could be a cool thread no?

post a trick, then how it's name originated! like maybe even the history of it or something, who invented it i dunno! i mean why the heck is a kickflip not called a barrel roll or something (and ollie, wtf has a guys name got to do with jumping!)
anyway!

i'll start it off;
nollie: nose-ollie, i figure

your turns...

impossible, invented by Rodney Mullen, he called it so because it was once thought impossible to make the board do a complete backflip.

Hardflip, because they're hard

An Ollie Kickflip was originally called a Magic Flip because it surprised many people how this was done. Later it was named kickflip, seeing how you kicked the board to make it flip.

tre flip: no doubt invented by the mullen, a shortened version of three flip which inturn is just taking the first digit of 360flip cos people are lazy:D score!

Heelflip, because it flips heel-la tight.

Murderflip, because if you land it someone comes to stab you in your sleep.

^^^you sure about that one? lol

bs 180 because your backside goes towards the direction you are moving

fs 180 because your frontside goes to the direction you are moving

Boardslide, cause' your board slides.

Nollie big spin: originated because Im sexy :icon_2gun

Bertslide - invented by Larry Bertleman. Originally done on a surfboard.

nose slide, tail slide: oh come on, you do the math

but where does 50/50 come from?? you're equally weighted on each truck 50% each??? i dunno

5-0 being a play on....numbers.... of 50/50 taking half of it cos your balancing on half a 50/50. woop

Caspers named after Bobby "Casper" Boyden becasue i read someone he had extremily pale skin.

Nosegrind, because if you mess up then your nose is going to grind against the obstacle.

Nosemanual, likewise. Your nose will get... manualed?

well ollie was the nickname of the man who invented it, it mostly only used in pools and bowls as a means of getting more air naturally, it was either mullen or natas kaupas (i don't remember who... prolly mullen) who adapted it to the streets

and eyah this is a good thread i thought of it too but never put it up so i'll give you the credit lol

Eric Dressen invented the Salad Grind. Hence the name. Dressen = Dressing.
Straight from wikipedia.

well ollie was the nickname of the man who invented it, it mostly only used in pools and bowls as a means of getting more air naturally, it was either mullen or natas kaupas (i don't remember who... prolly mullen) who adapted it to the streets

and eyah this is a good thread i thought of it too but never put it up so i'll give you the credit lol
what was his actual name does anyone know?? yah it was mullen and lol thankyou

^^ Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. His buddys Kevin Peterson and Jeff Dewar nicknamed it the ollie.

^^ Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. His buddys Kevin Peterson and Jeff Dewar nicknamed it the ollie.
cool info! you know your stuff.. that or how to use search engines;)

Heelflip... You use your heel to flip your board.

I win.

cabellero... invented by steve cabellero... is a fakie 360
so half of is name is half the trick... half cab is fakie 180

cool info! you know your stuff.. that or how to use search engines;)

haha, i had to run a quick search too spell his mates names right.

impossible, invented by Rodney Mullen, he called it so because it was once thought impossible to make the board do a complete backflip.

Hardflip, because they're hard

Hardflips are actually SUPER EASY once you learn how to do them.

Its just hard to learn them.

Haslam flip, they were made popular by Chris Haslam

Haslam flip, they were made popular by Chris Haslam
what's a haslam flip? halfvarial flip half late flip?

yes, as you said (put more simply) a varial half flip late half flip.

ollie invented by rodney mullen cuz his ollie was cooler than the other guy who invented it before him.

tre grenade short term for the shorter term of tre bomb

yes, as you said (put more simply) a varial half flip late half flip.
then nah i dont think it's named the haslam flip cos he does them lots, its cos he's known for doing silly, but awsome, tricks like that. i thinik it was more a homage to him. (i'm assuming you watched the same tricktip that i watched on transworld)

Boneless - No idea.
Feeble - No idea.

