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Title: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: reptar_bar on May 15, 2018, 11:02:02 PM
When the skater lands and their pants are so low they get the classic “plumbers crack” (see Chris cole, new blood)

The shoe lace thong (lizard)

When the skater is so stoked on their trick they rage , Jolsin style. Sure a bit of hype is fine, no need to rip your shirt off every video part

Awkward group hugs
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: MOE SYZLAK on May 15, 2018, 11:05:14 PM
Switch tricks that don’t look switch
Fakie tricks that aren’t done looking backwards
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Post by: givecigstosurfgroms on May 15, 2018, 11:06:13 PM
fake steez.
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Post by: Big Skatefase on May 15, 2018, 11:10:03 PM
under rotated flatground back 3's
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Post by: Surf-goth on May 15, 2018, 11:54:24 PM
Outrageous clown like clothing. Example : stephen lawyer
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Post by: Mcidraque on May 15, 2018, 11:57:00 PM
sex changing
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: somethingmustbreaknow on May 16, 2018, 12:02:32 AM
When the skater lands and their pants are so low they get the classic “plumbers crack” (see Chris cole, new blood ragdoll, every part)
fixed
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: bongboarder420 on May 16, 2018, 01:53:51 AM
both hands touching the wall on a fs wall ride
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Post by: Esquivel on May 16, 2018, 05:28:59 AM
Not being given the chance/choice to watch in normal speed.
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Post by: feedmeseymour on May 16, 2018, 05:31:22 AM
when a local park kid does your trick first try to flex on ya.
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Post by: Henry on May 16, 2018, 05:37:17 AM
being a nazi
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Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 16, 2018, 05:38:43 AM
two tone wheels (ie navs), swirls are okay as they just sort of blend together (or maybe im just trying to defend my regrettable purchase in formula fours) but two tones are just a fucking epilepsy inducer
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hmmmm Nice Bike on May 16, 2018, 06:06:44 AM
I recently watched Black Labels "Blackout" video and was kind of annoyed by how many tricks/clips they ruined by drowning them with the black and white filter. I get that it's the aesthetic they were going for but they should have at least replayed the clips without filters as well.

Here is an example https://youtu.be/mFu86j5KIpk?t=26s
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: silhouette on May 16, 2018, 06:43:54 AM
maybe not a popular opinion and I know it might sound pretty fucked given the impossible shit that goes down in them, but Nike, Converse, Adidas, and to a lesser (but increasing) extent Vans shoes on a skaters' feet just ruin most clips to me; not trying to cause any controversy here, it just naturally does, to me. I just can't help but not unsee the overly blatant, gross promotion; now of course skateboarding is an industry and sponsorship is all about advertising and yadda yadda... but there is something so unsubtle about those situations, to me they always convey the feel that I'm watching a commercial rather than a skate video. and yes, of course most skate videos are commercials - I don't think I need to be schooled on that shit - but the thing is, even as such, I feel like they only work when they actually make you want to skate. I'm not interested in a mere display of product on some generic superhero's feet like the guy's skating is some kind of obvious shop window (something I find almost degrading for the skater in itself); I only get stoked on videos were the actual skating is the focus, and I just naturally stop feeling that way as soon as I'm submerged with swooshes and stripes. although, that mechanism doesn't seem to apply whenever the skater looks like he's genuinely wearing the shoes, ie. they're beat up or the guy looks like he's just wearing whatever with no contractual obligations (so, mostly unsponsored dudes). or if it's Quim Cardona, Paulo Diaz or Jahmal Williams in 1998. growing up in an era where the skateboarding industry was still very much of a skaters' thing and the big corporations were more or less completely out of it, I guess I still kept a certain knack for skating that looks or feels 'untouched'.

