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    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks
    Ebook275 pages58 minutes

    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks

    By Steve Badillo and Doug Werner

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    A comprehensive guidebook that details dozens of spectacular skateboarding stunts, this resource combines invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each trick is captured in action sequence and captioned so that aspiring riders can learn how each trick is performed. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. This blend of background and how-to ensures that riders not only learn the tricks but also gain respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherchristine+tracks
    Release dateJun 1, 2008
    ISBN9781884654985
    Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks

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      Book preview

      Skateboarding - Steve Badillo

      Skateboarding:

      Legendary Tricks

      Steve Badillo

      with Doug Werner

      Tracks Publishing

      San Diego, California

      Photography by

      Gavin Badillo

      unless otherwise noted

      Tricks performed by Steve Badillo

      unless otherwise noted

      Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks

      by Steve Badillo with Doug Werner

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Copyright © 2007 by Doug Werner and Steve Badillo

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      The information contained in this book is based on material supplied to the Author and Tracks Publishing. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, and to attribute and credit all work, the Author and Tracks Publishing do not under any circumstances accept responsibility for any errors or omissions. Trademarked names are used in this book; however, instead of placing a trademark symbol beside every occurrence of a trade-marked name, we state the trademarked names are used only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner. No infringement of the trademark is intended. All images are owned by the Author or were obtained solely by the Author through private collections, or supplied courtesy of private collectors. With respect to the privacy of these individuals, all contributors and sources are credited with no association to possessions unless expressly requested otherwise.

      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication

                Badillo, Steve.

                     Skateboarding: legendary tricks / by Steve Badillo;

                  with Doug Werner; photography by Becca Badillo, Gavin

                  Badillo, Steve Badillo.

                     p. cm.

                     Includes bibliographical references and index.

                     LCCN 2007908297

                     ISBN-13: 978-1-884654-30-5

                     ISBN-10: 1-884654-30-4

                     1. Skateboarding. 2. Skateboarding–Pictorial works.

                  I. Werner, Doug, 1950- II. Title.

                  GV859.8.B335 2008                     796.22

                                                                   QBI07-600305

      To

      My daughter Sarah

      And for my Ahma (In Loving Memory)

      As one life begins another ends

      May your ride be fulfilling

      Acknowledgements

      SkateLab

      Todd Huber

      Scott Radinsky

      Gavin Badillo

      Becca Badillo

      Lance Mountain

      Tony Alva

      Steve Olson

      Pat Ngoho

      Paul Constantineau

      Tom Wally Inouye

      Kelly Lynn

      Steve Steadham

      Daewon Song

      Richard Mulder

      Nick Mclouth

      Torey Pudwill

      Tom Schaar

      Matt Boyster

      Chico Brenes

      Peter Hewitt

      Tony Hawk

      Christian Hosoi

      Sal Barbier

      Danny Way

      Jeff Grosso

      Ed Hadvina

      Jay Smiledge

      DJ Farley

      Mikey Pacheco

      Mr. Pants

      Bob-o Garza

      Tim Trudell

      Dorian Tucker

      Frank Atwater

      Phyllis Carter

      Skateboard

      Companies:

      Powell Peralta

      Santa Cruz

      Alva Skateboards

      IPS Skateboards

      Dogtown

      Vision

      Sims

      Tracker

      G&S

      Madrid

      Hosoi Skateboards

      H-Street

      Santa Monica Airlines

      Zorlac

      Stereo

      DC Shoes

      Plan B

      Steadham Skate Ind.

      Flip

      Gravity Skateboards

      Black Label

      Anti-Hero

      Girl

      Steve would like to thank his sponsors for their continued support:

      Alva Skateboards

      SkateLab

      DVS Shoe Company

      Fury Trucks

      Black Plague Wheels

      Contents

      Preface

      Part 1 Pioneers

      1 Bertslide

      2 Wallride

      3 Tailblock

      4 Frontside Air

      5 Rock N Roll

      6 Millerflip

      7 Layback Air

      8 Ollie

      9 Boneless One

      Part 2 Vert & Freestyle’s Second Wind

      10 Lien Air

      11 Sad Plant

      12 Nosepick

      13 Smith Grind

      14 Christ Air

      15 Rocket Air

      16 Madonna

      17 Airwalk

      18 Japan Air

      Part 3 Streetstyle

      19 Salad Grind

      20 Ollie Impossible

      21 Kickflip

      22 360 Kickflip

      23 Ollie North

      24 Sal Flip

      25 Blunt

      26 K-Grind

      27 Bigspin

      28 Flamingo

      29 900

      30 Great Wall of China 360 Air

      31 SkateLab Montage

      32 More

      Bibliography

      Resources

      Index

      What makes a Legendary Trick?

      Is it the trick itself or the skateboarder who invented the trick? Maybe it’s a group of skaters that is legendary or the area they come from. When I sat down to write my list of Legendary Tricks for this book, I quickly realized there are way too many to cover. So I narrowed it to the tricks and skaters that most influenced me and molded my skateboarding.

      I tried to stay as true to the facts as possible. Research and investigation into these bits of skateboarding history often led to nothing more than a rumor. This meant that in a lot of cases I had to go straight to the source or other skaters from the period for details. These are the legends as I have heard them and grew up skating with.

      Writing this book gave me the opportunity to meet and learn from some of the legends of skateboarding. In addition to being an instructional guide, it is my intention to open a unique window into skateboarding’s past. I’m stoked to be able to share these stories and I hope they inspire skaters to learn some of my favorite Legendary Tricks.

      — Steve Badillo

      Part 1

      Pioneers

      Skateboarding enjoyed a revolution in the early 1970s with improvements in skateboard design and wheel manufacturing. Before then, during the late ’60s, steel and clay wheels with 2 x 4 planks of wood were considered

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