Lazer Flip cause lazer is just a freakin cool word

^^ wrong

back invented by rodney

seeing as when he had those all neon wheels.

doing the trick amde them spin reall fast looking like a LASER and neon ish

laser flip

Ive created a new trick... Its called poopdeck.. and guess why i called it that....

anyway,, umm lets see. i dont know if anyone did this one but.. boneless. because if u screw up thats what ur going to be on ur left/right leg

cabellero... invented by steve cabellero... is a fakie 360
so half of is name is half the trick... half cab is fakie 180insint it called a cabalerial anyways umm cooper flip invented by allison cooper, and illusin flip because it looks like a hardflip but it is only the illusion of one ,, its really a vert. pop shuvit

k-grind or KOOL GRIND!!!!...or it was eric Koston's K

i heard somewhere that ollie north was named after some famous news reporter or somethin like that (prolly wrong)

Anyone know why a boneless is called a boneless?

One bone leaves the board maybe?

Natas spin - Done by Natas Kaupus on top of a fire hidrant.

Hangten nose manual - It was originaly done by surfers on longboards. They'd walk up to the front of their board while catching a wave and hang their toes over the nose. Hence it became hang five, or if your good a full Hang ten!

k-grind or KOOL GRIND!!!!...or it was eric Koston's K

The k-grind name may come from Eric Koston's K, yes he didn't invent the trick, Dan Peterka did, so it may also come from Peterka's K. About the haslam flip name, it's named like that because Haslam made it popular (he does one in Round 3 over one of the infamous Sand Gaps), but it had been done before of course.

hmm the k is kinda lost in his name...y couldnt he called it the X FLIP!! that would sound so cool :D

i heard somewhere that ollie north was named after some famous news reporter or somethin like that (prolly wrong)
yep its wrong; think of the nose of the board as the north side; so when your foot comes off it goes north i know thats a bad example but if you can explain it better than do so

dark slide---invented by rodney mullen. called "dark slide" because of the way ur griptape slides in the obstacle

hmm the k is kinda lost in his name...y couldnt he called it the X FLIP!! that would sound so cool :D

Because it's a grind...

Gay twist (Bs fullcab mute): Lance mountain did a bs caballerial grabbing mute, trick got called gay (because everyone else grabbed indy) ergo. "Gay twist".

Okay,

Crooked Grind - Its called that because its like a crooked nosegrind

Inward Heelflip - Because the back truck is going inward? I donno.

inward heel:cause from the rider;s point of view the board is coming inward
btw arent crooked grinds k-grinds?

dark slide---invented by rodney mullen. called "dark slide" because of the way ur griptape slides in the obstacle

It was actually invented by Mark Gonzales back in 1991 (in Blind 'Video Days' he does a caveman to darkslide on a handrail), Rodney is acknowledged the first one to do ollie 1/2 flip variations into them though.

ollie north origanally called a one foot ollie because the ollie motion was only done with one foot,, called an ollie north beacuse the front foot goes off of the nose which is thought to be the north,, also the ollie south where the back foot comes off the board

The ollie was invented by Alan Gelfand.

Rodney Mullen can be seen doing a tre flip in The Search For Animal Chin, ca. 1987. Just think about that.

This is Oliver North:
http://history.enotes.com/images/peoples/tpc_0003_0001_0_img0353.jpg

without meaning to sound like a retard....

where did primo come from then??? or rusty slide????

any ideas????

oh and toe flips came about because you use your toes to flick the board to rotate down towards the floor..... (i think)

where did primo come from then??? or rusty slide????

Primo slides were invented by Primo Desiderio, and I don't think rusty slides even exist.

Kiwi flip - it got that defination because MRCK loves kiwis :D

5050s(the grind): when you did them on pools, it looked like you were 50% out of the pool and 50% in the pool

50-50
50% on 1 truck 50 % on the other truck so both trucks are on the rail! =]

5050s(the grind): when you did them on pools, it looked like you were 50% out of the pool and 50% in the pool

Damn you!! 1 sec before me! xD

Boneless - No idea.
Feeble - No idea.

