Riley Hughes
Steel Member
I've had this idea for awhile, just never got around to it. If you find something that's wrong or that I should add just lemme know.
Prefixes
Switch - Standing the opposite stance you naturally do.
Halfcab - Refers to a trick getting out of a fakie, if you are riding fakie and do a 180 barspin and land going forwards, you did a halfcab barspin.
Backside - Regarding the direction that you are spinning, a backside spin is when you are spinning with the back end of your scooter spinning to your back. Regular: Clockwise, Goofy: Counterclockwise. Also regards to the way you approach a grind, if you approach a rail with your heels facing it and you hop on, that's a backside boardslide.
Frontside - Regarding the direction that you are spining, a frontside spin is when you are spinning with the back end of your scooter spinning to your front. Regular: Counterclockwise, Goofy: Clockwise. Also regards to the way you approach a grind, if you approach a rail with your toes facing it and you hop on, that's a frontside boardslide.
Downside - Refers to your scooter going the opposite way that you are spinning. For example if you're doing a tailwhip, and spinning a frontside 180, that's a downside tailwhip. Can also apply to briflips, and barspins. Often refers to a 180 degree spin unless a different degree is in the name (downside whip is a 180, 360 downside whip is a 180.)
Finger - Anything where you hit it with your hand. For example, if you ride regular and you hit the deck with your left hand so that it does a heelwhip, you just did a finger heelwhip.
Mc - Similar to finger, but where you hit it behind you, between your legs. A "mcwhip" is where you hit a fingerwhip behind you between your legs.
Full - Refers to when the whole scooter does something. For example, a fullwhip is when the whole scooter is spinning. Same with a full twist, just with a bartwist instead of barspin.
Rotor - Refers to when the whole scooter does something, but they are going the opposite direction. For example if you do a tailwhip and a barspin at the same time, but the barspin is going the opposite way of the tailwhip, that would be a rotorwhip.
Twist - Means there is a bartwist in the trick.
Double - Refers to when any trick happens twice without catching. For example a double barspin is when a barspin spins twice.
Triple - Refers to when any trick happens three times without catching. For example a triple tailwhip is when you tailwhip three times in a row.
Quad/quint/ect - Same as the above two just spins 4, 5, 6, 7 times.
Opposite - Is only applied to tricks like barspins, where the direction that you do the trick is preference.
Inward - Applies to briflips, Inward meaning in front of you/toe side.
Outward - Applies to briflips, outward meaning behind you/heel side.
Front - Applies to briflips/scooterflips, a front briflip is a briflip going forwards. ("inward bri")
Back - Applies to briflips/scooterflips, a back briflip is a traditional briflip.
The basic trick. i'm not naming every trick, these are just a few of the common ones.
360/540/720 - Refers to the amount of degrees that you spin. You can spin frontside, backside, whatever, I don't care, they're your oats.
Tailwhip - A simple tailwhip.
Heelwhip - The opposite direction as a tailwhip, so you catch with your heels.
Briflip - a flip-dee-do over your head.
Suffixes
Rewind - A trick where you change directions. A barspin rewind is where you barspin then do an opposite barspin right after. "rewind" tricks are not restrictive to just barspins or tailwhips.
Sexchange - Landing the opposite stance you were in before you did the trick. For example a sexchange briflip would be where you are standing goofy before you briflip, and land the trick standing regular.
Air - Means you're doing the trick while airing out.
To: Refers to when you transfer a trick by either catching or landing in another trick.
On: Doing a trick onto a rail/coping/ect.
Off: Doing a trick off of a rail/coping/ect.
In: Doing a trick into a quarter pipe, or into a stall/grind.
Out: Doing a trick out of a stall, grind, fakie, ect.
Here are some examples, trying to show that no matter how crazy or confusing the trick is, if we all use a common language you should be able to tell what they're doing:
Fullwhip whip to lip, finger doublewhip rewind off. (that's a fullwhip with another tailwhip after, landing with your back wheel over on a rail, then doing a finger whip with 2 tailwhips instead of one, then kicking it back around in a heelwhip.)
Doublewhip finger heel rewind (you do 2 tailwhips, then rewind it with your hand, thus doing a finger heelwhip.)
Frontside mcrotorheeltwist rewind double downsidewhip to downsidewhip to bar rewind air (you do a frontside air, and a mcwhip the opposite way with a bartwist at the same time going the opposite direction then kick it into a double tailwhip, catch it then do another tailwhip, then catch that and do a barspin then an opposite barspin.)
