Skateboarding Tricktionary - I
Iceplant
A boneless to fakie.
Illusion Flip
Many people confuse this trick with a hardflip. An illusion flip is a type of hardflip performed vertically through the riders legs. To achieve this the skateboarder must rotate his body 90° frontside, before turning back to catch the board and land. The flip resembles a vertical pop shuvit but is in effect a half backflip, half kickflip, the opposite of a phobia flip.
Impossible
A very difficult trick originating in flatland skateboarding involving the vertical end over end rotation, or backflip, of the skateboard around the riders back foot. Like a pressure flip, in an impossible the front foot does nothing except get out of the way. If you watch one, the back foot scoops forwards as the rider pops, to start the backflip motion, and then whips around in a circular motion, as the board literally has to roll around the back foot to complete the trick.
This trick was invented by Rodney Mullen in the 80's after he was told that it would be "literally impossible" to get the board to flip end over end. After landing the trick, there was really no other name he could give it...
Indy
A grab trick where the back hand grabs the toeside edge of the board about half way along. This is the most common grab trick in vert skating.
Invert
Done on ramps, the invert is a handplant trick with many variations. In the basic invert, the board is grabbed mute and the back hand is placed on the coping to allow the skater to go completely upside down before re-entering the ramp.
Inward Heelflip
The opposite of an inward kickflip, an inward heelflip is a varial heelflip where the varial is popped backside instead of frontside. The rider must flick the heelflip off of the leading edge of the board as it turns, making the trick extremely difficult and impressive.
Note that this is a different trick to the version where you turn backside 90° in mid air and let the board flip between your legs, which is known as a phobia flip. Like the hardflip, phobia flips were created as an easier (though still not easy) version of inward heelflips, so if you can't work out how to inward heelflip give that a go instead. In an inward heelflip, the board must spin laterally underneath your feet, not through your legs.
Inward Kickflip
A varial kickflip where the varial is popped frontside instead of backside. See hardflips for more detail.
Irish Flip
Pull the board like a half nosehook impossible from a no handed 50-50, and then do a late underflip to land normally.
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Skateboarding Tricktionary - H
Skateboarding Tricktionary - H
Half Cab
A 180° fakie ollie - half a cabalerial.
Half Cab Impossible
A half cab impossible is a combination of a half cab and a fakie impossible, often confused with a rolling nosehook impossible.
The way to tell is to look at the front foot, obviously. Also, nosehook impossibles tend to stall on the tail slightly, while the half cab impossible is more of a fluid motion. If you watch, Mullen's are almost always nosehooks, and not half cab impossibles.
Half Pipe
The primary structure used in vert skating consisting of two concave ramps (or quarterpipes) facing each other. Originally a half pipe was simply that - a cross section of half a pipe - but modern half pipes usually have an area of flat ground between the transitioned sides to enable the skater more time to regain his balance between tricks and prepare for the next trick. Half pipes take two main forms - small mini ramps, used more for lip tricks and aimed largely at beginners, and vert ramps which feature a purely vertical wall at the top of the transition.
Hand Casper
A casper with the nose held up by one or both hands in any way at all.
Handplant
A generic name for any move where a hand is placed on something to support the skater. The term generally refers to an invert variation, though.
Handstand
Much like the much-loved staple product of any British DIY'er, Ronseal, this does what it says on the tin. You just do a handstand on the board. Comes in fetching one handed, rolling, rail stand and English variants, with many different flips, shuvits and fingerflips out.
Handstand Fingerflip
These are slightly different to your basic handstand flips. Whereas handstand flips are pulled towards you, handstand fingerflips are flipped the other way, meaning that you actually have to use a hand at either end (like a cannonball grab) to actually flip the board.
Handstand Flip
There are many different types of handstand flip, the "basic" handstand flip involves gripping onto the toeside edge of the deck with your hands while in the standard handstand position and kicking your legs in the air to launch you upwards so you can flip the board under you - much like a monkeyflip.
Other types of handstand flip include varialflips, 360 flips, railhandstand flips, one handed handstand flips and english handstand flips. Note that handstand shuvits and handstand fingerflips can also be done, but both use a slightly different technique.
Handstand Shuvit
Yep, like flips, shuvits can also be done from a handstand. I've also heard of handstand bigspins being done, but have yet to see one.
Hang Ten
Refers to a stance where the skateboarder has both feet facing forward on the nose. It's named after a surfing trick where the surfer would hang their ten toes over the nose (not necessary in skateboarding, obviously). A hang ten nosemanual is possible if your balance is godlike.
Hangtime
The name given to the period of time spent in the air after launching from a half pipe, ramp, kicker or any other obstacle.
Hardflip
Apparently this is *the* tech trick of modern day street skating. This is a varial kickflip done the difficult way - you should know what a varial kickflip is before you try and grasp the hardflip.
The varial is popped frontside instead of backside, meaning that your front foot has to flick off the leading edge of the skateboard as it rotates to get the board to flip, making it very awkward.
To do this, you can 'cheat' and turn frontside in mid air, allowing the skateboard to flip between your legs, before turning back again to catch the board and land the trick. This is often known as an illusion flip. This variation doesn't look like a varial kickflip, which goes a long way to explaining the confusion that surrounds them. When you watch someone doing one, it looks like the board is doing half a back flip and half a kickflip. The trademark of this - the illusion flip - is the way the skateboard flips between the legs rather than under the feet.
The 'proper' way, if such a term can be used in skateboarding, is to make the skateboard do the varial under the feet. This is much more difficult and rarely looks as smooth as the easier version. This trick is the opposite of an inward kickflip.
Hardware
The collective name for the nuts and bolts which hold the trucks to the deck.
Heelflip
A variation on an ollie where the skater flicks his front foot off the toe edge of the board as he ollies, causing the board to flip once, twice or even three times. This is the opposite (and usually more difficult version of) a kickflip.
Heelie
A wheelie performed with both feet on the tail of the skateboard facing forwards - similar to a hang ten nose manual, except at the other end of the skateboard.
Heelside
Like frontside and backside, heelside is used to further define some rail tricks and tricks involving a flip, in this case towards the heel edge of the skateboard. This originated in flatland skateboarding where, along with the toeside definition, tricks could be better described. Still a useful term today if you are into fingerflips, rail flips etc...
Helipop
A 360° frontside nollie. That is, a three hundred and sixty degree ollie off of the nose of the skateboard. The helipop was invented by Rodney Mullen, and he would later invent the helipop heelflip.
