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INLINE SKATING TERMS
A
596: Another name for a darkslide. ( A NYC term for their 'grind of the month)
Acid drop: A large fall or gap that you typically jump into or over.
Acid grind: A grind in which your soul foot is on the bar/curb normally, but instead of your front foot being perpendicular to the bar like normal, it points in the opposite direction.
Air: What you want to catch in the air !!
Air Kedidi: Any ti'me you catch air, and your legs begin to bicycle as you lose control. It usually comes before a big fall!
Alley-oop: A move in which you turn one way while rotating another. Ie- you catch air on a ramp going right to left, yet you spin clockwise. When used in reference to grinding, it means doing the grind backwards. An example of this would be an alley-oop soul. This has the same stance as a soul grind yet you slide the object soul foot first.
Alley-oop Soul: A soul grind in which you have a normal soul grind stance, but slide soul foot first (or going backwards).
Armor: Your pads and your helmet !!!!
Anti-rocker: A type of wheel setup in which you have small wheels in the middle of the skates, and larger wheels on the outside. This allows you to grind easier, because of the bigger area between wheels.
AWOL: Soyale in which only the toe of the boot and not the whole soul is on the rail.

B
Backside: A type of grind. If you are approaching a bar on your right, and turn 90 degrees counterclockwise to get on it, you are doing a backside grind.
Backslide: A grind using only the back foot balancing carefully on the boot and frame. Usually the free foot is grabbed.
Bacon in the pan: When you wipe out good on a ramp. You slide around and shrivel up just like frying bacon..
Banana: Another term for switch (or unnatural).
Bar: Common name for a grinding bar or rail.
Bearings: The two round things in the center of your wheel that allows it to spin.
Berani: A front flip with a 180 in it.
Bio: Sideways spin. (Preferably horizontal)
Blindside: A trick in which you turn away from the grinding object to grind it.Ie- if you lose site of the object sometI'me during the jump-to-grind. If you were skating backwards at the rail and did a 180 to soul watching the rail the whole tI'me, its a half-cab soul. If you spun the other way (so that you lost sight of it), it would be a blindside halfcab soul. Whew!
Boardwalk: A topside soul with the back foot rolling on its toe.
Boulevard: A sidewalk with the front foot acid. See Crosswalk.
Brainless: A back flip with a 540 done on a ramp. The trick is to watch the coping go by as you spin and flip.
Buddha: See Unity.
Budget Variation: A variation in which you only have to move one foot. This trick is much easier than the two footed variations.
B.S. Grind: West coast term for a tabernacle grind.
Bunny: A hopeless newbie skater who is always holding on to things for support.
Bump: A term for stair riding. Usage- Lets go bump some stairs.

C
Cab: A term for a fakie 360.
Cabalerno: A backflip with a 180 in it.
California Roll: See Med Spin.
Camel: Another word for a toe-tap.
Capped: When a rail has caps put on it that makes it I'mpossible to grind.
Caveman Rail: Rails that are really high and hard to get on.
Cess Slide: Where you are doing a hockey stop with your skates. Ie- you slide sideways on both skates. Its usually done going down a slope or on a smooth surface.
Christ: A backslide in which the heel of the non-grinding skate is resting on front of the sliding skate.
Clicking in: Phrase used to describe the click you make when you jump up and lock in a rail for a grind.
Coping: The metal bar going horizontally across the top of a ramp. This allows you to grind or stall easily.
Corkscrew: A fakie bio 540.
Cowboy Grind: Grind in which you do a frontside (or backside) on both outside edges. To do this your feet have to be close and your knees bowed out like you are a cowboy on a horse.
Crab: Where you skate along sideways with your heels touching each other.
Crossed: Term used to describe grabs in which you reach over (or cross) your body to do the grab. Ie- A crossed rocket is when you are in a rocket, and grab with one hand the skate on the opposite side.
Crossed up: SI'milar to crossed. However in this one, your feet are what crosses up, and not your hands. Ie- A crossed up mute is a mute grab with one foot behind the other, a la crossed legs.
Crosswalk: A Sidewalk grind in which the front foot is acid.
Curb grind: A grind that is done on a curb. (See grind)