now don't get me wrong, I'll appreciate everybody's talent on a board and achievements regardless of their sponsors' logo and I tend to just mentally strip the skater down to their silhouette anyway, in order to appreciate what they're physically doing. but Nike, Adidas, Converse, and Vans logos somehow persist as something that soils and taints skate footage to me. sorry not sorry...
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Jollyoli on May 16, 2018, 06:46:17 AM
maybe not a popular opinion and I know it might sound pretty fucked given the impossible shit that goes down in them, but Nike, Converse, Adidas, and to a lesser (but increasing) extent Vans shoes on a skaters' feet just ruin most clips to me; not trying to cause any controversy here, it just naturally does, to me. I just can't help but not unsee the overly blatant, gross promotion; now of course skateboarding is an industry and sponsorship is all about advertising and yadda yadda... but there is something so unsubtle about those situations, to me they always convey the feel that I'm watching a commercial rather than a skate video. and yes, of course most skate videos are commercials - I don't think I need to be schooled on that shit - but the thing is, even as such, I feel like they only work when they actually make you want to skate. I'm not interested in a mere display of product on some generic superhero's feet like the guy's skating is some kind of obvious shop window (something I find almost degrading for the skater in itself); I only get stoked on videos were the actual skating is the focus, and I just naturally stop feeling that way as soon as I'm submerged with swooshes and stripes. although, that mechanism doesn't seem to apply whenever the skater looks like he's genuinely wearing the shoes, ie. they're beat up or the guy looks like he's just wearing whatever with no contractual obligations (so, mostly unsponsored dudes). or if it's Quim Cardona, Paulo Diaz or Jahmal Williams in 1998. growing up in an era where the skateboarding industry was still very much of a skaters' thing and the big corporations were more or less completely out of it, I guess I still kept a certain knack for skating that looks or feels 'untouched'.

now don't get me wrong, I'll appreciate everybody's talent on a board and achievements regardless of their sponsors' logo and I tend to just mentally strip down the skater to their silhouette anyway, in order to appreciate what they're physically doing. but Nike, Adidas, Converse, and Vans logos somehow persist as something that soils and taints skate footage to me. sorry not sorry...

Just don't look at their feet.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: straight on May 16, 2018, 06:48:48 AM
an ugly shitty push
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: ungzilla on May 16, 2018, 06:55:18 AM
don't run your hand through your hair between tricks. allowed if you have legitimate wizard locks that are blocking you from seeing your feet... but then that also kinda ruins the clip, get a haircut

tl;dr: i'm jealous of their thick full heads of hair
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: HangtenNoseblunt on May 16, 2018, 06:57:58 AM
being a nazi

lmao
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: FOGDOG on May 16, 2018, 07:10:13 AM
The post trick hug session is really starting to get cringe-worthy.

Also, the "OH MY GOD" after EVERY trick in EVERY video part.

Or the chase them down the street after they ride off into the sunset. This shit gives me second hand embarrassment.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: emchen on May 16, 2018, 07:15:12 AM
For flatground tricks in lines, I hate it when ppl do the trick and then push immediately after without riding it out for a bit. Even worse is if they do it going slow and then immediately push a lot to do the next thing (usually a gap that requires speed). It's like saying "I can't do that trick going fast but I hope you don't mind."

Yo how is Leo Romero so awful at pushing when he is one of the best street skaters of all time?

Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Mcidraque on May 16, 2018, 07:30:25 AM
TY Evans
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Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 16, 2018, 07:32:40 AM
For flatground tricks in lines, I hate it when ppl do the trick and then push immediately after without riding it out for a bit. Even worse is if they do it going slow and then immediately push a lot to do the next thing (usually a gap that requires speed). It's like saying "I can't do that trick going fast but I hope you don't mind."

Yo how is Leo Romero so awful at pushing when he is one of the best street skaters of all time?

on a vaguely related note i do enjoy when people do that accidental push (usually when turning) on the wrong side of their board
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: CrappyChan on May 16, 2018, 07:47:29 AM
A trick on a tall ledge and the skater touches it as they land or come off. It was something I used to do as a kid and now when I see someone else do it I'm so grossed out. And sort of wall touching on a wallride cancels it. When you see them setting up for a playground trick but then the clip ends you are just like damn, shoulda done the line. Ear buds. Shitty music playing in the background. So much can go wrong.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Statebird on May 16, 2018, 07:53:32 AM
pushing away down the street after a trick and shake junt grip
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Mouth on May 16, 2018, 07:56:35 AM
Post-ender mean mugging. Sure you don’t give a fuck...
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Post by: pizza bitch on May 16, 2018, 08:09:19 AM
Can't stand the safety hand thing
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Madam, I'm Adam on May 16, 2018, 08:13:04 AM
T-Rex arms. And swamp ass footage. I don't know how filmers don't just say, "You're doing a great kickflip but all we can see is ass sweat. Let's go shopping so you can buy some nice new pants. It's on me."

Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: fulltechnicalskizzy on May 16, 2018, 08:14:21 AM
I get swamp ass sitting at work
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: silhouette on May 16, 2018, 08:15:28 AM
T-Rex arms. And swamp ass footage. I don't know how filmers don't just say, "You're doing a great kickflip but all we can see is ass sweat. Let's go shopping so you can buy some nice new pants. It's on me."

maybe they would if the three quarters of them were actually getting paid...
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: fulloffact on May 16, 2018, 08:34:32 AM
The post trick hug session is really starting to get cringe-worthy.

Also, the "OH MY GOD" after EVERY trick in EVERY video part.

Or the chase them down the street after they ride off into the sunset. This shit gives me second hand embarrassment.
I second these as well as the bullshit artsy photo taking/guitar playing shots in between clips.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: ungzilla on May 16, 2018, 08:49:56 AM
Ear buds.


holy shit how did i forget about ear buds/headphones

clip w/ headphones = not a make, redo
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Post by: AreYouHarvinFun? on May 16, 2018, 08:52:36 AM
Keeping your hands down JScott style!  ::) ;D
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Billy Bitchcakes on May 16, 2018, 03:11:19 PM
doing a 5050 on an 80ft long handrail and then popping out 2 feet before the end

classic 'instagram' clips with shit flatground tricks, zoomed in replays, no complies, trap music and 'the homie' saying some incomprehensible bullshit into the camera

on a vaguely related note i do enjoy when people do that accidental push (usually when turning) on the wrong side of their board

jazz push
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Pretty Serious on May 16, 2018, 03:41:58 PM
Chase Webb face aka a look of surprised rectal exam midst trick.
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Post by: redcurb12 on May 16, 2018, 04:08:42 PM
beaming after a make
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Post by: gollum mcjinglemeballs on May 16, 2018, 04:12:07 PM
The "I better slow down" push. I don't know if there is a name for it

It's been said before but can we get one skate video without hugs or high fives.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on May 16, 2018, 05:32:31 PM
What is, when you don't land the trick.
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Post by: streetsoup on May 16, 2018, 05:42:31 PM
celebratory shitty switch heel miss

Shaking your head when you land your trick- if you're not stoked on your maneuver then neither am I. See Tom Knox in the Vegas atlantic drift when he does that wallride over the little cement thing in the middle of the wall to get what I mean.

Muddbutt and headphones go without saying. Switch to a new pair or come back the next day and get it. Or just ditch the khakis and you can try for as long as you want. If you cant land your line without blasting your wu-tang, then don't even bother filming it, just go to the skatepark and have your nice little session with your music and ignore everyone at the park. You do you bro, just not in the footy.

Tic Tacs.

Throwing or kicking your board away in triumph. Ride the damn thing it just did something awesome for you.

The angle it is filmed at can always make or break it.

I actually like homie celebrations and the post trick hype though, skateboarding is fun and exciting and it's a great moment when your friend finally lands his shit.
 
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: doublesteveburger on May 16, 2018, 05:47:51 PM
I want to murder people who take their shirt of after landing a trick. I fucking hate you.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: CrappyChan on May 16, 2018, 05:57:58 PM
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doing a 5050 on an 80ft long handrail and then popping out 2 feet before the end

I hate when people do that. It's in all the major videos. If I could do rails I would grind the whole thing. You don't drop all your wheels down at the end of a manual pad...
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Allen. on May 16, 2018, 06:27:06 PM
The comments about swamp ass are getting to me.
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Post by: fulltechnicalskizzy on May 16, 2018, 06:35:04 PM
The comments about swamp ass are getting to me.
Bunch of Jason Jesse's if you ask me.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: FrenchFriedClownFingers on May 16, 2018, 07:10:45 PM
T-Rex arms. And swamp ass footage. I don't know how filmers don't just say, "You're doing a great kickflip but all we can see is ass sweat. Let's go shopping so you can buy some nice new pants. It's on me."

i need to see an example of t-rex arms stat!

i hate wack arm style
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on May 16, 2018, 07:25:00 PM
trap music
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Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on May 16, 2018, 07:29:31 PM
Filmer angle trick. When the trick over a gap is filmed to make it look respectable but really it's the size of a fuckin manhole.

