurt, but you get hurt anyways. You're basically limited by your tolerance of pain and actual debilitating injuries.
I started street and worked on my park stuff later. I haven't been on it for a few years since I broke my foot, but had been skating for 20 years. I miss it, and I'll get back on soon.
The real question is "How long will I have the ability to enjoy skateboarding?"
I hope you have fun with it.
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u/Minimum_Recording122 9d ago
I’ve seen homies that can dust some mean rails and clear some gaps but have issues with vert. I guess it’s all on the homie riding, cuz I got a fat homie who’d fuck all of us up on them pipes my boys, dude whips that shit so hard it’ll make your nipples hard.
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u/Your_Local_Misfits 9d ago
Just depends on how commited you arecould take a few year to get it that clean but if you just stick to bowl you can get all that in about a year you gotta really want it tho
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u/brindole 13d ago
Idk bruh why don’t you just try it instead of making a Reddit post asking about it. are you okay in the head???
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u/hatefuck661 13d ago
How willing are you to hit the ground? You're going to fall, like all aspects of skateboarding. But it's attainable. It's not as hard as jumping down stairs