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Skateboarding => PHOTOS/VIDEO => Topic started by: Mcfctid on May 12, 2018, 09:54:02 AM
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Happy birthday birdman!
https://youtu.be/8Zx7fFFfPis
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Wow 1 session. Pretty intense how he launched out of the ramp and nearly broke himself off completely. 50!
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Still killing it at Fitty! Happy Birthday Birdman!! :D
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Rad. Radder when I realized it was one sesh. That last trick was quite steezy. Is it bad that I can’t remember what any vert trick is called? Other than spins, shuvs and grinds I couldn’t name any of them.
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That was so sick! Maybe I missed it, but I was hoping to see the 540 Varial where he tosses the extra Varial with his hand like he does in the The End. I loved/love that trick.
Hawk can do whatever he wants though. I still have to thank him for getting me into skating, THPS fully made me become a skater.
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So fucking good.
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more like 50 tricks at ages 47 to 49 filmed with the same clothes on a la the Powell days, am i rite brosephs
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49 and following slam were great! All in all great stuff! 👍
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Those were way harder than they needed to be, that was rad.
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Amazing
Anyone remember the interview Tony mentions how he doesn't stretch? He just shows up to every ramp and does the same warm up run to loosen up
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wow, he really is the GOAT
Happy Birthday Birdman!
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Kinda jarring to him say that this would be the last time he would do some of these tricks. Especially since he did them so well. Happy birthday!
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cab body jar was looking good, i didn't know he invented them and Madonnas
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Kinda jarring to him say that this would be the last time he would do some of these tricks.
t.hawk not long for this world, confirmed
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Sick. As much as he's the most famous corporate money maker etc. ever. You don't keep doing this without pure love for skating. You have to respect it. My goal is to do ollie up curbs and do really long manuals still at 50 so he's bananas.
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That was so great. If it really was one sesh it's superhuman but even if not it was incredible.
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Birdman is too sick. He made them all look so easy.
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happy birthday birdman!!
the last trick was so so good. gnarly slam, too. thought he was done after that but kept going!
many props and thank yous to this man
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that was inspirational. the crazy thing about these birthday trick videos is you have to do more tricks the older you get.
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yawn... wake me up when doctor hawk does fifty 900s in a row... jk, nothing but love for the birdman from here in Brazil! (i'm not from brazil, but I would imagine they love him there, i guess. i mean really, who DOESN'T love the birdman! fuck)
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All those lip tricks were so fucking cool.
Kinda jarring to him say that this would be the last time he would do some of these tricks.
Especially when you realize there's no 900...
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Is it bad that I can’t remember what any vert trick is called? Other than spins, shuvs and grinds I couldn’t name any of them.
If you turn on captions, it tells you trick names and the year he first landed them
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Is it bad that I can’t remember what any vert trick is called? Other than spins, shuvs and grinds I couldn’t name any of them.
If you turn on captions, it tells you trick names and the year he first landed them
Oh shit! That's awesome. Some of the names seem a little suspect or not what I'd think to call them but still sick to see.
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So fucking good.
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Is it bad that I can’t remember what any vert trick is called? Other than spins, shuvs and grinds I couldn’t name any of them.
If you turn on captions, it tells you trick names and the year he first landed them
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆😘😘😘
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Those were way harder than they needed to be, that was rad.
I would have just done a 5-0 and called it a day
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That was awesome.
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wow, utmost respect for the legend. that were some insanely hard tricks and to them at 50 in one session... amazing
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Absolute legend, love this so much.
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Think of someone you know who is 50 years old. Imagine that person rolling down a driveway on a skateboard.
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Dude is quality.
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
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What a savage
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Anti-a tragic.
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Those lip tricks were all proper. Rewatchable for sure. Prolly my favorite part from him so far.
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That's fuckin' insane ! I'm 28 years old complaining that my body aches after a curb/flatground session...
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
dudes over 50 who rip
t-hawk
cab
duane peters
how old is paulo diaz?
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fuck yes! dude has ripped longer than I've been alive
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
t-hawk
cab
duane peters
how old is paulo diaz?
Lance Mountain is 53
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That was epic! Long live the king!
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
t-hawk
cab
duane peters
how old is paulo diaz?
