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I thought that this was nuts, and had to share.
Lakai ad from the November 2020 Thrasher. Photo by Sam Cole
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool. https://youtu.be/FembK7WaQBs
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
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Looks Danger-ous
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That is absolute insanity! That spot is hard to skate and getting to the top is way beyond what I can imagine
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So close to the edge too. Imagine having to turn back more than 180 on that little piece of rough concrete almost two stories high.
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
This.
Not that Simon's trick (and anything on that) isn't gnarly, but Nick kinda did the dream trick of tricks to shut that spot down. I'd hate to be the guy to step to it after it had been back noseblunted.
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Looks Danger-ous
(https://i.imgur.com/ofxC0TN.gif)
Wonder what ever happened to Danger?
He got totalled a lot...
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
This.
Not that Simon's trick (and anything on that) isn't gnarly, but Nick kinda did the dream trick of tricks to shut that spot down. I'd hate to be the guy to step to it after it had been back noseblunted.
i think blunt fakie will be the crown once someone finally does it, a couple have claimed it. also dont forget that nolan johnson did back boneless on it, which is arguably the most fucked
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
Where can I see this!?
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pretty sure it's the same spot Simon had that absurd wallride in that latest Girl video, so interesting that he also apparently got this and didn't make the vid.
full Simon Bannerot part coming?
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
Where can I see this!?
Right!
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
Where can I see this!?
I saw a clip of it on IG. I think the Element account posted it. Eric Winkowski has also done some gnarly shit on it, including an invert.
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2:55
http://youtu.be/X84fsdi8yuE
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2:55
http://youtu.be/X84fsdi8yuE
havnt seen that before, absolutely mental
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
This.
Not that Simon's trick (and anything on that) isn't gnarly, but Nick kinda did the dream trick of tricks to shut that spot down. I'd hate to be the guy to step to it after it had been back noseblunted.
In what world is a blunt fakie or a backside boneless harder than a back noseblunt? Lol. Who's Nolan Johnson?
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
Thanks! There's a few more tricks that went down here I'm trying to remember. Maybe even Cobra. Invert is scary to think about.
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invert.gif)
Did cobra do kicky bs wall ride?
Also, bs noseblunt is definitely the dream trick but I’d way rather try that then a blunt fakie! Imagine popping into that thing fakie!
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
This.
Not that Simon's trick (and anything on that) isn't gnarly, but Nick kinda did the dream trick of tricks to shut that spot down. I'd hate to be the guy to step to it after it had been back noseblunted.
In what world is a blunt fakie or a backside boneless harder than a back noseblunt? Lol. Who's Nolan Johnson?
you don't think trying to pop back in fakie is harder? i do, personally.
nolan used to skate for welcome. i think back boneless was in this, but video is now private, post welcome drama. https://skateboarding.transworld.net/videos/just-nipples-all-city-showdown-2013-welcome-edit/
he created his own company, skram, and still skates
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I can't find the clip but Raven did the shoeless roll in from the top on KOTR, that was so fucked.
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Didn't Nick Garcia back nose blunt this thing?
This.
Not that Simon's trick (and anything on that) isn't gnarly, but Nick kinda did the dream trick of tricks to shut that spot down. I'd hate to be the guy to step to it after it had been back noseblunted.
In what world is a blunt fakie or a backside boneless harder than a back noseblunt? Lol. Who's Nolan Johnson?
you don't think trying to pop back in fakie is harder? i do, personally.
nolan used to skate for welcome. i think back boneless was in this, but video is now private, post welcome drama. https://skateboarding.transworld.net/videos/just-nipples-all-city-showdown-2013-welcome-edit/
he created his own company, skram, and still skates
I'm with Glurmpz on this one. I've done blunt to fakie on stuff I would never even think about nose blunting.
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bs noseblunt is a more technically challenging trick but blunt fakie is just asking for trouble, so gnarly.
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i think a blunt fakie would be harder to recover from. you fuck up on that, you're going like 20 feet down, whereas back noseblunt you could at least potentially run out of.
this is of course something i'd never, ever try, so my opinion is a very small one
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i think a blunt fakie would be harder to recover from. you fuck up on that, you're going like 20 feet down, whereas back noseblunt you could at least potentially run out of.
this, if somebody forced me to do a blunt trick on this spot i'd much rather try a switch blunt than a blunt to fakie. rolling down this shit switch would be fucked. a blunt to fakie isn't necessarily harder than a back noseblunt, but it's definitely less "safe" of a trick
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i think a blunt fakie would be harder to recover from. you fuck up on that, you're going like 20 feet down, whereas back noseblunt you could at least potentially run out of.
