Types+of+Skateboarding

= = Types of Skateboarding. There are a few different types of skateboarding, these types have different tricks.

VERT: Vert skateboarding is when tricks are performed on a vert ramp such as a bowl, or halfpipe. A vert ramp is a ramp that is a transition ending in a vertical wall (where the word vert comes from)

A halfpipe Vert tricks include grinds on the top of the ramp (what the skater is doing in the picuture), Airs (when a skater launches themselves over the top of the ramp) and lip tricks (like grinds but the skater isn't necessarily sliding their board or tricks on the coping; i.e. hand plants rock to fakies.). Another adition to Vert skating is the Megaramp. The Megaramp is a colossal ramp that consists of a Huge jump and then a quarterpipe. MegaRamps can be up to 200 feet tall, and the quarterpipe at the end is usually about 18 feet. Popular Vert skateboarders include Tony Hawk, Danny Way, Andy Mcdonald, and Collin Mckay. media type="youtube" key="x07YmW4_wG8?rel=0" height="349" width="425" ((A person skating a skatepark bowl in Edina.))

STREET: The other main form of skateboarding is street skating. This involves skating on obstacles that were not built for skating. These obstacles can include ledges, benches, stairs, gaps, handrails, and much more, but it really depends on the environment you are in. Street skating is frowned upon by some people because it can be destructive to the obstacles they are skating on and it can sometimes concidered as trespassing. Street skateboarding is the most popular form of skateboarding today, most likely because you can do it really anywhere and you don't need to have a skatepark. A large part of street skating is flip tricks. Fliptricks are when the board moves under the skater. One of the most basic flip tricks is the kickflip. The kickflip was invented by Rodney Mullen. Rodney Mullen also invented the flatground ollie, which is the basis of virtually all street skating, media type="youtube" key="_1P8DG_UWpw" height="349" width="425" Street skating Started in the 1980's. Skateboarding was in another slump and vert skating dominated. Some skaters such as Mark Gonzales and Natas Kupas started adapting vert tricks on obstacles in the public. they than started inventing other tricks you could do in the street like sliding handrails and grinding ledges.

Popular street skaters include: Paul Rodriguez, Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Mike mo Capaldi, Andrew Reynolds, Nyjah Huston, and many more.

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