Tony Hawk: Ride Trick Guide [Completed]
Covered in this Post: standing on the board, ollie/nollie, tilt tricks, flick tricks, spine transfers, manuals, ollie setup/advanced flip tricks/advanced grabs, and grinds
Intro: Whether people love this game or not, I noticed that most people, like myself, would get this game or try this game, and everything seemed completely unresponsive. The tricks seemed to happen randomly. I also noticed that I am probably one of the few people that have purchased this game and taken the time to learn the way everything works enough to write a guide on how to do tricks. Countless google searches really bring up no results.
This guide is not going to be 100% complete to start off, but that is because I am learning myself, but since I have learned many things already, I wanted to share them.
I am also going to talk about some of the other tricks you can do that even the tutorial videos do not explain. I will stress that every person that even tries this game needs to try the tutorial videos, because the game will just plop you into a scenario and not explain how to do anything and assume that you have already watched the videos.
If you do not enjoy the game, think it sucks, think Tony Hawk 2 is better, that is your opinion, and there is a thread for that. I want to simply write up this guide to show how to do the moves.
What I will do is talk about the types of tricks, and how to execute some tricks specifically, but I will not uncover all of the specific tricks. That will be what you can do as long as my guide makes sense.
Honestly, I got tired of flicking my board up and just "hoping for the best". I wanted to understand what was happening. I decided to just sit down and figure it out (well, not sit down, but figure it out). I am hoping that everything I have figured out truly help you guys so that people do not think this in unresponsive because every single review I have read of this game is where the person reviewing it is literally just flicking the board up and "hoping for the best" and not actually taking the time to learn how to do the tricks. Lucky for me, I am not a game reviewer, and can sit down for games a little longer and learn to not just flick the board up and "hope for the best".
Now that the intro is done:
I am going to start off by saying that the skateboard controller has been seen as unresponsive. It is actually the opposite, it is too responsive. If you learn the way to stand on it and how to move your feet on it (which is one of the reasons of the guide I am making), then everything will happen much more smoothly. If you seem to be doing random tricks, it is because of where your feet are placed on the board.
I will tell you where to position your feet on the board for certain tricks to help assist and get rid of the randomness.
Also, practice, practice, practice. This is not a game that you will be able to just start going nuts on. I do like to compare this game to games like Guitar Hero, because from my personal experience from games with an extra peripheral controller, playing it will not come right away. Unless you are magical, I would honestly be impressed to see somebody who has never played the newest Guitar Hero game play some of the tracks on Expert. Same goes here. Only you are not practicing and learning the notes or anything like that, you are really learning the moves.
Trust me, once you learn to do the moves, the game is actually incredibly easy. Sure, I do not hit every single trick perfect every single time as my feet will slip a little or they will not be in the best place for the trick I want to do, but I do understand what it is that I need to do for the tricks.
One final thing. Since this game relies heavily on your feet. I, personally, suggest that unless you do alot with your feet, to play 30 minutes at a time and then take a small break or else your ankles might hurt. Again, I will compare to a rhythm game because it is easy, but I like to play drums on Rock Band, but I do stop after awhile to rest since I am personally not used to pounding on a pedal and working both of my wrists for that long of a period of time. If you play for 2 hours and are good, than rock on. Not everybody is the same.
Also, this is definitely a game where you will want to plan your runs. After you play one of the levels a couple times to learn it, plan a run. Planning a run will help alot since you will be ready to switch up your foot positions faster. If you just go through a run and are not sure which trick you will be doing, there is a good chance that you will revert back to the style of flicking your board and just "hoping for the best"
Standing on the board:
While this seems easy enough, just standing there, it is the biggest reason why so many tricks are missed. You are just not standing on it correctly. For most of the game, you should have your back foot as far back as possible on the board, and your front foot pushing up until right before the front of the board curves. I normally keep my back foot touching the back sensor as much as possible. The further you can get your foot without falling off of the board or losing control, the better. If you can manage to get your foot halfway off and still manage to play just fine, go for it (even though I would imagine that might hurt your foot after awhile).
If you need to pedal, do one pedal and then move your feet right back to that position.
Also, bend your knees. Keep your legs loose. Trust me, it is much, much easier to hit tricks this way. If your legs are stiff, you will mess up, and you will mess up alot. Keep them loose and bend the knees.
What this will do when you keep your feet like this is always give you the advanced flip tricks, and all you are doing is keeping your foot a few inches back. If you want to keep to simple tricks, move your back foot forward just a small bit so that it is touching the back sensor.
Ollie/Nollie:
This is the most basic trick you can do.
All you do is pop the front up, or pop the back up. Keeping the board up will allow for the flick tricks and some advanced tilt tricks.
If all you want is a ollie/nollie, just pop the board really fast and bring it back down.
If you seem to be doing only tilt tricks, than what is happening is that when you are popping your board up, you are not popping it up enough, so your foot is resting on the curve, and not a flat part. What then happens is that any slight movement of your foot by putting a little too much pressure on your toes or heel will result in a tilt trick. Just simply move your back foot further back on the board.
When I say back of the board, I am referring to right after the board curves. You can pretty much keep your back foot there for most of the game. I will explain other situations where you might switch that foot to another position. Pretty much just keep your back foot there.
Another thing about ollies/nollies: You do not need to pop the board all of the way. Just pop it fast. I can do ollies/nollies by popping it up about 50-75%. If you are trying to pop it up without pulling the board all the way back, you will need to definitely practice it. If you pop it up too fast, it will be incredibly easy for you to tilt your back foot, and hence doing a tilt trick.
