Simple Tech Deck Tricks to Master Your First Week

As you pick up a Tech Deck, you are immediately transported into the miniature of the skateboarding world full of flips, grinds, and possibilities. However, similar to actual skating, fingerboarding may be difficult in the first place. The board is slippery, your fingers are sketching and then you are wondering how come it is so easy to do it.

The good news? The tricks in Tech Deck are not expected to be complex. The skills can be developed in no time with a bit of patience and with some moves that are friendly to the novice, you can have a lot of fun doing it. You are either new to fingerboarding or only a beginner who needs some basic skills that you can master within your first week, these are the simple tech deck tricks for beginners that you would learn.

Beginning With the Basics: Learning to be at Home with your Board

It is worthwhile to feel your Tech Deck before attempting any fancy moves. You want to go a-poking and pushing it around with your fingers, and getting it turned about and finding how the board acts. Balance, coordination, and control which every beginner requires will naturally develop.

Hold your index finger at the mid point of the board and the middle finger at the tail. This is your “stance.” Imagine it is the feet on an actual skateboard. When this becomes natural, you are now prepared to actually learn some tricks.

1. The Finger Flip

It is among the simplest tricks that you can master and it is a very confidence building trick. A finger flip simply is what it is called- the board flips as you flip it with your fingers.

How to do it:

• Keep the board in your fingers on the grip tape.
• Flick the board in the air with your thumb or index finger.

• Sidewall- Swing it back onto the grip tape.

It is easy, fast to master, and so gratifying as soon as you land on the ground consistently.

2. The Ollie (Your First Real Trick)

A foundation of virtually all the other tricks in fingerboarding is the ollie. This may appear to be daunting initially but once you know the maneuver, it begins to become instinctive.

Here’s the basic motion:

Pop down the tail with your back finger.
Slide your left finger in front of you and the board is raised.
Make the board and land level.

It is not important to worry, when your first ollies fall on the ground, or when the board sails around the table. Everyone starts the same way. Keep doing the pop slide action and in no time you will experience the board lifting up, even though it may be slightly. That’s progress.

3. The Shuvit

The shuvit is a super fun trick that beginning surfers enjoy as it does not demand the board to go far out of the ground. It is just a question of spinning the board round and round, under your fingers.

How to learn it:

• Pop the tail slightly.
• Push the board up with your back finger.
Take it and spin the board and get it in your fingers.

You will become a fingerboarding legend when you land your first shuvit.

4. The Manual

When you have spotted a person riding on a skateboard and spinning on the wheelies, it is actually a manual--and surprisingly easy on a Tech Deck.

To practice:

• Start rolling your board.
• Lift up the nose with the front finger.
• Attempt to have as long a hold of the manual as you can without falling back or forward.

The move is excellent in enhancing your control and balance and you can combine it with other moves in the future to form combos.

5. The Kickturn

The kickturn is also a great trick to begin with as it teaches you to spin and turn your board.

How to do it:

• Put your fingers in regular position.
• Bend down and press the tail till the front wheels are raised.
Turn the board to the left or right by finger.

Kickturns assist you to get in control of direction, timing, and board movement. They also leave you prepared to higher tricks in the future.

Valuable Practice Hints to Help You Going

Take It Slow

There is no need to study everything in a day. Fingerboarding is repetitive. The longer you practice the fundamentals of the movements: popping, sliding, balancing, the quicker you will have developed.

Use Smooth Surfaces

It is a big difference if it is a steady, flat surface such as a desk or a table. You will have smoother pops and smoother landing.

Watch Tutorials

It is easier to imitate a move by watching another person perform it. The slow-down videos prove to be of particularly good assistance in grasping the timing.

Have Fun With It

The best thing about Tech Decks is that, you can skate anywhere, your desk, the kitchen counter, the school binder, even a set of stairs constructed using books. There are no rules. Just creativity and fun.

Why These Tricks Matter

These are easy tricks of a beginner, which form the base of more complex tricks such as a kickflip, heelflips, grinds, and combos. Learning them at an early stage will not only be enhancing your abilities, but also creating muscle memory that will allow the tricks to later become significantly easier.

And lastly, but definitely most importantly, the process of learning these beginner tricks will make fingerboarding a satisfying experience at its very beginning. With each slight progress, it seems to be a victory and this is what makes you continue to play.

Final Thoughts

Week one on a Tech Deck is about exploring, experimenting and finding confidence. These are the tricks that are the easiest to use that include ollies, shuvits, finger flips, manuals, and kickturns which are the best place to start as a beginner. Keep at it, do some every day and you will soon be astonishing yourself at how fast you will be making progress.