Inverted Hand Plants
- Invert
- Overlaying term for handstands on the edge of a halfpipe
- Handplant
- A 180° degree handplant in which the rear hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is frontside.
- Sad plant
- An invert with a sad grab (melon grab).
- Elguerial
- An invert where the halfpipe wall is approached fakie, the rear hand is planted, a 360 degree backside rotation is made, and the rider lands going forward. Named after Eddie Elguera.
- Eggplant
- A one-handed 180° invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the wall and the rotation is backside.
- Eggflip
- An eggplant where the rider chooses to flip over in order to re-enter the pipe instead or rotating 180 degrees. This trick is performed forward to fakie or switch (fakie to forward).
- McEgg
- An invert where the rider plants the front hand on the wall, rotated 540 degrees in a backside direction and lands riding forward.
- Andrecht
- A rear handed backside handplant with a front-handed grab.
- Miller flip
- A 360° frontside handplant to fakie.
- Layback
- A non-inverted handplant in which the leading hand is planted during a slide. The rider literally lays back, hence the name.
- HoHo
- An invert but both hands are planted at the top of the halfpipe.
- Killer Stand
- You make an invert but you also take your back/rear hand on front hand's elbow.
- Fresh
- An invert (front hand) but back flip is boned; no grab
- J-Tear
- Inverted frontside 540 with a hand plant in the middle. Originally a variation on the Jacoby Terror Air. This trick was invented by Mike Jacoby for a contest that didn't allow inverted aerials; inverted handplants, however, were acceptable.
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