Tilt Tricks:
These are mainly your heel flips and kick flips. These are probably going to be the tricks you seem to be doing the most since it is very easy to pop your board up and lean to one side.
The simplest way to do one of these is to do an ollie/nollie then bring your board back down. Once it is back down, just lean on the left or right side of the board.
Again, if you seem to be doing nothing but tilt tricks, you need to move your back foot further back on the board so that you will stop tilting the board once you are up in the air.
If you go for a tilt trick and seem to do something random, but your back foot is on the very back, then also pay attention to your front foot. Your front foot should be somewhere near the front of the board. I personally rest it at the front just before the board curves up. There is a chance your foot is brushing too close to one of the side sensors and setting it off.
Flick Tricks:
These are a little more tricky, but with practice, you will be able to do one every time if your feet are positioned correctly.
To do a flick trick, pop the board up all the way, and the moment it is popped it, use your front foot to move the board either left or right.
Do not start moving the board while you are popping, or else you will end up doing a tilt trick.
Make sure you are moving your front foot right after you pop your board up.
If you are not doing flick tricks, than one of three things are happening: you are trying to move your front foot way too late, so the controller registers it as you trying to do a 180. If your dude just moves 45 to 90 degrees and wipes out, then that is a good sign that you are doing it too late.
Or you are doing it too soon, which means as you are popping up, you are moving it up as well. 9 out of 10 times for me, this will register as a tilt trick since you are technically tilting the board in order for the board to move diagonally.
The last thing is that nothing happens. Most of the time for me, this happens because I am not moving my front foot fast enough. After practicing a few times, the speed issue is not a big deal, and is very simple. Another cause of nothing happening is that you are not moving your front foot to the left or right enough.
It is very tough to explain how to properly execute one of these, but it is easy for me to tell you why you are not doing one. If you are having alot of trouble with this, just go into free skate mode and practice. You might need to pop the board all the way up, you may only need to do it 50% up. Everybody is different, but the joy of this game is that it will accommodate you based on this.
You do not have to move it to the left or right so fast that you are losing your balance, but it will take practice for you to discover what speed will work for you.
Just pop up, move to left or right. It is that simple, and if it seems more complicated than that, you are trying to do something too complicated.
Spine Transfers:
This one is actually explained in a tutorial video, but I found an even more simple way to do it. The video basically tells you to do an ollie off of the QP, and then once you are in the air, do the motions of a nollie. That is actually much harder than it sounds, because most of the time when you go to reposition your feet, you will tilt the board a little, and then it will register you doing a tilt trick, and not an spine transfer.
These are incredibly simple. Since the game will ollie off of the QP for you no matter what difficulty setting you are at, just wait for your guy to get into the air. Once you are in the air, pop the back of the board up like a nollie. It is that simple.
What I do is get into position like I am going to nollie before I go off of the QP, then it makes it much easier to just put weight on my front foot and do an spine transfer.
Manuals:
Sure, this one sound easy, but getting a decent manual without holding onto something can be difficult. I will tell you how it is simple. I actually got the ach points for the 400ft continuous manual doing this. I am a 250lbs man, so manuals are not supposed to be easy.
As for nose manuals, just reverse the instructions I give.
Position your back foot right on the curve on the back of the board and your front foot just before the curve of the front of the board.
Balance on your back foot. That is it. If you have horrible balance, then just do it the cheater way and hold onto a table or something. If you can balance on one foot for a minute or 2, try this. If you keep putting your front foot down, that means that the back foot is not far enough back, and just nudge it back very slightly and try again. After awhile, you will find that spot. Once you find the spot, just practice a couple more times. After awhile, you will get your back foot in position for the manual without even thinking about it.
Ollie Setup/Advanced Flip Tricks/Advanced Grabs:
To do an ollie setup, just move your back foot as far back as you can. What will happen is that your back foot will partially cover the back sensor. Do not try to purposefully cover the back sensor. To know when your guy is doing an ollie setup, just keep moving your back foot back until the guy crouches down like he is getting ready to jump.
The game is actually super easy if you always keep your back foot there.
When you are trying to do advanced flip tricks, all you need to do is ollie from an ollie setup and then do your trick.
The other way to hit advanced tilt tricks is to pop your board up, and tilt while you are popping your board up. This means that your front foot is only there to make sure the board is in place, and your back foot is doing all of the work (for most of this game outside of a few exceptions like flick tricks, spine transfers, it should be that way anyway)
For advanced grabs, just ollie/nollie from a setup and do a grab. I have successfully done advanced grabs this way. For example, when you go from a setup, ollie, and then grab the side sensor (which is normally an indy), you will do a Japan.
The other way to do advanced flip tricks and grabs is when special is activated, but those are covered in the specials section.
Grinds:
Most people will get very used to the 50-50 grind, since that is the main grind that will happen.
To do other grinds, position your board in a direction right before you hit the rail. For instance, to do a 5-0 grind, pop the board up like an ollie and hold it there while you grind.
For board slides, do an ollie or nollie, and then while still popped up, turn 90 degrees to land on the rail. If you hit a board slide, you need to make sure to do an ollie/nollie before you hit the end of the rail and straighten yourself up.
For most of the other grinds, all you have to do is pop the board, and then slowly turn like you are doing a flick trick. Go slower than normal for a flick trick. This is where turning the board slow comes in to play.
You can actually switch up the kind of grind you are doing in the middle of a grind if you turn the board with your front foot while grinding. Just remember to get your front foot back to the front before you are dong with your grind.
To switch up the grind while you are on a rail, just lift up your front foot and while it is up, immediately move it to the position that you want for your grind. This is one of the exceptions of where you want to move your front foot the moment you lift it up.
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