This is our trick list. We will try to include every single trick in the book, including a brief description of each one, and a rating of difficulty.
Definitions
Regular: Regular riding is when you have your left foot in the front of the board, steering with that left foot. Then you would push off with your right foot.
Goofy: When riding goofy you will steer with your right foot, in the front of the board, and you would push off with your left foot.
Fakie: Fakie is when you are riding in your primary stance, only going backwards.
Switch: Riding switch means riding in the opposite stance (you are goofy but riding regular, and vice versa).
Nollie: Nollie is the hardest stance of them all, you are in your switch stance and going backwards.
Street Tricks
360-Flip: A 360-Flip is similar to a varial kickflip in that the board does a shove-it and a kickflip, only here it is a 360 shove-it.
[Rating: Medium]
Bigspin: In a bigspin, the skater spins the board 360 as in a 360 shove-it, while turning his body 180 in the same direction.
[Rating: Medium]
Body Varial:In a body varial, you jump, spin 180 degrees and land on the board.
[Rating: Very Easy]
Caballaerial: A Caballaerial or a "Cab" is a 360 ollie in the fakie stance.
[Rating: Medium]
Casper: A casper is a stationary manual on the darkside (the grip tape). By flipping the board halfway and catching it with the back foot on the tail and the front foot under the grip, you can hold it up as in a manual. You can also slide with it, but you have to go very fast and have a smooth surface. It's very hard.
[Rating: Medium]
Discoflip: A dicoflip is the same as a sex change but you do a heelflip and a body varial instead of kickflip.
[Rating: Medium]
Half-Cab: A Half-Cab is a 180 ollie in the Fakie stance.
[Rating: Easy]
Hardflip: A hardflip is a FS shove-it with a kickflip, done almost vertically.
[Rating: Hard]
Monkeyflip: A monkeyflip is when you are riding nollie and you do a hardflip. so a monkeyflip is really just a nollie Hardflip
[Rating:Hard]
Heelflip: The skater kicks the board so that it flips on the toe-side. It flips completely. It doesn't necessarily have to be flipped with the heel, but the motion makes it look like the heel hit it. This move can be learned before or after the kickflip.
[Rating: Easy]
Helipop: A Helipop is a 360 ollie in nollie stance.
[Rating: Medium/hard]
Hospital Flip: A hospital flip is like a casper in the air. Make the board flip 180 degrees vertically and land this trick in casper. Then just flip out of it.
[Rating: Medium/Hard]
Impossible: An impossible is a vertical 360 flip around your back foot.
[Rating: Hard]
Inward Heelflip: An inward heelflip is a backside shove-it and a heelflip. It is hard because the board is flipping the way it turns, and thus it's usually harder than the varial heelflip.
[Rating: Hard]
Kickflip: The skater kicks the board so that it flips on the heel-side. It flips completely. It's a basic move nowadays.
[Rating: Easy]
Manual: A manual is a wheelie, in which you are riding on your two back wheels with the nose slightly in the air. You can also do a nose-manual, which is on the two front wheels with the tail slightly raised.
[Rating: Easy]
Ollie: The ollie is pretty much a jump. It's the basis of many tricks. However, it is more complicated than just jumping. By popping the tail, and sliding the front foot for it to even out in the air, you can clear many obstacles, etc.
[Rating: Easy]
Perfect Flip: A perfect flip is a vertical 360 flip, like an impossible, only it doesn't spin around your foot.
[Rating: Hard]
Pop Shove-it: In a pop shove-it, the board spins 180 degrees under the skater, but he doesn't turn. The difference between this one and the regular shove it is that in this one you pop the tail so it goes up. You can also do the harder 360 and 540 pop shove-its.
[Rating: Easy]
Sex Change: A Sex Change is a combination of a Kickflip and a body varial. As the board flips under you, you turn your body 180.
[Rating: Easy/Medium]
Shove-it: In a shove-it, the board spins 180 degrees under the skater, but he doesn't turn. You can also do the harder 360 and 540 shove-its.
[Rating: Easy]
Varial Heelflip: A varial heelflip is a mixture of a shove-it and a heelflip. The board flips toe-side while it spins 180.
[Rating: Easy/Medium]
Varial Kickflip: A varial kickflip is a mixture of a shove-it and a kickflip. The board flips heel-side while it spins 180.
[Rating: Easy/Medium]
Ilusion flip: An Ilution flip is when you do a pop shove-it but the board looks like it's going to flip but it doesn't and it looks like an Ilution.
[Rating:Medium]
Slides/Grinds
50-50 Grind: Ollie onto the rail and land with both trucks on the rail. After that, just grind away.
[Rating: Easy]
5-0 Grind: Ollie onto the rail and land with your back truck on the rail, so you are grinding in the manual position.
[Rating:Easy]
Piviot Grind: A piviot is when you do a crooked 5-0.
[Rating:Easy/Medium]
Salad Grind: A salad is when you ollie over the rail and you land in a Piviot Grind.
[Rating:Hard]
Boardslide: A boardslide is a basic slide. You turn 90 degrees and put the front trucks over the rail, and slide on the space between the trucks. As you go off the rail, you turn 90 degrees again.
[Rating: Easy]
Darkslide: A darkslide is a boardslide on the darkside. By flipping the board halfway and turning 90 degrees, you are in darkslide position. All that is left is to slide, but you have to flip it back at the end.
[Rating: Medium]
Lipslide A lipslide is an advanced version of the boardslide. You turn 90 degrees and put the back trucks over the rail, and slide on the wheelbase. As you go off the rail, you turn 90 degrees again.
[Rating: Easy/Medium]
Nosegrind: Ollie onto the rail and land with your front truck on the rail. While in the nose manual position, the nose slides on the rail as well.
[Rating: Medium]
Crooked Grind: A crooked grind or a crook or a k-grind is when your doing a nosegrind but your on the rail crooked.
.[Rating:medium]
Overcrook:When you ollie over the rail and you land on the rail in a crooked Grind.
[Rating:Hard]
Noseslide: In a noseslide the board slides on the nose. The skater ollies 90 degrees and lands nollie with the nose on the rail.
[Rating: Easy]
Smith Grind: Ollie onto the rail and land with your back truck on the rail. The front turns down and out on so that the trucks are on the side of the rail.
[Rating: Hard]
Feeble Grind: A Feeble is when you ollie over the rail but you land in smith.
[Rating:Hard]
Anchor Grind: An ancheor is when your front truck is on the rail and the back of your board is turned down so that the back truck is next to the rail. Similar to the crooked grind, only down.
[Rating: Hard]
Barley grind: A barley is when you do a 180 ollie to switch smith grind.
[Rating: Very Hard]
Tailslide: In a tailslide the board slides on the tail. The skater ollies 90 degrees while keeping 1 foot on the tail and hits the tail on the rail.
[Rating: Medium]
Miscellaneous
Caveman: A caveman is an old trick which involves running towards some obstacle/rail, putting the board on top of it, jumping onto it, and sliding. The most basic version is a boardslide.
[Rating: Medium/Hard]
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