AM AGE SB: Skateboarding Judging Criteria are based on values, principles, and virtues shared and accepted by skateboard communities worldwide.
Difficulty of Performed Tricks: Difficulty of tricks is the most distinctive criterion by which skateboarding tricks are judged in any competition. Difficulty encompasses how hard the trick is to execute and considers the obstacle on which it is executed.
Variety of Performed Tricks: An athlete's performance with a wider variety of tricks, with corresponding or with a higher difficulty caliber, produces a proportionally stronger final overall impression, which is reflected in the awarded point score.
Quality of Trick Execution and Landing: This criterion measures how well a trick is executed from start to finish. Execution incorporates style, speed, distance, energy, and height for each trick's beginning, middle, and end phases. The quality of landing is a decisive part of execution
Use of the Course and Individual Obstacles: How an athlete navigates and utilizes the obstacles within the Field of Play can have a substantial impact on the overall score. A Run Performance that efficiently navigates an athlete through the course while utilizing the key obstacles, keeping speed and composure, is a central focus of this criterion. More difficult, unique, and creative lines that can accentuate the presentation and difficulty of tricks (or a combination of tricks) will be rewarded. A wider, unique, and more difficult sequence of tricks and a creative approach are also favorable. More tricks are typically better regarding score, but a higher number of tricks does not necessarily result in a higher point evaluation. The values of difficulty, variety, and execution are the decisive factors in formulating an ‘overall impression’ score.
Consistency of the performance: Consistency is the athlete’s ability to continuously land tricks without falling off their skateboard throughout their RUN performance. Being unable to complete the full allocated time of a run performance is considered a lack of consistency. A run performance with flawed or imperfect trick execution or limited substantial maneuvers is deemed to lack consistency, resulting in a lower awarded score.
Flow of the performance: Flow refers to the athlete's ability to connect the tricks in their performance in a continuous, fluent, and aesthetically pleasing way. It is how well an athlete assembles and presents a sequence of tricks on the course. Stepping off an athlete’s skateboard between tricks in the run performance in Street discipline may be considered a lack of flow. 7. Repetition within the performance While athletes have the freedom to attempt any trick during their performance, the repetition of tricks or trick components or the continual use of specific obstacles in the same run performance or jam session will be proportionally penalized.