Welcome! Some of the tricks you’ll find below are also typically done in a skatepark, that’s why you might find their ‘how-to’ oriented for ‘quarter’, ‘coping’, ‘deck’, and so on. Just replace those terms with ‘ledge’, ‘rail’, or whatever makes sense and you’ll be fine.
It’s really hard in some cases to define whether a trick is a street trick or a park trick. Some tricks are obviously both, but some depend on the setup of your local street spot (and on your skills too). So if the trick doesn’t apply to your current available setup, just skip it.
You’ll find the ‘how-to’ for these tricks following the links on their titles and/or pictures, which will take you to a new tab, to one of the tricks trilogy posts (beginner, intermediate, and advanced tricks) on which this list is based.
If there is a trick you can’t find here, make sure to check the links above.
Without further ado, here they are… Enjoy!
1) Hop
2) Drop
3) Crossfoot
Ride with your left foot on the right pedal and the right foot on the left pedal.
4) Bunny Hop
5) Side Hop
6) X-Ride
Ride with the bars turned 180° and your arms crossed.
7) Pull Up/Chicken Barspin
8) Nollie
A jump lifting the rear wheel first, then the front wheel, and landing on both wheels simultaneously (opposite of a Bunny Hop).
9) Hop 180
A jump from both wheels simultaneously with a 180° turn.
10) Fakie
To ride backwards.
11) Fakie Out
12) Crankflip
13) Manual
14) Tailpress
Standing on your rear wheel and making pressure with it against an obstacle.
15) Sprocket Stall
Standing on your sprocket on the ledge.
16) Bunny Hop Barspin
17) Bunny Hop 180
18) Footjam 180
19) Nollie 180
20) Half Cab
Riding backwards and exiting it with a 180° jump.
21) 360 Tap
22) Double Peg Grind
23) Baby Duster Grind
Sliding on your bottom bracket with your front wheel rolling on the ground.
24) Feeble Grind
25) Un-Luc-e Grind
Sliding with your front peg and front pedal on the rail/ledge and the back wheel in the air.
26) Nose Manual
27) Full Cab
A 360° spin in the air from riding backwards.
28) Nose Pivot 180
29) Nollie Half Cab
A 180° jump from your front wheel while riding backwards.
30) Bar Turn
31) ET/Accelerate
Pedaling forward while in the air.
32) TE/UFO/Reaccelerate
Pedaling backwards while in the air.
33) One Foot
34) One Hand
35) Frame Grab
36) Seat Grab
37) Butterfly
38) No Foot
39) X-Up
40) Tire Grab
41) Footplant
42) 540 Tap
A 540° rotation on the back wheel.
43) Feeble Stall
44) Smith Stall
45) Un-Luc-e Stall
Standing with your front peg and front pedal on the coping and the back wheel in the air.
46) Tail/Tire Tap
47) Barspin
48) Nosepress/Curb Endo
Standing on your front wheel making pressure with it against an element.
49) Pedal Stall
50) Handplant
51) Tire Slide
52) Fakie Barspin
53) Downside Smith
Hitting an element with your front peg as you ride.
54) Rail Ride
55) Abubaca
56) Smith Grind
57) Crooked Grind
58) Snaggletooth Grind
Sliding on the opposite side of the rail with your front peg.
59) Derek Duster Grind
Sliding on a rail on your back peg and bottom bracket.
60) Predator Grind
Sliding on back and front pegs on one side of the rail then hopping and doing the same on the opposite side of the rail.
61) Double Peg Stall
62) Luc-e Stall
A stall on your pedal and back peg while the front wheel is below the coping
63) Crankarm/Pedal Grind
64) Luc-e Grind
65) Pedal/Sprocket Feeble Grind
Sliding on your back pedal and sprocket with the front wheel on the ledge/box.
66) Pedal Crooked/Bottom Bracket Grind
Sliding on a rail on your back pedal/crankarm and bottom bracket, with your wheels at each side of the rail.
67) Walltap
68) Wallride
69) 180 Barspin
70) Bunny Hop 360
Jumping from both wheels and doing a 360° spin while in the air.