Love that Dave Mayhew part, he kills it. But the switch flip the street gap or whatever is a perfect example of what I mentioned.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Facehead on May 16, 2018, 07:48:31 PM
Racism.
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Post by: Bumpovertrash on May 16, 2018, 10:30:00 PM
going slow
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Post by: Paco Supreme on May 16, 2018, 10:31:08 PM
i was gonna say storking, but seeing that austyn gillette clip from that secret contest makes me appreciate a good one
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Post by: StabMasterArson on May 16, 2018, 11:51:50 PM
According to salt god Roger Bagley, colored grip ruins clips.

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Post by: CHONGO on May 17, 2018, 02:02:20 AM
sex changing
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Post by: Atiba Applebum on May 17, 2018, 03:44:38 AM
Hate the Tuskan Raider war chant from the crew after a trick
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: LesbianPUNCH on May 17, 2018, 04:20:42 AM
When filmers start a line with the fisheye up in the skaters face, or when the camera immediately pans to a fucking wall or the ground after the last trick. These were vx problems I guess but still.

Shitty music and cringey editing. If it's bad enough though, it's amazing. Like, the clip of Nyjah googley-eying that 18 that he's about to fuck. Don't think I've ever laughed out loud during filler footage. Thank you to whoever has that as your sig.

Otherwise, have fun, fuck it. The track suit shit and 90's comeback fashion is starting to weigh on me though. I'm cool with looking like a garbage person, whatever, walk into a thrift store and deck out, but that dude that wants to be Kalis needs to cool it.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Jollyoli on May 17, 2018, 04:41:33 AM
The "I better slow down" push. I don't know if there is a name for it


Check push.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: AsianVegan on May 17, 2018, 05:11:25 AM
Ty Evans’ editing.
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Post by: Cctv on May 17, 2018, 05:43:27 AM
wacky arms. 
kaleidoscope filters.
looking at the camera .
sticking their tongue out.


Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: silhouette on May 17, 2018, 06:05:30 AM
When filmers start a line with the fisheye up in the skaters face, or when the camera immediately pans to a fucking wall or the ground after the last trick. These were vx problems I guess but still.

Shitty music and cringey editing. If it's bad enough though, it's amazing. Like, the clip of Nyjah googley-eying that 18 that he's about to fuck. Don't think I've ever laughed out loud during filler footage. Thank you to whoever has that as your sig.

Otherwise, have fun, fuck it. The track suit shit and 90's comeback fashion is starting to weigh on me though. I'm cool with looking like a garbage person, whatever, walk into a thrift store and deck out, but that dude that wants to be Kalis needs to cool it.

I for one like that shit (when it's subtle and not overdone; every clip filmed like that would indeed be headache-inducing and make a video unwatchable). I know it's a touchy subject, though, but Josh Stewart used to make such camera movement work really well in Static 1 (ie. the DC section). Zach Chamberlin can pull it off as well and Dan Wolfe used to do it with pedestrians. I think it's really a street skater's thing to do, use the fisheye in wonky ways. but there's a fine line not to cross and I reckon if you aren't an exceptional filmer like the aforementioned people then there's a good chance you'll trip over and into the side of poor taste.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Robert Baratheon on May 17, 2018, 06:18:56 AM
landing in an ultra wide stance, with your front foot on the nose.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: The Woodsman on May 17, 2018, 06:43:31 AM
The comments about swamp ass are getting to me.

Yea I don’t get the high level of hate, I mean of course it looks bad but that just means they had to work for the trick.
I remember people on here used to talk shit in rail chomper kids because of how easy they could just 50-50 massive shit, but follow it up by saying they like people like HK because you know he had to work for it. To me it’s basically the same thing.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 17, 2018, 06:47:17 AM
flatspots
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Post by: se7en3two on May 17, 2018, 07:33:41 AM
fake steez.