Ho Ho Plant
A handstand done with both hands on the floor/coping, feet fully extended, and the board resting on top of the feet in what would be a normal riding position. Can be done as an invert on vert, from a street plant, or as a yoyo plant variation.
I heard rumours that a US freestyler called Terry Synnott can do yoyo-to-hoho plants and do ollie kickflip and shuvit variations while in the Ho-Ho position. Mad.
Hospital Flip
A type of casper flip. A half kickflip to casper position in mid air, followed by a varial half underflip with your front foot to get your board back the right way up.
Hurricane
This combo grind trick consists of a 180° ollie into a fakie feeble grind. In more detail, a feeble grind is where the back truck grinds the obstacle with the front truck next to the obstacle on the toeside. The deck is therefore pointed downwards and the underside of the deck itself often slides along the obstacle as well. So do that backwards after ollying 180° and you'll be doing a hurricane grind.
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Half Cab
A 180° fakie ollie - half a cabalerial.
Half Cab Impossible
A half cab impossible is a combination of a half cab and a fakie impossible, often confused with a rolling nosehook impossible.
The way to tell is to look at the front foot, obviously. Also, nosehook impossibles tend to stall on the tail slightly, while the half cab impossible is more of a fluid motion. If you watch, Mullen's are almost always nosehooks, and not half cab impossibles.
Half Pipe
The primary structure used in vert skating consisting of two concave ramps (or quarterpipes) facing each other. Originally a half pipe was simply that - a cross section of half a pipe - but modern half pipes usually have an area of flat ground between the transitioned sides to enable the skater more time to regain his balance between tricks and prepare for the next trick. Half pipes take two main forms - small mini ramps, used more for lip tricks and aimed largely at beginners, and vert ramps which feature a purely vertical wall at the top of the transition.
Hand Casper
A casper with the nose held up by one or both hands in any way at all.
Handplant
A generic name for any move where a hand is placed on something to support the skater. The term generally refers to an invert variation, though.
Handstand
Much like the much-loved staple product of any British DIY'er, Ronseal, this does what it says on the tin. You just do a handstand on the board. Comes in fetching one handed, rolling, rail stand and English variants, with many different flips, shuvits and fingerflips out.
Handstand Fingerflip
These are slightly different to your basic handstand flips. Whereas handstand flips are pulled towards you, handstand fingerflips are flipped the other way, meaning that you actually have to use a hand at either end (like a cannonball grab) to actually flip the board.
Handstand Flip
There are many different types of handstand flip, the "basic" handstand flip involves gripping onto the toeside edge of the deck with your hands while in the standard handstand position and kicking your legs in the air to launch you upwards so you can flip the board under you - much like a monkeyflip.
Other types of handstand flip include varialflips, 360 flips, railhandstand flips, one handed handstand flips and english handstand flips. Note that handstand shuvits and handstand fingerflips can also be done, but both use a slightly different technique.
Handstand Shuvit
Yep, like flips, shuvits can also be done from a handstand. I've also heard of handstand bigspins being done, but have yet to see one.
Hang Ten
Refers to a stance where the skateboarder has both feet facing forward on the nose. It's named after a surfing trick where the surfer would hang their ten toes over the nose (not necessary in skateboarding, obviously). A hang ten nosemanual is possible if your balance is godlike.
Hangtime
The name given to the period of time spent in the air after launching from a half pipe, ramp, kicker or any other obstacle.
Hardflip
Apparently this is *the* tech trick of modern day street skating. This is a varial kickflip done the difficult way - you should know what a varial kickflip is before you try and grasp the hardflip.
The varial is popped frontside instead of backside, meaning that your front foot has to flick off the leading edge of the skateboard as it rotates to get the board to flip, making it very awkward.
To do this, you can 'cheat' and turn frontside in mid air, allowing the skateboard to flip between your legs, before turning back again to catch the board and land the trick. This is often known as an illusion flip. This variation doesn't look like a varial kickflip, which goes a long way to explaining the confusion that surrounds them. When you watch someone doing one, it looks like the board is doing half a back flip and half a kickflip. The trademark of this - the illusion flip - is the way the skateboard flips between the legs rather than under the feet.
The 'proper' way, if such a term can be used in skateboarding, is to make the skateboard do the varial under the feet. This is much more difficult and rarely looks as smooth as the easier version. This trick is the opposite of an inward kickflip.
Hardware
The collective name for the nuts and bolts which hold the trucks to the deck.
Heelflip
A variation on an ollie where the skater flicks his front foot off the toe edge of the board as he ollies, causing the board to flip once, twice or even three times. This is the opposite (and usually more difficult version of) a kickflip.
Heelie
A wheelie performed with both feet on the tail of the skateboard facing forwards - similar to a hang ten nose manual, except at the other end of the skateboard.
Heelside
Like frontside and backside, heelside is used to further define some rail tricks and tricks involving a flip, in this case towards the heel edge of the skateboard. This originated in flatland skateboarding where, along with the toeside definition, tricks could be better described. Still a useful term today if you are into fingerflips, rail flips etc...
Helipop
A 360° frontside nollie. That is, a three hundred and sixty degree ollie off of the nose of the skateboard. The helipop was invented by Rodney Mullen, and he would later invent the helipop heelflip.
Ho Ho Plant
A handstand done with both hands on the floor/coping, feet fully extended, and the board resting on top of the feet in what would be a normal riding position. Can be done as an invert on vert, from a street plant, or as a yoyo plant variation.
I heard rumours that a US freestyler called Terry Synnott can do yoyo-to-hoho plants and do ollie kickflip and shuvit variations while in the Ho-Ho position. Mad.
Hospital Flip
A type of casper flip. A half kickflip to casper position in mid air, followed by a varial half underflip with your front foot to get your board back the right way up.
Hurricane
This combo grind trick consists of a 180° ollie into a fakie feeble grind. In more detail, a feeble grind is where the back truck grinds the obstacle with the front truck next to the obstacle on the toeside. The deck is therefore pointed downwards and the underside of the deck itself often slides along the obstacle as well. So do that backwards after ollying 180° and you'll be doing a hurricane grind.
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Skateboarding Tricktionary - G
Skateboarding Tricktionary - G
G Turn
In the days before wheelies were taken to obstacles and called manuals, there were G turns. G turns were nose wheelies where you carve round in a circle that gets steadily tighter, the theory being that the more full circles you do, the better, and you could end with a spin.
They can be done in a normal nosewheelie, or in a hang ten or one footed version.
