User:XK8ER/Vert skating tricks

Terminology

 * Fakie: When you go or take off facing backwards
 * Frontside: When you go or take off facing forward
 * Alley-Oop: when you air in one direction, but spinning in the other direction, you come off the vert ramp heading right, but spin to your left
 * Zerospin: Where you air and land fakie without spinning
 * Natural: Doing a spin in the direction that feels right or a grab with the most natural feeling hand, etc.
 * Switch: Doing a spin or an air in which you go in the opposite way you normally do
 * Flip: Spin with the axis being like a pole stuck through both sides of the waist

Grabs

 * Grab: Any trick done in the air that involves grabbing a part of the skates
 * Mute: Grab trick in which you reach across the front of you and grab the outside sole of the opposite skate
 * Safety: Grab trick where you grab one foot on the soul with the hand on the same side
 * Rocket: Where you stretch both feet straight out and grab both toes with one hand
 * Liu Kang: Grab where one leg is out straight in front of you and the other is bent and grabbed
 * Japan: Grab where you reach behind you and grab the opposite leg, and the un-grabbed leg is bent
 * Method: Where you grab your heels and stretch your feet behind you with your knees bent.
 * Stale Fish: Grab trick in which you reach behind your legs and grab the wheels of the opposite skate
 * Genie: Grab trick where you appear to be sitting cross-legged in the air and you're grabbing down with both hands
 * Kung Lao: Liu-Kang where you grab the straight leg on the toe instead of the bent leg
 * Takeshi Air: Rocket where your legs are crossed and your grabbing the opposite foot (left hand grabs right foot).
 * Salerno Air: Method with the shins crossed.