![]() ![]() A lot of people do it when they can’t land a trick and just get too frustrated, or when they’ve just got a new board so aren’t going to use the old one anymore.ĭon’t do it though. It was made cool to do from the world industries videos. F ocusĭefinition: Jumping on, or putting your foot through the board to make it snap. BailĮxample: ”That bail looked like it hurt.”ĭefinition: A bail is when you fall off the board while trying to land a trick, it doesn’t matter if it hurt or not its still a bail. For a good example of this, get on YouTube and watch Tom Penny skate. So, do something that’s stylish and make it look easy = steezy. Steeze/SteezyĮxample: ”Johnny’s got a really steezy tre flip.”ĭefinition: It’s just joining style with ease. If you want to see good examples of this watch Andrew Reynolds frontside flip a set of stairs. Catch/CaughtĮxample: ”You caught that kickflip perfectly.”ĭefinition: When doing a flip trick and you catch the board with your feet before it hits the floor. Flatspots can be gained through powerslides, or by hitting a small stone that stops your board with a small skid. You never see them coming and they usually happen in front of large crowds of people.Ī skateboard wheel with a flatspot FlatspotĮxample: ”His board sounds like a tractor because of his flatspot”ĭefinition: A flatspot is exactly what it sounds like, its a flat spot on your wheel which results in a horrible noise which gets worse the faster you go. All it is is a small rock the perfect size (around 1 cm or smaller) that when your wheel tries to roll over it, it will wedge in stop your wheel spinning and abruptly cause your board to stop and you to fly off face first into the floor. Stop StoneĮxample: ”I hit a stop stone right after landing that trick.”ĭefinition: Skateboarder krypronite is the best way I can think to describe it, it doesn’t get more frustrating than cruising along and hitting one. Just beware of flatspots (don’t worry if you don’t know what a flatspot is just keep reading and you’ll find out). Powerslideĭefinition: Its basically a skid, so its a way to slow your speed down by turning the board ninety degrees, as well as slowing you down, it looks good and is super fun. NBD is an acronym for never been done, so using the same example of a new trick over a gap, if you were the first person to do it that’s an NBD. ABD stands for already been done, so if you do a new trick over a gap and your friend says ABD it means that somebody else has done that trick on that gap. ABD and NBDĮxample: ”Kevin did and NBD at the skate park yesterday.”ĭefinition: They are both acronyms. CleanĮxample: ”That nose slide was really clean.”ĭefinition: Not much to say on this one, it’s the opposite of sketchy, so if somebody says you landed a trick clean its a compliment, don’t worry. It could be a wobbly landing, your feet only just landing on the board, or the skate park could be badly made. ![]() ![]() SketchyĮxample: ”You landed that trick so sketchy.” ”That flat-bank is so sketchy.”ĭefinition: Basically it means not very good, similar to if you were drawing something you would do a sketch before you did the final neatened up version, same goes here. Kids on scooters are the best examples of this is mainly due to the high volume of them, but anybody can be a snake, make sure it isn’t you because nobody likes snakes. So here it goes here’s your introduction to skate lingo… Snakeĭefinition: A snake is somebody who will cut in front of other people at the skate park, or keep going when it isn’t their turn. Use this more as a way to understand people who are already using them. If you try use to many phrases in a short amount of time, you will end up sounding like a cheesy 80’s teen show about surfers in California and nobody wants to sound like that, it wasn’t cool then and it isn’t cool now. Some might be seen as uncool, but they all still get used (some a lot less than others).ĭon’t take this as a way to try sound like you know what you’re talking about at the skate park. In this months blog I’m going to teach you some phrases and saying that get thrown around the skate world.
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