This and hands like Jagger or Ted Barrow...
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on May 17, 2018, 07:42:36 AM
I don't care how gnarly or tech a trick is, it's immediately wrecked by sewn together looking camo cargos or sweats with elastic band bottoms
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: ChrisSennsGirlfriend on May 17, 2018, 11:02:08 AM
yo flips (or whatever catching tre flips with the front foot was called).

maybe the most offensive 'development' to the aesthetics of trick form ever.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hypnotoad on May 17, 2018, 12:22:14 PM
 A dude snapping his tail landing a rail or gap trick. I see that shit and expect the next clip to be a clean landing of the same trick... when it’s not I get sad.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: reptar_bar on May 17, 2018, 02:16:05 PM
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fake steez.
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This and hands like Jagger or Ted Barrow...

Jagger and Ted share the same annoying switch arms.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Dark Knight on May 17, 2018, 02:21:59 PM
I hate it when people that actually have a part in a video have guest tricks in another person’s part.

In the same vein, I hate when they show other people’s faces and shit in another person’s part.  Like that one Nike video where Koston was all up in everyone else’s shit.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: redcurb12 on May 17, 2018, 02:23:44 PM
A dude snapping his tail landing a rail or gap trick. I see that shit and expect the next clip to be a clean landing of the same trick... when it’s not I get sad.

i feel ya shit dont count
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Dark Knight on May 17, 2018, 02:29:39 PM
Also, throwing up middle fingers to the clouds after landing a trick seems to irk me a little more than it should.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 17, 2018, 02:33:08 PM
any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated
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Post by: Surf-goth on May 17, 2018, 02:34:18 PM
Dude that made riddles in mathematics. Chris thiessen?
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Post by: Matthew_James on May 17, 2018, 02:34:33 PM
any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated

Especially if the pivot is more than half of the rotation.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 17, 2018, 02:36:17 PM
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any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated
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Especially if the pivot is more than half of the rotation.

i know a guy who does back 180s all pivot no rotation and it fucking irks me to death
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: lampshade on May 17, 2018, 02:54:14 PM
any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated

When I was a little kids, I learned the back 180 to 180 back wheels pivot in my parent's driveway and I was convinced I learned proper back 360s.  Ahhhh, kids.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Matthew_James on May 17, 2018, 03:01:51 PM
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any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated
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Especially if the pivot is more than half of the rotation.
[close]

i know a guy who does back 180s all pivot no rotation and it fucking irks me to death

So he pretty much ollies and lands/ does a back 180 powerslide?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 17, 2018, 03:05:09 PM
precisely, pretty much straight ollie then revert off the nose. i remember he got real pissy a few years ago in a game of skate because he set one and i said you cant set reverts mate
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: reptar_bar on May 17, 2018, 03:31:53 PM
precisely, pretty much straight ollie then revert off the nose. i remember he got real pissy a few years ago in a game of skate because he set one and i said you cant set reverts mate

haha hmm. a straight ollie, without any rotation, landing on his nose and doing a 360 pivot? sounds legit
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 17, 2018, 03:35:11 PM
"i know a guy who does back 180s"

open ya eyes
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Dermbot on May 17, 2018, 03:40:58 PM
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A dude snapping his tail landing a rail or gap trick. I see that shit and expect the next clip to be a clean landing of the same trick... when it’s not I get sad.
[close]

i feel ya shit dont count

https://youtu.be/9dibBsXQBas

2:02

breaking your tail on a make is cool as fuck.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: coreaf on May 17, 2018, 03:43:29 PM
so how do yall anti swampers feel about dirt/grass/blood stained shirts? i feel like that's the same category.

as a hairy, sweaty dude living in the south i got no problem with wet crack clips because it's an everyday struggle.
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Post by: Style Police on May 17, 2018, 03:44:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhquCgh7GS0
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: somethingmustbreaknow on May 17, 2018, 11:50:32 PM
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A dude snapping his tail landing a rail or gap trick. I see that shit and expect the next clip to be a clean landing of the same trick... when it’s not I get sad.
[close]
i feel ya shit dont count
[close]
http://youtu.be/9dibBsXQBas
2:02
breaking your tail on a make is cool as fuck.
true that
http://youtu.be/JPRdQDg_Fiw?t=2m10s
it is even cooler, if it goes with
the music/edit. prime example

Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: MalHuis on May 18, 2018, 12:05:40 AM
Tough on landing when said skater leans and his trucks are so tight he 2 wheels around like a fool. Worst when its up something.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on May 18, 2018, 12:17:11 AM
no swamp arse = no gersh
sorry, but I like me some gersh; sweatiest skater in the game
funny that yo flips get so much hate (I hate them too) and yet yo pop shove its can actually look good when done 90s style
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: silhouette on May 18, 2018, 01:57:12 AM
yo flips (or whatever catching tre flips with the front foot was called).

maybe the most offensive 'development' to the aesthetics of trick form ever.

again no disrespect to the few good ones that might have been thrown down but I'm so biased against yo flips (I just never understood the reason for doing them besides publicly displaying poor taste) that to me they don't even count as 360 flips, my brain won't register them as such because they have such a distinctive form. they look more like casper flip hybrids to me when they're super exaggerated, and the bad type of casper flips too; just with a fancy rotation. to me a textbook 360 flip just looks completely different, think Tim O Connor or Josh Kalis style, you use the pop and catch it solid. of course if you do 360 flips on skatepark hips all day you're going to start catching them with your front foot first, but you don't, you really don't, need to kick that back leg out and fake a pose like you're wearing Etnies sunglasses
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 18, 2018, 03:00:06 AM
where do we draw the line where fake/exaggerated styling a trick is disavowed? over exaggerating a tre flip is bad, over exaggerating a front rock gets a pass?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Silky Johnson on May 18, 2018, 03:44:39 AM
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The "I better slow down" push. I don't know if there is a name for it

[close]

Check push.
Pussy pedal
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: silhouette on May 18, 2018, 04:10:35 AM
where do we draw the line where fake/exaggerated styling a trick is disavowed? over exaggerating a tre flip is bad, over exaggerating a front rock gets a pass?

pushing the limits of a trick's form is rad. doing it at the expense of whatever your natural expression is in a very specific, contrived way just to fit in among all the goons who're trying super hard to look the exact same as someone else, not so much. it's just skateboarding, a lot of it is subjective and at the end of the day it doesn't matter, but everyone will have their own sensibility for what they find, or don't find, ridiculous. every once in a while, the opinion of some people who've been skating for a long time might hold more water than a skatepark kid's just because they've seen more shit, so they can appreciate and read into certain essential qualities of skateboarding the same way an art critic (oooh...) would, so they don't get fooled as easily as somebody more naive would by someone faking the funk, but in reality there also are a lot of elders out there who are actually essentially clueless about skating despite having been doing it forever and will just repeat the same washed-up, popular opinions over and over. everybody's got their approach and everybody's missing on at least some elements of understanding, that's actually one of my favorite things about skateboarding, listening to the do's and don'ts, or the sophisticated rules peeps like Puleo come up with; there's always some kind of reasoning behind them and sometimes it's so sharp, it's hilarious. within the same activity you have a spectrum of a community punctured with dudes who live by the forbidden 14's and others who think Chris Haslam shit goes. just find your own happy medium. generally speaking though, just looking at a photo or a clip you'll know bullshit when you see it, but there are so many factors involved depending on what you like or not, understand or not, relate to or not. everything is cool and nothing is cool. just stay humble, skate a lot and everything will be fine
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Prawn Cocktail on May 18, 2018, 07:06:22 AM
If Shane Heal is anywhere in the near vicinity.
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Post by: SquintinTarantino on May 18, 2018, 07:42:15 AM
no swamp arse = no gersh
sorry, but I like me some gersh; sweatiest skater in the game
funny that yo flips get so much hate (I hate them too) and yet yo pop shove its can actually look good when done 90s style

I still refer to swamp ass as "Gershon Booty" since seeing him back in the old 411 days.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Madam, I'm Adam on May 18, 2018, 07:53:42 AM
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T-Rex arms. And swamp ass footage. I don't know how filmers don't just say, "You're doing a great kickflip but all we can see is ass sweat. Let's go shopping so you can buy some nice new pants. It's on me."
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i need to see an example of t-rex arms stat!

i hate wack arm style

I've seen it in person, but can't think of any footage/photos offhand. It's usually when someone's pushing, their arms are all crunched up. Arto even says he does it sometimes, he called it the claw.

so how do yall anti swampers feel about dirt/grass/blood stained shirts? i feel like that's the same category.

as a hairy, sweaty dude living in the south i got no problem with wet crack clips because it's an everyday struggle.

