Popshuvit kickflip nollie what?

"Never before have such highly ranked professional skaters come to Taiwan, so this is a really rare chance for the kids here to catch a glimpse of truly great skating," said John Liu (劉邦中) of Globe Shoes.

The Globe boys will be coming to town showing off a huge arsenal of tricks on launch ramps, boxes, rails and other specially built obstacles that try to recreate a city landscape. It's impossible to predict what tricks they will perform since skating is inherently improvisational, but Chad Fernandez has said his favorite trick is a frontside popshuvit late kickflip. That was not a spelling error, it is the actual name of a trick that involves body contortion or something like it. And that's just one of the tricks he can pull off. Skaters in the know will be hoping to see them do things like backward crooked grinds, nollie to frontside railslides down handrails, or a nice, high old-school method air off a ramp.

If that all sounds like incomprehensible gobbledy-gook, then come watch the tricks done in person. It will all probably seem completely incomprehensible even after watching it, but at least it will instill a greater sympathy for the bad skaters we see around town stumbling over their boards. And for the skaters in town, the demo will provide inspiration for months and months of trying to pull off the ollie impossible.

The Globe Shoes demonstration takes place tomorrow from 4pm to 6pm (weather permitting) at the Hsinyi Mitsukoshi department store.