THE TRICK OF SKATEBOARDING IN MAGIC

Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years.

With the evolution of skate parks in Cape Town and ramp skating, the skateboard began to change. Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two dimensional maneuvers like riding on only two wheels or manual, spinning only on the back wheels a pivot, high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a hippie jump, long jumping from one board to another often over small barrels or fearless teenagers or slalom.

According to the (Internet) in 1976, skateboarding was transformed by the invention of the ollie by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand. It remained largely a unique Florida trick until the summer of 1978, when Gelfand made his first visit to California. Gelfand and his revolutionary maneuvers caught the attention of the West Coast skaters and the media where it began to spread worldwide. The ollie was adapted to flat ground by Rodney Mullen in 1982. Mullen also invented the Magic Flip, which was later renamed the Kick flip, as well many other tricks including, the 360 Kick flip, which is a 360 pop shove it and a kick flip in the same motion. The flat ground ollie allowed skateboarders to perform tricks in mid-air without any more equipment than the skateboard itself, it has formed the basis of many street skating tricks.

It is a magic the way skateboarders perform those trick, I went to Cape College for some interview, so I spoke to some students in Cape College, and there response was that it all about magic and the trick you apply to the board.

SKATEBOARDING TRICKS

• M-80: This is a classic flip in which you start with both feet parallel facing forwards, rotated 90 to your normal direction of travel on the board and instantly followed by a revert. A good M-80 combines the classic flip and reverts into one smooth motion, and will usually be accomplished by landing the magic flip in switch on the front wheels and switching into regular stance from there. Because the skateboarder has to spin a 90° body variable as part of the trick, he can use this momentum to carry reverts on landing.

• Magic Flip: Back in the day, what we now know as a classic flip was known as a kick flip, and what we now know as a kick flip was called a magic flip. In other words, a magic flip is another name for a modern kick flip.

It is Magic the way people perform and react to skateboarders, because it definitely draws your attention to the skateboarders.

Source

http://www.board-crazy.co.uk/tricks_m.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboarding