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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.