That's different, it's good to see that because it shows you worked for it. I'd actually prefer footage not to be so clean all the time, shoe, clothes, even tricks. It's unnatural. But swamp ass, and I'm sorry to say this, seems like you've soiled yourself. We know what it is but still, a big stain right on your ass isn't a good look.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: VenturaSkate on May 18, 2018, 08:31:24 AM
I think bonelesses without the tweak are pretty ugly
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Monkey_Mcpott on May 18, 2018, 08:36:53 AM
Powersliding when you are not haulin ass.

(https://i.imgur.com/LT6Kk0s.gif)
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: lampshade on May 18, 2018, 09:17:08 AM
Toothpicks.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: slappies on May 18, 2018, 09:18:37 AM
Powersliding when you are not haulin ass.

(https://i.imgur.com/LT6Kk0s.gif)

Hahaha, most unnecessary powerslide ever done?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hmmmm Nice Bike on May 18, 2018, 09:20:17 AM
When they don't land the trick.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Justis on May 18, 2018, 04:31:26 PM
I want to murder people who take their shirt of after landing a trick. I fucking hate you.
pretty stupid thing to hate on, ever felt accomplished after working for something and decided to cool off?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: frogworld on May 18, 2018, 09:27:38 PM
Outrageous clown like clothing. Example : stephen lawyer

this
i think its cool to have cute outfits and stephen lawyer's outfits are butt ugly, yung spliff on ig also has butt ugly outfits lol
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: rejectpaul on May 20, 2018, 04:15:48 AM
Hi, just trying to get these bullshit racist thr reads to page 2
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: jomeara1 on May 20, 2018, 05:32:22 AM
I hate it when the photo of a trick in a magazine looks way gnarlier than the actual footage. It’s very misleading.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: theblandest on May 20, 2018, 07:15:29 AM
Wearing all white but clothes are almost black from all the slams.
Cole Wilson comes to mind.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: pinkbananastatus on May 20, 2018, 07:27:13 AM
All this hate towards swamp ass has me feelin personally attacked
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Tommy G on May 20, 2018, 08:12:53 AM
Wearing all white but clothes are almost black from all the slams.
Cole Wilson comes to mind.
I just hate the all white clothes scheme altogether.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hmmmm Nice Bike on May 20, 2018, 08:48:36 AM
I hate it when the photo of a trick in a magazine looks way gnarlier than the actual footage. It’s very misleading.

I feel the same way about when handrail tricks are filmed at a certain angle to make the rail seem not so small. It doesn't mean the tricks aren't impressive but it ruins it a bit for me somehow. The two examples I can think of are Greco's ender in the Deathwish video and Guy's ender in Pretty Sweet.

Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: TheBoognish on May 20, 2018, 09:55:42 AM
I hate how every single part these days has a variation of a bs/fs tailslide kickflip out.

I no longer give a shit about that trick unless it's unbelievably well done, or if Ronnie Creager does them.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Mcfctid on May 20, 2018, 10:58:18 AM
Honestly I'm kinda over strobecks style of filming/editing.  I feel like I gotta force myself to watch it . The random slow motion shots, the "lifestyle" shots, it's all a bit too dramatic and forced if you ask me.

Also camo pants,  and trap music
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: jomeara1 on May 20, 2018, 12:29:16 PM
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I hate it when the photo of a trick in a magazine looks way gnarlier than the actual footage. It’s very misleading.
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I feel the same way about when handrail tricks are filmed at a certain angle to make the rail seem not so small. It doesn't mean the tricks aren't impressive but it ruins it a bit for me somehow. The two examples I can think of are Greco's ender in the Deathwish video and Guy's ender in Pretty Sweet.

The first one that came to mind for me is Rowleys Thrasher cover when he 360’d into that ditch. The footage was good but it was nothing what I expected or pictured what it would be like.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 20, 2018, 12:34:56 PM
not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Burton Ernie on May 20, 2018, 12:36:41 PM
i was gonna say storking, but seeing that austyn gillette clip from that secret contest makes me appreciate a good one

please educate me on what storking is. The word itself is hilarious.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 20, 2018, 01:16:31 PM
when you land and your weight is too far forward so you start tipping and the back foot comes off but you manage to make it

(https://i.imgur.com/FAsWibo.png)

is storking back foot only or is front included? sages kickflip into the bank in oh yes is a good one
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: ChrisSennsGirlfriend on May 20, 2018, 04:59:02 PM
not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0

i think guy kampfen did trick you're talking about as his darkstar ender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Y62-Qt5PY
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: ogbawtawd on May 20, 2018, 05:04:29 PM
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I want to murder people who take their shirt of after landing a trick. I fucking hate you.
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pretty stupid thing to hate on, ever felt accomplished after working for something and decided to cool off?
I think Steve said he used to be a fat kid so it probably stems from that.