Gatair
A fakie 360° mute grab fastplant. Named after Mark "Gator" Anthony, who not only invented the trick, but later became infamous after killing a woman and burying her in the desert.
Gay Twist
This is a caballerial with a mute grab. Needless to say, people rarely do gay twists outside of vert and ramp skating.
Gazelle
This is a 540° shuvit where the rider of the skateboard also spins a 360° body follow (a body follow is a body varial in the same direction as the skateboard is spinning). Rodney Mullen does lots of gazelles in his video parts, and rightly so because they look sweet.
Gazelle Flip
Quite simply, a gazelle with any kind of flip.
Ghetto Bird
The ghetto bird is a 'signature trick' of pro skater Kareem Campbell, although like many signature tricks it's probable that the trick was landed well before Kareem popularised it. The trick itself is simply an illusion flip revert; in other words, you pop an illusion flip and then turn 180° after catching the board just as or just after you're landing.
Note: Many people will tell you that a ghetto bird is a hardflip revert, but I've watched Campbell do this trick a lot and he definately doesn't do a 'proper' hardflip (a flip that spins under the feet). The confusion stems from the fact that few people understand the difference between a hardflip and an illusion flip. That's not to take anything away from the trick, because illusion flips are still damn good and most people do "hardflips" that way anyway (in fact, I've never seen anyone do a proper hardflip).
Gingersnap
A flatland flip trick done out of hang ten stance, in which the rider is balancing with both feet facing forwards side by side on the nose of the skateboard. The flip consists of half a front flip and half a normal flip, achieved by jumping up sharply from both feet with a slight empasis on one side of the nose to get the side spin required. The board flips vertically beneath the riders feet, so he must tuck his knees nice and high to avoid the board before turning 90° in mid air and landing in switch or regular stance.
Gnar Jar
A 540° to tail. Broken down, this means you get air on a vert ramp, spin 540°, and slap your tail on the coping on the way down.
Godzilla Flip
An impossible from a tail stop that is started by pulling the nose of the board over your foot with your hand as you jump.
Be aware that there is a difference between this and the godzilla railflip.
Godzilla Railflip
A frontside varial railflip from toeside rail that flips 1.75 times in the heelflip direction.
Not to be confused with a godzilla flip which is a different trick entirely.
Goofy Foot
A term describing a skateboarder whose natural stance is right foot forwards. Goofy footed skaters are the minority - most skaters are regular footed.
Gorilla Grip
When skaters still skated barefoot, they would curl their toes around the ends of the board so they could pull the board up with them as they jumped, and this was called a Gorilla Grip.
Grab Trick
A trick involving holding a part of the skateboard with one or both hands while airborne. Grab tricks are common in vert skating where half pipes give plenty of hangtime, but are also seen occasionally in street skating off big ramps or kickers.
Grey Slide
Named after Jim Grey, the Grey Slide is a vert tailslide where the front hand grabs the nose and the back hand is on the coping, creating a layback slide variation.
Grind
The act of riding along an obstacle - usually a kerb, rail or ledge - on the trucks of the skateboard. This often makes a distinctive grinding noise. There are dozens of grind variations, some of the most common are the 50-50 grind, nosegrind, and the 5-0 grind.
Griptape
Part of a skateboard - the stickybacked sandpaper applied to the top of a deck to enable a skateboarders shoes to grip the skateboard.
Gymnast Plant
1. A no-footed invert on a ramp; the legs are extended upwards and held together perfectly in a good gymnast plant.
2. A one handed handstand from a rail stand or a tail stop position in freestyle skateboarding. One hand holds the board in the air while the other hand is planted on the floor. Note that your feet should never touch the floor in a good gymnast plant.
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G Turn
In the days before wheelies were taken to obstacles and called manuals, there were G turns. G turns were nose wheelies where you carve round in a circle that gets steadily tighter, the theory being that the more full circles you do, the better, and you could end with a spin.
They can be done in a normal nosewheelie, or in a hang ten or one footed version.
Gatair
A fakie 360° mute grab fastplant. Named after Mark "Gator" Anthony, who not only invented the trick, but later became infamous after killing a woman and burying her in the desert.
Gay Twist
This is a caballerial with a mute grab. Needless to say, people rarely do gay twists outside of vert and ramp skating.
Gazelle
This is a 540° shuvit where the rider of the skateboard also spins a 360° body follow (a body follow is a body varial in the same direction as the skateboard is spinning). Rodney Mullen does lots of gazelles in his video parts, and rightly so because they look sweet.
Gazelle Flip
Quite simply, a gazelle with any kind of flip.
Ghetto Bird
The ghetto bird is a 'signature trick' of pro skater Kareem Campbell, although like many signature tricks it's probable that the trick was landed well before Kareem popularised it. The trick itself is simply an illusion flip revert; in other words, you pop an illusion flip and then turn 180° after catching the board just as or just after you're landing.
Note: Many people will tell you that a ghetto bird is a hardflip revert, but I've watched Campbell do this trick a lot and he definately doesn't do a 'proper' hardflip (a flip that spins under the feet). The confusion stems from the fact that few people understand the difference between a hardflip and an illusion flip. That's not to take anything away from the trick, because illusion flips are still damn good and most people do "hardflips" that way anyway (in fact, I've never seen anyone do a proper hardflip).
Gingersnap
A flatland flip trick done out of hang ten stance, in which the rider is balancing with both feet facing forwards side by side on the nose of the skateboard. The flip consists of half a front flip and half a normal flip, achieved by jumping up sharply from both feet with a slight empasis on one side of the nose to get the side spin required. The board flips vertically beneath the riders feet, so he must tuck his knees nice and high to avoid the board before turning 90° in mid air and landing in switch or regular stance.
Gnar Jar
A 540° to tail. Broken down, this means you get air on a vert ramp, spin 540°, and slap your tail on the coping on the way down.
Godzilla Flip
An impossible from a tail stop that is started by pulling the nose of the board over your foot with your hand as you jump.
Be aware that there is a difference between this and the godzilla railflip.
Godzilla Railflip
A frontside varial railflip from toeside rail that flips 1.75 times in the heelflip direction.
Not to be confused with a godzilla flip which is a different trick entirely.
Goofy Foot
A term describing a skateboarder whose natural stance is right foot forwards. Goofy footed skaters are the minority - most skaters are regular footed.
Gorilla Grip
When skaters still skated barefoot, they would curl their toes around the ends of the board so they could pull the board up with them as they jumped, and this was called a Gorilla Grip.
