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Title: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: RoaryMcTwang on September 05, 2018, 02:04:27 AM
When I first saw it I couldn't believe Andrew Reynolds fs blunt kickflip out on a handrail in The End was real.

What tricks struck you as completely impossible when you first saw them?
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: LOU.502 on September 05, 2018, 02:18:47 AM
When I first saw it I couldn't believe Andrew Reynolds fs blunt kickflip out on a handrail in The End was real.

What tricks struck you as completely impossible when you first saw them?
Chris Cole bs 180 nosegrind sw big heel

Leo’s crooked grind up that rail in San Jose(?) and 5050 ender in Stay Gold

Most of Daewon’s Skate More part

Dylan’s impossible over the bench

Koston 360 flip noseblunt

Jaws’ Thrasher cover ollie
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Post by: cosmicgypsies on September 05, 2018, 02:19:30 AM
pivot/5-0 fakies
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Post by: Jollyoli on September 05, 2018, 03:04:16 AM
nose blunt slides
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Post by: Larry on September 05, 2018, 03:09:21 AM
Heath Kirchart's backtail kickflip to fakie on This Is Skateboarding
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: slappies on September 05, 2018, 03:37:09 AM
Mike Mo fakie f/s crook 360 flip.

A bunch of stuff Creager did on picnic tables at the end of his What If? part.

I also remember being blown away the first time I saw someone doing a 360 on flat, it just didn't make sense someone could ollie well enough to spin all the way around without going off of something hah.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: lampshade on September 05, 2018, 03:39:56 AM
When hardflips first came out I was very confused.  People who weren't free stylers never thought about flipping their board that way before.     
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Iceman on September 05, 2018, 03:43:27 AM
the impossible, the magic flip aka the kickflip, the ollie.

the caballerial, the mctwist, switchstance.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on September 05, 2018, 03:57:09 AM
Impossibles for sure.
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Post by: ziggy on September 05, 2018, 04:13:12 AM
most of Mullen's part in the Questionable video
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Post by: 2000 on September 05, 2018, 04:17:50 AM
Guy Mariano wallie in pretty sweet
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Post by: stephop on September 05, 2018, 04:49:32 AM
Duffy's kink rail grind in questionable. Natas spin. Cabellerial a picnic table.
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Post by: thebacker on September 05, 2018, 04:58:55 AM
Sw back 3 over a picnic table
Oskis trick in the new polar vid
Dane burman rail
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: dirtywork81 on September 05, 2018, 05:32:57 AM
my friends and I use to always joke about the darkslide on a handrail never thinking it was possible.

also when VOV came out with that one footed back smith I didnt understand how he did that.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: behavioralguide on September 05, 2018, 05:46:26 AM
A frw years ago when that kid with the legbrace did wallies on rails/ railies and he also "wallrid" that one arizona handrail. Both blew me away
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Post by: OrangeVHStapes on September 05, 2018, 05:46:52 AM
First time I saw Jeremy Wray's water tower ollie I couldn't comprehend what I was watching.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: poor alice on September 05, 2018, 05:59:57 AM
A frw years ago when that kid with the legbrace did wallies on rails/ railies and he also "wallrid" that one arizona handrail. Both blew me away

Ryan Reyes? I love his skating but now I’m wondering if I’m gotten him confused with.....david Reyes?

What I couldn’t believe were Cole’s three fucking Enders in New Blood. Go back and look at that Bs 3 flip into the Pitt; it is executed and landed so ridiculously perfect and the first instance of that trick (I think) being done down something and it’s just incredible.

Also Billy Mark’s switch bigspin heelflip boardslide ender in Good and Evil. Wtf
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Post by: Mount St. Hermdog on September 05, 2018, 06:01:23 AM
Bryan Herman did a nollie inward heelflip over a fucking picnic table
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: finecojeffe on September 05, 2018, 06:20:35 AM
Haslam boardslide flip out on a rail. I forget what part though.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: behavioralguide on September 05, 2018, 06:28:37 AM
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A frw years ago when that kid with the legbrace did wallies on rails/ railies and he also "wallrid" that one arizona handrail. Both blew me away
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Ryan Reyes?

