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  2. Freestyle skateboarding tricks - Wikipedia

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    A G-Turn is a Nose Manual, but without facing the riding direction. The rider increases speed, then places the front foot on the nose while keeping the back foot over the back wheels. While riding, the board tends to turn frontside or backside, ending with a spin. Variations: One-Wheeled, Backward, Hang Ten (two feet on the nose)

  3. Wagon-wheel effect - Wikipedia

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    The wagon-wheel effect (alternatively called stagecoach-wheel effect) is an optical illusion in which a spoked wheel appears to rotate differently from its true rotation. The wheel can appear to rotate more slowly than the true rotation, it can appear stationary, or it can appear to rotate in the opposite direction from the true rotation ...

  4. List of skateboarding terms - Wikipedia

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    Grind: Riding on a curb, railing, or other surface using one or both truck axles. Hardflip: Instead of the board spinning backside, the trick is performed by doing a kickflip and having the board spin frontside. Heelflip: A kickflip in which the skater uses the front heel to flip the board in the opposite direction.

  5. Stroboscopic effect - Wikipedia

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    Stroboscopic effect is one of the particular temporal light artefacts. In common lighting applications, the stroboscopic effect is an unwanted effect which may become visible if a person is looking at a moving or rotating object which is illuminated by a time-modulated light source.

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  7. Figure skating spins - Wikipedia

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    The flying spin and any spin that only has one position must have six revolutions; spin combinations must have 10 revolutions. Required revolutions are counted from when the skater enters the spin until they exit out of it, except for flying spins and the spins in which the final wind-up is in one position. [48]

  8. 9 misprints that are worth a ton of money. Do you have a copy?

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    This makes them extraordinarily appealing to collectors, who want to own the very first copies of a work, says Vasilis Terpsopoulos, manager of the rare book department at New York City's Strand ...

  9. Ferris wheel riders left upside-down after malfunction at ...

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    Footage captures the moment fairgoers in Florida were stuck upside-down on a Ferris wheel ride that malfunctioned. The attraction, which features enclosed carriages that swing and flip, slowed ...