Inverts/Handplants
| Invert | This is a basic lip trick where the skater grabs his board and plants a hand on the coping so that they are balancing upside down on the lip of the ramp. Many variations as to where the board is grabbed and how the legs are arranged make for a number of different tricks of this type. Examples are: Eggplant (backside invert with front hand on lip), Andrecht Invert (backside invert with backside grab, with very bent legs and back, often stalled--invented by Dave Andrecht), Gymnast Plant (no footed), Sadplant (backside invert with fully extended front leg -- invented by Lance Mountain), and One Foot Invert, the Unit (540 frontside handplant) |
| Egg Plant | This invert differs from others in that the front hand is on the coping, while the back hand is grabbing like an Indy. Variation: 540 McEgg (invented by Mike McGill). |
| Everybody | "fully extended" fakie invert named so because Neil Blender (influential to the invert craze) tried this trick at a contest by the request of Lance Mountain "to fool everybody" thinking this would be a cool trick. Hence "everybody" was trying this attempted trick at the next contest. supposedly an inside joke between Lance Mountain and Neil Blender. See "Good Buddy" |
| Fall Guy | Frontside invert to fakie. made popular by Lance Mountain |
| Frontside Invert | Another Invert where the front hand is on the coping, rather than the back hand. The back hand grabs like a frontside air. |
| Good Buddy | A fakie invert not "fully extended". Popularized by Mike McGill and Mark "Gator" Ragowski aka Gator Mark Anthony. This invert is a predessor of the "fully extended" fakie invert called the "Everybody" invented by Neil Blender. |
| Ho-Ho | This is where both hands are on the coping at the same time at one point during the trick, enabling the person to walk on their hands if so desired. Both hands must be on the coping because the trick is actually an invert to eggplant. The Ha-Ha is similar except that it is basically a stalled invert where the front hand briefly rests on the coping before returning to grab the board. The Ho-Ho was conceived by Neil Blender, but first done by either Jeff Kendall or Steve Schneer. |
| Jolly Mambo | A stalled frontside invert in which you stop rotating in the middle before you flip all the way around into the fakie position. Basically a Stalled Miller Flip. Invented by Neil Blender. *In Bones Brigade Video Three it is comically referred to as a "frontside Jelly Mumbo." See Miller Flip |
| Layback Air | An invert-like trick done frontside while grabbing slob and placing the back hand on the coping. Essentially an invert done frontside, with the rear hand planted on the lip. Variations: to board to frontside rock, to tail, to revert, to fakie, or to invert. |
| Miller Flip | A frontside invert in which you flip all the way around into the fakie position. basically a vertical cartwheel. Invented by Darrell “Knarles” Miller. |
| Phillips 66 | Basically similar to the reverse of a Miller flip, where the lip is approached fakie, back hand on the coping and the body is flipped in a frontflip-like motion and landing to roll away forward. Invented by Jeff Phillips. |
| Poliki | Similar to a layback air, but grabbed on the outside rail, more commonly known as an Underplant. Essentially a lien air handplant. Invented by Lester Kasai. |
| Sad Plant | An invert whereby the skater's front leg is fully extended. (Lance Mountain) |
| Smithvert or Smith plant | An regular invert where the board is tweaked in a backside rotation so that the legs are almost crossed, with the toes of the back foot touching the tail. Invented by Mike Smith. |
| Tailtap | Like a pivot but the back trucks never touch the coping and the skaters front hand is holding the nose of the board. |
| Tuck-knee Invert | An invert that is grabbed like a Japan Air and tweaked severely, sometimes with the nose of the board hitting the helmet. |
| Underplant | See "Poliki". |
| '''Woolly Mammoth''' | An unusual trick invented by Neil Blender. A fakie frontside handplant to nose blunt, where the back hand grabbing the front rail of the board while the nose and front wheels are resting on the deck behind the coping and the front hand is still on the coping.
"Blunt Treflip Out" Has only been seen done by Daewon Song, and Chris Haslam. |
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