180 Pronounced 'one-eighty'. One Hundred and eighty degrees.
Measure of rotation. Used to describe skateboarding tricks eg. 180 frontside
ollie
360 Pronounced 'three-sixty'. Three hundred and sixty degrees.
Measure of rotation. Used to describe skateboarding tricks eg. 360 shove-it
kickflip
5-0 Pronounced 'five-oh'. Type of grind ie. 5-0 grind. Grinding
with the axle of the rear truck on the edge of the object
50-50 Pronounced 'fifty-fifty'. Type of grind ie. 50-50 grind.
Grinding with the axles of both trucks on the edge of the object.
ACIDDROP Skating off the end of an object with ollieing or touching
the board with your hands
AIR The name given to the trick of the skateboard and skater
when they leave the ground/ramp without ollieing.
BACKSIDE Originated from surfing, the direction in which you
turn if you are travelling up a wave and turn so as you back faces the
wave. Used to describe your direction of rotation in skating. The opposite
of 'frontside'.
BIGSPIN A 360 degree shoveit while turning your body 180 degrees
in a backside direction.
BLUNT Going up over an object and landing with the tail along
the edge of the object and the rear two wheels on top of the object. The
board should then be pointing in a near vertical position.
BONED Pushing the board out in front and pointing downwards.
Performed in mid-air.
BONELESS Take the front foot off the board and grab the board
with your hand. With you back foot still on the board jump up. Then place
your front foot back on the board and remove your hand before landing.
CASPER With the board upside down, place the front foot underneath
the board and backfoot on the tail, pointing the board into the sky.
DISASTER Placing the rear wheels on top of an object with the
rail of the board on the edge. The front two wheels are therefore
hanging off the object.
DOWNHILL Skating as fast as you can down the steepist of hills
for the greatest of adrenaline rushes. Has also developed into a seperate
area of skateboarding with special boards and techniques.
DROPIN As the name suggests. Place your tail on the platform
of a ramp with your wheels hanging over the edge ready to drop into the
ramp. With your weight on the tail, gradually move you weight forward till
you end up riding down the ramp.
FAKIE Travelling backwards. If you where driving a car and put
it into reverse, you would be in effect of going fakie.
FAT Meaning high or far. Used to express a skateboarding trick
that is performed over a long distance or to a great height. Also spelt
Phat.
FEEBLEGRIND Grinding with the rear truck while the front truck
goes over the top of the edge of the object. Hence the board will
be at a slight angle to the direction of movement.
FLIP Developed from freestyle skating. It involves making your
board turn upside down a variation of combinations. A flip is generally
when it completely flips over to land back on the wheels. Flip is also
a skateboard company owned by Jeremy Fox born from a british company called
Death Box.
FREESTYLE An area of skating that has now become part of street
and vert skating. Used to be performed on low riding skinny boards. Tricks
consisted of numerous balancing tricks, flips and shove-its.
FRONTSIDE Originated from surfing, the direction in which you
turn if you are travelling up a wave and turn so as you front faces the
wave. Used to describe your direction of rotation in skating. The opposite
of 'backside'.
GRIND Moving along the edge or on top of an object with the
axles of both trucks, Variations include 50-50, 5-0, Tail, Nose, K-Grind,
Smith, Sausage, Feeble and Slappy.
HANDPLANT A form of handstand where your board is held in the
air either by a hand or feet.
HEELFLIP Flipping the board with your heel. Your front foot
should move up and across the board flipping it in the opposite direction
of a kickflip.
IMPOSSIBLE Freestyle trick invented by Rodney Mullen. Consists
of spinning the board around either foot.
INDYGRAB Grabbing the board in front of you with the rear hand.
K-GRIND Stands for 'Crooked Grind'. Grinding along on the leading
truck without having the board over the object.
KICKFLIP Flipping the board by using the same method as you
would if you were trying to kick something.
KICKTURN Rotating on the rear wheels of the board with the front
wheels raised from the surface.
KINK Used to describe handrails. A kink is the changing of the
handrails angle. Meaning that a handrail that runs down a set of steps
then goes horizontal is a two kink rail.
LIPSLIDE Sliding along on the rails of the board with the rear
wheels going over the object.
MANUAL What people commonly call a wheelie. This is travelling
along of your board balancing on the two rear wheels.
MCTWIST 540 degree backside air with a mute grab. Invented by
Mike McGill.
MELLONCOLLIE An ollie and,while in midair, grabbing the board behind you with the leading hand.
NOLLIE Follows the same concepts as an ollie. While travelling along place the front foot on the nose and pop up into the air using the nose (rather than the tail in an ollie). The exact same as a switch-stance fakie ollie.
NOSEGRAB Grabbing the front of the board (nose) with the leading
hand.
NOSEGRIND Grinding on the leading truck only. NOSESLIDE Sliding
along an object using the underside of the nose.
OCOMPLY Old school street skating trick. There are many variations
but the basic is to travel along with rear foot on the tail, then place
the front foot on the ground and pop the board into the air.
OLLIE Invented on ramps by Ollie Gelfand and brought to the
streets by Rodney Mullen. A air without using your hands. The basis for
most skateboarding tricks and the one that should be learnt first.
POPSHOVEIT A shoveit mixed with an ollie. Enables shoveits to
be performed higher
RAILSLIDE Sliding along an object on the part of your
deck between the trucks. Also known as a boardslide.
REGULAR You skate regular if you skate with your left foot forward.
The opposite of goofy.
REVERT Finishing a trick coming out forwards, then quickly sliding
round 180 to come out backwards.
ROCKANDROLL Ramp Trick. Go up to the lip and push the front
truck over it. Stall, then turn 180 back down the ramp.
ROLLIN To skate along the platform of a ramp, over the lip and
down onto the transitions. The part of a ramp that curves onto the platform
is also called a roll-in, because of the purpose it serves.
SADPLANT A variation of a handplant where your grab the inside
rail and straighten your front leg.
SAUSAGE GRIND Grab your tail while doing a smith grind on your
front truck.
SHOVEIT Turning the board without turning your body so as the
board spins round under your feet
SKETCHY Just about landing tricks. Someone who lands a trick,
wobbles about and generally just about lands the trick is sketchy.
SLALOM Doing the thing that skiers do, except on hard ground
with usually a dedicated skateboard
SLAM Its basically another word for falling off your board and
hurting yourself
SLAPPY Doing grinds along such things as curbs without ollie-ing
onto it.
SMITHGRIND Grinding with the rear truck, while the front truck
does not go over the top of the object but runs along the side of it. The
center of the board my also be touching the edge of the object due to the
nature of the trick.
SNAKE If your skating an object in which only a limited number
of people can skate, a snake (or snaker) is the person that seems to have
more goes than anyone by jumping the naturally occuring 'queue'.
STALEFISHGRAB Grabbing the board behind you with the rear hand
(round the back of the rear leg).
SWITCHSTANCE The art of skating the stance that you are did
not learn to skate with. This means if you do tricks skating goofy, to
skate switchstance you perform tricks with a regular stance and vice-versa.
SURFING Without it, skateboarding may not exist. Skateboards
where made by surfers when the waves where too small to practise, and ramps
where created to form an artificial wave.
TAILGRAB Grabbing the rear of the board (tail) with the rear
hand.
TAILSLIDE Sliding with the tail of the board upon the object
and the rest of the board hanging off the object, without having gone over
it.
WALLIE Skating onto, up and over a street object.
WALLRIDE The act of skating up a vertical wall.
WHEELSLIDE The technique of slowing down without putting your
feet down. It is what people may commonly call a skid. Can be done frontside/backside
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