Tricks

                                     Skate Tricks

There are many different types of skateboard tricks. Skateboarding tricks may vary greatly in difficulty.

Ollie: Is jumping with the board with the front wheels leaving the ground first. This motion is attained with a snap of the tail (from the backfoot) and sliding your front-foot forward to level it out. A lot of technical tricks
are made from this basic trick, such as kickflips, heelflips, varial kickflips..ect. A nollie is when the back wheels leave the ground first or in skateboard terms it's a switch-stance ollie riding fakie.

Grabs: Involve floating in the air while using a hand to hold the board your feet or by not keeping constant and careful pressure on the board with the feet to keep it from floating away. In the1970s and has expanded to include the bulk of skateboarding tricks to this day, including the ollie and all of its variations.

Grinds and Slides: These invlove traveling along a rail, ledge or on some coping on your trucks or deck. Grinds involve using the trucks of the board and can be done in very differenet ways, using one truck using both or even angling the truck. Slides involve the deck, they can be done on the tail, middle or nose of the deck.

Flip tricks: These are a subset of tricks which are all based on the Ollie. An example is the kickflip, the most widely known and performed flip trick. You can spin the board around many different ways, and even combine several spins in to one trick. These tricks are the most popular among street skateboarding, although skaters with other styles perform them as well. Combining spins and flips is extremely popular

today. A common trick at today's competitions is called a treflip. A treflip is the combination of a skateboard spinning 360 degrees and a kickflip.