karl's definitions

shinner

skateboard slang - when the skateboard hits you in the shin... usually not a big deal but hurts like you-know-what for a few minutes. imagine if someone just walked up to you and whacked your shin with the edge of a skateboard... it ain't fun, and it leaves a big purple mark on your leg. after 4 or so years of skating your legs should look like cobblestones, but its all good cause now you are a good skater.

i was just trying a 360-flip and got a mad shinner... it got better pretty quick though.

by karl July 10, 2004

backside

skatebaord terminology - to turn, more specifically, in the direction where after 90 degrees of spinning you are facing backwards, hence, backside.

also refers to the direction you are facing when approaching an obstacle. for example, if you roll up to a curb and it's behind you, any grind that you do on the curb without 180ing into it will be backside (including noseslides and boardslides...)

bs 180 ollies are fun, espesially if you do a sort of 45 to late 135.. its cool.

by karl July 10, 2004

mute

skateboard terminology - a grab trick where your front hand goes around your front knee and grabs on the toe-rail of the board, in between your feet. pretty cool. invented by a guy whos name escapes me, but i do know that he was infact, mute.

the 900 by tony hawk is a mute bs 900.

by karl July 10, 2004

japan air

see mute - done by pushing your front knee out and pulling your front hand behind you while doing a mute grab. some people do them with a frontside shifty as well, which is cool looking.

i dont know why its called japan.

by karl July 10, 2004

900

an extremely difficult trick done on a skateboard where you do a mute grab and just spin backside until you don't even know which way is up. it's actually performed by adding a 540 to a 360; you have to wind up for the 360 while spinning the first 540. people don't realize how insane it really is.

tony hawk had to go the the chiropractor often while trying to learn the 9.

by karl July 10, 2004

beauty

beauty has several definitions, but mine is a bit more large-scale than most: just look around you: babies forming in wombs, injuries healing, lifeforms reproducing, brains working, bodies moving, etc. all have been made to be recognized and glorified, but ultimately, to point toward a Designer.

the universe is so beautiful, it makes one wonder; 'has this all come from nothing? has all of this just materialized into existance? or is there a Creator who designed it? those who are willing to find are willing to seek.

by karl July 11, 2004

breakbeat

1. a rhythm that is broken, syncopated, or abstract. used in funk, jazz, hip-hop, drum 'n' bass, etc
2. a style of music that uses breakbeats. common artists include but are not limited to the chemical brothers, the crystal method, fatboy slim, etc.

8th notes on the hi-hat is assumed here.
o= opened hi-hat
c= closed hi hat
s= snare drum
b= bass drum.
each dash is one 16th rest.

not a break beat:
bco-sco-bco-sco- :|

breakbeats:

b-c-s-csbbs-csb- :|

b-cbs-bscsbbsbo- :|

by karl July 12, 2004