yes,
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nk4fkXzMXmE/TZZao9RYWpI/AAAAAAAAFYI/AXiayXtpsyM/s1600/ryanrailride.png)
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Shifty Flip on September 05, 2018, 06:33:54 AM
1:  Julio de la Cruz did things no man should be capable of. Always wondered if those were quick tricks for him at that time,  or if he spent hours to make them look like he did them in the regular. Just all those pressure flip variations turned my whole world upside-down.
2:  Bob's Mega part, and Danny's to a lesser extent, made me look at ramps in a while new light.
3: Carroll's noseslide/grind tricks seemed impossible at the time, until we figured it out. Then they were all just so much fun. Especially noseslide to 50-50. Pop it right in up on to there.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: thebacker on September 05, 2018, 06:51:52 AM
Haslam boardslide flip out on a rail. I forget what part though.

almost round 3?
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: emchen on September 05, 2018, 06:54:41 AM
1. Keenan Milton's switch flip over the table at Lockwood (I was like 4 when this happened, but it was one of the first tricks that blew my mind when I started skating)

2. Westgate's boardslide up that whole rail in that "Zoo England" part, riding away with speed.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: DannyDee on September 05, 2018, 06:55:02 AM
I could probably just do this on Koston. The first trick that pops to mind is his Yeah Right ender which was a Tre-flip Front Noseblunt on a rail.

More recent ones that come to mind is Wes's Darkslide on that concrete SD rail, and Kyle Walker's last rail in No Other Way.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: CreepySweaty on September 05, 2018, 07:13:31 AM
Every other trick Evan Smith does
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: cloudy on September 05, 2018, 07:22:56 AM
speaking of yeah right, i was thinking of all the green-screened ramp tricks. came across this quartersnacks piece from 2012 - "Ten Years Since Yeah Right! and the Case For Increased Plausibility" http://quartersnacks.com/2012/11/ten-years-since-yeah-right-and-the-case-for-increased-plausibility/ (http://quartersnacks.com/2012/11/ten-years-since-yeah-right-and-the-case-for-increased-plausibility/)

will definitely need to update this article ten years later in 2022. crazy to think that dudes now have come pretty close to (and in the case of grinding up a handrail, already surpassed) these tricks that were concocted as jokingly impossible. still waiting for tiago to 5050 on top of two stacked picnic tables from flat.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: oyolar on September 05, 2018, 07:29:07 AM
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Haslam boardslide flip out on a rail. I forget what part though.
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almost round 3?

He was doing a bunch of boardslide and lipslide flips out in his Deca part years beforehand.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: straight fucking edge on September 05, 2018, 07:51:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7KDYX8Iuk
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: planman on September 05, 2018, 07:58:12 AM
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A frw years ago when that kid with the legbrace did wallies on rails/ railies and he also "wallrid" that one arizona handrail. Both blew me away
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Ryan Reyes?
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yes,
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nk4fkXzMXmE/TZZao9RYWpI/AAAAAAAAFYI/AXiayXtpsyM/s1600/ryanrailride.png)
This still fucks me up to this day. Was there ever any footy of it?
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: silhouette on September 05, 2018, 08:14:40 AM
PJWHL, also that Ryan Reyes photo reminds me of Kevin Rodrigues' early grab wallride / 50-50 down a handrail shot by Manu Schenck in that Polar ad, both photos blew my mind equally, I had been waiting for people to start skating rails like that
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: finecojeffe on September 05, 2018, 08:31:49 AM
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Haslam boardslide flip out on a rail. I forget what part though.
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almost round 3?
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He was doing a bunch of boardslide and lipslide flips out in his Deca part years beforehand.

True, but I actually think I was thinking of Round 3 because the deca stuff was flatrail. I should have been specific to handrails down stairs since that's what i meant by my initial post...but yeah his deca stuff was insane. Also he looks like a completely different human in that stuff too. He's like two different people.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Far from relevant on September 05, 2018, 08:36:15 AM
Im still tripping on Guy's switch tre nosegrind.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: doomstation55 on September 05, 2018, 08:37:37 AM
Gonz hippie jump that he didn't really land at the end of Real to Reel fucked me up for a long time. Did not see how anyone could do that.

A lot of Haslam's part in Round 3 seemed crazy, he and others may have done flips out of boardslides before but that boardslide fs flip out was immaculate and caught.

