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By Steve Cave, About.com Guide to Skateboarding since 2003

Name that grab!

Tuesday June 17, 2008
Danny Way - photo by Markus Paulsen / ESPN ImagesThe Panasonic Open is this weekend, June 19th to 22nd, in Baltimore, MD. The Panasonic Open is the first stop of the AST Dew Tour. The Dew Tour is a lot of fun, and if you live anywhere near Baltimore, go see it!

While watching the tour, or other pro skateboarding, all lot of the skate tricks can look similar if you don't know what to look for. You see the skater fly into the air, spin or something, and land. It looks great, but what was it called? How hard was it? Check out the Skateboarding Tricks Dictionary for a crash course in naming skate tricks! Here are some grab tricks you can take a look at:

See what these tricks are, see photos, and hear how they got their names (some of them are just plain ridiculous). There are some weirder names than these out there for skateboarding tricks, though. Do you know any? Leave a comment below!
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June 24, 2008 at 12:15 pm
(1) t-rad says:

didn’t the x-games go back on their no vert pledge?

June 24, 2008 at 12:52 pm
(2) Steve says:

Yeah, you are absolutely right! I’ll edit that - thanks!

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