Tony Hawk's ☠ Trick Tips Vol. 3 (Secrets of Skateboarding)

In the first Tony Hawk Trick Tips video, Tony Hawk explained the basics of skateboarding. In the second, he walked the viewer through some more intermediate skate tricks. In this video, Tony Hawk goes back several decades and teaches how to do some old school street skateboarding tricks, along with some more vert tricks.

Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Volume 3 continues in the comfortable, approachable skateboarding instruction that the first two videos have, and covers a lot of material that makes it easy to recommend for intermediate skateboarders. Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Volume 3 - the Secrets of Skateboarding is really two videos put together. The first half is all about old school street skateboarding, and for this part Tony Hawk teams up with Mike Vallely. The second section is all about vert skateboarding, and for this part Tony Hawk works with Bucky Lasek.

Old School Street Tricks

The street section alone is worth getting this video. Tony Hawk and Mike Vallely work very well together, and they cover a huge pile of old school street tricks that most skaters today only see in video games. But all of these tricks have worth - many of them look cool, they are unique, and some of them aren't really that hard. You don't need to master everything from Volume 2 to attack these old school street tricks. In fact, for some of them you don't even have to know how to Ollie!
Here are the tricks covered in the Old School Street section:

Ollie Grabs
Half-Cab
Ollie North
Late Shove-it
Ollie Finger Flip
Impossible
Boneless
No-Comply
Pressure Flips
Street Plants
Acid Drops / Bomb Drops

Through all of these tricks, Tony Hawk and Mike Vallely explain and demonstrate how to do the trick, then Tony Hawk goes into a planned explanation voice over while you watch the trick in slow motion, and then he and Mike Vallely talk about common problems that skaters have.

For learning old school street tricks, this video is the best way I've seen.
Plus, the last section on Acid Drops and Bomb Drops is every important. These are skills that most skaters just learn through trial and error, and messing up can get you injured pretty easily!
Vert Skating

The vert section of Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Volume 3 isn't quite as good as the street part, but it's still well done. It starts with Bam Margera giving some advice about dropping in. His advice is really good - LEAN IN! He kind of goes off about how people never do this when they first start to learn to drop in, and that's true. I had that problem myself!
Through the rest of the vert section, Bucky Lasek helps Tony Hawk explain the tricks.

Bucky Lasek isn't quite as good of a teacher as Mike Vallely, but Tony Hawk really knows this stuff himself, so you end up getting all of the info you need. The nice part about the street section was that for several of the tricks, Mike Vallely was better than Tony Hawk, and so you felt like you learned along with Tony. Not so much in the vert part.

However, if you want to learn to vert skate, then combine this video with Volume 2 (it's called Essentials of Street, but it has some good vert teaching). This should be plenty to work on. In this vert section, Tony Hawk's Trick Tips Volume 3 covers:

Dropping In
Frontside Airs
Backside Airs
Air to Fakie
Fakie Ollie
Half-Cab on Vert
Rock to Fakie / Rock 'n' Roll
Inverts
Tailslides
Extras

One extra part is a vert game of SKATE between Tony Hawk and Bucky Lasek. This part is pretty big, and very cool to watch! Tony wins, but it looks like he might have used what he knew about Bucky against him. Tony Hawk also uses this part to explain what the game of SKATE is, and suggests that the viewer play SKATE with his or her friends.

It's a great way to push yourself and your friends to be better skaters. There's also an extra part, apparently sponsored by Hotdog on a Stick, where Tony and Mike have lunch.