Skateboarding

Skateboarding

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.

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backside

Sports; Skateboarding

Backside refers to rotations or turns done so that the skateboarder's back is facing the outside of the turn arc. The name backside came originally from surfing, as did a lot of skateboarding's ...

Bail can mean a few different things. First, it can refer to a skater landing safely on his or her feet after failing at a trick. It can also mean something along the lines of "chickening out", where ...

baseplate

Sports; Skateboarding

The baseplate is the rectangular metal part of the skateboard's trucks that gets bolted onto the bottom of the skateboard deck. The baseplate is usually held onto the deck using skateboard hardware ...

caballerial

Sports; Skateboarding

The caballerial is basically a backside fakie 360 ollie. Steve Caballero invented and named the trick in 1981. Steve first performed the caballerial in pools and on ramps, but the trick has evolved ...

carving

Sports; Skateboarding

When riding a board, the rider leans and cuts into turns, and this is called "carving". Most skate parks in the US are made with lots of "flow", meaning the concrete smoothly slopes in such a way ...

centripetal force

Sports; Skateboarding

A force that keeps a body moving in a circular path.

deck

Sports; Skateboarding

The actual board. The flat, long, oval/rectangular, usually wood part of the skateboard that the skater stands on. Skateboard decks are usually made from 7 plys of wood, mostly maple, laminated ...