The Boneless (which is actually called the "Boneless one") is named after a puppet. This is from an interview that Garry Scott Davis (the inventor) had with Transworld:

In December 1979, influenced by a trick I saw in Skateboarder Magazine called the footplant (done backside, planting the rear foot), I thought up a frontside version, planting the front foot. It all happened when Robert Hamrick, Mark Mounts, and I were messing around with our boards while sitting on the floor in Robert's house. We considered this trick impossible and promptly forgot about it for the next few months.

Mark called me up in the spring of that year, breathless, announcing he'd just pulled "that trick" I had thought up. I rushed down to the D.O. banks in Cincinnati, only to find him popping Boneless Ones three feet off the Main Bank. Within a few minutes, I was doing that "impossible" trick, too. We were blown away at how much higher, and easier, we could boost than with a backside footplant. At first, the trick was given the literal-and not exactly catchy-"front-footed frontside footplant" moniker, which stuck for over a year until Robert renamed it "The Boneless One" after a puppet of his-Harry The Boneless One. Why the puppet? Do you still have the thing?

He's a puppet dog called Harry The Boneless One because he's soft and has no bones. He needs your hand, and bones, to come to life. I haven't talked to Robert since 1982, so I don't know if he still has Harry. I think he probably does, though. I hung out with Mark in April 2004. We skated the D.O. banks that day and called Robert, but we got no answer.

I think feebles came from the fact that doing that trick backside in a bowl was a "feeble" trick to do compared to a regular grind. I'm alos quite sure they were called "3-wheels-over-grinds" before that too, but don't quote me on it.

^^ wrong

back invented by rodney

seeing as when he had those all neon wheels.

doing the trick amde them spin reall fast looking like a LASER and neon ish

laser flip

Nah, it got the nickname "laserflip" from when someone did a 360 heelflip at the same time as a laser sound effect was played in the old AWS video "Time Code". And the name stuck.

k-grind or KOOL GRIND!!!!...or it was eric Koston's K

I think K-grind came from when people spelt it like krooked grind, and that got shortened.

ollie north origanally called a one foot ollie because the ollie motion was only done with one foot,, called an ollie north beacuse the front foot goes off of the nose which is thought to be the north,, also the ollie south where the back foot comes off the board

I always thought it was sort of a play on words because of that guy whose name was Ollie North.

Other cool ones:

Varial - Is the name for grabbing the board and spinning it 180 with your hand and then got combined with flip tricks (varial kickflip etc.). Varial came from the combination of "Variflex Aerial" trick. The rider who invented it was sponsored by variflex at the time.

Indy Grab - Same deal, the inventor was sponsored by Independent trucks.

McTwist - Named after Mike McGill who did the first 540 mutegrab. I'm pretty sure Tony Hawk come up with he name.

Wikipedia has a good description for Stalefish which sounds good enough to be real.

Willy Grind - Named after Willy Santos who did some but Derek Williams was doing them on vert way before him.

I really want to know where Beanplant, Gazellespin, 5-0 grind and bluntslide came from...

Olliver North invented the ollie north. that's how it got the name.

suski grinds were invented by aaron suski werent they?

I really want to know where Beanplant, Gazellespin, 5-0 grind and bluntslide came from...

5-0 ive already mentioned, it's like cos it's half of a 50/50 so u take half of the name. its a play on the name 50/50

i'm guessing bluntslide comes from the name for a cigar with weed in it- a blunt
but i like to think that it's called a bluntslide cos it looks kinda "blunt" when you do them on ledges/benches, but that's probably not the case lol

suski grinds were invented by aaron suski werent they?

Sort of, well he just always did his b/s 5-0's crooked like that and the name spread. He wasn't the first to do them, but he did them all the time.

