Editing Skateboarding trick (section)

==Types==

===Ollie===
[[File:Skateboarding at Mexico City - Ollie - 005.JPG|thumb|Ollie]]
{{Main article|Ollie (skateboarding)}}

An ollie is a jump where the front wheels leave the ground first.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ollie|title=Ollie - Definition|dictionary=Merriam-Webster|access-date=7 October 2012}}</ref> This motion is attained with a snap of the tail (from the back foot) and sliding one's front foot forward to reach any altitude. A lot of technical tricks transpire from this element (e.g. the [[kickflip]], heelflip, 360-flip). A ''[[nollie]]'' is when the back wheels leave the ground first by snapping the nose of the board, with the back foot sliding towards the tail. There is also a switch ollie, which is simply an ollie in [[Footedness|switch stance]] position. The switch stance position is the opposite position of how the rider would normally ride.

===Grabs===
{{Main article|Aerial (skateboarding)}}

A grab involves floating in the air, while using either hand to hold the board against the feet or keeping constant and careful pressure on the board with the feet to keep it from floating away. The [[Indy grab]] usually combines rotation with different grabs. This class of tricks was first popularized when [[Tony Hawk]] became famous for his frontside airs in empty swimming pools in the late 1970s and has expanded to include the bulk of skateboarding tricks to this day, including the ollie and all of its variations.<ref>''[[Skateboarder (magazine)|Skateboarder magazine]]'', July 1978.</ref> The [[900 (skateboarding)|900]] and [[1080 (skateboarding)|1080]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.skateboarding.com.au/news/12-year-old-lands-first-ever-1080-skateboard/|title=12 year old lands the first ever 1080 on a skateboard|date=3 July 2012|publisher=Skateboarding.com.au|access-date=7 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121215175336/http://www.skateboarding.com.au/news/12-year-old-lands-first-ever-1080-skateboard/|archive-date=15 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> fall under the class of aerials, though these are commonly confused with aerial grabs.

===Flip tricks===
[[File:Skateboarding at Mexico City - Flip - 001.JPG|thumb|left|Kickflip]]

{{Main article|Flip trick}}

Flip tricks are a subset of aerials which are all based on the ollie. An example is the kickflip, the most widely known and performed flip trick. The board can be spun around many different axes as part of a flip trick, thus combining several rotations into one trick. These tricks are undoubtedly most popular among [[street skateboarding]] purists, although skaters with other styles perform them as well. The famous placing of the board on the feet and then jumping was created in 1987 by Nathan Lipor. Combining spins and flips is extremely popular in today's culture. A common trick in skateboarding lines is a 360 flip, or tre flip. A 360 flip is the combination of a skateboard spinning 360 degrees and a kickflip. There are also double kickflips and triple kickflips, which are very difficult.

===Freestyle===
{{Main article|Freestyle skateboarding tricks}}

Freestyle skateboarding tricks are tricks specifically associated with [[freestyle skateboarding]]. They are part of the building blocks and some of the most important reference points for tricks which have evolved to form [[street skateboarding]].

===Slides and grinds===
[[File:Skateboarding at Mexico City - Grind - 011.JPG|thumb|Frontside 5-0 grind]]
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Slides and grinds involve getting the board up on some type of ledge, [[Grind rail|rail]], or coping and sliding or grinding along the board or trucks, respectively. When it is primarily the board which is contacting the edge, it is called a slide; when it is the truck, it is a grind. Grinding and sliding skateboards started with sliding the board on parking blocks and curbs, then extended to using the coping on swimming pools, then stairway [[handrail]]s, and has now been expanded to include almost every possible type of edge. Grinds and slides on street environments were brought to mainstream skateboarding by professional skateboarders [[Natas Kaupas]] and [[Mark Gonzales]].

===Manuals===

A manual is a balancing trick where a skateboarder balances on either the front two or rear two wheels, without the other two wheels or any other part of the skateboard touching the ground for the entire duration of the trick. The trick is often performed at speed and technical skateboarders such as [[Daewon Song]] are renowned for performing tricks such as the kickflip both in and out of the trick, whilst also simultaneously doing so up onto, over and off ledges, blocks, benches and other street obstacles.