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Ledge Ledge butted up against a quarterpipe.Ī ledge is one of the simplest features, an elevated box with a long edge that can be skated. In skateparks, they are often made of concrete and edged with metal, though not always.

Hubbas are tall narrow ledges that angle down a set of steps or a bank. Hubba Big hubbas next to stairs and banks at City Heights Skatepark in San Diego. Handrails are a common street skating element that started in the built environment and are now emulated in skateparks. Hand Rail Skater ollying onto a handrail at Poods Skatepark in Encinitas, California.Ī handrail is a railing down a set of stairs or a bank. Modern skateparks often have banks next to stairs so skaters can navigate the drop without having to ollie the stairs or slide a hand rail. So a “six” is a set of stairs with six steps. The size of a set of stairs is often given based on the number of steps. Skaters may ollie the steps or ride the handrails, hubbas, or ledges associated with them (see below).

Stairs are pretty much what they sound like. Stairs This set of stairs has a handrail down both sides. Flat Rail Flat railĪ flat rail is a long rail on flat ground that skaters can rail slide and grind. This creates a ridge in the middle, which allows skaters to air or grind over. Hip Two quarter pipes meet at a right angle to form a hip.Ī hip is a bend in a curved or flat transition so that the two faces turn away from each other. As skatepark features, banks are often paired with other features and put together to form pyramids, A-frames and other more complex features. Bank This half-moon-shaped bank lets skaters carve or grind around these stairs.Ī bank is a skateable surface that angles up or down from the flat ground. On vert ramps, this section may provide a taller section of vertical surface to skate. An oval bowl is called an “egg,” for instance, an oval bowl that bends in the middle a “peanut”, and a clover-shaped bowl is called a cloverleaf.Įxtension Extension on a bank that forms a quarter pipe.Īn extension on a ramp, bowl, or bank is a section of the riding surface that projects higher than the primary lip. Bowls are often described based on their shape. Whereas a halfpipe is open at both ends, a bowl is fully or mostly enclosed, offering carvable corners. The first skateable bowls were backyard pools. Ruby Lilley blasting an air at Prince Skatepark These can connect different sections of bowls or halfpipes, or be stand-alone features. When you put two quarterpipes back to back they form a spine. Spine Spine in the middle of a flow bowl. Some capsules, like the one in the photo above, are just barely over vert. Often, capsules look like a sphere cut in half and turned on its side. In-ground concretes skateparks will often have long quarterpipes that serve as the outer edge of the park Capsule Small capsule in the snake run at Prince Park in Oceanside, California.Ī capsule is a half-circular over-vert section of a bowl. Quarterpipes can also be mini ramps or vert ramps. The math here is pretty simple: a quarter pipe is half of a halfpipe. Quarterpipe Long quarterpipe (mini) forming the boundary of a skatepark Smaller ramps that don’t reach vertical are called mini ramps and are typically much smaller (often in the 4-6 foot range).

Half pipes that are large enough (typically in the 10 – 12 foot range) that the top of the transition curve reaches vertical for some distance are referred to as vert ramps.

#Surfer lingo vs skateboard lingo full

A halfpipe is the bottom half of a full pipe, typically with a flat bottom that creates some space between the transitions (and some time to think about your next trick). Once you know what a full pipe is, a halfpipe is pretty self-explanatory. The earlier versions of these were storm drains, but eventually, they made their way into skateparks. A full pipe is pretty much what it sounds like, a complete tube that can be skated.