Grab Trick
A trick involving holding a part of the skateboard with one or both hands while airborne. Grab tricks are common in vert skating where half pipes give plenty of hangtime, but are also seen occasionally in street skating off big ramps or kickers.
Grey Slide
Named after Jim Grey, the Grey Slide is a vert tailslide where the front hand grabs the nose and the back hand is on the coping, creating a layback slide variation.
Grind
The act of riding along an obstacle - usually a kerb, rail or ledge - on the trucks of the skateboard. This often makes a distinctive grinding noise. There are dozens of grind variations, some of the most common are the 50-50 grind, nosegrind, and the 5-0 grind.
Griptape
Part of a skateboard - the stickybacked sandpaper applied to the top of a deck to enable a skateboarders shoes to grip the skateboard.
Gymnast Plant
1. A no-footed invert on a ramp; the legs are extended upwards and held together perfectly in a good gymnast plant.
2. A one handed handstand from a rail stand or a tail stop position in freestyle skateboarding. One hand holds the board in the air while the other hand is planted on the floor. Note that your feet should never touch the floor in a good gymnast plant.
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Skateboarding Tricktionary - F
Skateboarding Tricktionary - F
Fakie
A skateboarding stance. In fakie the feet are positioned naturally but the skateboard travels backwards. The skater effectively stands at the front end of the board as it rolls and looks over his shoulder to see where he is going. This isn't as difficult as it may sound. In fact, riding fakie is only marginally more difficult than riding naturally. See this skateboarding article for more information.
Fakie Flip
A kickflip performed in fakie stance.
Fakie Ollie
An ollie performed in fakie. The trick is performed identically to an ollie, the only difference is that as the board is travelling backwards the fakie ollie is popped off of the 'front' of the board and because of this it is similar in appearance to a nollie, but way easier.
Fanflip
A fingerflip from pogo back to pogo.
Fastplant
An ollie resulting in a grabbed footplant on an obstacle or lip of some kind. This can be any kind of footplant (that is, a stall with one foot balancing on the obstacle and one foot on the skateboard) but the most common one would seem to be the front foot on the obstacle with the back foot on the skateboard, being held up by the back hand near the nose of the board.
Feeble Grind
A grind on the back truck on the obstacle with the skateboard at a slight angle thrown left of the obstacle if your right foot is forward, or right of the obstacle if your left foot is forward. The front wheels are therefore next to the obstacle instead of above it, and the middle of the deck itself often slides along the obstacle as well.
Fingerflip
A flip trick performed with the fingers. Fingerflips are a legacy passed down from flatland skateboarding where using your hands was one of the few ways you could do a flip. Fingerflips are performed by gripping either the nose or tail of the board with your fingertips and flicking your wrist to spin the board either toeside or heelside.
See also monkey flips.
Fishtail
Part of an old school skateboard - the kind of tail which got wider at the end like (duh) a fish's tail.
Flamingo
This is a very strange flatland trick - it's a one footed nose pivot done more like a 180° slide on flatland. As you finish the 180° spin, you end up standing on one foot, carving around fakie to complete a semi-circular turn. When this is finished, you put your back foot back onto the grip, resulting in you riding off fakie from the direction you originally came from.
The name "Flamingo" refers to the fact you're on one leg throughout. However, the good old guys responsible for the Tony Hawk's games messed it up AGAIN (refer to the "Reemo" and "Yeah Right Manual" for further examples of this) and called the calf wrap a flamingo for the same reason.
Flatland
1. The name for flat, smooth, level ground in skating. 2. A term for skating on flat ground, such as "he does lots of flatland skating". It's important to note that this differs from freestyle, as flatland skaters pay no real attention to flow, and don't use footwork to fill in the gaps between their tricks.
Flip
Generally, to refer to any trick where the board spins along an axis that runs the length of the skateboard. For example a kickflip or varial heelflip. Each full flip is a 360° rotation.
Where no other type of flip is specified, a flip refers to a kickflip, as in nollie flip or fakie flip.
FMX
FMX, or freestyle motocross, is an extreme sport involving motorbikes. Since FMX, or XFMX (extreme freestyle motocross) is currently outside the scope of Board Crazy, you'll have to continue your education at this XFMX tricktionaryExternal Link.
Footplant
A generic term for any trick where the foot is planted on the floor. However, it generally refers to the back foot being planted, especially in vert/ditch/bank skating, as footplants using the front foot have specific names (e.g. the boneless).
Footwork
Small, dance-like moves that are used in freestyle skateboarding to fill out the spaces between tricks.
Footwork generally varies wildly between skaters, but common examples are walk the dogs and endovers.
Forward Flip
This is a flip where you ollie and push the board down on the nose while you are in the air, resulting in the board nose-diving and flipping 180° end over end - with half a kickflip so that you can land back on the grip.
Freestyle
Freestyle is the original trick-based form of skateboarding, dating back to the early 70's. It takes a more artistic approach to skating, using a wide range of tricks (such as caspers, shuvits and rail tricks) on flat ground, with attention paid to flow and style.
However, at the start of the 90's, it was pushed out of skating by the skateboarding industry and media as street skating came in. However, it never died, and is currently becoming steadily more popular as an alternative form of skating.
Frixion Flip
A casper disaster without letting the body follow the board, resulting in a quick rail shuvit.
Front Foot Impossible
This is an impossible performed using the front foot. Due to the nature of the trick, front foot impossibles are usually performed as a kind of late flip. This is because the board has to do a front flip around the front foot, which is awkward (to say the least) without gaining air first. Otherwise the same principles as with the impossible apply to the front foot impossible - a quick, circular motion of the front foot to get the board to roll around it.
This trick is not to be confused with a nollie impossible, which although would be using the front foot is a different kettle of fish entirely.
Frontside
Often abbreviated to f/s, the opposite of backside. Describes a trick performed by the rider or skateboard turning towards the riders front. Safe bet - if your back foot is moving forwards, the trick is frontside.
Frontside Air
Gaining air (usually out of a half pipe) and travelling in the direction your heels are facing while turning frontside. Frontside airs are more a bit more difficult than backside airs because you can't spot your landing as early, and in general most skaters find it more awkward to turn frontside.
Frontside Flip
A frontside 180° kickflip.
Frontside Ollie
A frontside 180° ollie.
FS or F/S
A standard abbreviation of frontside.
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Fakie
A skateboarding stance. In fakie the feet are positioned naturally but the skateboard travels backwards. The skater effectively stands at the front end of the board as it rolls and looks over his shoulder to see where he is going. This isn't as difficult as it may sound. In fact, riding fakie is only marginally more difficult than riding naturally. See this skateboarding article for more information.
