Sibirkatt - The skateborading Giant

posted by admin on May 31

Skateboarding is a very popular and exciting sport. It requires skill, technique and a need for speed. Anyone can learn skateboarding, be you a boy or a girl. Old or young, for skateboarding has no rules! All you need is enthusiasm. 

      There a few types of skateboarding. A few of the tricks and styles are as mentioned below: 

      Street skateboarding

     Small skate ramps can be installed almost anywhere. All that is required is a little bit of street space. Skate boarders utilize these ramps to do flip tricks . Grinds are also commonly done on these ramps. A grind is when a skateboarder latches the side of his/her board onto the ramp and slides across it. It requires a fine balance between speed and technique.

     Skate boarders also use steps and railings to do tricks. Coming towards the steps the skater will jump over the steps doing one of many flip tricks while in air. The railings are used to do grinding moves. It is very interesting how skateboarders find almost anything on the street to improvise tricks on.

     Vert skating

Vert ramps are usually a bigger version of the ones used for street skating. These can go up to 20-40 feet in height. Skaters can do grinding techniques and flip tricks on these ramps. Grabs are also often incorporated into the combinations.

   Grinds 

     The different types of grinds that are done are as follows:

 5-o grinds

50-o grinds

50 slides etc.

  Flips 

    The different types of flips that are performed are:

Kick flips

Heel flips

Shove its

Skateboarders have invented many games that they play in order to keep themselves challenged. In a spirit of competition these games are played, in order to maintain the levels of the tricks and also learn more in the process. One such game is called “Skate”. In this game players are numbered in a descending order. One by one they perform tricks and each of the participants has to copy the exact move, trying to land the trick as best as possible. Inability to do so gives you a letter. If you get all the letters that spell “skate” then you are out. 

Thus skateboarding is a very exciting sport, both for the skateboarders themselves and the audience. It is not hard to learn.All you need is a skateboard and some sneakers. So why wait, get skating!

posted by admin on Nov 30

Skateboarding is one such game were you need power, skill and should be able to do a lot of trick at the same time. If you cannot have uniqueness in your game then you are not going to make too far in the industry. You should be able to do as, many tricks as your opponent and even do things better than him.

Aerials are the tricks you can do on a half pip or a quarter pip or maybe some tricks better that that. You can also use a kicker ramp to go high in the air. Skateboarding is a game of speed and you should be able to capitalize on your speed to keep your pace on the ramp. Speed is the only thing that can help you get a good transition and fly of the deck. It’s very important that you learn all through tricks perfectly before trying it in a complete game because you may not get a second chance to correct your fault if you miss it in the games.

Being the game of speed and endurance skateboarding also has a history of some nasty crashes and burns in the games. Though the game is played will full safety gears but some skateboarding crashes have been very hard which have completed collapsed the career of a gamer. Skateboarding crashes can sometime be very dangerous. As the board used in skateboarding is made up of hard wood and the player’s crashes on it with full speed. So, it can even break sensitive bones if proper care and safety measures are not applied.

Some skateboarding tricks which require the player to jump high in air can relatively be more dangerous as sometime the player cannot adjust his landing and slips on the board. Though major events like X games have relatively less crashes as they have full safety precautions but amateur players who try this at home or in their schools are more prone to it. It is always adviced that player use high quality gears and never compromise on their safety while skateboarding. Also it is recommended to use appropriate athletic shoes that developed specifically to address the needs of professional skaters. A sudden accident while skateboarding can make you handicapped for lifelong. So, do play skateboarding but with safety as your life is not more precious then skateboarding.