Like I don't like all this after trick hugging cause I was never loved

Jk, but probably something like that
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Monkey_Mcpott on May 20, 2018, 05:05:43 PM
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not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0
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i think guy kampfen did trick you're talking about as his darkstar ender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Y62-Qt5PY

Like this?

(https://i.imgur.com/DE8mE2l.gif)
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hmmmm Nice Bike on May 20, 2018, 05:44:50 PM
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not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0
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i think guy kampfen did trick you're talking about as his darkstar ender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Y62-Qt5PY
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Like this?

(https://i.imgur.com/DE8mE2l.gif)

I remember someone doing one in Cons Purple but I can't remember which part.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Cuban_Lynx on May 20, 2018, 05:50:25 PM
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Powersliding when you are not haulin ass.

(https://i.imgur.com/LT6Kk0s.gif)
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Hahaha, most unnecessary powerslide ever done?
LOL. The more I watch it, the funnier it gets.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: TITANIUM NIPPLES on May 20, 2018, 06:16:36 PM
Pulling a check out of your pocket.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Paco Supreme on May 20, 2018, 07:18:38 PM
Powersliding when you are not haulin ass.

(https://i.imgur.com/LT6Kk0s.gif)

Haaahahahaha, what a pussyfooted, needless slide. is that steez ortiz?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: igrindtwinkies on May 20, 2018, 07:36:19 PM
Shane Heyl.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on May 20, 2018, 09:00:56 PM
Shane Heyl.
apparently he's now called
Shane Heal
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: swanronson on May 20, 2018, 09:31:05 PM
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2018, 05:31:22 AM »
when a local park kid does your trick first try to flex on ya.

This. I use this as a gauge, if someone does it to me it’s a pretty good indicator that this person isn’t worth talking to or getting to know.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: cosmicgypsies on May 21, 2018, 03:57:01 AM
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not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0
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i think guy kampfen did trick you're talking about as his darkstar ender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Y62-Qt5PY
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Like this?

(https://i.imgur.com/DE8mE2l.gif)

like that indeedy, good shit.

now who got front blunt switch 5-0 back 180
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Allen. on May 21, 2018, 06:04:42 PM
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so how do yall anti swampers feel about dirt/grass/blood stained shirts? i feel like that's the same category.

as a hairy, sweaty dude living in the south i got no problem with wet crack clips because it's an everyday struggle.
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That's different, it's good to see that because it shows you worked for it. I'd actually prefer footage not to be so clean all the time, shoe, clothes, even tricks. It's unnatural. But swamp ass, and I'm sorry to say this, seems like you've soiled yourself. We know what it is but still, a big stain right on your ass isn't a good look.

Warming up gives me swamp ass in the summer... we get some wild humidity.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: streetsoup on May 21, 2018, 06:25:17 PM
The elements can really fuck a clip up.
Wind.
Sun.
Rain.
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Hypnotoad on May 21, 2018, 07:02:37 PM
Sean Malto’s haircut
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on May 21, 2018, 07:29:26 PM
The elements can really fuck a clip up.
Wind.
Sun.
Rain.


Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: AllBranFlakes69 on May 21, 2018, 09:36:51 PM
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not the right thread but has anyone done a back blunt to switch 5-0
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i think guy kampfen did trick you're talking about as his darkstar ender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Y62-Qt5PY
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Like this?

(https://i.imgur.com/DE8mE2l.gif)
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like that indeedy, good shit.

now who got front blunt switch 5-0 back 180

Isn't that a blunt to fakie nosegrind?
Title: Re: Things that ruin tricks
Post by: Kolostrum on May 21, 2018, 10:25:41 PM
beaming after a make

Most illegal shit of all time