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"Trick skating. With the evolution of skate parks and ramp riding, the skateboard began to change. Early skate tricks consisted mainly of two-dimensional maneuvers (e.g. riding on only the front wheels (nose manual), spinning like an ice skater on the back wheels (a 360 pivot), high jumping over a bar, long jumping from one board to another (often over fearless teenagers lying on their backs), and slalom. |
In 1976, skateboarding was transformed by the invention of the first modern skateboarding trick by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. It remained largely a unique Florida trick from 1976 until the summer of 1978 when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Gelfand and his revolutionary manoeuver caught the attention of the west coast skaters and the media where it began to spread worldwide. An ollie is performed by popping the tail of the skateboard, sliding the front foot towards the nose and lifting up the back foot to level the skateboard out. This results in the skateboarder, along with his or her skateboard, lifting into the air. At first, none of Gelfand's companions believed it was possible to perform a feat like this, and they thought he was attaching his feet to the board somehow.
The trick was reinvented by Rodney Mullen in 1981, being transferred to the horizontal plane and used as a trick for freestyle skating (a style of skating popular in the seventies and eighties based on stationary maneuvers). Rodney Mullen also invented the ollie kickflip, which, at the time of its invention, was dubbed the "magic flip." No longer was the trick simply to fly from one place to another. On the way the board could be made to twist and flip. The development of these complex tricks by Rodney Mullen and others transformed skateboarding. Skateboarding went from being performed only on the street to the vertical tops of the half pipes (and other terrain like huge stairs (sets) and handrails).
The act of "ollieing" onto a rail or pole, and sliding along it on the trucks of the board, is known as grinding and has become a mainstay of modern skateboarding. Types of grinds include the 50-50 grind (balancing on the front and back truck while grinding a rail), the 5-0 grind (balancing on the back truck while grinding a rail, kind of like a manual) and the nose grind (balancing on the front truck while grinding a rail). There are various other grinds that involve touching both the trucks and the deck to the rail, ledge, or lip. The most common of these is the smith grind, in which the rider balances over the back truck while touching the outer middle of the board to the grinding surface in the direction from which he or she popped. Popping and landing on the back truck and touching the inner edge of the board, i.e. popping "over", is known as a feeble grind."
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"The snowboard evolved from early pioneering work by people such as Sherman Poppen(who, in 1965, invented the "Snurfer" in his North Muskegon, Michigan home), Chuck Barfoot, Dimitri Mitrovitch, Tom Sims, and Jake Burton Carpenter. Jake is the founder of Burton Snowboards, one of the largest, and most well-established snowboard companies in the world. In the early 1980s, snowboard companies such as Sims, Winterstick, and Avalanche began emerging across the country. Also in the early 1980s, films by Warren Miller and Greg Stump began to feature clips of snowboarders, boosting the popularity of the sport among the skiing community. It was not until the mid-1980s that snowboarding exploded into the mainstream, when the first snowboard magazine, Absolutely Radical, hit the racks; it was soon renamed International Snowboard Magazine. |
There are four (five) primary sub-disciplines or sub-styles within snowboarding with each favoring a slightly different snowboard design.Freeriding is using the natural terrain of the mountain for recreation, without focusing on technical tricks or racing.
Freestyle snowboarding is the practice of doing different kinds of tricks on a snowboard, hence the name freestyle.
Alpine snowboarding is the practice of turning by carving the snowboard (such that the board turns by using the radius sidecut of the edge), as opposed to skidding the snowboard (where the board is traveling in a different direction than it is pointing).
Powder is a term for snow that is very light and fluffy. Powder is often considered to be the most fun and challenging condition for skiing and snowboarding, solely because it is so soft. If powder snow sits undisturbed for too long it may become compacted and hard, sometimes icy. This is considered more difficult terrain to negotiate. Generally colder climates sport the lightest, driest powder, or "cold smoke", and countries like Switzerland are becoming known as powder havens.
Backcountry. This type of boarding started out with fresh powder-craving snowboarders who, most likely, didn't have the cash to spend at crowded upscale ski parks. In fact, before snowboarding was allowed at resorts, this was the only form of snowboarding."
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