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If you have any Tips or Tricks that you would like to share with the world, email them to us and we will be glad to post them here. Please be as detailed as possible when describing a trick or tip.

Trick Glossary
Sollas:
A Misty flip while grabing your straight out left leg with right arm and right leg with your left arm.

Flying Fish:
Bring left(or right)leg in front of your other leg and grab the outside of your ski with the opposite hand.

Liu-kang:
One foot is fully extended out and the other foot is grabbed with the sam arm

Rob Roy:
Stick out your right leg almost completely horizontil in the air stick out your left arm to add some style then bring up your left leg and grab with right arm

Disaster:
Doing a grab or trick in the air and land on a rail Back flip: Flipping well...backwards.

Backside grind:
Jump with back towards rail and sliding.

Rocket:
Kick both of your feet in front of you ( keeping them together ) reach with your left hand and grab right ski, or vise versa.

Bio 360:
Grabbing the skiboards while completing 1 full rotation.

Bio 540:
Grabbing the skiboards while completing 1 1/2; rotations and landing backwards.

Bio 720:
Grabbing the skiboards while completing 2 full rotations.

Fakie:
Backwards.

Frontside grind:
Jump up facing the rail and sliding.

Grab:
To grab either or both skiboards with one or both hands. Frontside or backside.

Grind:
Rail slide along a pipe or log or something.

Backside grind:
Jump with back towards rail and sliding.

Late 360 cross-up:
Cross the right leg over the left and assume an almost horizontal position in the air, then at the last second, bring it around and complete a 360 before landing.

Late:
Used to describe doing a trick or style late into the jump. Also known as stalled.

Method:
Grab right foot with right hand.

Misty flip:
Front flip with a 180 twist. The rider either goes off the jump backwards or lands backwards. Similar to a snowboarding misty flip.

Mute Grab:
Grab (with the right hand) over the top of left foot, and pull the feet off to the opposite side.

Parallel grab:
Reach over top of knees and grab the left foot with the right hand (or grab the right foot with the left hand). Rodeo or Bio flip: Going off the jump, the rider rotates to do an almost back flip with a twist, like a corkscrew.

Sock-eyed salmon:
Front grab with a twist.

Yoda:
Going to cross-legged sitting position in the air.

Landing Fakie:
Landing backwards. Spins: 180, 360, 540, 720, 900,1080.

Corkscrew :
Sideways front flip with a 180 twist and land backwards.

Stale Japan:
Bring feet up like doing a mute or a method, and reach behind the right leg and grab the left foot (originated from in-line skating).

Stalled:
When a maneuver is intentionally started late into a jump/trick.

Stalled grab:
A rider starts a 360 (or higher spin ), halfway through the turn the rider grabs and then completes the spin.

Yoda 360:
Assuming the Yoda position in a spin.

DISCLAIMER

These tips and tricks are only suggestions of things that can be done on skiboards. Do not skiboard beyond your ability. Getboards.com is not responsible for any broken skiboards or bones.


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