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Much much more. Skating is the act of riding and performing tricks with a skateboard. A person who uses skateboards is known as a skateboarder, skateboarder, or “shredder.”
Skateboarding is a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skaters over the years. A 2002 report from American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skaters in the world. Eighty-five percent of the skaters surveyed who had used a board in the past year were under the age of 18, and 74 percent were male.
Skateboarding is relatively modern. A key skate trick, the ollie, wasn’t developed until the late 1970s. This ollie was used only on vertical ramps on flat terrain. A decade later, the freestyle skater invented the kickflip that was previously called the Magic Flip.
With the evolution of skateparks and ramps, the skateboard began to change. Early skateboarding tricks consisted primarily of two-dimensional maneuvers (for example, riding on two wheels alone (wheelie, aka manual), spinning like an ice skater on the rear wheels (a 360-degree pivot), jumping high on a bar (nowadays called “Hippie Jump”), long jumps from one board to another (often on a line of small barrels or intrepid teenagers lying on their backs) and slalom.
In 1976, skateboarding was transformed with the invention of Alan “Ollie” Gelfand’s first modern skateboarding trick, the Ollie (skateboarding trick). It continued to be very much a unique stunt in Florida from 1976 until the summer of 1978, when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Gelfand and his groundbreaking maneuver caught the attention of skaters on the West Coast and the media where it began to spread throughout the world.
The ollie was reinvented by Rodney Mullen in 1982, who adapted it to freestyle skating by ollieing on flat ground rather than on a vertical ramp. Mullen also invented the ollie kickflip, which, at the time of its invention, was called the “magic spin.” The flat-ground ollie allowed skaters to perform tricks in the air with no equipment other than the skateboard. The development of these complex tricks by Rodney Mullen and others transformed skateboarding. Skaters began to perform their tricks on stairs and other urban obstacles: They were no longer confined to empty pools and expensive wooden ramps. a hilarious tidbit: the ollie originally as a stunt in thrasher magazine as the “ollie prop pop”.
The act of “ollieing” over an obstacle and sliding across it on the axles of the board is known as “grinding” and has become a mainstay of modern skateboarding. Grind types include the 50-50 grind (balance on the front and rear trucks while grinding a rail), the 5-0 grind (balance only on the rear truck while grinding a rail), the nose grind (balance only on the front truck) while grinding a rail), and the crooked routine (swinging on the front truck at an angle with the nose touching while grinding) among many others. There are several other routines that involve touching both the trucks and the platform to the rail, ledge, or edge. The most common of these is the smith grind, in which the rider balances on the rear truck while touching the outer center of the board with the grinding surface in the direction from which they started. Jumping and landing in the back truck and touching the inside edge of the board, that is, jumping “over” is known as a weak routine. Slides, such as board slides, lips, noses, and tailslides, are found on the wooden deck of the skateboard, rather than on trucks.
One trick that doesn’t fit into these categories is the Darkslide (invented by Rodney Mullen) which involves sliding across the top (grip tape side) of the board. The bluntslide, when performed on a ledge, which basically means the wheels are slipping. Another slide / grind trick that doesn’t fit into ordinary categories is the cousin slide, invented by Primo Desidero; It consists of sliding on the board (even if it is a flat surface instead of a boss, rail or lip) while it is on its side, sliding on the ends of the axle bolts and the thin dimension of the board, pointing and moving in the same way . how one would mount it.