Advanced Longboarding - Longboard Dancing Trick Tips

Longboard Dancing is the term made up by Adam Colton and Adam Stokowski, two avid longboarders who combined elements of freestyle skateboarding, surfing, dance and whatever else they found lying around into a new creative form of riding a longboard. These aren't tricks like in regular skateboarding, where the skater does a quick technical flip of the skateboard - rather, these are all about show, style, and incorporating all this into riding longboards.

The following trick tip videos by Adam and Adam should get you started on the road to advanced longboarding, and longboard dancing:

• Chop the Wood

  This is a great trick to start out on. Basically, you will hop up onto one foot, using your other foot out in front of you for balance. As you will see in the video, Chop the Wood is a great trick to learn to annoy children, or to clear dangerous debris from the road! Watch the Chop the Wood video

• The Lookback

  This is a simple trick that allows you to suddenly change the direction you are going in, generally show off, or stop a run away basketball. Plus, as opposed to most street skateboarding tricks, this one can be done in a sweet purple suit (you'll see in the Lookback video).

• Cross-Stepping

  Cross-Stepping has its roots in surfing. Gaining confidence in cross-stepping on your longboard will open all kinds of doors for later tricks, and make you a more comfortable, stable rider. Watch the Cross-Stepping Trick Tip video.

• The Shanker

  A cool trick that looks, sort of, like a nollie. But without the pop. Ok, so it's very different, but that might have given you a close mental picture. The Shanker trick tip video is my favorite for purely being funny (but they all have a great humor style!). Watch the Trick Tip for the Shanker.

• Walk the Plank

  Basically, learning to walk up and down your board while you ride it! This trick tip video is long on the humor, but it's all good stuff - you'll enjoy it, and you should also at the end of the video, you'll see a lot of ways to incorporate all of these different tricks into one run. Check out the trick tip video for Walk the Plank.

If you liked these videos, or if they helped you out at all, you should definitely check out Adam Squared's DVD, Make You Smile (check out the Make You Smile DVD review) for more longboard dancing. If you thought that longboarding was all about getting from here to there, and maybe hitting a few hills, these guys will open up a whole new world for you! Finaly, If you are new to longboarding, you might want to first start out with the basics in Learn How to Longboard. Have fun!