Balance

Balance is one of the main factors to becoming a skilled skateboarder. Me personally, i think that getting balance comes from taking time to ride your board around until you feel safe and to do things in steps because if you cant even balance whats the point in confusing your self when you cant do tricks.It just makes it harder on your self. I know that it took me at least a couple months before i realized that i was well balanced. Another thing that helps is when your riding around try manuals, that works great. If you try just riding around and you fall a lot its okay, everyone falls. When you fall you don't notice it but you build on your skills by learning what not to do. Some of the falls might just be from a crack in the sidewalk so don't beat your self up or your board because it just happens, even to professional skaters.