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University graduate there apparently learned back lips before front boards and back 180s, because back lips are the first blindside tricks you have to commit to. Very impressive. And before the age of 12. Very very impressive.
Here goes slap again, you literally have no idea what your talking about, a fs board means FRONT SIDE as in literally FACING the rail as you watch your FRONT foot go over the rail, it also doesn't apply to 180s because if you do a proper 180 you will rotate enough to be facing forward again by the time you land. A back lipslide however requires coming from the BACK SIDE with your BACK foot going over the rail.
Nice try slap has proven to be regular again.
Lol wut. Do you not end a back lip looking forward? What kind of weird ass back lip are you doing?
how can you be so confident in something you know nothing about? Blind side is about how you get INTO a trick and has nothing to do with how you get out, with your logic even a bs board to fakie is now blind side, thanks for the laugh.
Sir this is word salad and you’re now openly contradicting yourself
No i'm not, you just don't understand, You get into bs lipslides, you don't get "into" bs 180s. Again how are you so confident about something you know nothing about?
Mister you said commit to blindside- do you do back 180s without committing to them? You have an interesting way of doing tricks
Again bs 180s aren't blind side so your point doesn't make any sense.
I feel like I'm the only one reading this who is on your side, and I don't even meet your standards to be called a skater, but BS 180 and FS boardslide are blind side, they are just really easy blind side tricks with minimal risk. BS lipslide is kinda an arbitrary marker, but I get what you're saying about needing to cross some threshold of scaring the shit out of yourself and powering through it to have the heart of a skater. Ultimately only a poser would get mad if someone labels them not a skater, which is really why I love your presence in this thread.
My problem with calling those tricks blind side is that they are only blind side if you do them in a weird way and it's a slippery slope because technically you can turn any trick into a blind side if you do it weird enough.
Also depends on your definition of blind. To me it's can only be blind if your getting into a grind blind or landing blind, if your blind for a second in the air like a 180 but you land looking forward it's not blind, why? Because if you use the blind in the air for a second as the requirement that means that every single 360 is now a blind trick even though you land straight looking forward..
With the fs board, Sure if you want you can get into one and angle completely straight or even more like a hurricane where it is super blind side but that's not textbook, most people who front board will never fully straighten their board resulting in never being blind side.
Now same with 180s, if you aren't good at them and you land your 180s in a weird fakie position looking backwards fine technically it could be blind side BUT if you do a proper 180 you are landing bolts looking forward.
If you consider them blind side then anything can be, what's stopping some weird fuck from doing a kickflip but landing in a nollie position looking backwards? that's blind as fuck, doesn't mean kickflips are a blind trick.
People do back lips that aren’t fully perpendicular to the bar too though. Blindside to me means you spend some amount of time not able to looking at the obstacle or your landing. I back 180 and end looking at my my front foot, ie looking backwards all the time. I’ve been doing them like 30 years and this is the first I’ve heard of that not being proper. Frankly I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone not do it that way and I am being serious. Front boards that go to fakie also are blindside- from the time I get on until after the trick is over I am looking backwards.
I get it - back lips are hard and the commitment is a bit bigger because you have to ollie over the rail. But if you stick on any of these tricks you’re still falling right on you ass which I think is what makes them scary.
Yeah they do but that's after learning and mastering them because doing that greatly increases your chance of getting hung up and eating shit compared to landing straight, a person learning bs lips is landing blind side 99% of the time while during a fs board staying angled decreases your chance of hanging up.
"Blindside to me means you spend some amount of time not able to looking at the obstacle or your landing. " with this logic all 180s and all 360s are now blind side, any rotation of any kind on any obstacle is now blind side.
You may 180 that way, I don't and if you watch footage of people doing big 180s you will definitely see them looking forward as they ride away not backwards towards the stairs. I want to put a friendly warning here that the easiest way to hit your head is landing bs 180s looking backwards, especially down drops, look forward stay safe.
Again, if you angle the board completely straight or like a hurricane and go fakie then sure it's blind side but going out fakie isn't what makes it blind side, with that logic bs noseslides to fakie are blind side, bs crook 180s are blind side, basically everything to fakie is now blind side.
Of course if you stick on any trick you can eat shit BUT it's a huge difference in bail out ability when it comes to a front board vs bs lip. Hell with a front board you can just stick your front out and slide it one footed if you get scared, with a back lip that is impossible, it's either fully commit or don't commit. Not to mention going over the rail requires more force and that increases the force when you hit the rail increasing your chance of sticking.