Don't buy it, it's probably a rip-off. Watching skate videos and tricktips online (like on this site) will probably help you more than just reading about tricks.

Yeah, and actually skating will help more than any book.

[quote=Switchfoot]Yeah, and actually skating will help more than any book.[/quote] Sage advice :D

I have actually read one book that has theories that are quite interesting when applied to skating, it can be accessed for free online as it was written in 1922 and is called Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coue, a lot of it is very applicable to the mental side of skating, especially this bit: "Suppose that we place on the ground a plank 30 feet long by 1 foot wide. It is evident that everybody will be capable of going from one end to the other of this plank without stepping over the edge. But now change the conditions of the experiment, and imagine this plank placed at the height of the towers of a cathedral. Who then will be capable of advancing even a few feet along this narrow path? Could you hear me speak? Probably not. Before you had taken two steps you would begin to tremble, and in spite of every effort of your will you would be certain to fall to the ground. Why is it then that you would not fall if the plank is on the ground, and why should you fall if it is raised to a height above the ground? Simply because in the first case you imagine that it is easy to go to the end of this plank, while in the second case you imagine that you cannot do so. Notice that your will is powerless to make you advance; if you imagine that you cannot, it is absolutely impossible for you to do so. If tilers and carpenters are able to accomplish this feat, it is because they think they can do it."

In short, if you believe you can do it, you [b]can[/b] do it. Definitely true though, that's why half the time when I'm "learning" a trick I don't think I can make it and so I don't try. Of course I don't land it, but you need to commit with both your body & mind to land a trick.

Oh I love those wise quot (Y) :D :D

[quote=bearskater]In short, if you believe you can do it, you [b]can[/b] do it. Definitely true though, that's why half the time when I'm "learning" a trick I don't think I can make it and so I don't try. Of course I don't land it, but you need to commit with both your body & mind to land a trick. [/quote] Yeah, if you look at the physical motion for any skateboarding trick, its relatively easy and even a beginner is physically capable of doing 360 hardflips etc. All mental. Which makes it all the more stressful when you can't land a trick :D

That's why you should build up your tricks. And practise is actually just convincing yourself that you're not gonna fall. If you know you can flip the board right, then it's easier to convince yourself to land it as well.

there's a ook about skating except for magazines? XD

[quote=liquid-zero5]there's a ook about skating except for magazines? XD [/quote] Stalefish, Tony Hawk's autobiography (Occupation: Skater), Rodney Mullen's autobiography (How to Skateboard without dying or something like that), The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World, and the Street Skating series books which has a bunch of pictures of flip tricks, grinds, etc.