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| ISBN-13: | 9781884654794 |
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| Publisher: | Tracks Publishing |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2010 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 192 |
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Skateboarding
Legendary Tricks 2
By Steve Badillo
Tracks Publishing
Copyright © 2010 Doug Werner Steve BadilloAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-884654-79-4
CHAPTER 1
Handstand
Handstand
Some legendary tricks have longevity — the trick was invented long ago, but you still see skateboarders doing it today. The Handstand is one of those skateboarding tricks. Even with the primitive skateboards of the early 1960s, someone, somewhere was bound to go upside down and try to ride the skateboard. What a crazy way to skateboard. Not on your feet, but in a Handstand.
It is not certain when exactly the Handstand was invented. But in 1962, Ty Page saw someone do the trick, and it inspired him to become a pro freestyler. When skateboarding starting growing in popularity in the late 1960s, a skateboard company named Makaha Skateboards invented the kicktail, giving the skateboard more leverage and ultimately creating more tricks.
The captain of the Makaha team was Bruce Logan, and he wanted Ty Page on the team, but he had to prove himself. Bruce said that Ty had to do a Handstand for four city blocks in order to make the team. So Ty found a hill in Hermosa Beach with a slight downhill angle and went for it. The Handstand, according to Ty Page, lasted at least four city blocks.
Ty Page's favorite place to do the Handstand was on the streets of Paris next to speeding cars with his Free Former teammate, Mark Bowden. Another skateboarder to do incredible Handstands was Steve "Mr. Style" Tanner who did them in the streets going 35 mph (a car behind him tracked the speed). Some of the first skateboarders to do Handstands in contests were Bruce Logan and Torger Johnson during the first wave of freestyle skateboarding in the mid-1960s and early 1970s. (Image 1.1.3)
In the early to mid-1980s, freestyle skateboarding made a comeback. The new wave was led by gifted skateboarders like Rodney Mullen who added variations like the Fingerflip Handstand and Primo Handstand. The Fingerflip Handstand is when from a Handstand, you flip the board with your hands and land back on the board with your feet. The Primo Handstand is when from a Handstand, you flip the board with your hands and land on the rail of the skateboard. Rodney Mullen perfected these and many other freestyle tricks.
When I played Ty Page in the movie, Lords of Dogtown, I had to learn the Handstand for the historic Del Mar Contest scene. I learned the trick, but it was a little sketchy. While rehearsing scenes, Stacey Peralta was watching me do the Handstand. He came up to me and showed me how the real Ty Page would do it. I took Stacey's advice, and the trick became easier to do and looked a lot better. Thanks, Stacey. (Image 1.1.4 & 1.5)
You should be able to do a Handstand before trying it on a skateboard. Start off by pushing with medium to fast speed. Reach down and grab both the nose and tail of the skateboard. While moving, kick your back foot up and over your head. (Image 1.1.6)
Bring your other foot up and match your feet together up over your head. Use your hands to control the direction of the skateboard, tilting left or right. Hold the Handstand as long as you can. (Image 1.1.7)
When ready to land, start to bring your feet down to the board one at a time. Spread your feet out and stand up. Sweet. Now try it with a Fingerflip! (Image 1.1.8)
CHAPTER 2Daffy
Yeah Right Manual
Daffy (Yeah Right Manual)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, freestyle was driving skateboarding, and the man that was in the driver's seat was Ty "Mr. Incredible" Page. During Ty's career, he invented many tricks and won a lot of skateboard contests with his fast footwork and technique. His style was such a blur that in order to photograph him, skateboard magazines were forced to buy faster cameras to keep up with his pace. His skateboard routines were amazing combinations of many different elements.
In 1974 Ty added a new trick to his routine, the Daffy. While skateboarding with some high-school friends, Ty was doing Nose Wheelies, One-Footed Tail Wheelies and 360 Wheelies. He then got the idea to put two boards together and try Wheelies. It worked — one foot on the nose of one board and the other foot on the tail of the other board and skate in a Wheelie (as it was known back then). One day while Ty was doing this two-foot, two-board Wheelie, another well-respected freestyle pro skater named Russ Howell saw this and called the trick a "Daffy" because it resembled a skier doing a Daffy in the air. Soon many pro freestylers added the Daffy to their routines, and it became a crowd pleaser. Ty's favorite place to do the Daffy was in Paris while on tour in Europe.
