Skateboard Tricks

A skateboard trick or simply a trick can be defined as some movement other than simply rolling that is performed on or with a board. Most skateboarders spend a large portion of their time learning new skateboard tricks.

The basic skateboard stances were founded in the early years of skateboarding and they formed the basis of freestyle or flat ground skateboarding. The easy freestyle skateboard tricks involve balancing on the skateboard with less than all four wheels, on the edges or tail of the skateboard.

Floating in the air while using a hand to hold the board on your feet or by maintaining constant and careful pressure on the board with the feet is the basis of performing aerial skateboard tricks.

These tricks were first made famous by Tony Alva who invented the front air in empty swimming pools in the late 1970s. This has then spread to include the bulk of basic skateboarding tricks like the Ollie and its variations.

Flip tricks can be regarded as a subset of aerials based on the Ollie. One of initial aerial tricks was the Kick flip. It involves spinning the board around many rotations in one trick. These tricks were definitely most famous amongst street skateboarders. Although ramp skaters perform these tricks as well.

Lip tricks are carried out on the coping of a pool or skateboard ramp. We can do most grinds on the coping of a ramp or pool as well, but there are also some coping tricks which include a real moves, which can only be attained on a transitioned riding surface. Lip tricks also consist of some inverts and its variations as well as some dedicated air-to-lip combinations.

Many types of basic tricks can be combined together, and the new combinations and variations are often stated as the reason that skateboarding keeps its appeal amongst its followers.

Most of the names of standard, basic or easy tricks were made up by the person that invented them, and to some extent they reflect what the person was thinking about the trick at the time. We can see that earliest tricks were often named after the person who found them. E.g. Andrecht after Dave Andrecht; Ollie after Alan "Ollie" Gelfand; Elguerial after Eddie Elguera.

Some tricks have more than one name because several people independently invented the same trick around the same time and gave it different names, or because the original name was lost.

Most newer skateboard tricks (basic or easy) are created by combining existing tricks or trick together rather than creating something completely new and unique, and the naming reflects that. Danny Way became the first to do a Kickflip into an Indy, so he simply called it a kickflip indy.

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