I listed everything in the order you should say it... this should help confusion. Using these prefixes and suffixes should help you say tricks without confusion.
Prefixes
Switch - Standing the opposite stance you naturally do.
Halfcab - Refers to a trick getting out of a fakie, if you are riding fakie and do a 180 barspin and land going forwards, you did a halfcab barspin.
Backside - Regarding the direction that you are spinning, a backside spin is when you are spinning with the back end of your scooter spinning to your back. Regular: Clockwise, Goofy: Counterclockwise. Also regards to the way you approach a grind, if you approach a rail with your heels facing it and you hop on, that's a backside boardslide.
Frontside - Regarding the direction that you are spining, a frontside spin is when you are spinning with the back end of your scooter spinning to your front. Regular: Counterclockwise, Goofy: Clockwise. Also regards to the way you approach a grind, if you approach a rail with your toes facing it and you hop on, that's a frontside boardslide.
Downside - Refers to your scooter going the opposite way that you are spinning. For example if you're doing a tailwhip, and spinning a frontside 180, that's a downside tailwhip. Can also apply to briflips, and barspins. Often refers to a 180 degree spin unless a different degree is in the name (downside whip is a 180, 360 downside whip is a 180.)
Finger - Anything where you hit it with your hand. For example, if you ride regular and you hit the deck with your left hand so that it does a heelwhip, you just did a finger heelwhip.
Mc - Similar to finger, but where you hit it behind you, between your legs. A "mcwhip" is where you hit a fingerwhip behind you between your legs.
Full - Refers to when the whole scooter does something. For example, a fullwhip is when the whole scooter is spinning. Same with a full twist, just with a bartwist instead of barspin.
Rotor - Refers to when the whole scooter does something, but they are going the opposite direction. For example if you do a tailwhip and a barspin at the same time, but the barspin is going the opposite way of the tailwhip, that would be a rotorwhip.
Twist - Means there is a bartwist in the trick.
Double - Refers to when any trick happens twice without catching. For example a double barspin is when a barspin spins twice.
Triple - Refers to when any trick happens three times without catching. For example a triple tailwhip is when you tailwhip three times in a row.
Quad/quint/ect - Same as the above two just spins 4, 5, 6, 7 times.
Opposite - Is only applied to tricks like barspins, where the direction that you do the trick is preference.
Inward - Applies to briflips, Inward meaning in front of you/toe side.
Outward - Applies to briflips, outward meaning behind you/heel side.
Front - Applies to briflips/scooterflips, a front briflip is a briflip going forwards. ("inward bri")
Back - Applies to briflips/scooterflips, a back briflip is a traditional briflip.
The basic trick. i'm not naming every trick, these are just a few of the common ones.
360/540/720 - Refers to the amount of degrees that you spin. You can spin frontside, backside, whatever, I don't care, they're your oats.
Tailwhip - A simple tailwhip.
Heelwhip - The opposite direction as a tailwhip, so you catch with your heels.
Briflip - a flip-dee-do over your head.
Suffixes
Rewind - A trick where you change directions. A barspin rewind is where you barspin then do an opposite barspin right after. "rewind" tricks are not restrictive to just barspins or tailwhips.
Sexchange - Landing the opposite stance you were in before you did the trick. For example a sexchange briflip would be where you are standing goofy before you briflip, and land the trick standing regular.
Air - Means you're doing the trick while airing out.
To: Refers to when you transfer a trick by either catching or landing in another trick.
On: Doing a trick onto a rail/coping/ect.
Off: Doing a trick off of a rail/coping/ect.
In: Doing a trick into a quarter pipe, or into a stall/grind.
Out: Doing a trick out of a stall, grind, fakie, ect.
Here are some examples, trying to show that no matter how crazy or confusing the trick is, if we all use a common language you should be able to tell what they're doing:
Fullwhip whip to lip, finger doublewhip rewind off. (that's a fullwhip with another tailwhip after, landing with your back wheel over on a rail, then doing a finger whip with 2 tailwhips instead of one, then kicking it back around in a heelwhip.)
Doublewhip finger heel rewind (you do 2 tailwhips, then rewind it with your hand, thus doing a finger heelwhip.)
Frontside mcrotorheeltwist rewind double downsidewhip to downsidewhip to bar rewind air (you do a frontside air, and a mcwhip the opposite way with a bartwist at the same time going the opposite direction then kick it into a double tailwhip, catch it then do another tailwhip, then catch that and do a barspin then an opposite barspin.)
I listed everything in the order you should say it... this should help confusion. Using these prefixes and suffixes should help you say tricks without confusion.
