| This article provides detailed information on | | | | is performed by directing one and sometimes both |
| Skateboard Tricks. | | | | trucks onto an object that has a distinct edge. The |
| As skateboarders gather experience, they start | | | | object may be a curb, railing, or pipe. The rider and |
| attempting advanced tricks and maneuvers. Of these, | | | | skateboard are on the move, while the metal hanger |
| the most popular are the aerials. Ollie is one of the | | | | scrapes along the edge. The grind is completed when |
| most advanced and popular skateboard tricks. Legend | | | | the rider pops the trucks off the surface and |
| has it that it was invented by Alan Ollie Gelfand. By | | | | re-engages the wheels. A half-pipe offers a stiff |
| using this technique the skateboarder jumps over, onto | | | | challenge to skateboarders. Riders propel themselves |
| or up to an obstacle. Throughout the exercise the | | | | up and down the curves of the trough while inside a |
| board appears to stick to the skateboarder\'s feet. | | | | half-pipe. In some of the half pipes the walls are almost |
| The Ollie is the basic skateboard trick, from which | | | | completely vertical, where skateboarders can show |
| others can follow. But remember, it is not at all easy | | | | difficult maneuvers, usually called vert skating (short |
| and takes long hours of practice to learn!The board flip | | | | form of vertical skating). In vert skating, skateboarders |
| is another maneuver that is very popular. In a | | | | propel their boards to the top of either wall, |
| well-performed board flip, the skater completes a | | | | perpendicular to the ground. They perform skateboard |
| landing back onto the deck after the board turns one | | | | tricks on each side while riding back and forth. |
| or more time under the rider\'s feet while both are in | | | | Skateboarders also perform other moves such as |
| the air. Board flips can be of various types. Another | | | | hand plants, foot plants, inverts, and flips. |
| common and popular trick is known as a grind. A grind | | | | |