Wakeboard tricks have some very creative names which often have nothing to do with describing the trick being performed. If you're new to wakeboarding this can be very confusing so this list is design to help you out!
Name | Description | Invented By |
009 | Toeside Frontside Osmosis 540 to Olay 360 | Matt Sims |
118 | A Double Hinterberger. | Tom Watson |
313 | Heelside Raley with a frontside 360. | Shaun Murray |
3 to 1 | A 360 rewind backside 180. | Chris Williams |
3 to 3 | A 360 rewind 360. Renamed the "Zero" by Massi Piffaretti | |
90210 | Toeside Raley with a frontside 360. | Mark McMamara |
Back Mobe | A Backroll with a frontside 360 | Scott Byerly |
Back Mobe 540 | Jeremy Kovak | |
Back Mobe 720 | Harley Clifford | |
Batwing | Toeside Raley with an Indy grab. | Scott Harwood |
Batwing-to-Blind | Darin Shapiro | |
Bel-Air | An air heelside back-flip. | Shaun Murray |
Bel-Air-to-Blind | Parks Bonifay | |
Blender | A wrapped Back Mobe | Eric Perez |
Big Worm | Toeside front roll with a frontside 360. Handle is rotated above the head. | Todd Brendel |
Big Perm: Toeside front roll with a frontside 540. Handle is rotated above the head. | Nick Jones | |
Billion Dollar Baby | Tantrum to fakie 360 | Bob Soven |
Blind Judge | A Raley with a backside 180. | Parks Bonifay |
Blind Pete | A toeside back roll with a backside 360. | Danny Harf |
Crook | A Whirlybird with a rewind 180 to fakie | Shaun Murray |
Crow Mobe | A toeside frontroll with a frontside 360. | Parks Bonifay |
Crow Mobe 540 | Shaun Murray | |
Crow Mobe 720 | Phil Soven | |
Crow Mobe 900 | Harley Clifford | |
Dum Dum | Toeside frontroll with a backside 360. | Shane Bonifay |
Dum Dum 540 | Phil Soven | |
Dum Dum 720 | Ulf Ditch | |
Elephant | A Scarecrow to fakie. | Gregg Necrason |
Eggroll | An air Scarecrow. | Shaun Murray |
Fat Chance | A switch Heelside front-flip with a frontside 360. (A switch Slim Chance). | Scott Byerly |
Flatline (180, 360, 720) |
A spin trick in which the rider rotates their board over the rope rather than passing the handle. | Darin Shapiro |
Front-to-Blind | A Heelside Front Flip with a backside 180. | Darin Shapiro |
Front Blind Mobe: A Heelside Front-flip with a backside 360. | Shaun Murray | |
Fruit Loop | A toeside Front Flip with a backside 180. | Mike Weddington |
G-Spot | A toeside backroll to blind. (AKA 'Patriot Missile') | J.P. Grieve |
Half-Cab Roll | A switch Roll-to-Revert | Darin Shapiro |
Hasselhoff | A switch heelside Front Flip with a backside 180. (A switch Front-to-Blind). |
Thomas Horrell |
Hoochie Glide | A Raley with a Method grab. | Gator Lutgert |
KGB | Heelside backroll with a backside 360. | Gregg Necrason |
KGB 540 | Shaun Murray | |
KGB 720 | Mike Dowdy | |
Krypt | A Raley with a frontside 180. Originally named 'Kryp' | Darin Shapiro |
Mexican Roll | A heelside backroll in which the rider throws their head and body down instead of to the side. Often referred to incorrectly as a heelside frontroll. | Andrea Gayton |
Moby Dick | A Tantrum with a backside 360. | Keith Kipp |
Moby Dick 540 | Derek Grasman | |
Moby Dick 720 | Phil Soven | |
Number 2 | Toeside front flip with a backside 360. | Darin Shapiro |
OHH | "Other Hand Hoochie" A Hoochie Glide with the other hand. | Adam DelVecchio |
Orbital | A backside 360 in which the rider goes off-axis and swings their board over the rope rather than passing the handle. | Darin Shapiro |
Pete Rose | Toeside backroll with a frontside 360. | Scott Byerly |
Pete Rose 540 | Scott Byerly | |
Pete Rose 720 (landed on cable) | Tom Fooshee | |
Raley | A trick in which the rider's board is thrown out behind them in a "Superman" fasion. | Darin Shapiro |
Roll-to-Revert | A heelside backroll with a frontside 180. | Darin Shapiro |
Roll-to-Blind | A heelside Backroll with a backside 180. | Gregg Necrason |
Double Roll-to-Blind: A heelside double Backroll with a backside 180. | Mike Dowdy | |
S-Bend | A Raley with an overhead backside 360. | Shannon Best |
S-to-Blind | A S-Bend with a backside 180, landing blind. | Darin Shapiro |
Scarecrow | A frontroll with a frontside 180. | Brannon Meek |
Skeezer | A switch Crow Mobe. | Scott Byerly |
Slim Chance | A heelside front-flip with a frontside 360. (AKA 'Front Mobe') | Scott Byerly |
Slurpee | A wrapped toeside backroll with a backside 360. (A wrapped Blind Pete). |
Zane Schwenk |
Special K | A wrapped toeside Backroll to blind. (A wrapped G-Spot). | |
Speedball | A heelside double Front-Flip. | Darin Shapiro |
Spiderman | A Whirlybird thrown holding onto the handle with your back hand rather than your front hand | Ricky Gonzales |
Suicide Raley | A Raley in which the rider let's go with both hands mid-air and then grabs the handle before landing | Adam Errington |
Tantrum | A heelside back-flip | Eric Perez |
Tantrum-to-Blind or "T-to-B" | A Tantrum with a backside 180, landing blind. | Darin Shapiro |
Temper Tantrum | A double Tantrum. | Parks Bonifay |
Tootsie-Roll | A toeside front-roll with a backside 180. | Shane Bonifay |
The Trifecta | A front-roll Scarecrow. | Bob Soven |
Tweetybird | An air Whirlybird. | Shaun Murray |
Vulcan | A S-Bend with a frontside 180. | Parks Bonifay |
Whirlybird | A tantrum with a backside 360 performed by rotating the handle above the head. | Parks Bonifay |
Whirlybird 540 | Parks Bonifay | |
Double Whirlybird (Whirlybird 720) | Parks Bonifay | |
Whirlydick | A Whirlybird with a handle-passed backside 360 after the first overhead spin. | Phil Soven |
Wrecking Ball | A wrapped tantrum with a backside 360. (A wrapped Moby Dick). |
Matt Hickman |
X-Mobe | A switch toeside backroll with a frontside 360. (A switch Pete Rose). |
Darin Shapiro |