Lance Mountain is 53
Ron Allen
Tony Alva
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Amazing
Anyone remember the interview Tony mentions how he doesn't stretch? He just shows up to every ramp and does the same warm up run to loosen up
because you have to warm up (eg. jump rope) before any "exercise" and stretch after you are finished
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Amazing
Anyone remember the interview Tony mentions how he doesn't stretch? He just shows up to every ramp and does the same warm up run to loosen up
because you have to warm up (eg. jump rope) before any "exercise" and stretch after you are finished
I would imagine that busting a basic vert run with some airs that you have been doing for 40 years is not as difficult on your body as busting a few flatground flip tricks as a warm up.
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I'm sorry. - but he's kidding himself, if he thinks he invented blindside feeble grinds to fakie in 2000.
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
t-hawk
cab
duane peters
how old is paulo diaz?
Lance Mountain is 53
Tony Alva
not there yet but julien will be 50 in a yr. that's boggling. ricky oyola might be getting close.
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Amazing
Anyone remember the interview Tony mentions how he doesn't stretch? He just shows up to every ramp and does the same warm up run to loosen up
because you have to warm up (eg. jump rope) before any "exercise" and stretch after you are finished
I would imagine that busting a basic vert run with some airs that you have been doing for 40 years is not as difficult on your body as busting a few flatground flip tricks as a warm up.
I can't even bend my knees or back until I've skated 10 minutes and stretched.
@1:20
https://youtu.be/H3J9c1BF2z8
I can't even comprehend having a warm up run that goes: Lien tailslide, body jar, back tail, mute fakie, fakie disaster, back lipslide, slider to fakie, chink chink grind, caballerial.
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I remember an interview with BoB saying if Hawk had decided to do mega ramp, nobody else would have stood a chance. Hawk is the man.
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that quadruple grab air was rad
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Hawk you fuckin maniac!
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fuck, i'm so glad Tony's our guy
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I remember an interview with BoB saying if Hawk had decided to do mega ramp, nobody else would have stood a chance. Hawk is the man.
I remember Hawk saying he made a choice to stop being competitive at some point with not only others but himself. I can imagine when the Mega Ramp came out, he probably realized he shouldn't even play with it because he could get obsessed. He is an intelligent skater to say the least.
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I'm sorry. - but he's kidding himself, if he thinks he invented blindside feeble grinds to fakie in 2000.
maybe he learned it then, not invented it?
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i really like all the shuv-liptrick stuff he's getting into. sorta mariano late-life ledge dancing shit but on vert and he looks so good doing it.
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
t-hawk
cab
duane peters
how old is paulo diaz?
Lance Mountain is 53
Tony Alva
So good. There's 50 yr olds that still rip but I don't think anyone else is still going hard and capable of taking legit slams on daily basis like Tony is. The one after the 720 would've probably ended my session and he just went right back to it. Skateboarding couldn't have lucked out with a better person to be the face of the industry
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Tony in the “dudes over 40 who still rip“ thread
It was one of the first few replies.
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I'm sorry. - but he's kidding himself, if he thinks he invented blindside feeble grinds to fakie in 2000.
Yeah , doubt it . Think he fucked up the year .
At the start he specifically says he is "revisiting some of the tricks he created "
(some one did that trick at lances ramp in ban this -1989.)
Hawk probably did them years before that .
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From the video description:
"I did 50 tricks that I've created (and/or pioneered on vert)".
Not sure if he pioneered them on vert or not, but he's not claiming to have invented all of these
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Damn, that was good. I feel like the common sentiment among most good skaters is to value quality over quantity -- even if that means only having 5-10 very well performed tricks, but I think this goes to show that having volume like a T-hawk can earn you longevity, where as alot of Tony's peers from his generation all seem to barely have ten tricks. I'd definitely rather have 50 tricks than 5 beautifully styled ones. "It's not what tricks you do, it's how you do them"... Yeah right, get that shit outta here! I feel like from what we've seen out of skaters, prioritizing style over tricks gives you less shelf life, in a way. Either that or people like Tony, haslam, or Daewon are just an anomaly.
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Damn, that was good. I feel like the common sentiment among most good skaters is to value quality over quantity -- even if that means only having 5-10 very well performed tricks, but I think this goes to show that having volume like a T-hawk can earn you longevity, where as alot of Tony's peers from his generation all seem to barely have ten tricks. I'd definitely rather have 50 tricks than 5 beautifully styled ones. "It's not what tricks you do, it's how you do them"... Yeah right, get that shit outta here! I feel like from what we've seen out of skaters, prioritizing style over tricks gives you less shelf life, in a way. Either that or people like Tony, haslam, or Daewon are just an anomaly.
That's exactly what it is.