Cab: A term for a fakie 360.
It can also be used before a grind, (A cab soul, or a fakie 360 disaster soul)
Cabalerno: A backflip with a 180 in it.
Cab Driver: A grind in which you are sliding on both outside edges.
To do this your feet have to be close and your knees bowed out like you are a cowboy on a horse. (Also known as a Cowboy)
California Roll: Another word for a Med spin.
Camel: Another word for a toe-tap.
Capped: When a rail has caps put on it that makes it impossible to grind.
Caveman Rail: Rails that are really high and hard to get on.
Cess Slide: Where you are doing a hockey stop with your skates.
Ie- you slide sideways on both skates. Its usually done going down a slope
or on a smooth surface.
Christ: A backslide in which the heel of the non-grinding skate
is resting on front of the sliding skate.
Christ Soul: Same thing as a christ grind but instead of doing it backslide you do it souling.
Clicking in: Phrase used to describe the click you make when
you jump up and lock in a rail for a grind.
Coping: The metal bar going horizontally across the top of a
ramp. This allows you to grind or stall easily.
Corkscrew: A corkscrew is a 360 degree spin done horizontally (bio 360)
Cowboy Grind: A grind in which you are sliding on both outside edges.
To do this your feet have to be close and your knees bowed out like you are a cowboy on a horse. (Also known as a Cab driver)
Crab: Where you skate along sideways with your heels touching
each other.
Crossed: Term used to describe grabs in which you reach over
(or cross) your body to do the grab. Ie- A crossed rocket is when you are
in a rocket, and grab with one hand the skate on the opposite side.
Crossed up: Similar to crossed. However in this one, your feet
are what crosses up, and not your hands. Ie- A crossed up mute is a mute
grab with one foot behind the other, a la crossed legs.
Crosswalk: A sidewalk grind in which the front foot is doing an acid
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Darkslide grind: A grind in which you are doing a 'double' royale.
Your front foot is pointed in the opposite directions (acid).
Deadfish grind: A grind in which the front foot is
on the soul and the back foot is rolling on the front wheel.
Demon grind: A grind in which you soul grind using the inside
of your skate instead of the usual outside.
Disaster: Generally assosiated with grinding. You do a disaster
grind when you jump high (possibly doing a grab), land, and grind.
Droping In: Whenever you enter a ramp from the top of it.
Duck Walk: Where you skate on the toe wheel of one skate and
the heel wheel of the other.
Dumb Soul: Another name for an acid
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Fakie: Anything done backwards. Ie- Fakie 360 is a backwards
to backwards 360.
Farvegnugen: Like a royale but the opposite way (alleyoop royale)
Farside: Any grind in which you go over the bar and land on the
'far side' to start grinding.
Fast slide: Where you do a grind (like a frontside), but only
use the front foot.
Fast soul: Where you do a grind with only your soul foot on the
bar. (also known as a makio)
Fishbone: A fishbrain with the non-grinding foot out straight
and grabbed, sorta like a rocket makio
Fishbrain: A topside makio grind.
Flatlander: A skater who skates only street and no vert.
Flat rocker: A wheel setup in which all for wheels are touching
the ground. The outside wheels are larger than the middle 2 wheels, but
the middle 2 are rockered down so that all touch.
Flip: Any move in which you rotate a full circle with your waist
being the axis of rotation. You can do this by spinning forwards or backwards.
Forty Ounce (40 oz.): A crouched heeltoe 360 while shuffling your feet.
Frank Sinatra: A shifty miszou.
Frontside: A type of grind. If you are approaching a bar on
your right, and you turn clockwise 90 degrees to get onto it, you are doing
a frontside grind.
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H-Grind: A soul grind using both inside souls.
Half Cab: Going from skating backwards to skating forwards (can be done with a grind).
Ie-Skating backwards and jumping on a bar and grinding it.
Half Pipe: A type of ramp that is usually made out of wood and
looks much like 'half of a pipe' or a U. They can range from 3 feet high
to over 12 feet in height.
Han Solo: When you spin doing an alleyoop and only have
your soul foot slide while the other foot is normally grabbed. (an alleyoop makio)
Hand Plant: Also called an invert, it is when you go upside down
on the ramp and do a handstand. It is usually done on the coping, but can
be done below the coping as well.
Hardcore: Term used to describe skaters that are not afraid to take risks.
Hip: Section of a ramp that is perpendicular to another section.
This allows for tricks going from one part to the other.
Hip-Hop: An invert in which you touch the coping with your hand twice.
Hobo: An alleyoop trick where your back foot is in backslide position
and your front foot is only on the toe of the soul (Another name for a AWOL)
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L.A. Grind: Grind when you are on the outside edges of both skates
with your legs crossed. Also known as a unity.
Late tricks: Usually describes a spinning trick. It is a trick
that you do just before you land. Ie- You launch off of a ramp, and at
the last second you turn backwards, thus doing a late 180.
Liu Kang: A grab in which the non-grabbed leg kicks out as if
you are doing a side kick.
Look-back: When you do a shifty, and look behind you as far as
you can.
Lowrider soul: Soul grind in which you are sitting down low on
your soul skate.
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