this, if somebody forced me to do a blunt trick on this spot i'd much rather try a switch blunt than a blunt to fakie. rolling down this shit switch would be fucked. a blunt to fakie isn't necessarily harder than a back noseblunt, but it's definitely less "safe" of a trick
So, I've had this discussion with people before and it comes down to one thing - apparently a lot of people feel less confident coming in fakie on tricks. But, there's also a lot of people like myself who that really makes no difference to. I'm not less likely to slip out or fuck up just because I'm coming in forward. In fact, personally, I suck at coming in straight out of noseblunts and hence would rather try a blunt fakie on anything before a noseblunt coming straight in. It all depends on the person. So take away the person to person comfort with tricks and you're comparing a blunt fakie to a backside noseblunt. There's a reason any variation of a backside noseblunt, sliding or not, is held as one of the pinnacles of difficulty. Skaters do blunt fakies all the time on vert. People lose their shit if someone does a back noseblunt on vert.
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Fuck man, Simon is sick.
I can’t find the video where Nolan does the boneless but there is this.
:43 seconds, right when flux of pink indians starts playing.
https://youtu.be/TGTicCt_Pss
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This blunt to fakie vs bs noseblunt argument is nonsense. Which would you rather do on a quarter pipe? I don’t get the rational that this wouldn’t scale up. Every kid and their dog can blunt to fakie, whereas bs noseblunts are a lot less common. I’m also one of the weirdos who’s more comfortable rolling fakie.
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i one time hung up coming in fake and cracked my the tip of my elbow and it's never been the same since.
which is to say, this argument makes sense, and i get it. imma be real, back noseblunt hurts my head to watch, and blunt fakie hurts my head to think about
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Enumclaw proud
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pretty sure it's the same spot Simon had that absurd wallride in that latest Girl video, so interesting that he also apparently got this and didn't make the vid.
full Simon Bannerot part coming?
Yup. Same spot. Garfield
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To clarify my point a bit more - It seems a lot of people view riding fakie more as going backwards, instead of just the other direction. If you tell yourself that riding away from something fakie is harder, then it's probably gonna feel that way too. I couldn't blunt fakie forever on transition, and it was getting rid of the 'I'm riding backwards' mindset that was the trick to learning it. I do back noseblunts on stuff, and I almost always revert around to fakie because it's just easier for me than coming in straight. Is it possible that those who view a blunt fakie as a harder trick may not be strong switch skaters themselves? I'm genuinely curious about this one...
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http://youtu.be/X84fsdi8yuE
havnt seen that before, absolutely mental
Watch the entire video and you'll forget it.....
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To clarify my point a bit more - It seems a lot of people view riding fakie more as going backwards, instead of just the other direction. If you tell yourself that riding away from something fakie is harder, then it's probably gonna feel that way too. I couldn't blunt fakie forever on transition, and it was getting rid of the 'I'm riding backwards' mindset that was the trick to learning it. I do back noseblunts on stuff, and I almost always revert around to fakie because it's just easier for me than coming in straight. Is it possible that those who view a blunt fakie as a harder trick may not be strong switch skaters themselves? I'm genuinely curious about this one...
I see where you're coming from but I agree that going down to fakie would be way scarier here, if only because there's the angle between bank and wallride that has to be cleared riding down at this spot, which seems much harder switch. The fact that no one has done anything to fakie on the top (to my knowledge?), while quite a few other tricks have been done, would seem to support this.
I once dislocated my elbow on a steep bank coming back down to fakie after doing several fs ollies no problem though, so I might be biased.
So you don't feel like riding backwards when you do tricks to fakie? I'd love to learn that.
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Seeing this spot around a bunch. a BMX bro recently tail whipped it.
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Some real jock shit going on with this argument.
Anything up and back down this is mental. Switch back noseblunt would be cool ;D
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jimi hendrix's highschool
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To clarify my point a bit more - It seems a lot of people view riding fakie more as going backwards, instead of just the other direction. If you tell yourself that riding away from something fakie is harder, then it's probably gonna feel that way too. I couldn't blunt fakie forever on transition, and it was getting rid of the 'I'm riding backwards' mindset that was the trick to learning it. I do back noseblunts on stuff, and I almost always revert around to fakie because it's just easier for me than coming in straight. Is it possible that those who view a blunt fakie as a harder trick may not be strong switch skaters themselves? I'm genuinely curious about this one...
I do agree that blunt fakies are basically setup tricks on most ramps, but under a certain height the two are effectively exchangeable in ease. And it’s worth mentioning that basically nobody skating that ramp has issues doing either blunt fakies or noseblunts.