Fakie Flip
A kickflip performed in fakie stance.
Fakie Ollie
An ollie performed in fakie. The trick is performed identically to an ollie, the only difference is that as the board is travelling backwards the fakie ollie is popped off of the 'front' of the board and because of this it is similar in appearance to a nollie, but way easier.
Fanflip
A fingerflip from pogo back to pogo.
Fastplant
An ollie resulting in a grabbed footplant on an obstacle or lip of some kind. This can be any kind of footplant (that is, a stall with one foot balancing on the obstacle and one foot on the skateboard) but the most common one would seem to be the front foot on the obstacle with the back foot on the skateboard, being held up by the back hand near the nose of the board.
Feeble Grind
A grind on the back truck on the obstacle with the skateboard at a slight angle thrown left of the obstacle if your right foot is forward, or right of the obstacle if your left foot is forward. The front wheels are therefore next to the obstacle instead of above it, and the middle of the deck itself often slides along the obstacle as well.
Fingerflip
A flip trick performed with the fingers. Fingerflips are a legacy passed down from flatland skateboarding where using your hands was one of the few ways you could do a flip. Fingerflips are performed by gripping either the nose or tail of the board with your fingertips and flicking your wrist to spin the board either toeside or heelside.
See also monkey flips.
Fishtail
Part of an old school skateboard - the kind of tail which got wider at the end like (duh) a fish's tail.
Flamingo
This is a very strange flatland trick - it's a one footed nose pivot done more like a 180° slide on flatland. As you finish the 180° spin, you end up standing on one foot, carving around fakie to complete a semi-circular turn. When this is finished, you put your back foot back onto the grip, resulting in you riding off fakie from the direction you originally came from.
The name "Flamingo" refers to the fact you're on one leg throughout. However, the good old guys responsible for the Tony Hawk's games messed it up AGAIN (refer to the "Reemo" and "Yeah Right Manual" for further examples of this) and called the calf wrap a flamingo for the same reason.
Flatland
1. The name for flat, smooth, level ground in skating. 2. A term for skating on flat ground, such as "he does lots of flatland skating". It's important to note that this differs from freestyle, as flatland skaters pay no real attention to flow, and don't use footwork to fill in the gaps between their tricks.
Flip
Generally, to refer to any trick where the board spins along an axis that runs the length of the skateboard. For example a kickflip or varial heelflip. Each full flip is a 360° rotation.
Where no other type of flip is specified, a flip refers to a kickflip, as in nollie flip or fakie flip.
FMX
FMX, or freestyle motocross, is an extreme sport involving motorbikes. Since FMX, or XFMX (extreme freestyle motocross) is currently outside the scope of Board Crazy, you'll have to continue your education at this XFMX tricktionaryExternal Link.
Footplant
A generic term for any trick where the foot is planted on the floor. However, it generally refers to the back foot being planted, especially in vert/ditch/bank skating, as footplants using the front foot have specific names (e.g. the boneless).
Footwork
Small, dance-like moves that are used in freestyle skateboarding to fill out the spaces between tricks.
Footwork generally varies wildly between skaters, but common examples are walk the dogs and endovers.
Forward Flip
This is a flip where you ollie and push the board down on the nose while you are in the air, resulting in the board nose-diving and flipping 180° end over end - with half a kickflip so that you can land back on the grip.
Freestyle
Freestyle is the original trick-based form of skateboarding, dating back to the early 70's. It takes a more artistic approach to skating, using a wide range of tricks (such as caspers, shuvits and rail tricks) on flat ground, with attention paid to flow and style.
However, at the start of the 90's, it was pushed out of skating by the skateboarding industry and media as street skating came in. However, it never died, and is currently becoming steadily more popular as an alternative form of skating.
Frixion Flip
A casper disaster without letting the body follow the board, resulting in a quick rail shuvit.
Front Foot Impossible
This is an impossible performed using the front foot. Due to the nature of the trick, front foot impossibles are usually performed as a kind of late flip. This is because the board has to do a front flip around the front foot, which is awkward (to say the least) without gaining air first. Otherwise the same principles as with the impossible apply to the front foot impossible - a quick, circular motion of the front foot to get the board to roll around it.
This trick is not to be confused with a nollie impossible, which although would be using the front foot is a different kettle of fish entirely.
Frontside
Often abbreviated to f/s, the opposite of backside. Describes a trick performed by the rider or skateboard turning towards the riders front. Safe bet - if your back foot is moving forwards, the trick is frontside.
Frontside Air
Gaining air (usually out of a half pipe) and travelling in the direction your heels are facing while turning frontside. Frontside airs are more a bit more difficult than backside airs because you can't spot your landing as early, and in general most skaters find it more awkward to turn frontside.
Frontside Flip
A frontside 180° kickflip.
Frontside Ollie
A frontside 180° ollie.
FS or F/S
A standard abbreviation of frontside.
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Skateboarding Tricktionary - E
Skateboarding Tricktionary - E
Early Grab
Any grab trick that is grabbed before take off. Although generally done off or out of a ramp, they can be done off the floor by simply pulling the board up as you jump.
Eggplant
An invert done with the front hand planted and the board grabbed indy instead.
Elguerial
This is a fakie 360° invert. The name comes from a combination of the caballerial - a fakie 360° ollie - and the name of the inventor, Eddie Elguera.
Emerald Flip
Quite simply, an emerald flip is another name for a 360° inward heelflip.
Endover
Turning 180° with the board. Like switching except usually performed over and over and over again. See this flatland skating article for more information.
English Flip
An irish flip from casper instead of from a no handed 50-50.
English Handstand
One of the harder handstands, this trick is basically nothing more than a standard handstand with both hands in the middle of the board, gripping onto the sides of the deck, which means that your body is parallel with the board during the handstand - making it a lot harder to balance. English handstand flips can be done with practice - working much like a classic kickflip.
English Wheelie
An English wheelie is the same as the Danish wheelie, but actually balanced and held as a wheelie instead of letting the tail drag across the floor.
Early Grab
Any grab trick that is grabbed before take off. Although generally done off or out of a ramp, they can be done off the floor by simply pulling the board up as you jump.
Eggplant
An invert done with the front hand planted and the board grabbed indy instead.
Elguerial
This is a fakie 360° invert. The name comes from a combination of the caballerial - a fakie 360° ollie - and the name of the inventor, Eddie Elguera.
Emerald Flip
Quite simply, an emerald flip is another name for a 360° inward heelflip.
