B3 Skateboard Trick & Talk

Air: Whenever all four wheels are off of the ground at the same time.

Acid Drop: To ride straight off of something and freefall to the ground.

Alley-Oop: When a trick is performed in the opposite direction of which the skater is moving.

Backside: When a turn or trick is executed in a direction that the back of the body is facing the ramp's arc.

Bank: Any sloped area under 90 degrees.

Blunt: When a trick is performed with the contact spot of the board with the obstacle being the area of the tail behind the back trucks.

Board: The platform that the hardware is mounted to, usually Maple laminate.

Cabballarial: While riding fakie (backwards), usually at the lip of a ramp, to complete a 360 in the air and head back down the ramp forwards without grabbing. Named after Steve Caballero.

Carve: To make a long, curving arc while skating.

Coping: A rounded lip at the top of a ramp or obstacle, usually made of metal, cement or PVC pipe.

Crooked Grind: Nosegrind with nose sliding at the same time. Also: K.

Durometer: A measurement of the resiliency of a urethane wheel, firmness of truck or bushing.

Elbow Pad: A type of protective hard shell with padding worn on the elbows.

Fakie: Riding backwards with your weight balanced as in your normal stance. Not the same as riding switch.

Feeble Grind: The back truck is grinding, front of body facing edge, with toe-side rail grinding edge also.

Frontside: When a turn or trick is executed in a direction that the front of the body is facing toward the outside of the ramp's arc.

Fifty-Fifty: A double axle grind (on both trucks).

5-0 Grind: Grind with just back truck grinding.

Gay Twist: While riding fakie (backwards), usually at the lip of a ramp, to complete a 360 in the air while grabbing, and head back down the ramp forwards.

Goofy-Foot: To ride with the right foot forward.

Grind: To scrape one or both axles on coping or an obstacle.

Grip Tape: A sheet of sandpaper with adhesive on one side that is fixed to the surface of a board to provide traction.

Hand Plant: A type of trick where one hand holds the board to the feet while doing a one-handed handstand on a ramp or obstacle.

Half Cab: A 180-degree Cabballarial.

Half Pipe: A type of ramp that is shaped like a "U."

Hang Up: When either the back or front truck catches on an obstacle, usually causing a fall.

Heelflip: While performing an ollie, the heel pushed down on the edge of the board causing it to flip over.

Hip: The spot where a ramp or obstacle comes to a point. Tricks are done while flying over or off of it.

Invert: Another name for a hand plant.

Jump Ramp: A small ramp used to give the skater some air to perform a trick.

Kickflip: The same as a Heelflip except the toe pushes down to flip the board.

Kick Turn: When pressure is applied to the tail of the board, lifting the front and turning it in another direction.

Knee Slide: A way of controlling a fall by sliding on the plastic caps on knee pads.

Kneepad: A type of protective padding worn on the knees.

Lip: The top or upper edge of a ramp or obstacle.

Lipslide: To force the tail over the lip and slide on the surface before re-entry.

Manual: Another name for Wheelie. (Nose Manual on front)

McTwist: A 540-degree turn performed on a ramp. Named after Mike McGill.

Ollie: A no-handed air performed by tapping the tail of the board on the ground or ramp surface. Named after Alan Gelfand.

Nollie: An ollie performed by tapping the nose instead of the tail.

Nosegrind: Same as "grind" but on front truck.

Noseslide: Sliding on nose of board on ramp lip.

Rail: The edge of the board. Also refers to plastic strips attached to the underside of the board.

Railslide: To slide on an obstacle or lip with the contact point being the underside of the board.

Regular Foot: To ride with the left foot forward.

Rock and Roll: A trick where the underside of the board is tapped on the lip before a kickturn to reenter.

Run: A series of tricks in a sequence.

Session: A period of skating.

720: Two 360s forward or backward.

Shove It: A trick performed by spinning the board beneath the feet.

Smith Grind: A type of grind trick where the inside edge of the board is below and touching the lip of the ramp or obstacle.

Tailslide: Sliding on tail of board.

Transition: The curved part of terrain between 0 and 90 degrees.

Truck: The hardware that is comprised of the axle and base plate, mounted to the underside of the board.

Varial: An aerial where the board is spun from backwards to forwards beneath the feet.

Wall: Any bank that is at or above 90 degrees.

Wallride: To ride on a wall that has no transition.