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Skateboarding => PHOTOS/VIDEO => Topic started by: Pine on March 30, 2012, 06:59:03 AM
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Shaun Whites dreams are now crushed
http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/first-ever-1080-skate-021243187233817 (http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/first-ever-1080-skate-021243187233817)
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pretty crazy for a 12 year old, but i wouldnt say this really counts as a true 1080 since he did it fakie
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kids...
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Shaun Whites dreams are now crushed
...and that's just fine.
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Oh, cool. But I'm going to rewatch the Evan Smith part now.
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(http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7657806/images/1263876380480.jpg)
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pretty crazy for a 12 year old, but i wouldnt say this really counts as a true 1080 since he did it fakie
1080 back to fakie would be fucked!
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Megaramp changes everything. Definitely caters to giving you enough hangtime to spin however many times you want. Still crazy, though.
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fuck.
respect. accomplishments i was hyped on when i was 12? beating link to the past, kickturning.
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On one hand I'm totally bewildered a 12 year old can do this (so clean too), and am so amazed.
On the other, my basic knowledge of physics makes this largely unsurprising for a small kid like him to pull this off in today's mega vert world. He has the right size and agility, enough ramp to boost him up, and compounded with his fearlessness to chuck himself up that high.. it's very sensible.
Either way, groundbreaking.
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I ollied over a stick when I was 12. I could ollie the most sticks out of all my friends on my neighborhood.
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Meh.
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Fuuuuuck...I wanted to skate to that song
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"a custom built roll-over feature, allowing Tom to drop in on the 70-foot-tall MegaRamp and roll right over the giant gap"
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I ollied over a stick when I was 12. I could ollie the most sticks out of all my friends on my neighborhood.
hahaha
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"a custom built roll-over feature, allowing Tom to drop in on the 70-foot-tall MegaRamp and roll right over the giant gap"
oh shit! Well in that case, I could have probably done a 1080 then too 8)
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Is fakie easier than doing it regular? I could do a full cab but not a fs or bs 360's
Either way it's sick
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Is fakie easier than doing it regular? I could do a full cab but not a fs or bs 360's
Either way it's sick
i guess its all about landing regular and not fakie
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With bigger ramps, anything is possible. But for a 12yo, how stoked would you be if you landed that shit? I'd pissed my pants right then and there. Just for fun. Cause how you going to talk shit after I did that, even with piss running down my leg?
Birdman definitely missed that boat though.
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Damn, this is better than the Rodney Mullen sex tape.
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Is fakie easier than doing it regular? I could do a full cab but not a fs or bs 360's
Either way it's sick
Yeah, I guess. Fakie 720s have always been more common than regular ones, right? So much so that they'd just call them '720s' in the XGames etc.
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"For years the holy grail of all skateboard tricks, the 1080, has eluded the biggest and most talented stars in skateboarding. While many have tried, it was never landed -- that is until now. "
???
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Fuuuuuck...I wanted to skate to that song
10 points for you sir.
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Brb, gunna go kill myself.
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For real, thanks for getting that done before Shaun White could claim it.
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sick for him.
megaramp is becoming the golf of skateboarding.
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it makes total sense. a guy tony's age and size can do 9's on a vert ramp. then a kid of this age and size should be doing 10's on the mega.
props though, i would never hit coping on that qp.
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ha ha flyin fetus
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whos in for a game of turkey foot
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Shaun White, successfully turning skateboarding into snowboarding since 2009.
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how the f did a 12 y/o get access to skate a damn mega ramp?!?!?! I remember having to sign multi-page liability waivers at that age just to get into indoor park with max. 8 foot ramps. Just goes to show how accomplishing things in this world is so often determined by social status rather than talent or ambition.
Are you saying that a kid doing 1080s is lacking those things?
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how the f did a 12 y/o get access to skate a damn mega ramp?!?!?! I remember having to sign multi-page liability waivers at that age just to get into indoor park with max. 8 foot ramps. Just goes to show how accomplishing things in this world is so often determined by social status rather than talent or ambition.
Are you saying that a kid doing 1080s is lacking those things?
Good question. It is kinda insane how far people will go to sound dismissive of this.
The kid did a fucking 1080 people, grow a fucking heart.
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how the f did a 12 y/o get access to skate a damn mega ramp?!?!?! I remember having to sign multi-page liability waivers at that age just to get into indoor park with max. 8 foot ramps. Just goes to show how accomplishing things in this world is so often determined by social status rather than talent or ambition.
Are you saying that a kid doing 1080s is lacking those things?
Good question. It is kinda insane how far people will go to sound dismissive of this.
The kid did a fucking 1080 people, grow a fucking heart.
I think it goes down like this, kid pulled a legit 1080 (720's were first done to fakie, and I'm pretty sure only a very small handful of people have ever done 720's to fakie), but it was on a megaramp, making the feat different than Tony's 900 on a regular ass vert ramp before anybody had done it, but still, there are plenty of dudes with access to the megaramp who haven't done it. Of course, those with access to a megaramp are connected in some way. That kid may be talented, but there is a creepy sort of olympic athlete training deal going on with him. That kid was raised into skating and had a lot of privilege in the skate industry for sure if he's not just skating, but sessioning the megaramp at his age.
The kid's good, but had a lot of parental help that even 1980's Tony Hawk didn't have in skating.
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Sadly, I see a very boring skate career ahead of him.
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looks like he one upped the self props game too
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how the f did a 12 y/o get access to skate a damn mega ramp?!?!?! I remember having to sign multi-page liability waivers at that age just to get into indoor park with max. 8 foot ramps. Just goes to show how accomplishing things in this world is so often determined by social status rather than talent or ambition.
Are you saying that a kid doing 1080s is lacking those things?
Good question. It is kinda insane how far people will go to sound dismissive of this.
The kid did a fucking 1080 people, grow a fucking heart.
The kid's good, but had a lot of parental help that even 1980's Tony Hawk didn't have in skating.
You must have never heard of Tony's father, Frank Hawk
"Frank Hawk, realizing that the sport had virtually saved his son, became the ultimate skateboard supporter and Tony Hawk's numberone fan. He began by driving Hawk to and from competitions all over the state of California, and soon became even more involved. In 1980, dissatisfied by the quality of the competitions and the lack of sponsoring organizations, Frank Hawk founded the California Amateur Skateboard League (CASL). Three years later, in 1983, he established the National Skateboarding Association (NSA), the first professional skateboarding organization of its kind. Ultimately the high-profile events put on by the NSA were credited with boosting the popularity of skateboarding in the 1980s"
(taken from here)
http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ge-La/Hawk-Tony.html#b (http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ge-La/Hawk-Tony.html#b)
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how the f did a 12 y/o get access to skate a damn mega ramp?!?!?! I remember having to sign multi-page liability waivers at that age just to get into indoor park with max. 8 foot ramps. Just goes to show how accomplishing things in this world is so often determined by social status rather than talent or ambition.
Are you saying that a kid doing 1080s is lacking those things?
Good question. It is kinda insane how far people will go to sound dismissive of this.
The kid did a fucking 1080 people, grow a fucking heart.
The kid's good, but had a lot of parental help that even 1980's Tony Hawk didn't have in skating.
This kid diffidently has talent and ambition but his parents are 100% the reason he is as good as he is. He comes from a very wealthy family that has been making him take skate lessons from a very young age and they even built him his own vert ramp in his backyard among many other things that they have done for him. This kid is now talking about how he wants to do a 1260 and he probably will do it but is this really the direction mega-ramp skating should go in? It's just a matter of time till Shawn white starts skating the mega ramp and we just start to see his snowboard tricks on the mega ramp.