Shove-its

A Shove-it is a skateboarding trick where the skateboarder makes their board spin 180 degrees or more under their feet.

There are many variations of the Shove-it but they all follow the same principle: The skateboarder's lead foot stays in one spot, and their back foot does the 'shove'.

; The Shove-it :A shove-it is performed by standing on the board, jumping up a bit and pushing the tail down and to its side. Even though the tail should not touch the ground and the board should not lift off the ground more than about an inch the board should quickly spin 180 degrees. The skateboarder then catches the board with his feet after it has completed the 180 degree rotation and lands on it.

:360 shove-it is a variation of shove-it where the board spins a full 360 degrees. Pop shove-it is a variation of both the ollie and the shove-it. A 360 shove-it combined with a body varial in the same direction is called big spin. The 540 variation of this trick was invented by Rodney Mullen in 1979.

; The Pop Shove-it

:A Pop Shove-it is a skateboarding trick that starts like an ollie, the skateboarder jumps up and kicks the tail down in order to get the board airborne but then also pushes the tail of the board clockwise or counter clockwise in order to get the board spinning.

:During a Pop Shove-it the board gets higher in the air than during a normal shove-it and thus it can be performed while jumping over obstacles. Like any rotating trick, the pop shove-it can be performed frontside or backside, the directions being named in the same fashion as 180 ollies. Unmodified, the name usually refers to a pop shove-it.

:Varial Kickflips, Varial Heelflips, Hardflips, Inward Heelflips, and 360 Flips are all common tricks combined with the pop shove-it. In the case of the Varial Heelflip, it is a frontside pop shove-it, and in the 360 flip it is a 360 degree version of a pop shove-it.

:The pop shove-it was originally called a ty hop, named after Ty Page.

; The Late Shove-it :Similar to a late flip, this trick combines an ollie with a pop shove-it, usually frontside, with the skater delaying the shove-it until the ollie is at its peak. [cite web
title = Late Shove-it
publisher = How 2 Skate
url = http://www.how2skate.com/index.php?skate=tricktips&trick=Ollie%20late%20shove-it
accessdate = 2007-10-09]

;The BigSpin:The board spins 360 degrees, while the rider spins 180 degrees in the same direction. Can be done frontside or backside. Sometimes it is combined with a Kickflip making a "Bigflip" or a Heelflip making a "Bigheel". The trick is named after Brian Lotti, whose name sounds like "lottery." His friend named the trick after the California Lottery's Big Spin game. [cite web
title = BigSpin
publisher = TWS
url = http://www.skateboarding.com/skate/video/0,23430,1654826-1433187,00.html
accessdate = 2007-08-21]

= External links =
* [http://aninetopia.tripod.com/ottopopshovit.gifAnimated .gif drawing of a popshuvit]
* [http://www.skateboarding.com/skate/video/0,23430,215113-147604,00.html Transworld video trick tip for a frontside pop shove-it]
* [http://skateboard.about.com/od/tricktips/ss/HowToBSPopShuv.htm How to Pop shove it]

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