الوسم: Skate 4

Manuals are one of the simplest tricks in skateboarding. Even if you know how to stay balanced in real life, you might find it tricky to do in the new skate game. Unlike flip tricks, which involve flicking the analog stick, manuals require a more careful movement.

Learning to do a manual can help you create better paths in the game. You can hold a manual between tricks to keep your momentum or just have fun cruising down the street, going downhill quickly, or completing basic challenges to earn cash in San Vansterdam.

### How to Manual in Skate

#### It’s All About the Right Stick

To perform a manual in the game, you need to gently pull back on the right analog stick and keep it steady. The trick is to be gentle—pulling too hard or fast will make your character crouch and prepare for an ollie or flip instead of a manual. To do a nose manual, just push the right stick slightly up instead of back.

The game suggests holding the right stick down slightly to start a manual, but you can push it a little further if you’re gentle. Pushing it more will make a higher manual, and you can even adjust the height while holding it, though pushing too high might cause you to stop if your speed drops too much.

### How to Use Manuals in Lines

#### Adjust While in the Air

You can connect tricks into a manual by doing a jump or flip, then smoothly adjusting your right stick to the correct position for a manual while still in the air and holding it there. It might take some practice to master landing into manuals consistently, but once you do, your line runs will improve a lot. Manuals are a great way to rack up points, especially when you’re heading over rails or ramps, and are much easier to hold in the game than in real life.

While manuals may not be the flashiest tricks, even top skaters often spend a lot of time doing them. Learning how to manual isn’t as exciting as landing big flip tricks or jumping gaps, but it’s crucial to fully master the game’s possibilities.

Skydiving in the game offers many chances to jump from tall places, but to do it well, you need to learn how to skydive. If you don’t, you’ll keep crashing from great heights.

Once you learn this skill, you can start from the rooftops of San Vansterdam’s tallest buildings and do tricks without smashing into the pavement. The early tutorials in the game don’t teach skydiving very clearly, but it’s easy to pick up once you get the hang of it.

## How to Set Up a Skydive

### All You Need Is a Tall Building

You’ll need to be off your skateboard to skydive properly. First, find a tall enough building to jump from, like ImpervaTOWERS in Market Mile. Climb or skate up there, then hold up on the d-pad to set a session marker. This marker helps you practice skydiving and jump back to the same spot easily whenever you want.

Once you have your respawn point near a ledge, jump off without your skateboard or skate off and just grab your board again. To do this, press the Y button on Xbox or the △ button on PlayStation, no matter if you’re on the ground or in the air.

### How to Skydive in the Game

### Two Easy Button Presses

When falling, press R1 to start diving and then press either A on Xbox or X on PlayStation to spread your arms out. You can press both buttons in any order—just hold them down.

With your arms out, you’ll slow your fall, allowing you to skydive properly. You’ll see a sign in the bottom left that says you’re in a “Spread Eagle” pose. If you want to land on your board just before hitting the ground, hop back onto it and try to land smoothly.

Skydiving not only helps you fall slower but also lets you travel farther through the air, even without a parachute. Once you’re good at it, you can reach hard spots on the map or cover large distances quickly. This makes it easier to get to missions that earn you money.

While skydiving isn’t very realistic in this game, and it’s quite different from the original skate series, mastering it is a smart move if you want to do tricks that aren’t possible in real life. It’s one of the best skills to learn in the game right now.

EA’s game “Skate” is free to play, but managing the in-game currency can be tricky. Whether you’re opening loot boxes or buying gear from the shop, you’ll notice that San Vansterdam feels like an expensive city to live and skate in 2025.

If you’re looking to switch out your basic board and outfit, earning one type of in-game money is relatively easy. You won’t be able to buy everything with the most common currency, but with some luck, you can gather enough to customize your character and showcase your personality in the game.

How the Currency Works in Skate

“Skate” has two main types of currency: San Van Bucks and Rip Chips. San Van Bucks, marked with a pink logo, are the premium currency that you can buy with real money. The available bundles are:

• $4.99 for 500 Bucks
• $9.99 for 1,050 Bucks
• $24.99 for 2,800 Bucks
• $49.99 for 5,900 Bucks
• $99.99 for 12,000 Bucks

Currently, doing missions or leveling up in the game won’t give you any San Van Bucks, besides a small amount of 250 from playtests. Most shop items require San Van Bucks, so if you don’t want to spend real money, your options there are limited.

On the other hand, Rip Chips, represented by orange tokens, are mostly earned through gameplay. You can see how many Rip Chips you’ll earn by completing various challenges, tasks, or missions around San Vansterdam.

How to Earn Rip Chips

You can start earning Rip Chips easily by completing daily challenges and missions. Regular challenges and missions will reward you with a good amount of Rip Chips, while time-limited city challenges give smaller doses. As you level up neighborhoods by progressing in the game, new challenges open up, giving you more chances to earn Rip Chips.

While most shop items favor San Van Bucks, Rip Chips can be used to open product boxes—game’s loot boxes—containing randomized rewards. Opening a box costs between 150 Rip Chips and more, and each box gives you one item.

You’ll naturally earn money by playing and exploring the map, but checking the rewards beforehand can help you maximize your earnings. The real challenge is earning the premium currency, which doesn’t come easily.