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Idk Forrest looks about the same height. That was probably the worst episode yet, quite a dud, it would've spiced things up a little if someone would've grinded the knobs off the rail, seems like a rail just about everyone coulda done something on.
forrest is like 5'6. john is like 6'0. I just noticed mango and forrest boards actually went the highest. I would've won that challenge because I'm taller than john. That was lame.
The way forest did it (not carving) it's easier to go higher., I am an authority on this because I have a giant tranny to wall ride in my back yard and I can definatly say it's easier to ? go higher by pumping to fakie or switch pumping to regular than carving.
I've never skated a whole pipe that big before, but in a couple that I have ridden, coming down fakie can be really tricky... when you're rolling forward you know you can turn at the peak of your ride up the wall, but when coming in fakie it's super easy to have your board whip out from under you because your natural tendency is to pump down expecting flatbottom- which never happens, so you wind up either being too straight legged to pump up the other side fakie, or you get kind've "lost" causing you to put too much weight forward, resulting in a projectile skateboard.
It could be different on a bigger pipe like that one, but in the smaller ones I've skated, coming back in fakie was pretty terrifying until getting really really used to it.
Edited to add a personal example:
The above made me think about how spoiled I am, that the only full-pipe I have ever skated, is Louisville's, and in that monster, it would be kind of absurd to be rolling fakie at any time--unless of course your Hewitt going through it switch after backside 5-0ing to fakie, in that gigantic bowl on its one side. Last time I lived in Chicago, made bi-weekly roadtrips down to Louisville for a year or so, and got to skate that thing on the regs'.
Between that long-ass vert capsule thing on one side of it (11, 12 foot), and that burly bowl on the other side of it (13 foot?), the full-pipe at Louisville is so long and high--not to mention motherfuckers are coming through it so fast--that you have problems if you are putzing around inside of it going straight back and forth.
I'm usually not one to criticize anybody's skating, but I will say that that was one of the slowest, most uneventful, and pitiful sticker-sticking-whatever-you-call-its that I have ever seen. And as some people have mentioned, can't believe they went to a park, and no sick lines came out of it--what else are parks for?