Welcome to skateboarding!
Skateboarding is infinitely addictive because it gives you a lifetime of progress, exploration, and creating. You can never truly beat the game.
Hi! I’m John Hill
I’ve been skateboarding for 25 years, I’ve been a full time youtuber for 10 years now, sharing everything I know and love about skateboarding.
So what’s Progress Daily?
Progress Daily is a mantra I use to remind myself to create every day. Every day something in my head becomes reality, is a day well lived. Skateboarding is an art and every skateboarder is an artist. Progress Daily is a reminder to share your art because every unique experience, can create something magical for the rest of us.
AND WHAT’S UP WITH THESE CARTOONS?
Everything I make is how I want to see the world. These characters are called The Squad Bots, and they love skateboarding, exploration, and creativity as well. Think of my brand as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater mixed with Pokemon. That idea makes me happy, so I try to package my brand around it, and hopefully it’ll make you happy as well. When the rest of the world isn’t making sense, I either go skateboarding, or visit Squad Island, sometimes both at the same time.
Skateboarding seems cool!
Where do I start?
There are infinite paths a skater can take, this will be my subjective, overly simplified view of the different paths a skater can take.
You can take both routes at the same time. The essence of skateboarding, for me, lies in the Artist Route, so through out my website, and content, that is the route I’ll be sharing and teaching.
there are 5 main obstacles in skateboarding
There are probably thousands of different obstacles in skateboarding, but any good skatepark should essentially have some version of these 5 things.
Progress
One of my ABSOLUTE favorite things to do in skateboarding, is simply to learn as many tricks as possible. I just love love love the tedious process of figuring a new trick out, and every new trick uncovers a plethora of new combinations and ideas. I even started a SKATEBOARD POKEDEX trying to document all the tricks I’ve done in the last 20 years.
Here are 100 tricks I did in each category so far.
EXPLORE
There are thousands of skateparks, even more skate spots, and even more skate spots that haven’t been discovered. In every city, there’s a new spot waiting to be unlocked. In most cities there are skateparks and skate shops to meet like minded skaters. You can find most of the skateparks online and in most bigger cities (NYC, Dallas, LA) you can even find website sharing and showcasing local skate spots.
Here’s a video I made from a 4 months of skateboarding in LA. This is how I like to skate. Finding new spots, exploring new skateparks, using the right song, finding the right angles, and editing the footage in a very specific way. Everything about this is my favorite way to create.
CREATE
Social media killed the joy of “content” for a lot of people. But skateboarders have been making independent films LONG before the algorithm overwhelmed us. Skateboarding is entertaining, and thinking of fun ways to share your skating can be a full time passion itself. Filming, editing, and even deciding where to post, should be fun. You can even design your own merchandise, skateboards, it’s an endless creative endeavor.
PRODUCTS COMING SOON!
Learn how to skate!
I made a free 35 video course teaching the first 25 tricks you should learn along with 10 tip videos for the most commonly asked skate questions
