Understand the language of skateboarding

Styles of skateboarding

Ground flat skateboard: Style of skateboarding where the rider performs tricks on the ground and does not use barriers.

Board of free style: an older style of skateboarding where the skater performs tricks technical flatground.

Street skateboarding: Style of skateboarding in the streets where the rider skids handrails, stairs, grinding surfaces etc.

Green skateboard: the Style of skateboarding where the rider skids ramps vertical.

Parts of a Skateboard.

Axle Nut: Lock nuts that attach the trucks.

Base plate: the base metal of a truck.

Bearings: Plastic rings that help the truck to turn. They are soft, medium and hard. 2 are required for each truck.

Concave: The curve in the upper part of the deck to help the skater to and reversal of the Commission.

Bridge: Part wooden skateboarding that rider puts his feet on.

Grip tape: sand paper used on the bridges to prevent your feet from slipping off the coast.

Hangar: The metal part of the truck that grinds through surfaces.

Hardware: nuts and bolts used to attach the trucks on the deck. Come in a set of 8 (4 for each truck).

King pin: the metal bolt in the center of the truck.

Nuts: Nuts have a ring plastic inside so that they "lock" on trucks.

Nose: Skateboarding Front which is curved upward.

Pivot bushing: the lower end of the truck that rotates within the pivot Cup when the skater turns.

The pivot Cup: the hollow burrow on the base plate is held the pivot bushing.

Fold: Refers to the amount of layers of plywood in a bridge. 7 is the standard.

Rail transport: the side of skateboarding.

Risers: Plastic or rubber plates used to give wheels more clearance from the bridge. Can help prevent the bite of the wheel.

Tail: rear skateboard which is curved upward.

Truck: The metal part of the skateboarding which allows the Commission to turn. 2 are required by the plate roller (front) and the other in the back.

Washer: Used metal ring between the bearing and the nuts of the axle, which contributes to the wheel to move more freely. Optional.

Other definitions

BACS: A common unit for measuring the quality of bearings. A high abec means better quality.

Bowl: Similar to a half-pipe, but the slopes connect about, usually in a circle or another design.

Adaptation: The upper edge of the ramp of the skateboarding half pipe where the skater grinds or stalls. Usually in metal.

Durometer: The hardness of a wheel of skateboarding, which is sometimes shown on the wheel.

Fun-box: A set of structures which includes a cornice and one or several ramps.

Gap: A distance between two objects a skater performs a tower above.

Half-pipe: A "U" shaped structure which includes two ramps on each side and usually has a flat section between. Does not have to have a tilt.

Hand-rail: used by skaters to grind or slide or perform tricks on.

Cornice: A rectangular structure which the skater can perform tricks on, off the coast, across or more.

Mega-ramp: A much larger scale of a half-pipe.

Mini-decks: A mini-deck is less than 7.5 "in width."

Ramps: mini - ramps which are small and do not have a tilt.

Crack pressure: cracks that appear in the bridge to be energized.

: A pyramid structure which includes ramps on all sides surrounding a ledge.

Quarter-pipe: A single ramp that slopes up to as a tilt.

Urethane: A popular substance which are derived from wheels.

Vert ramp: A ramp with a tilt close adaptation.

Wax: Used to make an edges of fun-boxes, ledges, rails slippery etc., therefore the skater can grind everywhere without stop.

Wheel bite: occurs when the rider leans on skateboarding, causing the wheel to burn in the bridge.

 

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