But blunt fakie is hands-down way scarier on this ramp - there’s a reason nobody really does tricks to fakie on it, despite many of the best transition skaters living literally two miles away (at a house with a vert ramp, no less 😂).
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Well this has been interesting. I genuinely would never have thought the idea of riding away fakie was enough to make a blunt scarier and harder than a backside noseblunt on the same obstacle, but I understand what those of you who feel that way are saying.
Does this mean, in a contest scenario for example, you would judge a blunt fakie on a bank to wall higher than a backside noseblunt on the same thing?
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Well this has been interesting. I genuinely would never have thought the idea of riding away fakie was enough to make a blunt scarier and harder than a backside noseblunt on the same obstacle, but I understand what those of you who feel that way are saying.
Does this mean, in a contest scenario for example, you would judge a blunt fakie on a bank to wall higher than a backside noseblunt on the same thing?
Just as with this, it would completely depend on the bank to wall.
A pivot to fakie is easier than both of those tricks, but still way gnarlier to do on this wall than either of those.
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Well this has been interesting. I genuinely would never have thought the idea of riding away fakie was enough to make a blunt scarier and harder than a backside noseblunt on the same obstacle, but I understand what those of you who feel that way are saying.
Does this mean, in a contest scenario for example, you would judge a blunt fakie on a bank to wall higher than a backside noseblunt on the same thing?
Just as with this, it would completely depend on the bank to wall.
A pivot to fakie is easier than both of those tricks, but still way gnarlier to do on this wall than either of those.
Yeah, a pivot fakie would be scary as shit on that since you're more likely to just turn in instead of popping in to fakie. That thing is 3 times the height of anything I ever hit though so I honestly can't say. All I can speak for is my own experience in which a blunt fakie has always been easier than a back noseblunt. I can't think of any scenario where that would change for me.
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Going fakie or regular
Blunt or noseblunt
I would not try anything on this spot because it looks dangerous.
I would like to see the spot in person to be honest just to realize how good skateboarders are. (I live in Paris so I probably see less pro skaters as a person living in California)
So yeah this spot is gnarly. Damn imagine you are getting towed into a wall by a motorcycle, few milliseconds later you are wallriding, you are approaching the top, you are thinking about your trick. OK you successfully locked your back noseblunt, now think about landing the trick into that wall. Adrenaline kick for sure.
Writing this little breakdown I realized how gnarly it was, I understand that grinding or jumping El Toro is gnarly but somehow you have « time » to think. Here you need balls + quick feet + quick reactions.
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If we're being picky sw bs noseblunt tre in to cross-legged would be up there
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you're not a real skateboarder unless you can do a switch blindside flip in trick at this spot.
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i got towed in by a motorcycle here and couldn’t even make it up to the wall portion
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invert.gif)
Did cobra do kicky bs wall ride?
Bs wallride kickflip out at 1:49
https://youtu.be/8rsd4g-yLd8
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invert.gif)
Did cobra do kicky bs wall ride?
https://youtu.be/8rsd4g-yLd8
Max Holbein the first to spark it off with a fs grind.
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https://youtu.be/In5SAZQjErg
2:31 kickflip fakie
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invert.gif)
Did cobra do kicky bs wall ride?
https://youtu.be/8rsd4g-yLd8
Max Holbein the first to spark it off with a fs grind.
I remember being blown away by that. What’s that footage in?
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Damn! Can't wait to see the footage. I feel like I've seen other tricks at this spot. Maybe Colllin?
it's been in a ton of stuff, there's the famous stair set on the other side. Garfield High School but it's technically Medgar Evers Pool.
it's been on KOTR and anytime a team comes through the NW they stop there
this is fucked though
(https://www.ambushskateboarding.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/invert.gif)
Did cobra do kicky bs wall ride?
https://youtu.be/8rsd4g-yLd8
Max Holbein the first to spark it off with a fs grind.
I remember being blown away by that. What’s that footage in?
last trick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLk3-zvJAXk
didn't mean to start this debate lol. the way i look at it, blunt fakie is immensely easier on smaller/medium transition. but when we're talking about massive transition (fuck it does a giant wall even count as transition?) i think there's so much more that can go wrong doing a blunt fakie. as we saw with nick, someone that's a coordinated transition skater can fairly "easily" run out and recover from a back noseblunt. i dont think you can do that with a blunt fakie
also yeah can't find the footage of nolan's back boneless anymore. i cant imagine standing up there in the back boneless position, and fucking jumping back in. terrifying
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I guess agree to disagree. I do not see the logic in a blunt fakie being harder than a back noseblunt. It only makes sense to me if you are a person who is not comfortable riding switch.
