Skateboarding

Skateboarding

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

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Skateboarding

Fakie refers to riding a skateboard backwards from the way you would usually ride it. Usually, while skateboarding, the skater's back foot is on or near the tail of the skateboard. This helps to keep ...

fingerflip

Sports; Skateboarding

A fingerflip is any kind of trick where the skater flips the board with his or her hand instead of feet. For most tricks, skaters use their feet to flip the board, such as with a kickflip, heelflip, ...

frontside

Sports; Skateboarding

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

goofy

Sports; Skateboarding

Goofy, goofy stance or goofy-foot refers to a skateboarder riding with his or her left foot in back, toward the tail of the board. Like lefty in the sports of golf, Goofy stance gets this name ...

grabs

Sports; Skateboarding

A grab is when a skateboarder reaches down and grabs his or her board. Grabs happen in the air, often with a few other tweaks like spins, grabbing certain parts of the board, etc. The Indy grab is ...

grind

Sports; Skateboarding

Grinding is the name for sliding along an edge (such as a curb, bench, rail, coping, etc.) using trucks instead of the skateboard wheels or deck. Depending on which trucks are being used (front or ...

grinding

Sports; Skateboarding

Grinding is when a skateboarder rides his or her board in such a way where the trucks of the board are making contact with a rail, curb, etc, and not the wheels. A "slide" is similar, but when the ...