Skateboarding: Ramp Tricks

by Goodfellow, Evan; Yamaoda, Tadashi

• ISBN13: 9781884654268
• ISBN10: 1884654266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 6/28/2006
• Publisher: Tracks Publishing

Summary

Ramp tricksskate moves made on, over, or around wood ramps, cement bowls, and half-pipesare a key, albeit challenging, component of skateboarding. Hundreds of captioned, sequential photographs demonstrate precisely how these exacting moves are safely made in this indispensable guide to 40 ramp tricks. Beginning with basic moves, including stalls, grinds, and slides, skaters gradually learn the particular positioning and balance needed to perform more advanced tricks such as flips and airs. A brief history of ramp skateboarding examines the birth of the genre as well as champions of the sport, including the pioneering Dogtown Crew and current stars Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk.

Author Biography

Evan Goodfellow is a sponsored pro skater and skateboard instructor. He is the coauthor of Street Skateboarding: Endless Grinds and Slides and author of Street Skateboarding: Flip Tricks. He has costarred in eight skateboarding videos. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Tadashi Yamaoda is a skateboarder and skateboarding photographer whose works have appeared in Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding. He lives in San Diego, California.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
Ramp tricks	p. 25
Drop in	p. 26
Rock to fakie	p. 30
Frontside 50-50 grind	p. 34
Backside 50-50	p. 38
Feeble stall	p. 42
Frontside 5-0 grind	p. 46
Backside 5-0	p. 50
Frontside lipslide	p. 54
Backside lipslide	p. 58
Backside lipslide revert	p. 62
Fakie lip	p. 66
Half cab 50-50 stall	p. 70
Half cab fakie 5-0 stall	p. 74
Half cab rock to fakie	p. 78
Nose stall	p. 82
Frontside tailslide	p. 86
Backside tailslide	p. 90
Backside carve	p. 94
Frontside carve	p. 100
Backside 50-50 revert	p. 104
Frontside smith grind	p. 108
Backside smith grind	p. 112
Pivot fakie	p. 116
Blunt to fakie	p. 120
Blunt to rock to fakie	p. 124
Frontside noseblunt	p. 128
Frontside hurricane	p. 132
K grind fakie	p. 136
Nosegrind	p. 140
Ollie	p. 144
Frontside ollie	p. 148
Kickflip	p. 152
Backside flip	p. 156
Frontside flip	p. 160
Kickflip nosestall	p. 164
Resources	p. 167
Index	p. 174
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