Skateboard Tricks
submitted: Sep 7th 2008 |
by: ChadDastre |
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A skateboarding trick, or simply a trick is a maneuver performed on a skateboard generally while moving. Learning and perfecting new tricks is the main goal of many skateboarders, and most of a skateboarders time is spent learning these tricks.
The very first tricks that were invented in the early days of skateboarding form the basis of freestyle skateboarding as we know it today. These early tricks generally involved balancing on a skateboard on either one or two wheels, on the edges, or on the nose or tail of the skateboard. While in this position the board would be flipped or moved around.
Aerial skateboard tricks involve floating in the air while using a hand to hold the board on his or her feet or by keeping constant and careful pressure on the board with the feet to keep it from floating away.
Tony Alva made skateboard tricks famous through his front side airs in empty swimming pools in late 1970s and it has since spread to include the bulk of many basic and complicated skateboarding tricks, including the Ollie and all of its variations.
Flip tricks can be regarded as a subset of aerials based on the Ollie. One of initial aerial tricks was the Kick flip. It involves spinning the board around many rotations in one trick. These tricks were definitely most famous amongst street skateboarders. Although ramp skaters perform these tricks as well.
Lip tricks are performed on the coping of a pool or skateboard ramp. Most grinds can be made on the coping of a ramp or pool as well, but there are some coping tricks which require momentum and vertical altitude that can only be attained on a transitioned riding surface. Those include Inverts and their variations as well as some dedicated air-to-lip combinations.
Skateboarders can combine many types of basic, easy and complicated tricks together and find many new combinations of skateboarding tricks which helps it keep it appeal amongst skateboarder followers.
The people who invented those basic, early tricks named that trick whatever they wanted. And most of the time it reflects what that person is thinking about the trick at that particular time. The earliest tricks were often named after the person who invented it. For e.g. Andrecht after Dave Andrecht; Ollie after Alan "Ollie" Gelfand; Elguerial after Eddie Elguera.
Sometimes a trick got more than one name as several people invented the trick independently around the same time or the original name was lost and it was given a new name.
Generally most newer skateboard tricks are invented through combining existing tricks together rather than creating entirely new ones, and the names reflects this. An example is when Danny Way became the first to do a Kickflip into an Indy, so he obviously called it a Kickflip Indy.
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