At the skateboarding parks, by doing several twisting moves, you will get these two nearly impossible moves, Gnast Gnorc, and Ragin Ripto, you get them by doing the same twist repeatedly. The villian in the original Spyro game, were Gmasty Gnorcs, the second game is called, Ripto's Rage.
Some of the NCP characters were named after things. e.g some dragons are named after musicians. - Coltrane - John Coltrane - Bruce - Bruce Springstein - Miles - Miles Davis - Dizzy - Dizzy Gillespie - Duke - Duke Elington - John - John Lenon - Mingus - Charles Mingus - Chet - Chet Atkins - Thelonious - Thelonious Monk - Herbi - Herbi Hancock - Frank - Frank Sinatra - Brubeck - Dave Bruebeck - Stuart - Stuart Copeland (drummer of the Police, wrote music for Spyro Games) - Charlie - Charlie Parker - Al - Weird Al Yankovic Several of the baby Dragons are named after other people. - Sanders - Colonel Sanders - Cerny - Mark Cerny, Game Producer and Designer - Shemp - a villain from Spyro 1. - Sigfried & Roy - Jonah - From The Bible, swallowed by a big fish (whale). And two others Tara Croft = Lara Croft of Tomb Raider and Prince Azrael the Cat Wizard = named after the wizard cat in the Smurfs.