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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: graibe on November 06, 2022, 12:01:06 PM
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I'll start by saying that slappy grinds look easy as fuck when you see someone do it but when you go to actually do them, they are pretty hard. Same with wallrides. Although, wallrides make it look like you defy gravity, which makes them look more difficult. People that can wallride steezy make that shit look easy tho...
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
not very difficult when all you feel like doing is procrastinating your college assignments by talking about skateboarding :D
360 shuvs are difficult. I had an uncle tell me that I should learn them before tre flips, and I still think that's kinda crazy lmao.
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Slappy back 5-0s.
Frontside nose slides
Heel flips
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Slappy back 5-0s.
Frontside nose slides
Heel flips
Heel flips are definitely one of them. To non-skaters it looks just like a kickflip. But we know they are much harder. Some days I can heel flip and some days the board flips so far behind me that there's no way I can catch it. such a mixed bag
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360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip
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/r skateboaridng
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Alley oop topsoul
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360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip
you raise a good point. however, I think I'm tryna talk about tricks that look easy but are actually difficult, not the other way around.
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360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip
id agree if its a crappy, full scoop, nopop tre, but a properly popped tre caught with one foot while still in the air is way harder imo.
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Ollie. I mean it was hard at one time right?
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Judos and handplants/inverts
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Whoever said slappy back 5-0 is spot on. To add to that, front crooks look simple, but is the hardest fucking trick. Everything else I’ve ever learned on a ledge or rail is miles easier than front crook
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Manual shove, manual bs 180
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^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot
Not for everyone but for me backside bluntslides, front 180 to fakie manual
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Manual shove, manual bs 180
180 manual and then 180 out the opposite way.
Like half cab manual frontside 180 out
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Manual front 180-anything never works out for me. Seems so simple, but the body position coming out of a manny always feels awkward
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switch flips
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Back nose grind but just for me personally. Just because I’m so used to crooks. I have been landing them more lately though, want to get them more consistent.
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Backside 180 to switch manual. Seemingly simple yet probably the hardest 180-manual of them all.
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360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip
Definitely not a universal truth, I've struggled with 3 flips for two decades now.
One day I'll land them almost every try, the very next day I'll land 1 out of 50.
Whatever the knack is for them, I just don't have it, or at least I can't keep it for long periods of time.
My kickflips are always on point tho!
I said it in another thread, doing a good FS nose slide is way harder than people give it credit for being.
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I suck at tre flips so those
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^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot
I still think it’s easier, but I’ve definitely landed on and walked off of so god damn many under rotated and stiff leg front shove outs.
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switch manny and fakie nosemanny
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^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot
I still think it’s easier, but I’ve definitely landed on and walked off of so god damn many under rotated and stiff leg front shove outs.
one of my last mental breakdowns was on manual front shove. I almost cried
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BS 360s on flat. I’m old and they were the thing then but could never do it without pivoting
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B/S Bigspins. I can do them, but man, they take significant effort for me to make them look "effortless." If that makes any sense.
Also, variel heels
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
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Switch f/s bigspins seemed like they would be easy for me, based on how going frontside switch feels comfortable. It looks easy as well. It's not easy at all.
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all of 'em
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.
You can do it.
After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.
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loops and spins on half pikes
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
i can definitely relate. I've spent hours in parking lots just drilling kick flips and wearing out the toe of my shoes and I can hardly kick flip off a curb still
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Gonna sound fried but pop shuvs. Flat they are a no brainer but if i’m going fast or down anything bigger than knee height i struggle so hard
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Forgot to mention f/s bigspins. People make them look so easy but they are hard AF
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
not very difficult when all you feel like doing is procrastinating your college assignments by talking about skateboarding :D
360 shuvs are difficult. I had an uncle tell me that I should learn them before tre flips, and I still think that's kinda crazy lmao.
all my posting is done during my 2 hour lit class
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frontside heelflips and big heels.
i can do both switch with my eyes closed, almost like they arent even flip tricks. just switch 180s with different pressure points.
ive only done a handful of fs heels and big heels regular that felt nice and popped/caught. people like layton, Chima and Shane who have fat ass regular ones trip me out.
such a hard trick.
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I'll start by saying that slappy grinds look easy as fuck when you see someone do it but when you go to actually do them, they are pretty hard. Same with wallrides. Although, wallrides make it look like you defy gravity, which makes them look more difficult. People that can wallride steezy make that shit look easy tho...
i disagree on the wallrides, they're a really easy trick if you learn them on progressively steeper banks over time. once you get to a vertical wall, it doesnt feel that different from a jersey barrier
for me, bigspins. just a pop shuv with an extra 180 right !?!
