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The following skate boarders’ dictionary of terms will help you to understand what your teenagers are talking about when they describe the feat of the day at the Trinity parking lot. If you don’t have a teenager who’s into skate boarding, this will give you an early start at deciphering the commentary at the 1996 Olympics. After all, if stunt skiing is legitimized as sport, can skate boarding be far behind?
Skate Rats: a prejorative term used by tourists to describe the board athletes who congregate at the center of town.
Betty: a skate chick.
Ollie: a leap into the air which takes the board with the airborne boarder and brings them back down together, presumably with the boarder on top. (Jason Hammond is recognized as the county’s ace on this move. He can Ollie over a body lying prone on the blacktop, to invol
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