Tricks that are cool one way, but not cool another way...

[IHOP]

Can someone explain to me the back feeble hate.  I understand it looks gross when its super long and sitting on the rail of the board the way people sometimes do for long smiths too, but I dont mind them.

But maybe I dont mind them because I do them a lot.

[Willie]

Blunt to rock fakie is almost always the worst trick ever - however, I've seen two people (one local guy, one Mike Maldonado) who do the rock part so quickly and violently that suddenly becomes way more awesome than a clean blunt to fakie.

[SOTY]

[Iceman]

the crookie monster: they're cool every other way except reg backside (unless on something gnar)

backside noseslides: unless you're nollie'ing out of them or going big. never cool switch.

noseblunt slides: always come out straight or they're wack. (exception: reg backside)

fakie tailslides to regular are never cool.

[Barstool]

Fakie 360 flips always look good but nollie ones rarely do. Its something with the head and shoulders looking back for fakie but forward for nollie

[funeral_tuxedo]

MH frontside lipslide (is a bench a ledge?) executed beautifully:

[Tyroneshoelaces]

i don't really give two shits about your fat switch fs heelflip if there isn't footage of you also doing it regular. 

i can switch fs heelflip over a bench but i cant regular fs heel to save my life. 

[thunderskater2805]

I like the look of back feebles, but any feeble on a ledge is just a no.

[mattdookie]

@1:43, It's like a pop shuv and then he throws it another 180 after he catches the shit with his hand.
My fellow-poser buddies would refer to this a "turntable" but I hopefully will never see anyone else attempt this trick.
I swear if I saw someone trying this i'd slit their throat and not a court in the land would convict me of malicious wrongdoing. Who else could do this without feeling the fire of being called a stinkbug/etc, and rightfully so?

Fuck haha I do this trick. People around here always freak out when I do it and ask me what it's called and I say idk it's some Bam trick. Even being someone who does this shit I'll admit it's easy af and not that "cool" by any means. I do enjoy trying different variations of it just for shits and giggles. They never look very good tho like shuv tail grab then throw it back 180 front side or shuv tail grab finger flip are fun but goofy as shit.

[MOE SYZLAK]

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i like seeing regular varial heelflips,
but i don't really dig regular inward
heelflips. they only are acceptable
when they're executed nollie/ fakie.

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Switch/Nollie varial heels have always struck me as kind of bullshitty.  As you said, regular ones are cool, and Matt Beach and Rodrigo made me love fakie ones in the Firm video.  Modern era Reynolds solidified said love.

Jason Dill Mosaic La High line... Best Fakie V heel ever done

[RoaryMcTwang]

Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

[roba]

Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

you mean fs 180 out or bs 180 out? if it's the frontside version then i agree but the backside one looks sick

[RoaryMcTwang]

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Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

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you mean fs 180 out or bs 180 out? if it's the frontside version then i agree but the backside one looks sick

fs. the one that inadvertently happens if you don't know how to get out of a crooks.

[dirty ol man]

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Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

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you mean fs 180 out or bs 180 out? if it's the frontside version then i agree but the backside one looks sick

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fs. the one that inadvertently happens if you don't know how to get out of a crooks.

if it's deliberate they look ok. on a handrail or hubba a revert out of a crooked grind at the end of the ledge can be nasty

[silhouette]

I seriously don't understand what is even supposed to be going on in this clip. his feet just get into the position so easily, then never move at all as though the same still picture of his lower body had been Photoshopped into every frame. the arms barely flinch too.

to address the original post : the obvious no-comply where the skater hops off, and impossibles that spin sideways

[Justis]

I do that bam trick and can say confidently that it never looks that good although it feels cool, think all tricks can look decent depending on who does it

[SOTY]

all tricks can look decent depending on who does it

[Nanda Zinger]

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i like seeing regular varial heelflips,
but i don't really dig regular inward
heelflips. they only are acceptable
when they're executed nollie/ fakie.

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Switch/Nollie varial heels have always struck me as kind of bullshitty.  As you said, regular ones are cool, and Matt Beach and Rodrigo made me love fakie ones in the Firm video.  Modern era Reynolds solidified said love.

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Jason Dill Mosaic La High line... Best Fakie V heel ever done

Chico has dope nollie varial heels.

[JumpManShorty]

Back lips on ledges get a pass. Frontside, not so much.

