Learning how to ride a hoverboard is a bit like learning how to ride a bike or driving a car. It is fun and requires a lot of practice, focus and attention to get the most enjoyable experience from riding your new hoverboard, like a car, it’s important to remember your hoverboard is not a toy and should be treated with respect when riding out of your home grounds. If you don’t take proper safety precautions, you may get injured, so stay alert and enjoy your new self-balance hoverboard around the UK.
Proper Preparation Before Riding Your New Hoverboard
Before deciding upon which new hoverboard you’re going to be riding around the UK, whether you want the 6.5″ Inch FUN Edition, 8″ Inch PRO Edition, 8.5″ Inch ALL-TERRAIN Edition or the 10″ Inch TRIX Edition Hoverboards, you first need to buy a hoverboard that’s rated for beginners so you can get used to the handling before you become the next British champion in Hoverboard racing. Buy directly from us at Quicksport™ to ensure you’re getting a premium Hoverboard with manufacturers warranty and the support that goes with it, and check out the reviews online, especially those written by our beginners.
Then you need to put on your safety gear. These include the ever-important helmet, along with pads for your knees and elbows. You may want to wear wrist guards too, and maybe a tailbone protector as well.
Deciding on the Best Hoverboards in the UK
There are 4 types of Hoverboards supplied around the world and in the UK particularly and we know this is confusing when trying to make a decision to buy your first Hoverboard, so we’ve organised it for you and are dedicated UK suppliers of the leading range of UK CE Certified safe Hoverboards ready to order directly online, take a look and get started:
- 6.5″ Inch FUN Hoverboards
- 8″ Inch PRO Hoverboards
- 8.5″ Inch ALL-TERRAIN Hoverboards
- 10″ Inch TRIX Edition Hoverboards
How To Ride My New Hoverboard – Taking The First Steps
With the right hoverboard and with your safety gear in place, it’s time to get on to your hoverboard.
- Take out your hoverboard from your protective carry case and inspect it. Make sure everything’s functioning correctly before stepping on to it, you’d don’t want to fall off.
- Try to have a friend with you when you practice for the first time. They will be able to provide support and help if you’re having difficulties balancing or get injured.
- Practice on a flat, even surface with no obstructions in the way or hard surfaces around you in case you do fall off.
- Now using the foot that is more comfortable to you, step on one pedal of your hoverboard. The panel will light up on the side you have stepped on and will only activate it’s self-balance feature once your second foot is on. Confidence is key here, don’t panic and take your time getting used to balancing in a safe environment.
- Breathe in, relax, and focus on just standing as normally as you can. Keep your feet far apart to give yourself the most control, press up to the sides if this helps. Stand up straight, and keep your eyes forward. Just remember that at this point it’s normal to feel awkward. It’s a bit like trying to learn how to ride a bike again.
- Try to maintain your composure and keep your feet on the board. You can practice taking off your feet on the board and then mounting the board again until the whole process is easier for you. Usually, you should keep your weight to your dominant foot and then step down backwards first with the other (non-dominant foot). Don’t jump from your hoverboard, always step backwards.
- The next step is learning to move. This may take some trial and error on your part, but the important rule to remember here is that you only really need to make small weight shifts to get the hoverboard moving. You can just lean a teensy bit and you can start to move. You don’t need to lean forward too much.
- When you lean forward, you may also find that it’s best you don’t lean from your waist. Instead, lean forward with just small movements of your ankles.
- After this, you can learn to make turns. You push down on your right toes to turn left, and you push down on your left toes to turn right. Keep practising, starting with gentle pushes and experiment with sharper turns by pushing down with the heel on the opposite foot.
- Try to practice until you can master spinning in a circle.
After these steps, it’s all about practice, practice and a bit more practice. Just as you don’t become an expert at biking and driving on your first day, you won’t become a hoverboard master in a single day. But you can become good at it with lots of practice in only a matter of hours!