I couldn't understand ANY trick over picnic tables, but I didn't realize that those Cali tables are small as fuck and I was only like 11.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: offkilter on September 05, 2018, 09:12:09 AM
jake johnson switch wallride ender in mindfield, honestly a good portion of that part was pretty shocking.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: lampshade on September 05, 2018, 09:18:05 AM
Gonz hippie jump that he didn't really land at the end of Real to Reel fucked me up for a long time. Did not see how anyone could do that.

A lot of Haslam's part in Round 3 seemed crazy, he and others may have done flips out of boardslides before but that boardslide fs flip out was immaculate and caught.

I couldn't understand ANY trick over picnic tables, but I didn't realize that those Cali tables are small as fuck and I was only like 11.

Same here.  I thought those were full sized adult picnic tables for so long.  What are those?  Picnic tables for ants?
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Far from relevant on September 05, 2018, 09:46:45 AM
Albert nyberg no comply big heel to fakie 5-0 down a rail, and darkslide wall ride. I wasnt skating when virtual reality came out but wouldve been gnarly for its time.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Cthulhu! on September 05, 2018, 09:59:39 AM
Paulo Diaz and his nollies
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Rockin Robbin on September 05, 2018, 10:59:23 AM
Vov's fakie 5-0 fakie flip first try
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: HangtenNoseblunt on September 05, 2018, 10:59:39 AM
koston 360flip noseblunt is the one that comes to mind first

first time i saw someone do a nollie bs 50-50 i didnt understand how that was possible but was super new to skating

Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Bristol_Palin on September 05, 2018, 11:17:18 AM
Mike Mo fakie f/s crook 360 flip.

A bunch of stuff Creager did on picnic tables at the end of his What If? part.

I also remember being blown away the first time I saw someone doing a 360 on flat, it just didn't make sense someone could ollie well enough to spin all the way around without going off of something hah.

I agree with everything else you said but the 360 thing is so spot on. Around the when I started skating, one of the first videos I saw was mosiac. Fred Gall's first line he does a back 360 on flat and I kept rewinding it over and over, because he span so fast. I actually thought he did more than a 360 the first time I saw it, I was so blown away. In that same line he does a wallride at this spot in Philly on American street and at this point I thought wallrides were just something from video games. I didn't really think that they were that possible. I may have already seen someone do one in a video by this point, but I feel like I wasn't sure what was happening. Fred's wallride just looked so deliberate there was no thinking it was anything else. Still one of my favorite lines to this day.
(Its the first line of the video, starts at :24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_vbV-RLL8&t=6s 
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: ShredLaw on September 05, 2018, 11:28:08 AM
Jerry's Darkslide @ Firestone  8)
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Post by: huggs on September 05, 2018, 11:43:55 AM
Paulo Diaz and his nollies

yes! ridiculous
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: silhouette on September 05, 2018, 11:45:13 AM
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Paulo Diaz and his nollies
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yes! ridiculous

those are still impossible. also, Kien Lieu everything.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: straight fucking edge on September 05, 2018, 11:48:04 AM
jake johnson switch wallride ender in mindfield, honestly a good portion of that part was pretty shocking.

that was the last premiere that I went to and when that came on the screen, the entire room basically turned upside down.  I heard that people who had clips at that spot deleted them after seeing that haha.  such a good video.  arto's back lip
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: thebacker on September 05, 2018, 11:50:27 AM
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Mike Mo fakie f/s crook 360 flip.

A bunch of stuff Creager did on picnic tables at the end of his What If? part.

I also remember being blown away the first time I saw someone doing a 360 on flat, it just didn't make sense someone could ollie well enough to spin all the way around without going off of something hah.
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I agree with everything else you said but the 360 thing is so spot on. Around the when I started skating, one of the first videos I saw was mosiac. Fred Gall's first line he does a back 360 on flat and I kept rewinding it over and over, because he span so fast. I actually thought he did more than a 360 the first time I saw it, I was so blown away. In that same line he does a wallride at this spot in Philly on American street and at this point I thought wallrides were just something from video games. I didn't really think that they were that possible. I may have already seen someone do one in a video by this point, but I feel like I wasn't sure what was happening. Fred's wallride just looked so deliberate there was no thinking it was anything else. Still one of my favorite lines to this day.
(Its the first line of the video, starts at :24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_vbV-RLL8&t=6s

Bobby D does a switch back 3 that's mind bending
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: bo golden on September 05, 2018, 11:51:11 AM
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Mike Mo fakie f/s crook 360 flip.