I also hate watching bs bigspin out of a front tail (maybe it’s called front tail 270 shuv idk) but I love watching front tails with a front bigspin out.

I would of agreed with the 270 shuv part but that dude does a sick one in the new Atlantic drift video. Now I want to go do one

[pizzafliptofakie]

Even though I'm partial to them, nollie back 3's aren't as well received as frontside.

[99Pancakes]

bs 360s with too much one-foot action are gross
5-0s look way better with the tail all the way down 95% of the time
50-50s with the staggered trucks are also gross

[givecigstosurfgroms]

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@1:43, It's like a pop shuv and then he throws it another 180 after he catches the shit with his hand.
My fellow-poser buddies would refer to this a "turntable" but I hopefully will never see anyone else attempt this trick.
I swear if I saw someone trying this i'd slit their throat and not a court in the land would convict me of malicious wrongdoing. Who else could do this without feeling the fire of being called a stinkbug/etc, and rightfully so?

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Fuck haha I do this trick. People around here always freak out when I do it and ask me what it's called and I say idk it's some Bam trick. Even being someone who does this shit I'll admit it's easy af and not that "cool" by any means. I do enjoy trying different variations of it just for shits and giggles. They never look very good tho like shuv tail grab then throw it back 180 front side or shuv tail grab finger flip are fun but goofy as shit.

Matt Hensley trick.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Long frontside noseslides are rad, short ones are dumb.
Blunts on ledges are rad, blunts on rails are dumb
Noseblunts are ok on rails, better on ledges. When somebody comes from behind a waxed-to-death ledge and falls out fakie though...eh...not very cool (also, the only way I've ever done a frontside noseblunt on a ledge)
Re: the front lip debate: its all about how slidey the surface of the ledge is. Recycled plastic or overwaxed- not that cool, unwaxed or barely waxed, making that screech noise as the wheels resist the slide you are forcing them to do- pretty cool. However, regardless of the coefficient of friction of the ledge, boardslides on ledges where the wheels slide never ever ever will be cool.
Nollieing into slides makes their coolness factor invert- a lipslide is cooler than a boardslide when you ollie in, but when you nollie in, its the opposite. A tailslide is cooler than a noseslide, but when you nollie in, its the opposite, blunt/noseblunt works the same way. I almost want to say same thing goes with smiths and willies, but even nollieing into a willie can't save it.

[Baron Samedi]

Nollieing into slides makes their coolness factor invert- a lipslide is cooler than a boardslide when you ollie in, but when you nollie in, its the opposite. A tailslide is cooler than a noseslide, but when you nollie in, its the opposite, blunt/noseblunt works the same way. I almost want to say same thing goes with smiths and willies, but even nollieing into a willie can't save it.

you just blew the shit out of my mind

[MOE SYZLAK]

I’m gonna say Barley grinds.
The “switch” version ( Sw 180 to regular Smith) is way easier and not as cool.
But the regular 180 to Sw Smith is hard as hell and looks rad.
Also the Bs version “Bennett” can look good depending on who does them
Has anyone done a Sw “Bennett”?

[Baron Samedi]

Has anyone done a Sw “Bennett”?

That kid Frankie Villani does every kind of Bennett, I'd be surprised if you couldn't dig up one from him.

Or actually, now that I think of it the obvious answer would probably be Matt Bennett.

[Gideon Choi]

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Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

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you mean fs 180 out or bs 180 out? if it's the frontside version then i agree but the backside one looks sick

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fs. the one that inadvertently happens if you don't know how to get out of a crooks.

I.E. - skip to 4:30

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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Bs crooked grinds can be cool. Bs crooked grind reverts cannot.

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you mean fs 180 out or bs 180 out? if it's the frontside version then i agree but the backside one looks sick

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fs. the one that inadvertently happens if you don't know how to get out of a crooks.

That's a crook to fakie, not a crook revert. People constantly use the word revert incorrectly. Revert means you go the direction out as if you were going to forward, but then keep going all the way around. So all b/s crook reverts have a b/s 180 out.

[Larry Sportello]

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everything switch is wack.

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[HotnSpicyMcChicken]

all tricks can look decent depending on who if Antwuan does it

i don't really dig regular inward
heelflips. they only are acceptable
when they're executed nollie/ fakie.

@ 1:18

I doubt anyone can make Nollie Varial Heelflips look good

@ 2:14

a lipslide is cooler than a boardslide when you ollie in, but when you nollie in, its the opposite.

@ 1:31