Skateboarding Secrets – Trick Secrets Exposed

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Much much more. Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks on a skateboard. A person who rides a skateboard is known as a skateboarder, skater, or “crusher”.

Skateboarding is a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders over the years. A 2002 report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million figure skaters in the world. Eighty-five percent of surveyed skaters who had used a board in the past year were under the age of 18, and 74 percent were male.

Skateboarding is relatively modern. A key skateboarding trick, the ollie, was only developed in the late 1970s. This ollie was used only on vertical ramps on flat ground. A decade later, the freestyle skater invented the kickflip, previously called the Magic Flip.

With the evolution of skateparks and ramps, skateboarding began to change. Early skateboarding tricks consisted primarily of two-dimensional maneuvers (e.g., riding on only two wheels (wheelie, aka manual), spinning like an ice skater on the rear wheels (a 360 pivot), jumping high on a bar (today called “Hippie Jump”), long jumps from one board to another (often over a line of small barrels or intrepid teenagers lying on their backs), and slalom.

In 1976, skateboarding was transformed with the invention of Alan “Ollie” Gelfand’s first modern skateboarding trick, the Ollie (skateboarding trick). It remained very much a unique trick in Florida from 1976 until the summer of 1978, when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Gelfand and his revolutionary move caught the attention of West Coast skateboarders and the media where it began to spread around the world.

The ollie was reinvented by Rodney Mullen in 1982, who adapted it to freestyle skating by ollieing on flat ground instead of off a vertical ramp. Mullen also invented the ollie kickflip, which, at the time of his invention, was called the “magic flip.” The flat-floor ollie allowed skaters to perform tricks in the air with no equipment other than the skateboard itself. The development of these complex tricks by Rodney Mullen and others transformed skateboarding. Skaters began to perform their tricks on stairs and other urban obstacles; they were no longer confined to empty swimming pools and expensive wooden ramps. hilarious fact: the ollie originally as a gimmick in thrasher magazine as the “ollie prop pop”.

The act of “ollieing” over an obstacle and sliding across the trucks of the board is known as grinding and has become a mainstay of modern skateboarding. Types of grinds include the 50-50 grind (balancing on the front and rear axles while grinding a rail), the 5-0 grind (balancing on the rear axle only while grinding a rail), the nose grind (balancing only on the front axle while grinding a rail), and the crooked grind (rocking on the front truck at an angle with the nose touching while grinding), among many others. There are several other grinds that involve touching the trucks and platform to the rail, ledge, or edge. The most common of these is the smith grind, in which the rider balances on the rear axle while touching the outer center of the board with the grind surface in the direction from which he olly. Popping and landing on the rear axle and touching the inside edge of the board, i.e. popping “over”, is known as a weak squeak. Slides like the slides, lips, nose and tail are located on the wooden deck of the skateboard, rather than on the trucks.

One trick that doesn’t fit into these categories is the Darkslide (invented by Rodney Mullen) which involves sliding across the top (grip side) of the board. The blunt slide, when done on a ledge, which basically means the wheels slide. Another slide/grind trick that doesn’t fit into ordinary categories is the primo slide, invented by Primo Desidero; consists of sliding on the board (make it a flat surface instead of a ledge, rail or lip) while on its side, sliding on the ends of the axle bolts and the thin dimension of the board, pointing and moving in the same way how one would mount it.