snowski n.— «Skateboarders who have not crossed over to snowboarding can rent what’s called a “snowski” to use on the new park. Rost described a snowski as a skateboard deck with no wheels.» —“To skate or snowboard?” by Ramez Khuri HomeTownLife...
flutz n. in ice skating, a flubbed lutz executed as a flip. Also as v. Editorial Note: See the 1997 citation from Brian Boitano for a more technical description of a flutz. A lutz is “a jump with a backward takeoff from the backward outside edge of...
flutz n.— «I know she has pizzazz, but she just did not have the overall clean program that Elaine did and she did NOT do a triple lutz…she did a triple flutz as we call it.» —“Bobek’s Flutz” Usenet: rec.skate Jan. 11, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued...
Nazi knob n.— «Loarie’s Skatestopper, a device that keeps skateboarders off curbs and makes it impossible to slide down handrails, has been embraced by thousands of customers. …Skateboarders routinely conduct guerrilla missions to remove what they...
gap out v.— «Look at Kwan last night. She is as wonderful an athlete as it gets, but she had a so-so (for her) performance, gapping out and falling down in the final 10 seconds.» —“Skate results show perfection needed to win at Nagano” by Dave...
skatey-eight n.— «Initially passing them off as a tired skate act based on their name (although I was eventually informed that Skatey-Eight is a ’50s slang term for a large, indeterminate number), I didn’t pay much attention. » —“Lounge-punk is...