5-0 ive already mentioned, it's like cos it's half of a 50/50 so u take half of the name. its a play on the name 50/50

I would've thought there was more to it. Something relating to cops or something being that its called a five-0 grind and all. I don't know.

im pretty sure i read in a skatemgazin taht Aaron Suskey invented the suskey grind (opposite of salad) although im not sure which on eit is ;)
can anyone tellme: (only if you are totally sure)
halfway between Bluntslide and 5-0=
halway between Tailslide and 5-0=

oh lo someone already has said it, ayways
NATAS invented the NATAS-SPIN O___OOO noooo
wasn't there a trick that sounded like caballerial buut with another last name and it also ended on -allerial??

wasn't there a trick that sounded like caballerial buut with another last name and it also ended on -allerial??callasterial or kalasterial.. something like that. i think it's a bs pop shove-it with a fs body varial.

can anyone tellme: (only if you are totally sure)
halfway between Bluntslide and 5-0=
halway between Tailslide and 5-0=

Halfway between bluntslide and 5/0 : salad grind
Halfway between tailslide and 5-0 : suski grind

And Robo, seeing how '5/0 stalls' on ramps are called pivots (ie. pivots to fakie, backside pivot grinds, etc.), maybe that five-o name could be derivated from that or something... Even though both names sound nothing like each other in the end, I would still consider it a possibility.

Something relating to cops or something being that its called a five-0 grind and all. I don't know.
yeah it couldve been made cos of both reasons, like its an added bonus that it's also slang for cops??

callasterial or kalasterial.. something like that. i think it's a bs pop shove-it with a fs body varial.

Also there an Elguerial (Inverted fake 360 handplant thing), and a Varial.

yeah it couldve been made cos of both reasons, like its an added bonus that it's also slang for cops??

Probably...

Also its pretty obvious why disasters have that name haha. When rolling into a bank, getting caught up like that would be terrible! Death drops are also pretty obvious too :)

The 360 heelflip is called the laser flip because it was first seen in an Alien Workshop video and when the trick was done, the sound of a laser beam went off, hence the name laser flip.

i cant think right now but cool thread +rep.

How were the melon grab and all of the other grabs named?

Sal Flip:Sandras Augusto's(who invented it) nickname was "Sally" thus Sal Flip.
Gay Twist:The name came from Lance Mountain (it's inventor), who thought it was gay to grab the board since it's basically a Caballerial with a Mute Grab. And thought it should be done like the Caballerial, grabless. Thus Gay Twist.
The Indy:Invented by Duane Peters, who was riding for Independent at the time, hence the name.
Mute Air:It was invented by Chris Weddle, who was death from birth and thus had severe speech difficulties. Hence the name.
Lien Air:Invented by Neil Blender, it is Neil spelled backwards.

Sal Flip:Sandras Augusto's(who invented it) nickname was "Sally" thus Sal Flip.
Gay Twist:The name came from Lance Mountain (it's inventor), who thought it was gay to grab the board since it's basically a Caballerial with a Mute Grab. And thought it should be done like the Caballerial, grabless. Thus Gay Twist.
The Indy:Invented by Duane Peters, who was riding for Independent at the time, hence the name.
Mute Air:It was invented by Chris Weddle, who was death from birth and thus had severe speech difficulties. Hence the name.
Lien Air:Invented by Neil Blender, it is Neil spelled backwards.

do you know about a melon grab?

do you know about a melon grab?

I think it derivated from 'melanchollie' (the original name), but I may be wrong.

Darkslide: because the griptape side of your board is dark. :)
50-50: When this was mainly done in verts, you had 50% of your body on the outside of the coping, and 50% inside.
Pop Shove it: when it was done, you shoved the board around. Hence shove it. Then people added the pop.
Blunts: Bluntly, they are cool :D
Varial flip: They are variaties to the flip trick (heel or kickflip)
Inward heelflip: the board seemed to go inward
Forward flip: The board gots "thrown" foorward
Late flips: They're flipped after the peak of the height of a trick(ollies, and such)
Goofy: named after a famous disney character (well not a trick but whatever)
Kiwiflip: Because it makes you wanna eat kiwi after watching it :)


All tricks have origins to their name

I only have one that might not have been said yet.

