Word It Activity 33 Trick Skating.pdf

!\=;Figure 33-1A Skater Performs a Kickllipwith the evolution of skate parks and ramp riding, theskateboard. began to change. Early skate tricks consisted mainly oftwo-dimensional rnaneuver€t (i.e., riding on only t'he front wheels(nose manual), spinning like an ice skater on the back wheels (a350 Bivot), high jumping over a bar (sometimes called a "Hippieilumpo), long juryring from one board. to anot'her (often over fearlessteenagers lying on ttreir backs)'and slalom.In L975, skateboard.ing was transformed by the invention ofthe first modern skaUeboarding trick by AIan *Ollie" Gelfand. Itremained. largely a unique Florida trick from 1975 until the sr11pnerof 1-978, when Gelfand made his first visiU to California. Gelfand andhis revolutionary maneuver caught the attention of the west CoaEtskaters and the media where it began to spread worldwide. Arr ollieis performed by popping the tail of the skateboard' slid'ing thefront foot towards the nose and lifting up the back foot to leveIthe skateboard out. This results in the skateboarden' along withhis or her skateboard, lifting into the air without the aid of footstraps or the skateboarder's hands.The ollie was reinvented by Rodrrey Mullen in 1981' whoadapted it to freestyle skating by ollieing on flat grourid ritherthan out of a vertical ramp. Irfgllen also invented the ol]-ie kickflip, which, at the time of its invention' was dubbed the "nagicflip." The flat ground otlie allowed skateboarders to perform tsricksin mid-air without any more equipment than the skateboard itself.The development of tlrese complex tricks by Rodney lhrllen and otherstransformed skateboarding.Skateboarders began performing their tricks down stair setsand on other urban obstacles - they were no Longer corrfined to emptypools and o