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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.
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.
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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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.
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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 tricktionary
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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).
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.
