User:XK8ER/Vert skating tricks
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Terminology
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 [1]
- Liu Kang: Grab where one leg is out straight in front of you and the other is bent and grabbed [2]
- 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
[edit]Trick Name | Description | Video 1 | Video 2 |
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Frontflip | A flip where you flip forward over your head | ||
Backflip | A flip where you flip backwards over your head | ||
Viking Flip | its a diagonal or sideways backflip, similar to rodeos. the head never goes bellow your feet like on backflips. [3] |
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Mistyflip | a frontflip and spining 180 at the end | ||
Double Backflip | two backflips in the same air [4] | ||
Rodeo 360 | a diagonal flip with the chest facing sideways, then facing down while landing, the skates never go over |
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Double Rodeo 360 | when you do two Rodeos 360 [5] | ||
Rodeo 540 | a diagonal flip with the chest facing sideways. your skates never go over your head like on backflips, |
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Double Rodeo 540 | its a double Rodeo 360 with an extra 180 at the end to land facing forward |
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Garfunkel 540 | The opposite of flatspins, instead of chest facing up, chest is facing down toward |
Spins
[edit]Trick Name | Description | Video 1 | Video 2 |
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180 | half of a spin | ||
360 | one complete spin | ||
540 | 1 1/2 spins | ||
720 | two complete spins | ||
900 | 2 1/2 spins | ||
1080 | three complete spins | ||
1260 | 3 1/2 spins | ||
1440 | four complete spins. As of November 2012 no one has ever |
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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 |
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Flatspin 360 | Where you appear to lie down in the air with your chest up to the sky, then begin spinning like a |
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Flatspins | flatspins on the floor.
this is how your chest should look like on flatspins done |
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Double Flatspin 360 | when you do a flatspin 360 twice and land fakie. Both rotations have to be with your chest facing |
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Flatspin 540 | When you do the exact same thing as flatspin 360 but before landing you spin 180 to land facing forward. |
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Double Flatspin 540 | its a double flatspin 360 with an extra 180 at the end, to land facing forward. Both rotations are with the |
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Flatspin 720 | When you do a flatspin 360 and add an extra 360 to the spin. |
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Flatspin 900 | When you do a flatspin 360 and add an extra 540 to the spin. |
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McTwist | Any upside-down spin where you don't frontflip or backflip into it, also called an inverted spin. |
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Garfunkel | The opposite of a flatspin 360, instead of chest facing up, chest is facing down toward |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ espn, eventmedia. "espn event media". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ WRITE, UP. "NASS 04". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ Exploring, Skating. "Exploring Skating Avenues". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ Jed, Morgan. "Inline Skating". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ Double, WHAT. "Double WHAT?". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ vert, roller. "rollernews". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ vert, skating. "TRICKTIONARY". Retrieved 14 November 2012.
External links
[edit]Category:Acrobatic sports Category:Inline skating Category:Olympic sports Category:Individual sports Category:Athletic sports Category:Endurance games