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has anyone done even a rock to fakie yet? Seems like that would be one of the first to get scratched off. My 2 cents: blunt fakie would be gnarlier than bs noseblunt but both are incomprehensible
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I guess agree to disagree. I do not see the logic in a blunt fakie being harder than a back noseblunt. It only makes sense to me if you are a person who is not comfortable riding switch.
isn't that the point of switch? that it's less comfortable?
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Casper 3:22
https://youtu.be/8FBPyCe03pQ
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Sick, and put me down in the blunt fakie “hell no” category. The idea of rolling down that switch, and hitting the bank’s “kink” switch is utterly terrifying.
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This is a classic, 'what's harder, the in or the out?' debate...
I can see how going in fakie is nuts but doesn't everyone know someone that can blunt fakie anything? Didn't Daewon blunt fakie some pole sticking out of the ground? Can you imagine if he back noseblunted that?
Until someone switch back noseblunts it to make everyone happy....this will continue....
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how about half cab blunt fakie
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has anyone done even a rock to fakie yet? Seems like that would be one of the first to get scratched off. My 2 cents: blunt fakie would be gnarlier than bs noseblunt but both are incomprehensible
1:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71Axwm-WuM
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has anyone done even a rock to fakie yet? Seems like that would be one of the first to get scratched off. My 2 cents: blunt fakie would be gnarlier than bs noseblunt but both are incomprehensible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71Axwm-WuM
Dudes who are good at blunts could pop it in and ride it out exactly the same as that rock fakie.
Maybe I'm just oddly NOT comfortable popping straight in out of noseblunts? I always revert to fakie. I could never skate the thing at Garfield but if someone put a gun to my head and said I had to try a blunt fakie or a back noseblunt I'm sure as hell choosing the blunt fakie.
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A friend of mine did lien to tail back in 2013:
2:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD6Ymp_P6E8
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has anyone done even a rock to fakie yet? Seems like that would be one of the first to get scratched off. My 2 cents: blunt fakie would be gnarlier than bs noseblunt but both are incomprehensible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71Axwm-WuM
Dudes who are good at blunts could pop it in and ride it out exactly the same as that rock fakie.
Maybe I'm just oddly NOT comfortable popping straight in out of noseblunts? I always revert to fakie. I could never skate the thing at Garfield but if someone put a gun to my head and said I had to try a blunt fakie or a back noseblunt I'm sure as hell choosing the blunt fakie.
i would also choose blunt fakie, as i know i'd have no chance at getting into/out of the back noseblunt. there's no dispute that technicality-wise, back nb is harder. however i just think that wayyy more can go wrong in a blunt fakie, and i do think that in this scenario, rolling back down that wall blindly makes both the tricks equal in skill. popping back into that wall is a lot different then just lifting back into it like on that rock fakie
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has anyone done even a rock to fakie yet? Seems like that would be one of the first to get scratched off. My 2 cents: blunt fakie would be gnarlier than bs noseblunt but both are incomprehensible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71Axwm-WuM
Dudes who are good at blunts could pop it in and ride it out exactly the same as that rock fakie.
Maybe I'm just oddly NOT comfortable popping straight in out of noseblunts? I always revert to fakie. I could never skate the thing at Garfield but if someone put a gun to my head and said I had to try a blunt fakie or a back noseblunt I'm sure as hell choosing the blunt fakie.
Blindly? Why would it be blind? I had a hunch that was the issue - you think of riding fakie as looking the opposite way you’re rolling. And yeah, if you don’t look where you’re going when riding switch it would be sketchier. I don’t do blunts that way, which explains my point of view.
Watch the clip of the rock fakie again and pay attention to the body language and where the skater is looking. Also notice how the kink was no issue riding fakie.
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i went there, sat at the top of the steps and ate a two piece from ezell's, and just could not wrap my mind around how anyone has done anything on the lip, even with a tow-in. it's just so ridiculously fucked
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Everyone has a blunt fakie friend..........no one has a back nose blunt friend.....
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I'd much rather try a blunt fakie. Bs noseblunt I'd probably slip out on to the deck and fall face first down that thing, while blunt would be much safer to get into. Then again, someone who is actually good at bs nbs might feel different
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for a weird reason i always thought, the school was named jimi hendrix high school?
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i'd rather do a 900 to invert to switch back noseblunt tre flip 360 in but im just built different.
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for a weird reason i always thought, the school was named jimi hendrix high school?
It's been called that in a few mags. Jimi Hendrix attended there if I remember correctly.