First thing you need to know is your most comfortable stance. Try standing on your board and imagine you’re travelling forward, does it feel right? If you’re most comfortable with your left foot at the front of the board, your stance is regular, if you’re more comfortable right foot-first your stance is called 'goofy'. It makes no difference what your stance is and it is completely your preference as to whether you are regular or goofy. Don’t be put off if people call you goofy, it’s not supposed to be offensive!

Once your stance is sorted you can try rolling. We find the best way to gain momentum for beginners is to tic-tack. Tic-tacking is where you use you place a little weight over the back wheels, raising the front wheels slightly off the ground and using your hips to tap the wheels to the left and right. You will feel like you’re doing a hula-hoop move and, hopefully, start moving forward.

When you’re comfortable with standing on your board while its moving and you want to go a bit faster you can try pushing. The best way to push is using your back leg. To push safely keep your front foot near the front truck bolts and pointing forward, plant your back foot on the floor and push your body forward, you should start rolling faster.

With gaining momentum you need to know how to stop. There are two ways we recommend for beginners, first of all you can stop by putting one foot on the floor, in the same manner as you did for pushing. The other is to put most of your weight over the back kick-tail, scraping the board on the floor, bringing you to a stand still.

After you can comfortably roll, turn and stop you’re basically there. It won’t be long before you get more confident and can start bringing in interesting techniques and basic tricks. 

For a great starter trick try learning to 'manual'. This trick is really simple and a great way to start but if you can learn to hold it you can later intergrate the more advanced tricks you learn for combinations. To 'manual' put pressure on the back kick-tail of your board until the front lifts off the ground and you are riding on only two wheels. Sounds simple but the tricky part is trying to hold the manual for as long as possible whilst moving without touching the back of your board down.