The Storm flip (nollie backside flip late flip :P): It was first done by Jerry Hsu in old Osiris video "The Storm".

Kiwiflip: Because it makes you wanna eat kiwi after watching it :)

^^ I don't think so. Maybe MRCK could enlighten us?

My varials were wrong, ah well.

And I realised lots of people did the same tricks as I defined, I just really skimmed through the posts.

And it's probably because MRCK likes kiwi :)

There are so many wierd names in skating.

I mean c'mon, Roast beef? Salad grind? Chicken salad? Melon? Coconut Wheelie? Maybe we're all just really hungry people. It's coz back when these tricks were being invented skaters couldn't afford to eat.

There are so many wierd names in skating.

I mean c'mon, Roast beef? Salad grind? Chicken salad? Melon? Coconut Wheelie? Maybe we're all just really hungry people. It's coz back when these tricks were being invented skaters couldn't afford to eat.
My next trick is gonna be called Apple Pie :)

And I agree, loads of tricks have to do with eating.

MRCK named kiwiflips after his ex-gf/gf that had "kiwi" as username on msn(maybe somewhere else).

MRCK named kiwiflips after his ex-gf/gf that had "kiwi" as username on msn(maybe somewhere else).
Well that solves the mysetery of the missing trick origin. :)

Aaaaw, the fruit idea was so much cooler too.

Boardslide, cause' your board slides.

Originally a railslide, then most people stopped putting rails on their boards.

The one-foot ollie became more popularly known as the ollie north. Oliver North was a military officer who was famously involved in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg/180px-Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg

sal flip - made famous by SAL BARBIER since he would spin it 360 and not a finger flip

melon = melancholy

Crooked Grind = k grind dan Peterka... but it was called "k" grind do to people thinking "k"oston invented it

mc twist = mike mcgill

smith grind = mike smith

barley grind = donny barley... who got it named after himself since he had them locked reg and switch

i may write more when they come to me

Originally a railslide, then most people stopped putting rails on their boards.

The one-foot ollie became more popularly known as the ollie north. Oliver North was a military officer who was famously involved in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg/180px-Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg

I'm really getting old, I'm starting to repeat myself.

Bertslide - invented by Larry Bertleman. Originally done on a surfboard.

Thanks Jer, I was going to use that one.....Good one though....

an 180 because you rotate 180 :D

i want to invent a trick called the creamsicle flip
Merging doublepost
Originally a railslide, then most people stopped putting rails on their boards.

The one-foot ollie became more popularly known as the ollie north. Oliver North was a military officer who was famously involved in the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg/180px-Oliver_North_mug_shot.jpg

YES like that episode of american dad "OLLIE NORTH OLLIE NORTH" wow i'm probably the only person who watches that horrible show

feeble - cus it looks feeble?
crooked - because it is crooked
darkslide - because your sliding on the oposite side than usual, probably
shuvit - because you have to shove it with your back foot
wall ride - self explanitory

but i wonder how names like indy and melon came about

feeble - cus it looks feeble?
crooked - because it is crooked
darkslide - because your sliding on the oposite side than usual, probably
shuvit - because you have to shove it with your back foot
wall ride - self explanitory

but i wonder how names like indy and melon came about
Read the thread.

I think it derivated from 'melanchollie' (the original name), but I may be wrong.

I read that somehwere too, even then I have no clue why a grab trick would be named melanchollie unless they just wanted a word with "ollie" in it. :)

feeble - cus it looks feeble?
crooked - because it is crooked
darkslide - because your sliding on the oposite side than usual, probably
shuvit - because you have to shove it with your back foot
wall ride - self explanitory

but i wonder how names like indy and melon came about

its darkslide cause the grip is black (dark)