User:XK8ER/Vert skating tricks

Terminology

• Fakie: When you go or take off facing backwards
• Frontside: When you go or take off facing forward
• Alley-Oop: when you air in one direction, but spinning in the other direction, you come off the vert ramp heading right, but spin to your left
• Zerospin: Where you air and land fakie without spinning
• Natural: Doing a spin in the direction that feels right or a grab with the most natural feeling hand, etc.
• Switch: Doing a spin or an air in which you go in the opposite way you normally do
• Flip: Spin with the axis being like a pole stuck through both sides of the waist

Grabs

• Grab: Any trick done in the air that involves grabbing a part of the skates
• Mute: Grab trick in which you reach across the front of you and grab the outside sole of the opposite skate
• Safety: Grab trick where you grab one foot on the soul with the hand on the same side
• Rocket: Where you stretch both feet straight out and grab both toes with one hand
• Liu Kang: Grab where one leg is out straight in front of you and the other is bent and grabbed
• Japan: Grab where you reach behind you and grab the opposite leg, and the un-grabbed leg is bent
• Method: Where you grab your heels and stretch your feet behind you with your knees bent.
• Stale Fish: Grab trick in which you reach behind your legs and grab the wheels of the opposite skate
• Genie: Grab trick where you appear to be sitting cross-legged in the air and you're grabbing down with both hands
• Kung Lao: Liu-Kang where you grab the straight leg on the toe instead of the bent leg
• Takeshi Air: Rocket where your legs are crossed and your grabbing the opposite foot (left hand grabs right foot).
• Salerno Air: Method with the shins crossed.

Flips

Trick Name	Description	Video 1	Video 2
Frontflip	A flip where you flip forward over your head	Richard Sedlar	Shane Yost
Backflip	A flip where you flip backwards over your head	Leonid Kamburov	Ayumi Kawasaki
Viking Flip	its a diagonal or sideways backflip, similar to rodeos. the head never goes bellow your feet like on backflips.	Nel Martin	Leonid Kamburov
Mistyflip	a frontflip and spining 180 at the end	Hiroaki Kakui	Hiroaki Kakui
Double Backflip	two backflips in the same air	Eito Yasutoko	Cesar Andrade
Rodeo 360	a diagonal flip with the chest facing sideways, then facing down while landing, the skates never go over your head like on backflips but you throw your head away from coping.	Shane Yost	Stefan Vasilev
Double Rodeo 360	when you do two Rodeos 360	Marco de Santi	Marco de Santi
Rodeo 540	a diagonal flip with the chest facing sideways. your skates never go over your head like on backflips, similar to Rodeo 360 but you do a 180 before landing	Nikolaj Najdenov	Fabiola da Silva
Double Rodeo 540	its a double Rodeo 360 with an extra 180 at the end to land facing forward	Marco de Santi	Takeshi Yasutoko
Garfunkel 540	The opposite of flatspins, instead of chest facing up, chest is facing down toward the vert flat-bottom.	Shane Yost	Rich Parker

Spins

Trick Name	Description	Video 1	Video 2
180	half of a spin	Takeshi Yasutoko	Marco de Santi
360	one complete spin	Leo Riot	Boris Grozev
540	1 1/2 spins	Marco de Santi	Eito Yasutoko
720	two complete spins	n/a	Elmer Pillon
900	2 1/2 spins	Marc Englehart	Yusuke Aihara
1080	three complete spins	Marc Englehart	Marc Englehart
1260	3 1/2 spins	Shane Yost	Rich Parker
1440	four complete spins. As of November 2012 no one has ever landed a 1440 on a vert ramp.	Marc Englehart	Takeshi Yasutoko
Bio	Spin in which you go sideways so it looks like a log rolling along the ground, but of course you're in the air	Bio 720 Elmer Pillon	Bio 1080 Eito Yasutoko
Flatspin 360	Where you appear to lie down in the air with your chest up to the sky, then begin spinning like a helicopter blade. On a Flatspin 360 your shoulders are never sideways or your chest facing down to the flat-bottom. When you throw the head towards the coping sorta like misty throw.	Leo Riot	Tomohiko Nakamura
Flatspins	flatspins on the floor. this is how your chest should look like on flatspins done on the vert ramp, shoulders always straight and your chest facing up to the sky.	Youtube VincaniTV
Double Flatspin 360	when you do a flatspin 360 twice and land fakie. Both rotations have to be with your chest facing up to the sky, the shoulders have to be straight, and not sideways. It differs from Rodeos in that the spin is what break dancers call a (backspin), like a turtle rotating on its shell. as of November 2012 no one has ever landed a double flatspin 360 on a vert ramp.	Leo Riot	Matt Margetts
Flatspin 540	When you do the exact same thing as flatspin 360 but before landing you spin 180 to land facing forward.	Takeshi Yasutoko	Roel Fritz
Double Flatspin 540	its a double flatspin 360 with an extra 180 at the end, to land facing forward. Both rotations are with the chest facing to the sky without the head looking at the flat-bottom. both shoulders are always straight on both rotations.	Marc Englehart	Marc Englehart
Flatspin 720	When you do a flatspin 360 and add an extra 360 to the spin.	Tomohiko Nakamura	Eito Yasutoko
Flatspin 900	When you do a flatspin 360 and add an extra 540 to the spin.	Kiril Trayanov	Rich Parker
McTwist	Any upside-down spin where you don't frontflip or backflip into it, also called an inverted spin.	McTwist 540 Nikolaj Najdenov	McTwist 900 Leonid Kamburov
Garfunkel	The opposite of a flatspin 360, instead of chest facing up, chest is facing down toward the vert flat-bottom.	Shane Yost	Rich Parker

See also

• Vert skating
• Superpipe skiing
• Vert ramp
• Mega Ramp
• Extreme sport
• X Games
• Superpipe
• Half-pipe

External links

• inlineskating.about.com
• aggressiveskating.org
• siyanaphotography
• inlineplanet.com
• kiaxgamesasia.com

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