A bunch of stuff Creager did on picnic tables at the end of his What If? part.

I also remember being blown away the first time I saw someone doing a 360 on flat, it just didn't make sense someone could ollie well enough to spin all the way around without going off of something hah.
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I agree with everything else you said but the 360 thing is so spot on. Around the when I started skating, one of the first videos I saw was mosiac. Fred Gall's first line he does a back 360 on flat and I kept rewinding it over and over, because he span so fast. I actually thought he did more than a 360 the first time I saw it, I was so blown away. In that same line he does a wallride at this spot in Philly on American street and at this point I thought wallrides were just something from video games. I didn't really think that they were that possible. I may have already seen someone do one in a video by this point, but I feel like I wasn't sure what was happening. Fred's wallride just looked so deliberate there was no thinking it was anything else. Still one of my favorite lines to this day.
(Its the first line of the video, starts at :24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_vbV-RLL8&t=6s

Never realized how proper that 360 ollie was.  plus the switch 180 over the can into the bank.  ridiculous!
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: newpcwhodis on September 05, 2018, 12:38:32 PM
Guy Mariano's sw tre nosegrind on a handrail didn't feel like it was real the first time I saw it.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Robert Baratheon on September 05, 2018, 01:12:48 PM
Sheffey fakie ollieing picnics tables in the Life video.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Dermbot on September 05, 2018, 03:42:49 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ_NSmaFknS/?saved-by=dermbot

The fs flip in this line. everything in this line. this line. the fs flip tho. really fucked me up when i was a kid. 
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Post by: cynical cow on September 05, 2018, 03:56:15 PM
i saw someone do a 360flip front board when i was young. blew my mind.
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Post by: alonelikeastone on September 05, 2018, 03:59:29 PM
Frankie Hill gap

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Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on September 05, 2018, 04:02:55 PM
Sheffey fakie ollieing picnics tables in the Life video.

A real picnic table too
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Iceman on September 05, 2018, 04:25:21 PM
What I couldn’t believe were Cole’s three fucking Enders in New Blood. Go back and look at that Bs 3 flip into the Pitt; it is executed and landed so ridiculously perfect and the first instance of that trick (I think) being done down something and it’s just incredible.

cole's was obviously bigger and better but 13 years earlier ryan fabry put down what might have been the first backside 360 ollie flip down a gap:

0:56

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PekKth_5dU8
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: RoaryMcTwang on September 05, 2018, 05:31:48 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ_NSmaFknS/?saved-by=dermbot

The fs flip in this line. everything in this line. this line. the fs flip tho. really fucked me up when i was a kid.

Same here! Even independent of PJ, how anyone could do a fs kickflip was completely incomprehensible to me for the longest time. I mean, the foot has to flick into the same direction in which the board turns 180. Thinking about it now I still don't really get it.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Hypnotoad on September 05, 2018, 06:33:42 PM
Koston handrail nollie heel nose in chocolate tour
Justin Eldridge switch flip salad in yeah right
Danny Gonzales ceiling ride in... first love?
I forget who it was, but like 10-12 years ago some Spanish guy did backside 180 nose grind switch front 180 out in the middle of a tall ledge.  Anyone remember that shit?  All I remember was the web clip was a welcome part for some Spanish board brand.  Anyway, that trick seemed particularly impossible.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time on September 05, 2018, 06:36:12 PM
didn't pat duffy do a bigflip to bsts on questionable?
he def did it to fs noseslide down that small yellow hubba in someone's yard and damn near 360 flip noseblunt.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: stephop on September 05, 2018, 07:07:51 PM
didn't pat duffy do a bigflip to bsts on questionable?
he def did it to fs noseslide down that small yellow hubba in someone's yard and damn near 360 flip noseblunt.

