• Age: 10 to 13
• Grade: 5 to 8

All the moves to become a serious skateboarder.

Praise for The Skateboarding Field Manual, also by Ryan Stutt:

"Stutt's appealing title is rife with the glossy glamour that should win nods of approval from even proficient shredders." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

From selecting the right board, to learning which way to stand, to landing a kick flip, Skateboarding Skills provides critical instruction for young riders of all experience levels. New riders will learn essential skills to advance their riding ability while experienced riders will learn new tricks to add to their repertoire.

Ryan Stutt shows riders the fundamental techniques that will lead them to success as they practice skateboarding's most important and widely-used flips, grinds and slides. These include:

• Ollies and Nollies
• Manuals
• Boardslides, Lipslides, Noseslides and Tailslides
• 50-50 grinds, 5-0 grinds and Nose grinds
• Smith grinds, Feeble grinds and Crooked grinds
• Kickflips and Heelflips
• Pop Shuvs
• Varial Flips and 360 Flips.

With Skateboarding Skills, riders will learn the building blocks that are the basis of all skateboarding tricks. Instruction for both flatground and vert skateboarding, plus real-time action sequences that capture the tricks step by step, will help riders learn how to execute the same moves that professional skateboarders use.

All photographs show riders wearing the most essential of safety equipment -- a helmet.

Ryan Stutt has worked in skateboarding and the extreme sports industry for many years. He is the publisher of King Snow snowboarding magazine. His previous book, Skateboarding Field Manual, was a Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers in 2010. Ryan lives in Toronto.

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Ryan Stutt's Skateboarding Skills: Everything a New Rider Needs to Know is the most thorough explanation of the equipment and the sport I have ever come across, from how to construct a deck to details of many tricks one can perform on a skateboard. I was particularly impressed by the Skateboarding Primer section (safety equipment and what to consider when purchasing a first skateboard). Photos and illustrations grace almost every page in the book. Step by step instructions, where needed, are clearly numbered and explained. Photo explanations for tricks are easy to follow. Safety gear is worn in all photos. Both boys and girls are shown executing basic moves and tricks.

Puget Sound Council for the Review of Children's and Young Adult Literature

This book would be used over and over again as a rider develops more skills, and chooses more equipment... 5 out of 5.

Youth Services Book Review