Skateboarding Trick Attempt Dataset

Full description

This dataset contains 24,053 trick attempt observations from publicly available video footage published by the official ‘The Berrics’ YouTube channel of 13 numbered 'Battle at the Berrics' (BATB) game tournaments spanning 2008 to 2023. Other BATB tournaments outside of this series, such as BATB Q and BATB W, were not included in the data collection. Additional games of S.K.A.T.E conducted outside of the published elimination brackets for each included tournament (e.g., ‘unsanctioned battles’, ‘rematches’, etc.) were also not included.

For each trick attempted, the following fields were recorded: BATB tournament (‘BATB’: integer values 1 to 13), skateboarder making the attempt (‘Skateboarder’: Unique identifier per skateboarder/game), attempted trick name (‘Trick’: e.g., Kickflip), attempt type (‘Type’: Offence or Defence), attempt outcome (‘Outcome’: Land or Bail), outcome variation (‘Variant’: None, Rebate, or Rebate (last trick)), and the year that the video was posted ('Year_Posted': 2014 - 2023).

Notes

Skateboarders making the attempt ('Skateboarder') treat 'Legions of Doom' as a single skateboarder. A ‘Legion of Doom’ is a novelty opponent where a group of skateboarders are assembled to replace an opponent that is unable to compete (e.g., due to injury, travel, etc.).

Trick names ('Trick') use unabridged technical labels, where practical. For example, the label ‘Frontside 180 Bigspin Heelflip’ was applied rather than the abridged alternative ‘180 Bigspin Heelflip’, which assumes a shared understanding of the ‘Frontside’ direction rotation, or ‘Frontside 180 Bigflip’, which assumes a shared understanding of the ‘Heel’ direction of rotation. In contrast, a ‘Fakie Backside 360’ and ‘Fakie Backside 180’ were labelled as a ‘Caballerial’ and ‘Halfcab’, respectively, and a ‘360 Frontside Shuvit Heelflip’ was labelled in its colloquial form as a ‘Lazer Flip’.

Outcome variations ('Variant') capture trick attempts where the outcome resulted in a subsequent attempt being made (i.e., a rebate). Such outcome variations typically occur as a result of either poor execution determined via referee decision or as a ‘last trick rebate’. ‘Last trick rebates’ are a special type of rebate awarded by default to skateboarders defending their final letter of the word S.K.A.T.E if they bail their first attempt.

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