More than 20 years after Ty had invented the Daffy, it had a renewed popularity with the influential Girl skate video, Yeah Right. The legendary street skater, Eric Koston, did the Daffy in the skate flick and kids all over America said, "Look at that Yeah Right Manual Eric did." In the mid 1980s Wheelies were no longer known as Wheelies, but instead were called Manuals. Then a whole new generation of skaters renamed it the Yeah Right Manual. Activision's Tony Hawk Underground video game added it as a special trick and called it the Yeah Right Manual, as well.
In 2005 Hollywood brought skateboarding to life in the film, Lords of Dogtown, where I played the role of Ty Page. In some of my scenes, I do the Daffy at the recreation of the Del Mar Skate Contest, where in real life Ty Page placed second. It was a privilege for me to learn some of the old freestyle tricks including the Daffy, Handstand, Headstand and others. Handstand. (Image 1.2.3)
The Daffy is a Manual trick, so have lots of flat ground while learning. You will need two boards to make it work. Place one board out in front of you and the other board ready to roll. Push with lots of speed (the faster you go the farther you will Manual) placing, your front foot on the back tail of board number one. As you approach the second board, place your back foot on the nose of board number two. Then at the same time, both boards should go into Manuals, one Nose Manual and one Tail Manual. (Image 1.2.4 & 2.5)
Stretch your arms out for balance and hold it as long as possible. When you lose speed and want to end the trick, let go of the board with your back foot (which is in the Nose Manual) and place it on the nose of the original board in front. Then swing the board 180 to come out straight and roll away.
CHAPTER 3Acid Drop/Bomb Drop
Acid Drop/Bomb Drop
The Acid Drop and the Bomb Drop are very similar to each other. That is why I present them together for the stories and photos. These two tricks have inspired old and new skateboarders for years.
Duane Peters invented the Acid Drop around 1975 or 1976 in an empty pool by rolling into it perpendicular to the coping. When you do an Acid Drop, you air into the pool and land near the bottom of the transition, which makes this trick scary. This trick encouraged other skaters to roll in ramps and pools frontside and backside and Manual into and out of bowls. Duane, to this day, performs Acid Drops in contest and demos.
It's a little vague on who was the first to do the Bomb Drop. Any skater in the 1960s who picked up a board and jumped on it could have been the first — and many skaters did just that.
What makes this trick legendary is that although skateboarders started Bomb Dropping off curbs, they eventually took on higher and higher obstacles. In the 1970s it was off broken refrigerators and ledges. In the 1980s it was off rooftops and cars.
Then in the 1990s, Danny Way really it up by Bomb Dropping out of a helicopter onto a vert ramp. That was the highest recorded Bomb Drop until Danny decided to put the record out of reach for everybody and perhaps for all time.
He set a new world record at the Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas in 2006 by Bomb Dropping off the building's guitar into a vertical quarter pipe. The actual measurements of his drop include a 28-foot free fall into a 56-foot ramp for a total of 82 feet 3 inches. (Image 1.3.3)
Insane. Danny Way is legend.
Instructions for Acid Drop
The Acid Drop is usually done in a pool, bowl or ramp. You stand on your board on the top of the deck of the bowl and roll into it by lifting the nose slightly as you roll over the coping straight on. Do not roll in frontside or backside at slight angles.
This trick is done straight in. As you lift the nose, lean into the transition with your head.
You should air into the transition before hitting the bottom tranny and flatbottom. Stand up and straighten your legs.
The Bomb Drop can be done almost anywhere there is a gap or up high onto a bank, flat ground or ramp. Grab either the nose, backside or Indy grab before you begin. Plant your back foot and leap out with your front foot ready to be placed on the front bolts. (Image 1.3.7)
While falling, lean forward and place your back foot onto the back bolts. As you land, compress with your knees to absorb the shock and continue to lean for ward. (Image 1.3.8)
Start with something small like a curb or small ledge and work your way up to the top of the Hard Rock Café guitar.