He did both in virtual reality

(http://i.imgur.com/b1KDGJo.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/wZlm94b.gif)
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Gabriel on September 05, 2018, 07:08:18 PM
suciu's *alley-oop backside 180 fakie nosegrind* or whatever you call it
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Post by: I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time on September 05, 2018, 07:21:37 PM
holy mackeral! stephop but i was thinking he did it on that little yellow hubba that rodney darkslid?
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Post by: shannamal on September 05, 2018, 07:32:43 PM
noseblunt pop out on a ledge blew my fucking mind
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Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on September 05, 2018, 08:11:06 PM
virtual reality defs had some fucked up tech in it
Ed's impossible nose blunt remained his and his only for a good 20 or so years...
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: andocom on September 05, 2018, 08:51:48 PM
Pretty much all of Matt Hensley's Transworld pro spotlight had me shook back in the day.
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Post by: Chavo on September 05, 2018, 09:08:27 PM
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Sheffey fakie ollieing picnics tables in the Life video.
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A real picnic table too

I was fortunate to have been at "School W" when Sheffey backside tailslid the picnic table for his Life part (Sturt filming with the tight shorts). It was full sized when Sheffey skated it, but it had been partially collapsed when Markovich filmed the same backside lipslide for Winona Riders.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Bristol_Palin on September 05, 2018, 09:23:46 PM
Koston handrail nollie heel nose in chocolate tour
Justin Eldridge switch flip salad in yeah right
Danny Gonzales ceiling ride in... first love?
I forget who it was, but like 10-12 years ago some Spanish guy did backside 180 nose grind switch front 180 out in the middle of a tall ledge.  Anyone remember that shit?  All I remember was the web clip was a welcome part for some Spanish board brand.  Anyway, that trick seemed particularly impossible.

I am not sure I know who you're talking about but I tripped out seeing Weiger Van Wageningen do that in his Nothing But The Truth part, which came out like 11 years ago. That video as a whole was lousy because of dumb skits but Weiger's part is pretty nuts.

He does one at 1:05 and then also does a back heel nose grind switch front 180 out in the middle of a ledge at 1:54 which is insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynzgw56YEcM
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Post by: LOU.502 on September 05, 2018, 09:25:42 PM
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jake johnson switch wallride ender in mindfield, honestly a good portion of that part was pretty shocking.
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that was the last premiere that I went to and when that came on the screen, the entire room basically turned upside down.  I heard that people who had clips at that spot deleted them after seeing that haha.  such a good video.  arto's back lip

Holy fucking hell, that back lip... I let out an audible “holy SHIT!” in the middle of the grocery store when I saw that cover. It honestly still seems impossible to me.

(https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc2.staticflickr.com%2F4%2F3242%2F2951280636_41c2b1eb1a.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slapmagazine.com%2Findex.php%3Ftopic%3D85390.0&docid=bb0w66oNJY_T1M&tbnid=wjVlQ-eLQvgDBM%3A&vet=1&w=391&h=500&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim)


Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Zurg on September 05, 2018, 09:40:55 PM
that back lip almost brought a tear to my eye. so gnarly
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Post by: cucktard on September 06, 2018, 02:37:42 AM
I think the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen is when this man does two complete rotations in the air without grabbing his board, lands, and his shirt flips up revealing his dad bod, looking more like someone at home on the couch with a bagful of Doritos in his tummy that someone who just did the impossible

https://youtu.be/1fmfsZ3Ye-g
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on September 06, 2018, 02:44:53 AM
That was FUCKED! Jake Brown has been holding it down for a long long time now...
Even in the darkest baggy pants/ small wheels days he was still killing vert!
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: lampshade on September 06, 2018, 04:09:37 AM
I think the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen is when this man does two complete rotations in the air without grabbing his board, lands, and his shirt flips up revealing his dad bod, looking more like someone at home on the couch with a bagful of Doritos in his tummy that someone who just did the impossible

https://youtu.be/1fmfsZ3Ye-g

I know people think it's, "Gimicky" or whatever, but it must feel awesome to be able to skate the mega-ramp.  Just looking at the roll in from the top makes me scared.  I still can't believe Vov and DWay pull off what are basically super tech street tricks on that shit.  Especially when they incorporate the rails. 
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: DM on September 06, 2018, 05:44:34 AM
Natas, dustbin ollie and natas spin. Was just talking to my better half about his first video part..
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Ronald Wilson Reagan on September 06, 2018, 10:42:03 AM
Pretty sure the first photo of a blunt slide I ever saw/noticed was the Penny transworld cover in HB. The board is so vertical that I didn’t understand why he didn’t just fall off since it seemed like he was trying to stand on a wall. And wheels...he was sliding on his wheels, which grip, how could it slide?

