Skateboarding trick

This class of tricks was first popularized when Tony Hawk became famous for his frontside airs in empty swimming pools in the late 1970s and has expanded to include the bulk of skateboarding tricks to this day, including the ollie and all of its variations.

These tricks are undoubtedly most popular among street skateboarding purists, although skaters with other styles perform them as well.

The famous placing of the board on the feet and then jumping was created in 1987 by Nathan Lipor.

They are part of the building blocks and some of the most important reference points for tricks which have evolved to form street skateboarding.

When it is primarily the board which is contacting the edge, it is called a slide; when it is the truck, it is a grind.

Grinding and sliding skateboards started with sliding the board on parking blocks and curbs, then extended to using the coping on swimming pools, then stairway handrails, and has now been expanded to include almost every possible type of edge.