Skateboarding trick

A skateboarding trick is a maneuver performed while skateboarding (or other boardsports such as snowboarding and wakeboarding). The basic elements of the skateboarding trick are the varial, jump, flip, grab, slide (or grind), and stall, combined with twists of various multiples of 180 degrees. Tricks which require some kind of ramp, usually a halfpipe[?], are vert tricks; the rest can be performed on the flat or off of curbs and rails and are known as street tricks.

Competitive skateboarding and snowboarding is primarily judged on the difficulty and success of such tricks.

The body varial, is jumping into the air and rotating 180 degrees to land on the board facing the other direction.

Jumps

• ollie
• nollie
• frontside jump

Flips

• kickflip
• heelflip
• varial flip

Grabs[?]

• indy grab
• heelside grab[?]
• toeside grab[?]
• stalefish grab[?]
• airwalk grab
• early grab[?]
• nose grab[?]
• tail grab
• Rocket Air[?]
• Madonna grab[?]
• Superman grab[?]
• Superwoman double tail grab
• Bennihanna[?]

Slides[?] and grinds

A slide is on the board; a grind on the skateboard trucks.

• 50-50 slide
• Dark Slide
• noseslide[?]
• nosegrind[?]
• boardslide[?]
• tailslide[?]
• frontside noseslide
• frontside noseblunt slide[?]
• blunt slide[?]
• noseblunt slide[?]
• lipslide[?]
• 5-0 grind
• salad grind[?] aka crooked 5-0
• smith grind[?]
• feeble grind[?]
• k-grind[?] aka crooked nose grind or krooked nose grind

Stalls

• nose stall[?]
• tail stall[?]
• 50-50 stall[?]
• board stall[?] or Rock and Roll stall (vert)
• blunt stall[?]
• nose-blunt stall[?]

Combination tricks

• McTwist
• McHawk
• cab jump
• tail stall, kickflip out[?]
• pop shove-it nose stall[?]
• heelflip to blunt stall[?]
• Casper stall to hospital flip[?]
• 50-50 180 out[?]
• backside noseslide, shove-it out[?]
• kickflip backside 50-50[?]
• kickflip bluntslide[?]
• barley grind[?]
• hurricane grind[?]
• dark side noseslide[?]
• Casper slide

Other tricks

• manual trick
• nose manual trick[?]
• No-comply 180

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External links and references

Smith and Feeble Trick Tips (http://www.smithandfeeble.com/tricktips/)
Simplesam7's Skate Tricks Tips Page (http://www.geocities.com/simplesam7/)