Why do skateboarding and surfing share similar terms?
Skateboarding was actually invented by surfers who wanted to ‘surf on land’. So when you perform a stale fish 180 on your skateboard, it’s actually the same trick that a surfer invented on water. The grabs are named identically across the sports of surfing, windsurfing, wakeboarding, skateboarding, and snowboarding because all of those sports are descended from surfing.
