Trick names and where they come from

[RADHAB]

My personal fave trick to do at the moment is the Abubaca.

A rider named George Conjame was seen doing abubacas at one of the first AFA Masters contest in early '84. Ron Wilkerson later took it to vert.

An abubaca is a back tire stall in which the rider jumps or launches to a ledge (rail, deck, etc), stalls on the back tire & fakies off the ledge.

The trick was named by Ron Wilkerson. He named it after a character that Gary Coleman was playing in the '80s sitcom, "Different Strokes". The term "abubaca" is African for "chief".

[RADHAB]

Another fave of mine is Canadian Nosepicks:-

Canadian nosepicks were not actually invented by a canadian (canadian Jay Miron was reputed to have invented the trick) but in fact Joe Hulbert was the first guy to do the bio air to vert nosepick on the coping.

[silentpartner]

face plant.....somthing i've i become very good at over the years........... so called by when your head hits the floor when you come off..

alan 

[electobooty]

Was always surprisingly adept at the famous arseovertit

[TwoBobRob]

The Dead Sailor.  Or as I prefer,  Johhny Stiffback   


That most special of jump or air variation where you do nothing at all and just sail over whatever it was you were supposed to land on in a straight leg and stiff back stylee, usually just tipping gently over to your least favourite side ensuring a horrid footslap and/or body to ground interface.....

The Dead Sailor.   Sailor as in you're sailing,  and dead as in thats what you're going to be when you finally hit the ground