CHAPTER 4Slappy
Slappy
Who was the first to do a Slappy? Where was it done? That is like asking who the first skateboarder was. In the early to mid-1970s, surfers were skateboarders and tried to surf the concrete. Using surf style slashes and turns, skateboarders started hitting tops of banks, curbs or any type of lip trying to grind the wave. Before the Ollie, skaters would bash into curbs and try to get wheel bite to slash grind the lip. This led to skaters going up curbs through grinds.
One of the earliest pro skaters to popularize the Slappy was John Lucero in 1979. He started doing Slappies on the curbs in front of his house. First doing it backside and then frontside, John had a lot of style while doing the trick and later added variations to it.
Slappies were part of the beginning of street skating, as a common go-to trick that inspired many more grinds and slides. The best curbs to do a Slappy? The ones painted red. (Image 1.4.3)
You can do a Slappy either frontside or backside and is usually done on curbs or parking blocks. Ride up to the curb with medium speed at a slight angle. If you are doing it frontside, lean on your heelside of the board. (Image 1.4.4)
You almost want to wheel bite to slap the trucks onto the curb. Start with your front truck, then back truck, get on sideways with the board and tilt the board on top of the curb. (Image 1.4.5)
Lean forward and grind a 50/50. When you are ready to come off, lift the nose up and pull the board away from the curb. (Image 1.4.6)
CHAPTER 5Manual
Manual Roll
Before the trick was called the Manual Roll, it was called a Wheelie — skidding your tail while the nose was up. Skaters from the 1960s used the Wheelie as a staple trick. Then freestyle skaters did Nose Wheelies, Tail Wheelies, One-Foot Wheelies and other tricks. But it wasn't until the combination of airing out of a bowl into a Manual and then Acid Dropping back into the bowl that the trick Manual Roll was invented. Then the silly Wheelie became a scary bowl trick.
In 1979 a young Pat Ngoho was skateboarding at Marina Skatepark and was progressing his skateboarding. Taking tricks that he saw other pro skateboarders perform, he created his own tricks. Crazy grom skaters were trying to imitate the pros they saw at the skateparks who were inventing tricks every day. Ngoho would roll out of the bowls, up on to the deck and then roll back into them.
Then one day he added the Wheelie to it by rolling out of the bowl into a Wheelie and then rolling back into the bowl.
The Manual Roll was created. But Ngoho did not think much of it until Steve Caballero said to Pat that he was the first to fly out of a bowl Manual and roll back in. Many variations have spawned from the Manual, especially street skating tricks and BMX riding.
You need to know how to roll out of and roll into ramps or bowls. Also, you must be proficient with Manuals. Skate up the transition with enough speed to launch out of the bowl and onto the deck. Make sure you launch out at an angle, either frontside or backside, to help start the Manual. When you hit the coping, use it to help air into the Manual. Keep your feet spread. Then as you start your Manual, use your arms to help your balance. Lean on the back truck. (Image 1.5.4 & 1.5.5)
As you start to slow down, ride back to the coping and roll in at an angle. Lean forward toward the transition and stand up. Then try it Nose Manual. (Image 1.5.6)
CHAPTER 6Sweeper
Sweeper
The late 1970s was a golden era for pool skating. Many new tricks were being created and at the forefront was the legendary skater, Duane Peters. Duane invented one of my favorite lip tricks — the Sweeper.
The Sweeper gets its name from the motion of grabbing the nose of the board and sweeping it along the deck, clearing out anyone standing near the coping. Duane first did the trick around 1978 in an empty pool. Like most of his tricks, he uses unusual grabs on the lip of the ramp. One variation is to grab with your crail hand, therefore altering the name from Sweeper to Creeper. Rob Roskopp made the cover of Thrasher Magazine in November 1983 doing the Sweeper at the Midwest Melee contest.
