Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

by Steve Badillo
Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2

by Steve Badillo

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Overview

Compiling more legendary skateboarding figures and their pioneering tricks, this comprehensive resource details dozens of spectacular stunts—combining invaluable technical information with insightful historical perspectives. Each feat is captured in action sequence and captioned allowing aspiring riders to learn how to perform them. A history of the tricks, featuring their legendary inventors, is also included. Blending background and how-to, this copiously illustrated reference explains amazing maneuvers that changed the sport and encourages a deep respect for the legends that made skateboarding the worldwide passion it is today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781884654350
Publisher: Tracks Publishing
Publication date: 03/01/2010
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 12 Years

About the Author

Steve Badillo is the coauthor of several top-selling skateboard guides, including Skateboarder's Start-Up, Skateboarding: Book of Tricks, Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks, and Skateboarding: New Levels. He has worked as a stunt double and actor in numerous commercials and films featuring skateboarding, including Lords of Dogtown. He lives in Oxnard, California.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

Part 1 Early Tricks 8

01 Handstand 9

02 Daffy 17

03 Acid Drop / Bomb Drop 23

04 Slappy 31

05 Manual Roll 37

Part 2 Duane Peters 44

06 Sweeper 45

07 Disaster 51

08 Layback Grind 57

09 The Loop 65

Part 3 Inverts 70

10 Eggplant 71

11 Frontside Invert 77

12 Phillips 66 85

Part 4 Vert Airs 91

13 Mute Air 92

14 Caballerial 97

15 Judo Air 104

16 Stalefish 112

17 McTwist 118

18 Rodeo Flip 124

Part 5 Freestyle 130

19 Primoslide 131

Part 6 Grinds 138

20 Feeble Grind 139

21 Hurricane 145

22 Discolip 151

23 Suski Grind 157

24 Barley Grind 163

Part 7 Street 170

25 Natas Spin 171

26 Hardflip 177

27 Ghetto Bird 183

28 Laser Flip 189

29 Pole Jam 195

Bibliography 199

Resources 201

Index 207

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