Skateboard Lessons by Jack H from Alexandria, VA

Jack is a 22 year old skateboarder from Alexandria, VA who’s been skating for 8 years. He has 4 siblings and has taught 2 of them how to skate from the very beginning. He’s helped them with everything from taking their first pushes and going down their first ramp, to filming their best tricks and pushing their limits at skateparks and skate spots in the streets of DC. Jack grew up skating in central Florida at a wide variety of different kinds of skateparks with everything from big transition ramps, bowls, half pipes and vert, to street-style parks with ledges, rails, boxes and benches. He moved to Alexandria when he was 17 where he started to skate more street spots and plazas like Freedom Plaza and Love Park. Over the last 8 years he’s skated almost any kind of surface or terrain you can think of, and he’s always looking for something new and different to skate. Jack considers himself to be somewhat of a perfectionist and is very thorough and analytical in the way he skates and learns new tricks. He’s also very slow and methodical in the way he teaches others, and likes to make sure things are done the right way and that the person he’s teaching fully understands every aspect of what they’re doing. He believes that one of the best ways to stay safe while skating and avoid injury is to be able to understand exactly what your body and board are doing (and why) at any given moment, and even predict what could possibly go wrong so you can know how to prevent it before it happens. Jack loves skating with and teaching people of all different ages and skill levels, and loves to be challenged and pushed more and more every day.