Grabs
Method: Tweak your body backwards and grab your skates with one of your hands. As you tweak backwards, you should grab your skates behind your back. If...
Method: Tweak your body backwards and grab your skates with one of your hands. As you tweak backwards, you should grab your skates behind your back. If you grab your skate with the right hand, you should grab the left skate. Pull your legs backwards. Is done mostly when vert skating, because it looks dumb if the air is not vertical.
Mute: Bend your legs, and grab your skates with the opposite hand. You should reach over in front of your skates. For instance, if you are grabbing with your right hand, you should grab your left skate.
Indy: Like a mute, but reverse. If you spin counter-clockwise, you should grab your right skate with your left hand.
Rocket: Your legs are straight. Grab the skates with the same side's hand. For instance, if you are grabbing with your right hand, you should grab your right skate. In a crossed rocket grab, you grab the opposite side's skate.
Liu Kang: One leg is straightened out, while the other one is bend. You should grab the one that is bend with the same side's hand, and the bended leg should point as you where doing a rocket makio grind. For instance, if you are grabbing with your right hand, you should be grabbing your right skate.
Kung Lao: One leg straight. The other one is bend, and is grabbed on the outside boot with the same side's hand. The arm you're grabbing with should be on the outside of the knee. For instance if you grab with your left hand, you should have your left arm go on the left side of your knee, and grab the left skate on the outside boot.
Japan: One of your legs are more straightened out than the other, while the other is bend as much as it can. The one that is bend is touching the other leg, and that skate is also grabbed with the opposite side's hand behind your back. For instance, if you are grabbing with your right hand, you should grab your left skate. A sort of karate kick formation is done.
Judo: One of your legs are straightened out, while the other is bend. The one that is bend is touching the other leg, and that skate is also grabbed with the opposite side's hand. For instance, if you are grabbing with your right hand, you should grab your left skate. A sort of karate kick formation is done.
Flying fish: Make the formation of a rocket fishbrain in the air. Imagine yourself topside souling. Keep one leg straight and grab it.
Express: You grab the inside of the skate with the same side's hand.
Stiffy: Any grab where one leg is straight.
Stale: A variation to grabs. When you grab the wheels of your skates. A popular stale grab is the stale japan.
Stalefish: Grabbing the outside of the opposite skate.
Safetygrab: Grab your skate with the same side arm – that is when you grab your left skate, you should grab it with your left arm.
Unity Grab: Cross your legs, like you where about to do a unity grind, grab the skates with either hand.
Written by Anders Toxboe on August 4, 2003
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Levi Fuller
4 Aug, 2004
hi
Levi Fuller
4 Aug, 2004
These Tricks are so easy the only way that someone couldn't do one of these tricks is if their legs are broken or they are retarded.
Terry Chylton
17 Aug, 2004
I want any opinion on which one of these looks best!:)
Roger Brenes
27 Aug, 2004
easy!!!!!!!!!! all of these are easy dude:D
Mikael Johansson
19 Oct, 2004
How easy can one get?!
austin sherwin
20 Oct, 2004
japans are fun as hek to do(especialy with a 540 or 360 added to them!:D)
rob stone
3 Nov, 2004
its not called a unity grab its called an absrtact but same thing though.
Skylar Johnson
13 Nov, 2004
if someone doesnt know how to do a grab then take them roller blades off!!!
Eric Buuron
14 Dec, 2004
These tricks can all be so easy if you pratice them.
Josh Frailey
14 Feb, 2005
safety grab is the easiest I started out doing that,then to mute,know i dont know what this grab is my left leg is bent were its touching my but and my right leg is straight and im grabing my left skat and wheels.Help me out what grab is this?
Rune villadsen
14 Feb, 2005
ooh Fuck i HATE long grabn:(
taylor stibbe
11 Mar, 2005
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taylor stibbe
11 Mar, 2005
these are so easy i just cant do them on vert i can do them over a funbox easy but vert i have trouble
Taylor NunYourBiz
12 Mar, 2005
u need a lot of room to extend ur leg for japans right? I like to do my grabs over spines
stan swanny
16 Apr, 2005
my friends are sad. Two can barely do saftey grabs off a flight of say 3 stairs. Meanwhile im pulln 180-360 mutes over gaps while the only thing they can do is follow me around with a camera lol :):D:):D:):D
jay sanabria
18 Jun, 2005
i like visuals better i cant understand this can u help me …(send me pics of tricks)ive done these tricks without knowing the names lol …plz help
Jeremy Fugate
3 Jul, 2005
Most of these are pretty simple, some of the ones that require leg extension (like rocket) I have some trouble with.
brittni stangel
18 Aug, 2005
japans r fun arent they espesialy when you get good airB)
Cameron Seagle
12 Oct, 2005
yeah these are easy i live in a neighborhood with a bunch of idiots who can't do these the best besides me is a little kid who claims he can grind a backside i saw try a kicker he wouldn't even land on concrete if he can grind its only on a small rail 1 inch from the ground. haha
Justin Contreras
17 Sep, 2006
What about the cannon ball? Very Easy? Yes. Posted? No. :( Whats up with that?
Tony Rutz
5 Oct, 2006
Question. What is the grab where you arch your back, and then grab both legs behind your back with both arms? Right arm -> Right leg; Left arm -> Left leg. I've heard it called Rasta Pasta, and Flying Squirrel. I usually call it Rasta Pasta, because Flying Squirrel is a Snowboard/ Skateboard term. Is there an actual name to it?
ricky sykes
18 Apr, 2007
alr8 dose any1 no were 2 find owt abowt up comming events in the uk plz? cheerz
mat smith
1 Apr, 2008
i like doing 1080 stale rockets
kaileb butler
1 Apr, 2008
hey guys im new to this so if you guys have any suggestions for me or tips id like them
Donovan Ellis
1 Apr, 2008
agrosk8r- its not called a unity grab its called an absrtact but same thing though.
No.Its called a unity.An abstract is when you basically do a unity only you do nothing with your hands.
Patrick Stoiber
1 Apr, 2008
Hey, ya!
I've done the Unity 520∞ now!
Cool! B)
But, I've to say, the normal grabs without a spin are definitly so easy!!! You can also do it, if you've never driven ramps before!
get up get rolling rollinginaustria
stan swanny
1 Apr, 2008
These are easy as hell. They are easiest and most fun off a funbox. In my opinion the mute is the easiest, Ive never heard of a safet grab before today
clarence croxton
1 Apr, 2008
grabs are sweet when u get big air :D
Hunter Tillman
1 Apr, 2008
The one that looks the best is probably the unity one
mark bennett
6 May, 2010
ya all these are easy im just now getting into doing them in a halfpipe my 1 friend however cant even stall in a half pipe gpt tips for him?