With specialized big air ramps and landings, original moves were upright moves; spread eagles and back scratches and helicopters. Later complicated inverted maneuvers began to dominate, quadruple flips and multiple front and back flips with twists.

Flips done of the wall of a halfpipe without putting your hand down.

Aerials (or more commonly airs) are a type of skateboarding trick usually performed on half-pipes, pools or quarter pipes where there is a vertical wall with a transition (curved surface linking wall and ground) available. Aerials usually combine rotation with different grabs. Most of the different types of grabs were originally aerial tricks that were performed on vert ramps before flatground aerials became common.