Endover
Turning 180° with the board. Like switching except usually performed over and over and over again. See this flatland skating article for more information.
English Flip
An irish flip from casper instead of from a no handed 50-50.
English Handstand
One of the harder handstands, this trick is basically nothing more than a standard handstand with both hands in the middle of the board, gripping onto the sides of the deck, which means that your body is parallel with the board during the handstand - making it a lot harder to balance. English handstand flips can be done with practice - working much like a classic kickflip.
English Wheelie
An English wheelie is the same as the Danish wheelie, but actually balanced and held as a wheelie instead of letting the tail drag across the floor.
Skateboarding Tricktionary - D
Daffy Manual
Riding two skateboards with a foot on each, one in a nosemanual and one in a manual. Neversoft (via Tony Hawks Pro Skater) have propagated this trick as the 'Yeah Right Manual'. Thanks to a guy called Burnkiss for making this one clear to me.
Daffy Manual update from Lynn Cooper: In the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 game, it was me shown in the Neversoft Friends videoclip performing the two board manual. Basically, the trick was around for years, but I was the one that came up with the backward variations of the trick, including the cooper walk-about, in which I perform a backward daffy manual, spin and then while one board remains still, I complete a 360° manual around the other board then spin backwards into a reverse manual again. It's kind of complicated to explain, but I've been performing this trick professionally since the early 1980's. It's one of my "trademark" tricks! - Lynn Cooper www.skatelegends.comExternal Link
Danish Wheelie
Although a Danish Wheelie is not really a wheelie, it ended up being called one nonetheless. You hook the front foot under the nose, move your back foot up the board until it is off the tail and past the truck slightly, and pull the board up with the front foot until you are sliding on the tail.
Darkslide
A darkslide is an upside down boardslide or lipslide. The skateboarder slides on the obstacle at right angles to it with his feet on the underside of each kicktail. The darkslide was invented, like so many other great skateboarding tricks, by Rodney Mullen.
By extension, it is also possible to do dark tailslides and dark noselides.
Deck
Part of a skateboard - the wooden part! A skateboard deck is generally made of seven layers of laminated maple wood. The idea is to make something strong yet light.
The size and shape of a deck has a big effect on what the skater can do with it. A typical skateboard is 7.75" wide. Technical street, flatland and trick skaters tend to prefer narrower, shorter decks which are easier to flip, while vert and ramp skaters tend to prefer longer, wider decks which are more stable at high speed and easier to balance on. Of course, personal preference and foot size must also be factored in when choosing a deck.
The concave of a deck measures the amount of curve from the middle to the edges. In general a deck with a lot of concave has more 'feel' and is a lot stronger than one with little or no concave at all.
Disaster
A lip trick or stall which is effectively a lipslide without sliding - placing the rear wheels over the lip with the board resting on the edge of the lip.
Ditch Skating
The term given to skating any of the drainage ditches that are so common in the west coast of America.
For those that don't know what a drainage ditch looks like, click hereExternal Link to see a good example.
Double Kickflip
A kickflip flicked sufficiently hard that the board spins two full flips, or 720°.
Downhill Sliding
Favoured by longboarders, a skater puts hard, slippy plastic pads onto his gloves, goes down a hill as fast as he dares, and puts one or both hands onto the road to allow him to push the board round into a slide. Eventually, the board is bought back into a normal position and the skater can stand up.
There are loads of variations, including the backside slide and the Coleman slide.
Drop In
Literally 'dropping in' to a half pipe or quarter pipe from the top. The skater usually starts in a tailstall position on the coping and from there tips the skateboard down and into the ramp.
Dropping in is one of the first big hurdles faced by anyone who wants to skate vert, as the skateboard (and rider) must be quickly transferred from a horizontal position to a vertical position and the slightest hesitation tends to result in the skateboard shooting out from under the rider.
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Riding two skateboards with a foot on each, one in a nosemanual and one in a manual. Neversoft (via Tony Hawks Pro Skater) have propagated this trick as the 'Yeah Right Manual'. Thanks to a guy called Burnkiss for making this one clear to me.
Daffy Manual update from Lynn Cooper: In the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 game, it was me shown in the Neversoft Friends videoclip performing the two board manual. Basically, the trick was around for years, but I was the one that came up with the backward variations of the trick, including the cooper walk-about, in which I perform a backward daffy manual, spin and then while one board remains still, I complete a 360° manual around the other board then spin backwards into a reverse manual again. It's kind of complicated to explain, but I've been performing this trick professionally since the early 1980's. It's one of my "trademark" tricks! - Lynn Cooper www.skatelegends.comExternal Link
Danish Wheelie
Although a Danish Wheelie is not really a wheelie, it ended up being called one nonetheless. You hook the front foot under the nose, move your back foot up the board until it is off the tail and past the truck slightly, and pull the board up with the front foot until you are sliding on the tail.
Darkslide
A darkslide is an upside down boardslide or lipslide. The skateboarder slides on the obstacle at right angles to it with his feet on the underside of each kicktail. The darkslide was invented, like so many other great skateboarding tricks, by Rodney Mullen.
By extension, it is also possible to do dark tailslides and dark noselides.
Deck
Part of a skateboard - the wooden part! A skateboard deck is generally made of seven layers of laminated maple wood. The idea is to make something strong yet light.
The size and shape of a deck has a big effect on what the skater can do with it. A typical skateboard is 7.75" wide. Technical street, flatland and trick skaters tend to prefer narrower, shorter decks which are easier to flip, while vert and ramp skaters tend to prefer longer, wider decks which are more stable at high speed and easier to balance on. Of course, personal preference and foot size must also be factored in when choosing a deck.
The concave of a deck measures the amount of curve from the middle to the edges. In general a deck with a lot of concave has more 'feel' and is a lot stronger than one with little or no concave at all.
Disaster
A lip trick or stall which is effectively a lipslide without sliding - placing the rear wheels over the lip with the board resting on the edge of the lip.
Ditch Skating
The term given to skating any of the drainage ditches that are so common in the west coast of America.
For those that don't know what a drainage ditch looks like, click hereExternal Link to see a good example.
Double Kickflip
A kickflip flicked sufficiently hard that the board spins two full flips, or 720°.
Downhill Sliding
Favoured by longboarders, a skater puts hard, slippy plastic pads onto his gloves, goes down a hill as fast as he dares, and puts one or both hands onto the road to allow him to push the board round into a slide. Eventually, the board is bought back into a normal position and the skater can stand up.
There are loads of variations, including the backside slide and the Coleman slide.
