Skateboarding (sometimes spelled Skate Boarding) is the sport of riding on or performing tricks with a skate board.

Skateboarding is an immensely popular recreational and competitive sport with participation in the millions throughout the world. Skaters use a board of various sizes to ride and perform tricks on streets, ramps and in parks. Skateboarding is also a healthy and popular form of transportation.

Ride and perform tricks on a board with wheels.

There are no written or standardized rules for skateboarding, except those created specifically for individual competitions. There are however, certain restrictions on where skateboarders can ride.

Skateboarding first began in the 1940s and 50s when surfers wanted something to do while waves were flat. Early boards were made by attaching roller skate wheels to wooden boxes. These soon gave way to decks of pressed layers of wood, manufactured by surfboard companies. By the 1970s, advances in wheel and truck technology allowed for vast improvements in both traction and stability. This led to an explosion in skateboarding popularity and innovation. Skaters began skating faster and performing tricks in drained swimming pools. In the 1980s, street skating was the most popular form of skateboarding, with skaters riding and performing tricks on and around steps, rails and ledges. Today skateboarding is one of the most popular sports in the world, both recreationally and competitively.

Helmet
Padding
Ramp (optional)
Skateboard

Skateboarding is primarily undertaken on hard, uneven surfaces. Being as such, a helmet and padding must be worn at all times.

Mild weight training can provide the strong thighs and calves necessary to power the board. Experience in any sort of board sport is also useful in regards to balance and control.

Air - riding with all four wheels off the ground; short for aerial

Backside - when a trick or turn is executed with the skater’s back facing the ramp or obstacle

Caballerial - a 360-degree turn performed on a ramp while riding fakie (backwards), named after skater Steve Caballero

Carve - to skate in a long, curving arc(usually in the corner of a bowl)

Deck - the flat standing surface of a skateboard, usually laminated maple

Fakie - skating backwards—the skater is standing in his or her normal stance, but the board is moving backward (not to be confused with "switch stance")

Frontside - when a trick or turn is executed with the front of the skater’s body facing the ramp or obstacle

Goofy-foot - riding with the right foot forward, the opposite of "regular foot"

Grind - scraping one or both axles on a curb, railing, or other surface, such as crooked grind grinding on only the front truck while sliding

Grip Tape - sandpaper affixed to the top of the deck with adhesive, used to increase the friction between the deck and the skater’s feet

Nosegrind - grinding on only the front truck

Kickflip - a variation on the ollie in which the skater kicks the nose of the board to send it into a spin before landing back on it

McTwist - a 540-degree turn performed on a ramp, named after Mike McGill

Nongo-foot - a style of pushing where the back foot is kept on the board and pushing is done with the front foot

Nollie - an ollie performed by tapping the nose of the board instead of the tail

Nose - the front of the skateboard, from the front truck bolts to the end

Noseslide - sliding the underside of the nose end of a board on a ledge, rail, or lip

Ollie - a jump performed by tapping the tail of the board on the ground; the basis of most skating tricks. named after Alan "Ollie" Gelfand

Pop Shove-it - the same as a shuv-it but popping the tail to make the board ariel , while in the air the board spins under the skater

Regular Foot - riding with the left foot forward, the opposite of "goofy-foot"

Rail - the edge of the skateboard, also, plastic strips attached to the board’s underside to older skateboards (single tipped) A rail is also a metal, concrete or wooden(rarely)bar used to do slides and grinds upon

Shove-it - a trick performed by spinning the board 180 degrees beneath the feet without the skater spinning

Switch Stance - riding the board with the opposite footing than usual, i.e., "goofy-foot" instead of "regular foot"

Tailslide - sliding the underside of the tail end of a board on a ledge or lip

Varial Kick Flip - a trick consisting of a backside pop shuv-it and a kickflip; the board does a 180 rotation

Varial Heel Flip - the same trick as a varial kick flip but instead you combine a heel flip and a frontside shove-it

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