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Basically every trick. Skateboarding is hard man
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Basically every trick. Skateboarding is hard man
pros make it look so easy
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Front board
Front nose
BS Nosegrind
Front 180 switch manny
Anything involving a fakie manny
Gotta agree with the slappy back 5-0 comments too, and relate heavily to the kickflip story
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Stand up grind
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Whoever said slappy back 5-0 is spot on. To add to that, front crooks look simple, but is the hardest fucking trick. Everything else I’ve ever learned on a ledge or rail is miles easier than front crook
ive actively been trying front crooks every sessions for years and only landed maybe a handful, only 1 id consider clean, maybe im just bad
holding front boards more than 1m is super hard
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A proper frontside rock and roll.
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FS blunt slide.
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Switch pop shuv.
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legit back 5-0s in tranny.
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Fs tail
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Switch back tails…
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Biggie front board
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frontside heelflips and big heels.
i can do both switch with my eyes closed, almost like they arent even flip tricks. just switch 180s with different pressure points.
ive only done a handful of fs heels and big heels regular that felt nice and popped/caught. people like layton, Chima and Shane who have fat ass regular ones trip me out.
such a hard trick.
i agree with this. i don't think that many people would say so looking at them on paper, but of the tricks i can do i consider regular fs heel the hardest. on flat any way. they're pretty easy on bank, but also abominable looking.
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Any thing I think of, I just realize “well that’s why I’m not pro”. My standards are ridiculous.
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Slappy crooks.
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pop shuv, switch fs shuv. I can do them bu they look and feel gross.
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pop shuv, switch fs shuv. I can do them bu they look and feel gross.
Ok, last piece of unsolicited trick advice, but only because i struggled with pop shuvs for a while too. The key for me is popping from the pocket between your bolts/tail, instead of out farther on your tail. For me it helped keep it level and from over rotating as much.
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BS 360s on flat. I’m old and they were the thing then but could never do it without pivoting
rage! I can do them fakie of course but can never get the rotation regular
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Whoever said slappy back 5-0 is spot on. To add to that, front crooks look simple, but is the hardest fucking trick. Everything else I’ve ever learned on a ledge or rail is miles easier than front crook
ive actively been trying front crooks every sessions for years and only landed maybe a handful, only 1 id consider clean, maybe im just bad
holding front boards more than 1m is super hard
do you have the problem where the ones you do lane you come out sideways? I can’t get em straight for the life of me
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Maybe I'm doing my back 5-0 slappys the wrong way but I find them way easier than regular ol' back slappys.
I feel like anyone can ride into a curb and just pull up their nose and get into a 5-0.
I thought I had back slappy 50-50s but I was really just riding into a back 5-0 then letting my nose down for the 50 and I thought front slappys were impossible. Then I learned front slappys after a long winter skating a curb in a parking garage and realized I never could back slappy so I had to kind of apply my front slappy knowledge to my back slappys and relearn them which, even though learning front slappys was quite a struggle, I found even harder.
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switch pop shuv it nosegrind 180. all the dudes do em to start lines or on shoot out ledges and its so sick.
Trick is fucked
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legit back 5-0s in tranny.
This, and you rarely see people doing them properly and extended. I reckon Monty grind is easier.
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legit back 5-0s in tranny.
This, and you rarely see people doing them properly and extended. I reckon Monty grind is easier.
i agree, i cant even get a BS 5-0 stall proper without immediately pivoting back in
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Impossibles
No complys
I honestly don't think I'll ever land an impossible - shit looks so fun and easy but my brain doesn't compute
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Switch tre is the bane of my existence
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Slappy crooks.
Feel this heavy. Its probably the only slappy trick I know that is super dependent on what curb it is.
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Pivot fakie (backside)
I payed the piper learning those boys
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heel to toe
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quadruple kickflips. when i do em none of the park-ladies clap, yet ill do a boneless and their tits will harden
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.
You can do it.
After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.
This + try transferring your weight from your front foot to your back foot as you pop if you don’t already, this in particular has helped me with consistency. It might sound weird but you can also try aiming the flick/kick with your heel, so like straight off the front of the nose, not up, not down, just straight off and through the nose aiming with your heel.
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Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.
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Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.
Popping on transition. Can only imagine it is the coolest feeling for those who can do it proper.
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Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.
The only "legitimate" ones I could do were at places where there is a hip? I'd say its more of a transfer but it wasnt much of a change just a slight hip. An angle makes it much easier than on a vertical wall
I could only get a few inches above the coping but seemed to work
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.
You can do it.
After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.
thanks mate !
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heel to toe
That is the move. Now that I read it, it is pretty easy lol
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kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually
Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.
You can do it.
After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.
This + try transferring your weight from your front foot to your back foot as you pop if you don’t already, this in particular has helped me with consistency. It might sound weird but you can also try aiming the flick/kick with your heel, so like straight off the front of the nose, not up, not down, just straight off and through the nose aiming with your heel.
I don't want to muddy this up but I just got kickflips consistent after I had stopped for a while. If I go straight off the nose the nose would always drift in front of me, like a 45 degree varial flip. I could land on the board but wouldn't roll away. The way I got them more consistent is trying to keep my shoulders and body completely in line with the board and the flip is done just with the front foot, a little to the back side of the end of the nose. Imagining kinda how people do switch flips with their shoulders not open at all. Now I can get them and I don't need perfect foot positioning.
