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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #60 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
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #61 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.
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #62 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #63 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #64 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #65 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
Let me preface this post with the fact that I am slightly inebriated, very uneducated and I havent read any papers or done any research at all, or read your post really.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #66 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #67 on: May 17, 2018, 02:33:08 PM »
any 180/360 tricks that are more pivoted than actually rotated

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #68 on: May 17, 2018, 02:34:18 PM »
Dude that made riddles in mathematics. Chris thiessen?
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #69 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.
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #70 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

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #71 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #72 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.
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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?
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #73 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

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #74 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

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #75 on: May 17, 2018, 03:35:11 PM »
"i know a guy who does back 180s"

open ya eyes

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #76 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.
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i feel ya shit dont count

https://youtu.be/9dibBsXQBas

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breaking your tail on a make is cool as fuck.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #77 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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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #78 on: May 17, 2018, 03:44:20 PM »

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #79 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.
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i feel ya shit dont count
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http://youtu.be/9dibBsXQBas
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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


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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #80 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #81 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

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #82 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

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #83 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?

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #84 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

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Check push.
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #85 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
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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #86 on: May 18, 2018, 07:06:22 AM »
If Shane Heal is anywhere in the near vicinity.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #87 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #88 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.

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Re: Things that ruin tricks
« Reply #89 on: May 18, 2018, 08:31:24 AM »
I think bonelesses without the tweak are pretty ugly