There are many different tricks and styles of skateboarding.
Some different styles are street and vert.
Street boarding is going around in a man made skate park where u can do tricks off of kicker caps or fun boxes. It is said that the people who do vert skating are insane because you can get atleast 8 feet of air off the lip are top of the pipe. Also in vert u can do more spin triks then u normally can on the Street. The most basic trick you can do is an olly. An olly is when u just pop the board up under neith your feet by pushimg down on the bottom of the board and sliding your front foot up to the nose of the board.