Friday 14 December 2012

Wakeskating

Wakeskating

Wakeskating is mixture of wakeboarding and skateboarding it has a similar design of board manufactured from maple or from fibreglass. Unlike wakeboarding, the rider is not attached to the board, which gives the sport its own unique challenges. Instead, the top surface of the board is covered with griptape like a skateboard. Riders usually wear shoes while riding similar to skateboarding. The speed at which riders wakeskate behind a PWC (Personal Water Craft: Jet ski), boat, cable system, or winch is generally 16 – 22 miles per hour. However, this depends on water conditions, the weight of the rider as well as a preference matter of the rider.



Some wakeskating videos
.Winch Sessions : Back to the Cranberry Bog - Wakeskating

NIKE 6.0 Wakeskate

Friday 7 December 2012

Flip Tricks

                            Flip Tricks
There are many different flip tricks in skateboarding, and they range in difficultly.

Basics
The basic flip tricks are:
Kickflip- The Kickflip is a street skateboarding trick invented by professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen where the Skateboarder swipes his foot at an angle Skateboard in order to make it flip 360 degrees along the board's long axis.



Heelflip- Like a kickflip a heelflip spins 360 degrees along its long axis, except in a heelflip you flick you foot of the opposite side of the board and you use your whole foot to flip it.





Pop Shuv-it-A Pop Shove-It, or simply Shove-It is a flip trick where your feet cause the board to rotate backside 180 degrees while keeping your body in the same direction.



Frontside Pop Shuv-It- The same as a Pop Shuv-It except it rotates behind you instead of in front.



The tricks are the basics, when these tricks are mastered they can be combined or altered into a different more complicated tricks. For example a Kickflip and a Pop Shove-It can be combined into a Varial Kickflip. All of the basics have some kind of more complicated variation to them.