Slide (skateboarding)

A slide is a skateboarding trick where the skateboarder slides sideways either on the deck or on the wheels.

Slide tricks

Bertlemann slide

Bluntslide: Like a tailslide, but with front trucks and nose of the board on the opposite side of the rail, ledge etc.

Boardslide: The front trucks go over the obstacle and the skateboarder slides on the center of the board.

Booger slide: Commonly referred as a nose blunt slide where the nose of the board is 'not locked in' to a ledge allowing the rider to drift across a surface. A generalized term for nose or tail slide tricks that are out of the 'norm.' IE- going into a blunt slide or nose blunt slide 'the wrong way and popping out the right way' essentially being a two wheeled powerslide on top of an object. Popularized by Sal Barbier, Louie Barletta, Alex Moul, and Spencer Fujimoto.

Crail Slide: This is a tailslide only the skater grabs the nose of the board with his back hand while sliding. Usually performed on a ramp.

Darkslide: The Dark slide is a seemingly complicated looking trick in which the rider approaches a ledge or rail and does a flip trick onto the obstacle so that the rider lands on the board upside down with their feet on the nose and the tail and slides across the obstacle. Generally a half-kickflip or half-heeflip is the flip trick used to get into a darkslide.

Lipslide: Similar to a boardslide only the skater turns 90 degrees so that the trailing trucks are placed over the rail/ledge/coping and the skater slides on the middle of the board. Considered more complex than a boardslide due the rotation over the obstical at the beginning into the trick and the re-entry or dismount. Note that in this case a frontside lipslide involves facing forwards while a backside lipslide involves facing backwards. Also known as a Disaster slide.

Nosebluntslide: Same as a blunt slide, only performed with the nose and the front wheels. 90 degree ollie over the object to be sliding, locking the nose into a slide position. Wheels drag across the ledge/platform like a power slide while the nose slides along the lip. on a rail, the rider 'ollies over' into a nose slide position.

Noseslide: A noseslide is performed by riding parallel to an obstacle (ledge, rail, etc...) The skateboarder then does an ollie and turns the board 90 degrees. They then land on the ledge with the nose of the board sliding on top of it. This can be done frontside or backside. The skateboarder can then come off the ledge either regular or fakie (backwards).

Powerslide: Powerslide is a four wheel slide, usually performed to stop the skateboard.

Shifty Powerslide: This is a variation of the powerslide where instead of keeping the board straight for the duration of the slide, one actually moves the feet back and forth, creating a walking motion.

Blunt Stop: A variation of the powerslide, this is when the front wheels are lifted into the air while pushing the tail and back wheels in front of you and at a 90 degree angle so that the wheels are sliding sideways instead of rolling, making a "blunt slide" on flatground.

Tailslide: Similar to the noseslide only when turning 90 degrees the tail of the board is landed on the edge of the ledge/rail.

Braking

Sliding is also a technique used for braking. To slide one must also have "sliding gloves" which can be regular household gardening gloves with cutting board (or any stiff plastic) attached to the palms and the fingers. To slide one place your hands on the ground and pulls an extremely sharp turn, making the board lose complete traction. Sliding is convenient to stop quickly or just to show off. Naming slides uses standard skate/snowboard positions (heelside/toeside) and then the type of slide. There are several types of slides, the standard "Slide" (the board "rotates" 180°), the pendulum (the board "rotates" 180°, then returns to the original position), there are many more complex slides such as Colemans, and 360's.