Trick Names

Dougie_Fresh

Dougie_Fresh

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I keep on hearing people talking about tricks like; Switch on, 50/50, Switch off. I feel like an idiot when I hear these and have no idea what some of them mean. (I know some but not a lot), where do you learn this stuff?
 
K-Fed = Front swap continuing blind 2, super then mega fed for each spin over 270.

Britney = Backswap continuing front 2

Ellen = Front swap pretz front 270

Elusive = Front swap to Kfed
 
Just invent you own name on it and make sure you swerve a bit before doing any trick and everyone will think your sick
 
14009580:ckucera said:
What the hell is a blender
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When you take off switch, but you look over the opposite shoulder from the way you spin the trick

So if I hit a jump switch looking over my right shoulder and spin my trick to the left and do a 5, that’s a blender switch 5
 
14009595:SofaKingSick said:
When you take off switch, but you look over the opposite shoulder from the way you spin the trick

So if I hit a jump switch looking over my right shoulder and spin my trick to the left and do a 5, that’s a blender switch 5
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damn, what the hell is an alley oop
 
14009608:ckucera said:
damn, what the hell is an alley oop
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Alley oop is usually in pipe. There it means you spin uphill. So if I do a left 5 on the left wall, that’s an alley oop 5

On a regular jump it means you spin the opposite direction of your carve. So if I take off as I’m carving to the left but spin a 3 to the right, that’s an alley oop 3
 
14009610:SofaKingSick said:
Alley oop is usually in pipe. There it means you spin uphill. So if I do a left 5 on the left wall, that’s an alley oop 5

On a regular jump it means you spin the opposite direction of your carve. So if I take off as I’m carving to the left but spin a 3 to the right, that’s an alley oop 3
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My biggest questions have been answered, gracias
 
Lol that your tagline says "self taught".

It all becomes self explanatory the more skiing you watch. I remember never knowing how my friends knew if it was a 450 or a 630, but now I roll my eyes any time an x games announcer calls a trick wrong. You will learn with time
 
14009748:Plankton said:
No. Those of us that were around before slvsh existed call it skate
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Not like it matters but that never made sense to me. The game is still just HORSE, and that name isn’t sport-specific
 
14009765:SofaKingSick said:
Not like it matters but that never made sense to me. The game is still just HORSE, and that name isn’t sport-specific
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If I had to guess, because the game was brought to action sports by skateboarding and Stept popularized using the same name for skiing
 
14009928:Plankton said:
If I had to guess, because the game was brought to action sports by skateboarding and Stept popularized using the same name for skiing
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Yep that’s def the case, I just never understood why they kept the “skate” name that wasn’t even relevant or necessary
 
I read the reviews and understand that I'm not the only one who doesn't know these things. Advise good sites with descriptions.
 
Britney? Ellen? That’s pretty lame, is that seriously what we came up with?

14009059:Jems said:
K-Fed = Front swap continuing blind 2, super then mega fed for each spin over 270.

Britney = Backswap continuing front 2

Ellen = Front swap pretz front 270

Elusive = Front swap to Kfed
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14091403:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
Britney? Ellen? That’s pretty lame, is that seriously what we came up with?
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Britney is the opposite of a Kfed, hence the name...and the Ellen got its name because the scissoring

**This post was edited on Dec 27th 2019 at 1:50:38pm
 
14091403:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
Britney? Ellen? That’s pretty lame, is that seriously what we came up with?
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Right? Some of these tricks should be named after skiers or something, they are skiing tricks after all.
 
14091433:Mr.Lumpyjumbles said:
Right? Some of these tricks should be named after skiers or something, they are skiing tricks after all.
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the only one of those I've ever actually heard people say is K-fed
 
14091365:Whannena said:
I read the reviews and understand that I'm not the only one who doesn't know these things. Advise good sites with descriptions.
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I can’t really suggest any other sites but feel free to shoot me any questions, through private message or on here

also don’t get intimidated about it while watching slvsh. They use abbreviated trick names to an extent that no one else does really. It takes me a second sometimes to read what they write for them and I have a 4.0 gpa in trick calling
 
What is a kfed in reference to, does it have anything to do with the trick? I like the Ellen, that makes sense.

14091413:tyler1719 said:
Britney is the opposite of a Kfed, hence the name...and the Ellen got its name because the scissoring

**This post was edited on Dec 27th 2019 at 1:50:38pm
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14091519:STEEZUS_CHRI5T said:
What is a kfed in reference to, does it have anything to do with the trick? I like the Ellen, that makes sense.
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I've heard a couple different stories on how but I'm pretty sure the guy who named it did so just because K-Fed was so popular at the time...also have heard people joke about it being named Kfed because the trick and Kevin Federline are both popular and overrated

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14009608:ckucera said:
damn, what the hell is an alley oop
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It's mostly used for pipe, but I think you could also call it alley oop if you 2/4/6 on spinning in towards the rail from the side you approach it, but that might just be for blading.

I assume if you spin 180 on to a 5050 in the same fashion, it's also alley oop, but idk because in skiing you don't always come at the rail from an angle.
 
In the popular Tom Wallisch clip “All Eight” the one footed slide is called a “Nugget”.

14091538:Dinnerrolls said:
Idk man... Never in my life have i heard that word before but keep doing you hoss. Call it ski slide, nugget, 5-0. Who cares.
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