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  2. List of skateboarding terms - Wikipedia

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    Nosegrind: A front truck grind with the rear of the board elevated over the obstacle. Noseslide: Sliding the underside of the nose end of a board on a ledge, rail, or lip. Ollie north: An Ollie in which the front foot is taken off the board. Pop shove-it: A shove-it performed while popping the tail to make the board attain air. See: Air, Pop

  3. Grind (skateboarding) - Wikipedia

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    Grinding is damaging to materials which are not hardened for the specific purpose of the sport, as may be found in a skate park. The trucks are composed of a hard metal without lubricant or bearings on the grinding surface, so they literally do grind on the objects they slide across. Grinding can strip paint off of steel and wear down the edges ...

  4. Wedge - Wikipedia

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    The mechanical advantage or MA of a wedge can be calculated by dividing the height of the wedge by the wedge's width: [1] M A = L e n g t h W i d t h {\displaystyle {\rm {MA={Length \over Width}}}} The more acute , or narrow, the angle of a wedge, the greater the ratio of the length of its slope to its width, and thus the more mechanical ...

  5. Grind - Wikipedia

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    A Sabre grind without a secondary bevel is called a "Scandinavian (Scandi) grind", which is easier to sharpen due to the large surface. The Finnish puukko is an example of a Scandinavian-ground knife. Chisel grind: As on a chisel, a single bevel-ground is only on one side, (ground often at an edge angle of about 20°–30°); the other remains ...

  6. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard, rough surface, typically a stone, [1] or a flexible surface with hard particles, such as sandpaper. Additionally, a leather razor strop , or strop, is often used to straighten and polish an edge.

  7. Simple machine - Wikipedia

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    Wedge; Screw; A simple machine uses a single applied force to do work against a single load force. Ignoring friction losses, the work done on the load is equal to the work done by the applied force. The machine can increase the amount of the output force, at the cost of a proportional decrease in the distance moved by the load.

  8. List of The Wedge characters and sketches - Wikipedia

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    Seasons 1 and 2. Mark Wary - Mark a professional athlete who frequently gets into brawls, public sexual acts and other incidents both on and off the field.His sketches always depict him and his manager (Dailan Evans) holding a press conference in which Mark apologising to the public for his latest scandal.

  9. Soap (shoes) - Wikipedia

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    Soap was the brand name of shoes made for grinding, similar to aggressive inline skating. They were introduced by Chris Morris of Artemis Innovations Inc. with the brand name "Soap" in 1996 [1]. They have a plastic concavity in the sole, which is intended to aid the wearer in grinding on objects such as pipes, handrails and stone ledges.