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Fakie: Rolling backwards; the rider is in the normal stance, but rolling in the opposite direction. (Basically a switch nollie position) (Basically a switch nollie position) Frontside : A trick executed with the skater facing the ramp or obstacle, or a rotation of the rider/board where the front foot moves backward (e.g. a regular-footed skater ...
Rock to Fakie/Fakie Rock: This is a quick, common and easy lip trick performed mostly to link tricks together on mini ramps. The front truck is placed over the lip of the ramp and then the board is "rocked" slightly before coming back down backwards (fakie). Sally Rock: Ollie air straight up and then landing in a rock and roll to fakie.
In snowboarding, frontside and backside have the same meanings as in skateboarding. When turning, a backside turn is analogous to a toeedge turn, and frontside turn is analogous to a heeledge turn. In the air, frontside means that 90 degrees into your first rotation you will be facing forward downhill and backside means that 90 degrees into ...
An air where the rider and board spin one full rotation. Can be performed almost anywhere whether it be on vert or street. On vert, this is most commonly performed from fakie so that the rider completes the 360 facing forward. Jeff Phillips was one of the first skaters to perform this while landing fakie (usually doing a lien grab). 540
A nollie is a variation of the ollie, where the skateboarder uses the front foot to push the nose of the skateboard down and the back foot is slid in a backwards direction to achieve lift-off from the ground; this is the opposite of an ollie, whereby the rider uses the back foot to push down the tail and the front foot to slide forwards.
As you watch the Olympic event with your non-skateboarding pals, or just pass by a bunch of kids scraping rails on their boards in your neighborhood, you need to know how to sound cool. Or, to put ...
Crews with the Inyo County Search and Rescue and Inyo County Sheriff’s Office search for Taylor Rodriguez, who went missing while attempting to summit Mount Whitney in California's Sierra Nevada ...
With input from Caballero and the skateboard community as a whole, this trick is a skateboard and snowboard only trick. It shall be known in the BMX community as a backwards 180/360 from now on. [1] [2] [3] The Half-cab is a variation of the Caballerial where the rider only rotates 180 degrees rather than the full 360. This trick can be learned ...