Drop In
Literally 'dropping in' to a half pipe or quarter pipe from the top. The skater usually starts in a tailstall position on the coping and from there tips the skateboard down and into the ramp.
Dropping in is one of the first big hurdles faced by anyone who wants to skate vert, as the skateboard (and rider) must be quickly transferred from a horizontal position to a vertical position and the slightest hesitation tends to result in the skateboard shooting out from under the rider.
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Skateboarding Tricktionary - C
Skateboarding Tricktionary - C
Cab Flip
A 360° fakie kickflip, not to be confused with a fakie 360° kickflip! The cab part of the trick name comes from caballerial which is a 360° fakie ollie.
Caballerial
This is a 360° fakie ollie. This means the skateboarder rides backwards in fakie and pops a huge ollie, rotating 360° in mid-air before landing back in fakie again.
The caballerial is named after the famous old-school pro-skater Steve Cabalero, who presumably was the first skater to land a 360° fakie ollie. Combine it with a mute grab to do a gay twist.
Calf Wrap
This one is extremely difficult to describe accurately, and right now I can't find any photos to reference. Basically, the calf wrap trick involves standing on one leg, with the other leg bent behind it and tucked into the back of your knee. The skateboard is held off the ground, clamped between the two legs.
This position is achieved by doing a modified no comply, stepping off the board with your front foot as you pop (this will be the foot you end up standing on) and scooping the skateboard backside and up as you do so in order to get it up between your legs. Once in the calf wrap stance, you can jump up and down a few times with the board held in place before manoeuvering the board with your legs in order to jump back into a more normal stance.
Cannonball
A grab trick where both the nose and tail are both gripped with either hand. Requires crouching down and making a vaguely ball like shape with your body and board, hence the name of 'cannonball'.
Carousel
Much like the Sidewinder, this is another specific truck-to-truck transfer. Think of it as a half impossible from a 50-50 truckstand to a switch 50-50 - still standing on the back foot.
Carving
If you turn by leaning to one side instead of picking the front wheels up and rotating slightly, you are carving. You can carve around on ramps, in ditches, during wheelies, or just across a road, but the name remains the same.
Casper
A freestyle stance where the skateboard is upside down and balanced on the point of the tail. The skaters back foot is on the underside of the tail and the board maintains it's angled position by the skaters front foot being hooked under the deck. It is important to note that having the front foot on the floor is considered cheating, and not a proper casper.
Casper Disaster
Despite the name, this isn't a casper trick at all - it was just invented by the same man. Basically, it is a fakie 180° pivot in rail where the deck and the front wheel never touches the floor. The board is pushed through the pivot with the front foot on the grip, and when the 180° is complete, the deck is set back down to the wheels.
As this isn't the easiest trick to describe, here's a casper disaster tricktip from Bobstricktips.comExternal Linkto help you understand it.
Casper Flip
1. Any flip trick executed from a casper position. This may simply be half an underflip in order to land back in a natural stance, or any more elaborate trick involving any number of flips and varials to land in any conceivable stance including back into casper. This trick always needs further definition in order to visualise - for example, a 'casper flip out', 'varial casper flip to casper' or 'double casper flip to rail'.
2. Half a flip into a casper stance in mid air, then flipping out of casper and catching the board before landing. Usually this is half a kickflip into casper, followed by a varial underflip to get out of the casper position, but any number of variations are possible.
Casper Slide
A slide on a suitable surface in the casper position. Usually requires a flip of some sort into the slide, and a casper flip (see above) out again.
Caveman
Many people think this is another name for the bomb drop since it's inclusion into the Tony Hawk games, but a caveman is essentially bombdropping into a grind.
Chef Salad
An ollie impossible landed straight into a 180° nose pivot.
Chicken Salad
A roast beef grab with the arm twisted round. In other words, where in a roast beef your arm goes straight down, so that your elbow is pointing at your groin, your elbow is pointed out in a chicken salad.
If you need a pic to understand this, the clearest example I could find was a wakeboarder doing one. Although it's a different kind of board, it's still the same grabExternal Link.
Christ Air
A grab trick typically performed on a half pipe. After the skateboarder gains air from the vert ramp, he grabs the nose of the skateboard with his front hand as in a nosegrab and then extends his arms and legs in order to look like a capital 'T', or if you prefer, someone being crucified (hence the title of the trick). The skateboard is put back beneath the feet before landing and rolling away.
Classic Flip
An old school flip trick accomplished by hooking your toe underneath the skateboard and jumping. Classic flips are discussed in the flatland skating article. This was effectively the first ever kickflip, and is still called a kickflip today by die hard flatland skaters.
Coconut Wheelie
A coconut wheelie is like a railslide, but the deck never touches the floor - you actually hold it in a wheelie on the side of the board. Not to be confused with a sideride, which is far easier as you stand on the grip instead of the wheels.
Coffin
When street skating first came about, it was far from great. One of the early "tricks" was the coffin, which simply consisted of lying down on your back on your deck, crossing your arms across your chest, and rolling around like this. Each to their own, I guess.
Coleman Slide
The classic downhill slide, where the board is pushed frontside and only the front hand of the skater is on the road.
Cooper Stand
A rail stand where the skateboarder is balanced at one end of the skateboard only, both feet bunched up around one wheel. Harder to balance, but (I think) enables far more flips to be performed out of the stance. This is named after Lynn Cooper, a famous freestyle skateboarder. Having said that, he never knew it was named after him, this was just how he always did rail stands.
Coping
The rounded section of pipe that is attached to the lip of a half pipe, ramp, or other skateboarding obstacle, enabling smoother grinds and lip tricks.
Corkscrew
One other possible name for the trick I now know as a boomerang. This was my initial name for the trick before I started calling it a boomerang.
Crail Grab
A nosegrab using the back hand instead of the front, meaning the back hand is taken across the front of the body.
Crailslide
A tailslide performed while grabbing the nose of the skateboard with your back hand across your body. Often seen in pool skating and looks very cool.
Crailtap
Landing an air in vert/pool skating into a tail tap while grabbing crail.
Crooked Grind
This is a combination of a noseslide and a nosegrind, and is also known as a crooked slide, k-grind or simply 'crooked' or 'crooks'.
In order to do this the board must be off at an angle to the rail, hence the title 'crooked'. Note that in a crooked grind the board does not cross over the obstacle before connecting in the grind - that is known as an overcrook.
Like most grinds crookeds can be backside or frontside.
Crossbone
A grab trick where the front hand grips the heelside of the skateboard just inside the front foot with back leg boned. To do this, the front leg is tucked up and the nose of the skateboard pulled into the body.
