ok, i'm back. things went crazy last week.
*bigspins: here's the official word from Dr. H himself:
"i did invent the bigspin, but so did brian lotti. and lotti was better known and people saw him do it first. i think the first documentation is him in a gullwing video. i think the spin off goes to lotti or gavin, actually. whoever did it first, gavin was the footage i remember, down 2 or 3 stairs in some arizona spot.i have never heard of a meatspin, but it's sounding like some gay porn jargon, and is upsetting me a little bit."
so, bumpnrun, you already got that gullwing footage- thank you. and we will go with you on the fakie bigspin being first, thanks for sticking to your guns on that.
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2:57? fakie big? i kept watching it going...'come on ray...how many step hops do you have to do until you do the fakie big...'
pretty sure i learned it on a mark partain....the blockhead one...not the renegade one....
no, that's the MJ trick we were talking about earlier-- the off-the-nose board goes 540/person goes 360! and it seems i must eat some craw on this one-- rodney mullen has confirmed that this is indeed a gazelle. so there's the definition. how about a name for the off the nose 360 pivot, what i had believed the gazelle was? 360 chinese ollie?
*on the laserflip out of a noseslide-- i might be reading the question wrong but you couldn't laserflip out of a noseslide as you have to hit your tail to do a laser. you could nollie 270 heel, or nollie 270 varial heel. that's some armando barajas territory.
*disco flips-- good name. and i go with dolphin flips for these weird endo varial flips. i don't like to see them for any reason though.
*the 360 ollie half flip is crazy! don't remember seeing anybody do that. by the way, was in june "kate" or june "kah-tay"? never knew.
*that simon half-flip thing-- anything with your feet gripping the sides and no tail hit used to be called a "gorilla grip", so i guess that would be a half gorilla flip? only simon.
*shirtless homeboy-- i don't see anything late, just looks like a switch bigspin heel to me...
*braydon/other side of the ledge stuff-- i'd agree with ollie over to whatever the trick is, like ollie over to noseblunt slide for braydon there.
*sid melvin's trick-- that's the baglady, or the losi grind, possibly the novacaine. we got lost on that one. baglady and losi grind are both ok for sure, the novacaine we need some more research.
*flamingo/pretzel plant-- referring to the weird step-off no-comply leg wrap thing? i always knew those as "crowd pleasers" but i think that one has no official name.
*faster-- agreed on the bluntslide stuff. don't like droopy bluntslides either. un-level slide tricks used to be called "sandbags", like "his bluntslide was all sandbaggy". and it does look more like a half-cab over to tailslide, though i think to be an "over" trick the ledge has to be wider than your wheelbase.
Any willy variation should just be called ugly piece of shit grind.
there can be some interesting ideas with them, but i think they look like hell, too.
*brazil- a rockslide is legit since they are sliding rock n rolls. i love the "magic circle", that's brilliant. as for the rest- whoa!
*louie's trick- i'd say noseslide to wheel-well slide but i'm down with the eastslide/westslide thing, especially if you're throwing signs while you do it.
*pop shove/nacho deal- never heard it. and the 360 flip one-- 360 flip to f/s nose pivot? don't have a name for that one. b/s would be 360 flip to nosedrive, but nosedrives are only backside i believe. how about bigspins or big flips where your body turns the opposite way of the board, like 360 flip but body goes f/s 180? i remember seeing rudy johnson do those a long time ago...