Lip tricks
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Lip tricks in skateboarding are performed on half-pipes, quarterpipes and mini ramps. They are tricks that require different varieties of balance on the "lip" of the ramp. The first lip trick done was by Jay Adams.
[edit] Lip tricks
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
- Axle stall
- An axle stall is a stall on both trucks of a skateboard. It is used commonly to regain composure before performing another trick or to "drop in" on a ramp. Essentially a stationary 50-50.
- Bastard stall
- This stall is done by first perfecting the 'Blunt to Fakie' by grabbing the nose. Once you've done this all you've got to do then is take your front foot off and placing it flat on the ground in front (it has to be in front otherwise it is the wrong trick) then pull it back in to the quarter)
- Bean Plant
- A frontside footplant while grabbing the board like a lien air.
- Blunt to Fakie
- The back truck is placed over the lip of the ramp and the tail is placed on the lip, appearing like a stationary blunt stall, hence the name. A small ollie is then performed to come off the lip and ride back down the ramp in fakie. You can also do a small 180 ollie out, if you ollie out frontside you get a frontside blunt stall, and likewise for a backside 180. Originally, this trick was pulled back in with a variety of grabs. The "ollie blunt" as it was originally called was possibly invented by Tom Knox.
- Crailtap
- A crailtap is a tail stall but done while holding the boards nose with the trailing hand.
- Dark stall
- Stalling on a coping or edge while having the board be upside down so the grip side is touching the ground.
- Disaster
- Invented by the "Master of Disaster" Duane Peters, this trick is where the skater rotates 180 degrees and lands in the center of his board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return back in the ramp. Essentially a stationary lipslide. A variation is the dark disaster, where the skater performs a half-flip into a position that resembles the disaster. As getting back out of this position is very tricky, this is considered a very advanced trick.
- Egg Plant
- This invert differs from others in that the front hand is on the coping, while the back hand is grabbing like an Indy.
- Feeble
- Much like the 5050 however the front truck extends over the coping or top of the ramp
- Frontside Invert
- Another Invert where the front hand is on the coping, rather than the back hand. The back hand grabs like a frontside air.
- Good Buddy
- A fakie invert. Popularized and possibly invented by Mike McGill.
- Ho-Ho
- An Invert to Egg Plant in. This is where both hands are on the coping at the same time at one point during the trick, enabling the person to walk on their hands if so desired. The ho-ho was conceived by Neil Blender, but first done by either Jeff Kendall or Steve Schneer.
- Iceplant
- A lip trick where the rider grabs the nose of the board with his leading hand then, while keeping his back foot on the board, plants their front foot on the coping or edge of the ramp while turning backside - essentially a backside bean plant. Possibly invented by John Lucero. Popularized by Ali Boulala.
- Inverts/Handplants
- This is a complex lip trick where the skater grabs his board and plants a hand on the coping so that they are balancing upside down on the lip of the ramp. Many variations as to where the board is grabbed and how the legs are arranged make for a number of different tricks of this type. Examples are: Eggplant, Andrecht Invert, Gymnast Plant, Sadplant, and One Foot Invert.
- Jolly Mambo
- A frontside invert where the skater essentially backflips around at the invert's peak, landing to fakie. Likely invented by Neil Blender.
- Layback Air
- An invert-like trick done frontside while grabbing slob and placing the back hand on the coping. Essentially an invert done frontside, but it is NOT known as a frontside invert or an eggplant. Variations: varial, to tail, layback roll around, layback roll around to tail.
- Miller Flip
An invert in which you flip all the way around into the fakie position. invented by Darrell Miller.
- New Deal
- Invented by Neil Blender. Essentially a nosepick snapped off into a disaster. Can also be done while grinding, then sliding.
- Nose blunt
- Like the blunt to fakie, only a 180 degree turn is done at the top of the ramp so the nose is used in the same fashion as the blunt stall. A nollie is then done to come back into the ramp.
- Nose pick
- An overcrook stall. This trick is sometimes grabbed for re entry. May be done B/S or F/S.
- Nose stall
- A trick where the skater reaches the top of the transition, leans on the skateboard's nose atop the ramp, and drops back in switch. Most skaters find this easier to do switch because it is pretty much a simple stall to drop-in.
- Pivot
- An axle stall on only the back truck. Essentially a stationary 5-0. A pivot to fakie is performed when the skateboarder goes down the ramp backwards.
- Pogo
- Any air straight up and then landing in a rock and roll. Popularized by Craig Johnson, who would do them 5 feet or higher.
- Poliki
- Similar to a layback air, but grabbed on the outside rail, more commonly known as an Underplant. Essentially a lien air handplant. Invented by Lester Kasai.
- tail Drop
- Essentially a Tail Stall done on a ledge and popping out of it onto the ground/bank. Variations can include flips with it.
- Rock and Roll
- Similar to the Rock to Fakie only a quick 180 is done as you come off the lip so that you don't ride fakie. The frontside variation is much harder and is considered one of the most stylish lip tricks.
- Rock to fakie
- 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).
- Sad Plant
- An invert with the skater's front leg outstretched and the back leg bent slightly.
- Smithvert or Smith plant
- An regular invert where the board is tweaked in a backside rotation so that the legs are almost crossed, with the toes of the back foot touching the tail. Invented by Mike Smith.
- Smith Grind
- A trick where the back trucks are on the coping and the front trucks aimed into the ramp. Can be done as a stall or grinded. Also f/s or b/s.
- Staple Gun
- A rider rides straight up and off the ramp while placing the back foot on the coping. The board is then stomped down onto the platform with the front foot and pulled back into the ramp toward the back ankle. Hopping of the back foot and back onto the board, the rider rides away fakie.
- Stelmasky Plant
- An invert where the front hand grabs the back rail in between the heels. Invented by Mike Stelmasky.
- Supernova
- A 180 nose pivot to a Rock and Roll. The nose pivot and Roll should both be spinning in the same direction so as to complete a full 360 degree spin. This is sometimes easier accomplished fakie to avoid riding down switch. Invented by Alex Chmielinski.
- Sweeper
- Similar to a lein-to-tail. A fronstide nose grab foot plant, where the back foot is taken off and rests on the coping. Variation: Creeper - a crail grab sweeper. Invented by Duane Peters.
- Tail Block
- Usually done backside; grab the nose with the front hand while carving backside and stall parallel to the coping at the peak of the carve having only the edge of the tail resting on the coping.
- Tail Stall
- Similar to a nose stall only on the tail. Essentially a stationary tailslide. The most common form of dropping in on a ramp is to start off in tail stall. also used to curb backward momentum when coming to the lip fakie, without losing speed .
- Texas Plant
- Go up to the lip frontside and take the back foot off and plant it on the coping, while grabbing like a slob air and extending the front leg. Invented by Texas skate master John "Tex" Gibson.
- Texas Two-Step
- Identical to a Texas Plant, except that, like in a Switch-Foot Pogo, the rider constantly (until dropping back in) alternates the planted foot.
- Thruster
- A fakie tail grab foot plant, where the back foot boosts off the coping. Can be done straight up and down, or moving across the coping. Invented by Duane Peters, popularized by Craig Johnson.
- Tuck-knee Invert
- An invert that is grabbed like a Japan Air and tweaked severely, sometimes with the nose of the board hitting the helmet.
- Underplant
- See "Poliki".
- Woolly Mammoth
- An unusual trick invented by Neil Blender. A fakie frontside invert to a noseblunt that is several inches behind the coping, while the back hand is still grabbing the board, and the front hand is still on the coping.
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