Slide (skateboarding)

A slide is a skateboarding trick where the skateboarder slides sideways either on the deck or the trucks.
In 1986, demand for SMA skateboards had grown at an increasing rate which they struggled to meet. At 16, Natas Kaupas impressed Engblom when he arranged a manufacturing and distribution arrangement with the much larger company, Santa Cruz Skateboards. It is claimed by some in the skateboarding community that Kaupas pioneered rail slide manoeuvres in the late 1980s while at a Pro-Am skate contest held in Oceanside, California. Kaupas stunned the crowd by attempting a board slide down a handrail. Although his attempt was unsuccessful, skating history was made. This was followed up when Kaupas and Gonzales performed what is considered the first legitimate rail slide and later with 50-50 grinds.

Terms of direction

;Frontside
;Backside

Slide tricks

;Anti-Casper Slide
;Bananaslide
;Bertslide
;Bluntslide
;Boardslide / railslide
;Casperslide
;Cess Slide
;Coleman Slide
;Crail Slide
;Darkslide
;Flat spin
;Layback
;Lipslide
;Noseblunt
;Nose grab tail drag
;Noseslide
;Nose/Tail 5-0 Slides
;Pendy Slide
;Powerslide
;Primoslide
;Push up
;Stink bug
;Surrender Slide
;Tailslide