General Longboard Glossary |
The primary glossary for terms relating to longboard skateboarding.
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| Air-Braking | To stand up and assume the open arms position to increase wind drag and reduce speed while skating.
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| Bail | When you fall off your board and hit the ground. See also Road Rash.
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| Blem | A defect in manufacturing, often used to describe a board. Such as I got this sweet deal on a "blem board".
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| Bro Down | If you are bro down you are friends with a representative of a company, getting free gear, boards, sticker t-shirts or at least a discount. |
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| bushing | a barrel-, or cone-shaped piece of rubber in the truck which is deformed in order to make a turn |
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| Camber | When the board arches lengthwise. Camber is commonly used on slalom and carving boards for a more responsive flex. |
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| CCMF | Central Coasts Mothers Favorites, A central coast crew of good stokers and hard riders. Famous for their outlaw sessions.
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| Concave | The curved rise from the middle of a board towards the outside edges perpendicular to the length of a deck.
Board Construction - a detailed description that includes the measured rise from the lowest point in the middle of the board to the highest point at the widest portion of the board. Concave may be constant, progressive or varied over the length of the board. A full description for construction will include the point(s) from the middle of the board where rise starts, the arc(s) of the rise, the length and portion over which the described curve(s) runs and the transition point(s) where concave meets other elements typically found at the kick(s) of the deck. |
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| Coned | The state wheels reach when they are worn to the point that the the diameter of the wheel is wider on one side than the other. Often happens to wheels that are drifted and slid to excess. |
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| Convex | When the highest point of your board is in the center, and as the board goes towards the edges, it drops down. |
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| Crew | Any number of riders greater than one who regularly ride together. Crews can grow quickly if the proper amount of stoke and pie is involved. Crews generally participate in a similar discipline and session together on a regular basis. Members are kept in line by a shared love of riding and dislike for not riding. Being schizophrenic does not entitle you to having a crew all by yourself. |
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| Duro | The hardness of the wheel. Measured on the Shore A scale for urethane wheels.
64a: Rubber A/T Wheels
75a: Softest Urethane wheel
78a-92a: Common Longboard wheels
92a-99a: Sliding, Pool, and Park Wheels
101a: A BS Hardness rating used by shortboard companies
74d: Hub duro of some wheels
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| Fall Line | The fastest line down a hill. |
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| Foot-Braking | Placing a foot on the ground and dragging it to reduce speed, |
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| Footbite | What happens when you step on your wheel while pushing. See also Road Rash. |
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| Grey Hair Army | Any old person who yells at you for no good reason while you are skating. |
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| Grom | A young rider or someone new to the sport.
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| Helmet | The thing you should use to keep you from dying when you slap your head on the road. People die all the time from skating related injuries and they don't need to be going that fat. Buy a helmet, wear it and you will skate and live longer. |
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| Hodad | Someone who owns a longboard but doesn't actually ride. |
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| Hot Girl Curse | The tendancy for a rider to bail in a most humiliating manner when in front of an attractive girl.
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| Hub | The center core of a wheel which seats the bearing.
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| IGSA | Gravity-sports.com , The Worlds Sanctioning Body of Gravity Racing. |
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| Kook | A rider who thinks they are better than they are. A rider who is a danger to themselves and others. |
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| NBS | The infamous Ninja Bomb Squad, a skate crew dedicated to teaching an advancing the warrior nature of skating.
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| Pie | Pie = Good
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| Poker Run | A poker run is a great way to unite skaters and benefit a good cause. At the start of the poker run all riders hop on their boards, give their donation, and receive their first playing card. Once everyone has received their first card they ride to the second stop where they then receive their second playing card. This pattern continues for the third and fourth stop allowing for an easy evening of cruising with fellow riders. At the fifth stop each rider is given their last card and the opportunity to trade up to 3 cards for 3 new ones, just as in a regular game of poker. Once everyone has had the opportunity to trade out cards the hands are compared. We award shwag to the highest and lowest hand along with fastest time and whatever else we deem appropriate. After all the shwag is distributed it’s time to kick back, eat, and enjoy some live music together. |
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| Quiver | A collection of (usually 3 or more) Longboard skateboards. |
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| Roadrash | What results when unprotected flesh meets the quickly passing surface of the street. |
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| Rocker | The opposite of camber. When the board sags down in the middle so it is slightly lower to the ground. Usually only used on cruiser boards. |
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| Rolling Down The Windows | What one often does before a bail. A good sign that a rider is out of control.
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| Schlongboard | A shortboard that has been modified to accommodate a set of longboard trucks and wheels on the nose and tail.
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| Session | Any period of time spent riding a particular terrain or area. It can be scheduled or random. A session tends to be more than one rider. However the intensity of the session is left up to the individual rider. |
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| skogging | - Urban Dictionary definition several years back
- Current Definition: SKOGGING is the art of enjoying a \"danciful\" jog or a run while sidewalk-surfing a skateboard both short and preferably long distances on mostly flat terrain surfaces with the main objective: a roll your own exercise, tight rope ride on wheels while one totally transitions/transfers their weight from one side to the other while leg/knee/ankle/foot pushing the skateboard forward in either a straight or curved direction.
- Skogging How-To
- SKateboarding and joGGING = SKOGGING, the definitive name had to be unique and perhaps fishbone-in-the-ear sounding. Very easy to find in all search engines. [grin]
- Buy a shirt or something, please and help the evolution of what it can be. Everyweek, new development! All proceeds go into the Skogging Foundation.
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| Snake | To cut into a persons line when they are about to take a run. This is generally done in a humorous way but in the wrong place at the wrong time it can result in a board to the head.
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| Speed Wobbles | When you are going down a hill and your board starts to swerve back and forth uncontrolably. Usually followed by a statement unfit for repeating. Can be avoided by carving out of them, tightening your trucks or learning to soften up your legs and knees. |
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| Stance | The way you ride your deck, often a matter of preference.
Regular: Left foot foreward
Goofy: Right foot foreward
Mongo: Pushing, Braking with the front foot
Can also refer to how you ride your deck, surfstyle, dropknee and a varity of other ways.
When referring to a slide deck it is often used to imply a shoulder width space on the deck. |
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| Stinkbug | Grabbing your board between your knees, instead of behind your back knee. Considered improper by some, as well as critically altering your center of balance which is dangerous for anyone. Grabbing stinkbugThe \"right\" way |
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| Superman | As the name implies a bail in which you attempt to fly, as you may well find out man was not intended to fly.
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| The Violator | When you bail and one side of your rear has less traction than the other.
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| Wheelbite | What happens when wheel meets deck, often the result of wheels too large or trucks too loose. It usually results in a superman style flight threw the air. See also road rash. |
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| Wilson | A bail where your legs shoot up into the air and you slap the ground full body. |
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