What most people would call a nose grind or 5-0 is inverted if you 180'd into it.
> And remember, never carry your board by your truck :)
I miss skateboarding :). My ankles don't though.
It made so much more sense when I learned a lot of these tricks were first invented in the 1980's, when most boards had an obvious nose versus tail difference. Like this one:
https://i.etsystatic.com/6865693/r/il/f51835/361296329/il_15...
So even though you we're grinding in a switch 5-0 looking position, you would be clearly grinding on the nose, hence "180 nosegrind".
One of my other favorites:
On circle rails there is "no such thing" as fs overcrook, just fs nosegrind, and there is no such thing as bs nosegrind, but there is bs overcrook.
At least that's how magazines seem to classify it.
I have a little passion project where we log pro’s tricks and interview them called 4ply[0]. The naming convention is something we always have to get right to make the logged data at all useable. I actually grew up skating with Erick Winkowski but can’t do an article on him because he does so esoteric transition tricks and we can’t name them all (or find someone who can).
Also I'll go ahead and plug the site I'm helping rebuild.
[0] https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2021/08/16/meet-minds-behind-... [1] https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
I have a private discord and github for the project I can add you too. I eventually plan to open up the discord for anyone once we get a little further in the rebuild.
Wish there was a good way to DM on HN, I can send you a discord invite. Or if you happen to be on slap let me know.