Knows below some of skate world slang:

Shape/Board/Deck - it is the board of skate (only the wood, without wheels)
Nose - the part of the front of shape
Tail - the behind part of shape
Rail - the part underneath of shape
Truck - part of metal that serves of base for skate
Griptape - it is the sandpaper of skate, that the skatista does not leave to slide!
Pads - protection equipment
Session - the act of walking of skate
Sk8 - abbreviation of skate
Carvings - curves
"Prego". - person who does not walk well of skate (in portuguese)
Slam - when you fall of skate and if it crashes all
Slide - to slide
Snake - when you walks in a very difficult obstacle, that few people obtain
Down-hill - to go down
Droping slope - are when the tail is in the platform and wheels in the edge of the slope. The skatista plays its weight in the tail until going down slope below! Here in Brazil, the skatistas until conjugate this verb: " dropar" or "to drop".

Some maneuvers seems sufficiently difficult, but all require much practical and devotion.

Street - style where if it walks for the streets using its natural obstacles.
Ollie - basic maneuver invented by Ollie Gelfand. It consists of giving an aerial one without the use of the hands. It knows when the skatista flies? It is when it is making one ollie.
Freestyle - modality in plain soil, without obstacle. It seems easy, but there is necessary to have much balance.
Manual or Wheelie - to walk if only balancing with the back wheels.
Flip - it is when skate funny, is of tip-head and comes back to its initial position.
Handplant - to get head-to-floor over the skate. Detail: only with a hand, to another one it is holding skate.
Wallride - wall means wall in English, and wallride is a maneuver where the skatista has to walk for the wall on the skate! But only for some seconds, of course...

Did you already walked on skate? If you has already fell down, already you walked. Here in Brazil the children are each time playing more on skate.

Not a coincidence, current world-wide skate champion is the brazilian Bob Burnquist. To complete, the skatista Karen Feitosa, just eleven years old, took recently the first place on continental stage of the World-wide Skate Championship, the Crail World Cup. Karen lives on Guarujá (a beach on São Paulo coast). She started to walk on 9 years old, and now she already don't´remember exactly how many competitions she was. "I find that are 30", says.

foto de Leandro Andrade - Folha Online

Larissa, Karen (on first place) and Patrícia on Crail World Cup

For Karen, to compete is cool! She says that she likes to make the maneuvers in any place. The one that she prefers? "Flip (a maneuver where the funny skatista skate in air)". Her mother, Ana Maria Feitosa de Barros, 45 years, that is with Karen in all competitions, says that besides skate she has excellent notes in the school and still she finds time to play capoeira and soccer!

Skate appeared in the United States, on California state, on 50 decade ending. Some surfers had decided to invent something different to have fun themselves: they had caught the wheels of its skids and had placed it on a wooden plate. And had left surfing in firm land!



But only on 1965 skates had started to be produced in the industries. At this time, was practised "freestyle", where skate slides on the smooth soil. Only later appeared "streetstyle": the skater walks on the streets, using steps and sidewalks as obstacles. WOW!!!

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