The first time I did a Sweeper was on my friend's vert ramp, which we youthfully called the "Ramp of the Gods." My friend Daniel Sabelis showed me how to do the trick in 1988. At first, I could do the sweeping motion to tail, but had a hard time committing to the drop. Daniel said think of it as dropping in by grabbing the nose. I finally landed it with his advice. (Image 2.6.3)
Sweepers are done in ramps, bowls, ditches or pools. Skate with plenty of speed to get to the top of the deck of the ramp. Float frontside as you grab the nose of the board with your forward hand. Next, plant your back foot on the coping of the ramp. (Image 2.6.5)
Keep your front foot on the board as you swing the board frontside. Lay the tail down on the coping as you hop back into transition landing on the tail. Lean and compress down the ramp. (Image 2.6.6)
CHAPTER 7Disaster
Disaster
Some tricks evolve over time but don't achieve their full potential and become legendary until other skaters take the trick and add their own 180 twist. That may be the case regarding Duane Peters and Dan Murray with the Disaster.
A Florida skater named Dan Murray may have been the first to do the Fakie Hang Up in 1978 at Cadillac Wheels Skateboard Concourse in Lighthouse Point, Florida. The Fakie Hang Up is what led to the Disaster, as told by Dan. Dan and Chuck Lagana started doing them in the shallow end of the Monster Hole pool by fakieing up, rocking over, grabbing the tail and pulling it back in. The no-handed version named by Shogo Kobo as The Fakie Hang Up (at Cherry Hill in 1979) came later. They morphed it from Fakie Hang Up into the Disaster during the summer of 1978.
When Alan Gelfand and Dan came to California for the first time, Stacy Peralta asked Alan to show him the Ollie. Until then, California skaters had not seen one. Stacy was courting him for Powell, and since Dan was only 18, he was kind of Alan's chaperone.
They were at Paramount Skatepark, at the end of the halfpipe, when Dan took an L-corner and ended in a round bowl. Stacy saw Dan do the Hand Grabbing Fakie Hang Up and how he was slapping the board. He said, "Hey, I bet you could make it. Why don't you try doing that no handed?" So Dan rolled up, slapped extra hard, the board bounced back, he took the weight off his back foot, the wheels cleared the lip with only a slight hang and Dan rode it out. He made it! By the end of the California trip, Dan was doing the trick consistently. (Image 2.7.2)
Later that same year (1978), the "Master of Disaster" Duane Peters added a 180 to the trick, making it the Disaster skaters are familiar with today. Duane continues to do them in contests and demos. Duane also did the Fakie Disaster version of the trick — meaning not just a Fakie Hang Up, but bouncing of the coping and getting a little air then smacking the middle of the board and coming in forward.
The Disaster is one of those lip tricks that is not very flashy, but is done by most skaters on almost every type of terrain there is. It's a versatile trick used by transition and street skaters alike. It is combined with other maneuvers to create variations like the Variel Disaster, Nosepick Disaster, Blunt Disaster, Kickflip Disaster, Air to Disaster and about a thousand other combinations. (Image 2.7.3)
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements,Origins,
Why Do I Skateboard?,
Early Tricks,
01 Handstand,
02 Daffy,
03 Acid Drop/Bomb Drop,
04 Slappy,
05 Manual,
Duane Peters,
06 Sweeper,
07 Disaster,
08 Layback Grind,
09 The Loop,
Inverts,
10 Eggplant,
11 Frontside Invert,
12 Phillips 66,
Vert Airs,
13 Mute Air,
14 Caballerial,
15 Judo Air,
16 Stalefish,
17 McTwist,
18 Rodeo Flip,
Freestyle,
19 Primoslide,
Grinds,
20 Feeble Grind,
21 Hurricane,
22 Discolip,
23 Suski Grind,
24 Barley Grind,
Street,
25 Natas Spin,
26 Hardflip,
27 Ghetto Bird,
28 Laser Flip,
29 Pole Jam,
Bibliography,
Resources,
Tricks,
Index,
Back Cover Material,