Tony Hawk Praises this skateboard trick

[jagbender]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LlurOGOCOU

 

[troubador]

That's cool, I've thought skateboarding was kind of limited as a spectator sport since most trick are technical variations of grinds or how the board flips around as opposed to large movements. BMX has gotten crazy since I quit riding. They're now doing double front flips, backflips with triple tailwhips, this weird cash roll thing. It's hard to even comprehend what they're doing.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCr-pPgXCGQ" target="_blank">

 

[IronAddict]

Awesome! Those guys have no fear at all.

 

[maniclion]

That's cool, I've thought skateboarding was kind of limited as a spectator sport since most trick are technical variations of grinds or how the board flips around as opposed to large movements. BMX has gotten crazy since I quit riding. They're now doing double front flips, backflips with triple tailwhips, this weird cash roll thing. It's hard to even comprehend what they're doing.

right when I was getting out of dirt biking guys like Jeremy McGrath was doing the nac nac, and Guy Cooper whipping it sideways on every jump and trying to do a 360 tabletop in one of his races. They were nuts, but it upped the game and added flare. And James Stewart a black dirt bike rider entered the mix in the 2000's... I always check in to see what kids are doing now in the races and the first time I saw a guy do a scrub I was like "No way he tried to whip it that low to the ground!?!" But I kept seeing it.

 

[Z499]

Learning how to fall sometimes is harder than the trick, there's times when you have to completely toss what your riding, I used to skate board and I've broken bones cause I didn't fall right. May sound stupid but its true

 

[troubador]

right when I was getting out of dirt biking guys like Jeremy McGrath was doing the nac nac, and Guy Cooper whipping it sideways on every jump and trying to do a 360 tabletop in one of his races. They were nuts, but it upped the game and added flare. And James Stewart a black dirt bike rider entered the mix in the 2000's... I always check in to see what kids are doing now in the races and the first time I saw a guy do a scrub I was like "No way he tried to whip it that low to the ground!?!" But I kept seeing it.

While I was riding one of the biggest tricks was the flair (180 backflip on a quarter piper or vert). The Pros were using that to win contests. The other day I saw a youtube video of some kid in his mid teens doing one on a really smaller quarter pipe. That doesn't mean the kid was as good as Mat Hoffman; the difference is when Hoffman invented it, no one knew it could be done before that so they were more cautious.

Learning how to fall sometimes is harder than the trick, there's times when you have to completely toss what your riding, I used to skate board and I've broken bones cause I didn't fall right. May sound stupid but its true

I agree. Crashing is a skill. I've seen multiple newbs wreck doing small stuff and break bones. One kid landed short on the top of a box jump, got wobbly, rode off the side and broke his arm; Another tried doing a table top off a two foot tall double and broke his shoulder. Youtube fail videos alone will confirm the idea that crashing is a skill. I'd bet an unskilled 40 year old lady is more likely to get injured jumping a 1 foot tall dirt mound than a BMX professional doing a double front flip.