Anything transition, but that's just cos I'm a wuss.
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360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip
you raise a good point. however, I think I'm tryna talk about tricks that look easy but are actually difficult, not the other way around.
then why did you name the thread "tricks that look easier than they actually are"
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Slappy crook pop over, I got them, but every time I try I’m like “do I really want to spend 20-30 mins to get one?” Luckily last session I landed like 3 in 30 mins. Getting better, but still difficult for how “simple” it looks
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I took the time to learn front feebles today. And it made me mad how easy they began to feel
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Nollie fs 180 sw back 5050
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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.
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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.
Would you do a Sean Penn?
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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.
He's one of those people who I'd definitely be like, "that old man is kind-of hot" and then he'd start talking and I'd immediately lose my erection.
Gloryhole sex would be fine though.
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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.
He's one of those people who I'd definitely be like, "that old man is kind-of hot" and then he'd start talking and I'd immediately lose my erection.
Gloryhole sex would be fine though.
is it ever not?
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back crook was the easiest ledge trick ive ever learned
maybe thats just me tho
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Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!
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Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!
To the people who can do them, they are.
Just one hell of a learning curve.
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A nice looking front smith
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Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!
Just one hell of a learning curve.
Yeah, I'll keep at it.. just be getting bodied till I gottem lol
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Alley oop topsoul
tru spin top souls are much easier
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!
On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!
On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.
Im not saying the inward position doesnt work, but it is a lil unnecessary. All you need to do wiith these, and bigspins is more so to lift your front foot directly up, almost even a little backwards away from the nose so you dont get the half-flips. It frequently can feel like youre going vertical, but the nature of most tricks and their muscle memory cause you to tap the board without noticing.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!
On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.
I can bigspin fine but like 50% of my bs 3shuvs will half-flip. Sometimes they're super easy and other times I can barely get one. Seems to strongly depend on the setup for me
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For me it's the opposite with 360 Shuvits, I need my front foot to actively guide the board through the initial spinning movement to keep it from flipping. It's the same with Pop Shuvits, the pop alone will make the board spin somewhat and needs to be counterbalanced by the front foot moving in the opposite direction of the scoop.
I firmly believe there's no right or wrong way to move and whatever gets the job done for you best is the way to go, but it's fascinating how different these can be.
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Not a specific trick but skating a double set. I wasn't a massive stair guy but just by skating from 99 it was a thing you basically did. I could Ollie tens easy and Ollied a 15 but even like a 3-3 double would weird me out. Watching old videos it's weird how non huckers like Robbie McKinley or Chris Roberts can like nollie back heel and shit down doublesets
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Not a specific trick but skating a double set. I wasn't a massive stair guy but just by skating from 99 it was a thing you basically did. I could Ollie tens easy and Ollied a 15 but even like a 3-3 double would weird me out. Watching old videos it's weird how non huckers like Robbie McKinley or Chris Roberts can like nollie back heel and shit down doublesets
some skaters aren't scared of drops, some are. but almost anyone who gets sponsored is used to skating fast. so a doubleset is closer to flat gap than a large stack. that's how i see it, marc johnson, not a hucker but he can go tech across a street or whatever.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!
On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.
Unsolicited trick advice, sorry if that is annoying.
It helps if you think about that trick like it is a no comply movement. Let that board pop into your hand while you take your front foot of. You have to crouch a bit on your front leg to grab your board that way. Jumping back in to transition is mad scary. And it is easier on top of a bank instead of on flat.
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Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?
Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.
Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.
Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!
On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.
Unsolicited trick advice, sorry if that is annoying.
It helps if you think about that trick like it is a no comply movement. Let that board pop into your hand while you take your front foot of. You have to crouch a bit on your front leg to grab your board that way. Jumping back in to transition is mad scary. And it is easier on top of a bank instead of on flat.
No that's what I was hoping for, thank you! So far people told me it's easiest on very steep transition because the board shoots straight up into your hands, but I still couldn't get it right and grab the side. Gonna try it on a bank next
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Backside 180 to switch manual. Seemingly simple yet probably the hardest 180-manual of them all.
I can do 180 sw mannys both ways but im unable to nosemanual at all, like even just without ollieing into them
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Back feebs fakie in transition.
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front bonelesses
my body could just never compress and grab the board that way way
frontside airs, no problem for me, so nothing makes sense
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fs nose grind 180, and nosebonk 180 type shit. people make those look so easy, and i struggle HARD for em
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Fs flips. Getting them to spin and flip like a fs 90 degree kickflip, catch, then bring it the rest of the 180 with your front foot.. doing them like that consistently is hard. They want to muska flip or just flip in a way that doesnt look pretty too often. Deceptively hard trick cuz its considered a basic trick. Harder to do on flat than on a bank or transition too.
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Once you figure out the foot position varial heels are really easy.
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Hospital. The fs entry trick not hospital flip.
I've seen more injuries attempting that than anything else.