Ironically I found out that despite frontside blunts being a very real trick, that the photo I saw was as fake as I thought
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Yibb-Tstll on September 06, 2018, 12:35:16 PM
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Koston handrail nollie heel nose in chocolate tour
Justin Eldridge switch flip salad in yeah right
Danny Gonzales ceiling ride in... first love?
I forget who it was, but like 10-12 years ago some Spanish guy did backside 180 nose grind switch front 180 out in the middle of a tall ledge.  Anyone remember that shit?  All I remember was the web clip was a welcome part for some Spanish board brand.  Anyway, that trick seemed particularly impossible.
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I am not sure I know who you're talking about but I tripped out seeing Weiger Van Wageningen do that in his Nothing But The Truth part, which came out like 11 years ago. That video as a whole was lousy because of dumb skits but Weiger's part is pretty nuts.

He does one at 1:05 and then also does a back heel nose grind switch front 180 out in the middle of a ledge at 1:54 which is insane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynzgw56YEcM

Same, I remember a still (not even a sequence) of Wieger doing this trick on a tall ledge in Spain/Mallorca from Kingpin (old euro mag) and thinking how it is even possible. I understood the mental commitment of hammers , but this was just pure wizardry to me.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: L33Tg33k on September 06, 2018, 01:13:44 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7KDYX8Iuk
I know I said I wanted to see this trick in the NBD thread, but goddamn it, I didn't want it to be Ol' Cobra.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: sweatin on September 06, 2018, 04:22:11 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnPC0sunEH2/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: DCLOVE on September 06, 2018, 04:31:03 PM
Duffy's kink rail grind in questionable. Natas spin. Cabellerial a picnic table.

This dudes sig right now.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: winecrab on September 06, 2018, 04:59:35 PM
Shane: sw flip bs noseblunt down a rail, sw bs 360 kickflip that gap in australia, bigspin bs tail down clipper, nollie bs heel wallenberg, bigspin 5-0 down a rail, and fakie fs crook fakie big heel out.

Torey Pudwill bs smith up that 10 stair rail Westgate boardslid and that chest high bs tail from his big bang part. A bunch of Chris Cole, Nyjah, and Joslin stuff. Chase Webb bs 5-0 down a legit 30+ rail. Kickflip a table the long way. I could go on and on so I'll just leave it at that.

Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: ChrisLambe94 on September 06, 2018, 07:30:21 PM
The first Ollie I saw. 1985.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: ManMelt on September 06, 2018, 07:56:51 PM
Many of the tricks done on the Afro Banks in the Subzero video blew my mind. Namely, Matt Reason’s switch blunt front 180 and Fred’s backside noseblunt. That thing was definitely not easy to skate.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time on September 06, 2018, 08:19:07 PM
Many of the tricks done on the Afro Banks in the Subzero video blew my mind. Namely, Matt Reason’s switch blunt front 180 and Fred’s backside noseblunt. That thing was definitely not easy to skate.
i think icouldn't drop in on it. like my nose would hit the ground. maybe i was just drunk but agreed. shit was like a brick jersey barrier.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: squintharder on September 06, 2018, 08:25:51 PM
When I first saw it I couldn't believe Andrew Reynolds fs blunt kickflip out on a handrail in The End was real.

What tricks struck you as completely impossible when you first saw them?

leo romero's and brandon westgate's boardslides up handrails. I remember when stay gold came I couldn't believe what I was watching.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on September 06, 2018, 08:53:49 PM
Guy mariano's switch noseslide kickflip out on a handrail

Half of pat duffy's stuff

Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: I sniff Jim Gagne's butthole all the time on September 06, 2018, 08:56:32 PM
Guy mariano's switch noseslide kickflip out on a handrail

Half of pat duffy's stuff
3 stair handrail!
thing would be hard enough to tap a slide on, nonetheless pick it and flip it.
Title: Re: Tricks that seemed impossible when they came out
Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on September 07, 2018, 07:11:14 AM
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Guy mariano's switch noseslide kickflip out on a handrail

Half of pat duffy's stuff
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3 stair handrail!
thing would be hard enough to tap a slide on, nonetheless pick it and flip it.

Yep! I grew up skating this rail just like that one (first rail I've ever done lol) and I was just mind blown.

It's like he could have flipped it late without even touching the rail to begin with. Super fast footwork and how the fuck did he make it look good?

Also, those tech rail tricks from Duffy if virtual reality on what I believe was a mellow 5 stair, but still...mind blown