71) Footjam 360
72) 360 Nose Pivot
73) Nose Bonk
Touching an element with your front wheel and bouncing off it as you ride.
74) Toothpick Hangover
75) X-Up Grind
76) Roller Coaster Grind
77) Nollie Barspin
78) Nollie 360
A 180° rotation standing on the front wheel followed by a 180° rotation jumping from it.
79) Fakie 540
Exit from a Fakie with a 540° spin.
80) 360
81) Footjam
82) Can-Can Footjam
83) Vader Footjam
84) Canadian Footjam
85) Can Vader Footjam
86) Ruben Wallride
Riding on a wall facing the ground.
87) Tailwhip
88) Double Barspin
89) Ice Pick Stall
90) Bunny Hop Tailwhip
A jump on both wheels with a 360° rotation of the frame around the front end.
91) Fakie Tailwhip
A 360° rotation of the frame around the front end after riding backwards.
92) Footjam Tailwhip
93) Downside Footjam Tailwhip
94) Opposite Downside Footjam Tailwhip
95) Ice Pick Grind
96) Levitation/Butcher Grind
Sliding on your front peg and pedal, keeping your back peg above the ledge.
97) Back Pedal Grind
Sliding on a rail on your back pedal with your wheels at each side of the rail.
98) Toothpick Stall
99) Toothpick Grind
100) 180/Alleyoop Grind
Making a 180° turn in the air landing on the rail/ledge on two pegs and sliding on it.
101) Nosepick
102) Bunny Hop 540
Jumping from both wheels and doing a 540° spin while in the air.
103) Bus/Truck Driver
104) 180 Tailwhip
105) 360 Tailwhip
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Photo Credits: [Side Hop: by George Vasilopoulos / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [One Hand: by xDanielWeiß / Flickr / CC License] [Seat Grab: by Ricardo Abengoza Hernan / Flickr / CC License] [Butterfly: by Richard Masoner / Flickr / CC License] [X-Up: by cyp / Flickr / CC License] [Tire Grab: by ian / Flickr / CC License] [Footplant: by Kevin Cortopassi / Flickr / CC License] [Feeble Stall: by Brett Hiltz / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Smith Stall: by Gerardofegan / Flickr / CC License] [Tail/Tire Tap: by -Maik- / Flickr / CC License] [Pedal Stall: by Scott / Flickr / CC License] [Handplant: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Tire Slide: by / Ricardo Abengoza Herna / Flickr / CC License] [Abubaca: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Smith Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Crooked Grind: by A K / Flickr / CC License] [Double Peg Stall: by Klaus Friese / Flickr / CC License] [Luc-e Grind: by Pavel Odehnal / Wikimedia Commons / CC License] [Walltap: by Brett Hiltz / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [180 Barspin: designed by Freepik] [360 Nose Pivot: by Stéphane Bar / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Nose Bonk: by vanessa lollipop / Flickr / CC License] [Toothpick Hangover: by Vinicius Hawk / Flickr / CC License] [X-Up Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Roller Coaster Grind: by AdamCookMedia / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [360: by Owen The Signal / Flickr / CC License][Can-Can Footjam: by Glyn Roberts / Flickr / CC License] [Vader Footjam: by Glyn Roberts / Flickr / CC License] [Canadian Footjam: by WillVision / Flickr / CC License (modification: cropped)] [Can Vader Footjam: by Alexander Steffes / Flickr / CC License] [Downside Footjam Tailwhip: by Ricardo Abengoza Herna / Flickr / CC License SA] [Opposite Downside Footjam Tailwhip: by Michael Emmendoerffer / Flickr / CC License SA] [Ice Pick Grind: Designed by Freepik] [Nosepick: by Bristol ridin / Flickr / CC License G (modification: cropped)] [Toothpick Stall: by Tom à la rue / Flickr / CC License SA] [Toothpick Grind: designed by Freepik] [180 Tailwhip: by re up photo / Flickr / CC License G (modification: cropped)]