Crossfoot
See x-foot.
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Cab Flip
A 360° fakie kickflip, not to be confused with a fakie 360° kickflip! The cab part of the trick name comes from caballerial which is a 360° fakie ollie.
Caballerial
This is a 360° fakie ollie. This means the skateboarder rides backwards in fakie and pops a huge ollie, rotating 360° in mid-air before landing back in fakie again.
The caballerial is named after the famous old-school pro-skater Steve Cabalero, who presumably was the first skater to land a 360° fakie ollie. Combine it with a mute grab to do a gay twist.
Calf Wrap
This one is extremely difficult to describe accurately, and right now I can't find any photos to reference. Basically, the calf wrap trick involves standing on one leg, with the other leg bent behind it and tucked into the back of your knee. The skateboard is held off the ground, clamped between the two legs.
This position is achieved by doing a modified no comply, stepping off the board with your front foot as you pop (this will be the foot you end up standing on) and scooping the skateboard backside and up as you do so in order to get it up between your legs. Once in the calf wrap stance, you can jump up and down a few times with the board held in place before manoeuvering the board with your legs in order to jump back into a more normal stance.
Cannonball
A grab trick where both the nose and tail are both gripped with either hand. Requires crouching down and making a vaguely ball like shape with your body and board, hence the name of 'cannonball'.
Carousel
Much like the Sidewinder, this is another specific truck-to-truck transfer. Think of it as a half impossible from a 50-50 truckstand to a switch 50-50 - still standing on the back foot.
Carving
If you turn by leaning to one side instead of picking the front wheels up and rotating slightly, you are carving. You can carve around on ramps, in ditches, during wheelies, or just across a road, but the name remains the same.
Casper
A freestyle stance where the skateboard is upside down and balanced on the point of the tail. The skaters back foot is on the underside of the tail and the board maintains it's angled position by the skaters front foot being hooked under the deck. It is important to note that having the front foot on the floor is considered cheating, and not a proper casper.
Casper Disaster
Despite the name, this isn't a casper trick at all - it was just invented by the same man. Basically, it is a fakie 180° pivot in rail where the deck and the front wheel never touches the floor. The board is pushed through the pivot with the front foot on the grip, and when the 180° is complete, the deck is set back down to the wheels.
As this isn't the easiest trick to describe, here's a casper disaster tricktip from Bobstricktips.comExternal Linkto help you understand it.
Casper Flip
1. Any flip trick executed from a casper position. This may simply be half an underflip in order to land back in a natural stance, or any more elaborate trick involving any number of flips and varials to land in any conceivable stance including back into casper. This trick always needs further definition in order to visualise - for example, a 'casper flip out', 'varial casper flip to casper' or 'double casper flip to rail'.
2. Half a flip into a casper stance in mid air, then flipping out of casper and catching the board before landing. Usually this is half a kickflip into casper, followed by a varial underflip to get out of the casper position, but any number of variations are possible.
Casper Slide
A slide on a suitable surface in the casper position. Usually requires a flip of some sort into the slide, and a casper flip (see above) out again.
Caveman
Many people think this is another name for the bomb drop since it's inclusion into the Tony Hawk games, but a caveman is essentially bombdropping into a grind.
Chef Salad
An ollie impossible landed straight into a 180° nose pivot.
Chicken Salad
A roast beef grab with the arm twisted round. In other words, where in a roast beef your arm goes straight down, so that your elbow is pointing at your groin, your elbow is pointed out in a chicken salad.
If you need a pic to understand this, the clearest example I could find was a wakeboarder doing one. Although it's a different kind of board, it's still the same grabExternal Link.
Christ Air
A grab trick typically performed on a half pipe. After the skateboarder gains air from the vert ramp, he grabs the nose of the skateboard with his front hand as in a nosegrab and then extends his arms and legs in order to look like a capital 'T', or if you prefer, someone being crucified (hence the title of the trick). The skateboard is put back beneath the feet before landing and rolling away.
Classic Flip
An old school flip trick accomplished by hooking your toe underneath the skateboard and jumping. Classic flips are discussed in the flatland skating article. This was effectively the first ever kickflip, and is still called a kickflip today by die hard flatland skaters.
Coconut Wheelie
A coconut wheelie is like a railslide, but the deck never touches the floor - you actually hold it in a wheelie on the side of the board. Not to be confused with a sideride, which is far easier as you stand on the grip instead of the wheels.
Coffin
When street skating first came about, it was far from great. One of the early "tricks" was the coffin, which simply consisted of lying down on your back on your deck, crossing your arms across your chest, and rolling around like this. Each to their own, I guess.
Coleman Slide
The classic downhill slide, where the board is pushed frontside and only the front hand of the skater is on the road.
Cooper Stand
A rail stand where the skateboarder is balanced at one end of the skateboard only, both feet bunched up around one wheel. Harder to balance, but (I think) enables far more flips to be performed out of the stance. This is named after Lynn Cooper, a famous freestyle skateboarder. Having said that, he never knew it was named after him, this was just how he always did rail stands.
Coping
The rounded section of pipe that is attached to the lip of a half pipe, ramp, or other skateboarding obstacle, enabling smoother grinds and lip tricks.
Corkscrew
One other possible name for the trick I now know as a boomerang. This was my initial name for the trick before I started calling it a boomerang.
Crail Grab
A nosegrab using the back hand instead of the front, meaning the back hand is taken across the front of the body.
Crailslide
A tailslide performed while grabbing the nose of the skateboard with your back hand across your body. Often seen in pool skating and looks very cool.
Crailtap
Landing an air in vert/pool skating into a tail tap while grabbing crail.
Crooked Grind
This is a combination of a noseslide and a nosegrind, and is also known as a crooked slide, k-grind or simply 'crooked' or 'crooks'.
In order to do this the board must be off at an angle to the rail, hence the title 'crooked'. Note that in a crooked grind the board does not cross over the obstacle before connecting in the grind - that is known as an overcrook.
Like most grinds crookeds can be backside or frontside.
Crossbone
A grab trick where the front hand grips the heelside of the skateboard just inside the front foot with back leg boned. To do this, the front leg is tucked up and the nose of the skateboard pulled into the body.
Crossfoot
See x-foot.
SK8 TRICK TIP
TRICK SKATEBOARD
SK8 RIDE OR DIE
TRICK SK8
HOT TRICK SK8
RIDE SK8
TIPS SKATEBOARD
TRICK AROUND
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