spots that are easier to skate than they look

[j....soy.....]

Mega ramp.....pretty much a mini ramp but bigger....

[doublesteveburger]

the marble outledge in downtown san diego was smaller than i anticipated, my friends and i sessioned it on go skate day a few years ago before it was knobbed.

also, carlsbad is way bigger in person, it must be the grass or something, not to mention all the awkward cracks leading up to it.

[Probably A Robot]

dkn: did you roll down the NYC courthouse drop and then think "that was surprisingly small"?

Seriously. I went to that spot a couple years ago and it is humbling to say the least. Making it off that drop is a trick in itself.

[bumptobar]

Clipper ledge didnt seem so massive when i got up to it but on the other hand seeing how rounded it is made it way gnarlier to me.  I cant really say any spot has underwhelmed me after seeing it in person. 

[Explosive Bolts]

Pulaski ledges might look bigger on video. Still they're so rounded that it can be tricky to lock in (for me at least).

[Molte]

This handrail. I think it should be somewhere in Beverly Hills. At least some cover Bastian Salabanzi had there with a kicky back tail, said something about 90210. Theres a small six step first. Justin Eldridge does ss 180 and then nollie heel crooks. But we'll, I've always had the idea, that it must be way easier to skate, then it looks like, judging by what's been going down on that thing.
It's here at 4:17(and by the way, my pleasure reminding those of you, who haven't seen this part for a while.)

I actually thought that this were the spot, where he did the nollie front blunt. Mistaking.

[shouldn't]

yeah that's beverly high school. jeremy leabres did the nollie f/s blunt down it. it's a small rail but, not abnormally small.

[Rusty_Berrings]

i take it you're the security guard that works at whatever strip mall this is. what kind of trucks do you have?

[nylin]

Wilshire 10 rail was shockingly small to me. Like a skatepark rail.

[rideforJJ]

Wooodward- PA, west, Colorado, snowboarding, gymnastics, cafeteria, diving board, arcade, paintball and china.

[SoCalHandrailSkater]

yeah that's beverly high school. jeremy leabres did the nollie f/s blunt down it. it's a small rail but, not abnormally small.

i believe it was fakie

[ThugWaffle]

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i found El Toro shockingly small

the courthouse drop in NYC was also underwhelming--surprised Jake Johnson didn't pull off the fakie f/s flip

and i could go on forever about spots where the opposite applies

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I did too, but my head, ankles, and hip thought differently.

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What did you try, any makes?

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I tried to ollie it, but it didnt work out well

My respect to you for trying that listening to music, you must of been listening to alien ant farm or something. I can't focus skating street listening to music let alone go for that.

[Nigga]

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I didn't think any spot could be easier to skate than it looks in video. Video always make shit look way smaller/more mellow than it looks when I see it in person. At least, for the few spots that I've skated that I've seen in videos, it goes like this: (1) I get excited thinking about all the shit I want to do when I get there (2) I get there and roll up to it (3) I realize the spot is 50,000 times harder to skate than I imagined and I suck too much to even be there.

Whenever I see any of the parks I frequent in a video, it always looks half the size that it does in person. A decent size bowl looks like a fucking mini ramp. Video is a cock tease.

[close]

This is basically true. I remember seeing Brian Anderson kickflip back tail bigspin the tomb stone at Flushing and thinking I could do it when I flew out. That didn't exactly work out as planned. The trash cans at Love were the same way.

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Jereme Rogers?

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I can't believe you're the first one to figure that out.

nigga you are not jereme rogers

[ttayw]

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yeah that's beverly high school. jeremy leabres did the nollie f/s blunt down it. it's a small rail but, not abnormally small.

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i believe it was fakie

He did it both ways, nollie and fakie

[cornholio]

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i found El Toro shockingly small

the courthouse drop in NYC was also underwhelming--surprised Jake Johnson didn't pull off the fakie f/s flip

and i could go on forever about spots where the opposite applies

[close]

I did too, but my head, ankles, and hip thought differently.

[close]

What did you try, any makes?

[close]

I tried to ollie it, but it didnt work out well

[close]

My respect to you for trying that listening to music, you must of been listening to alien ant farm or something. I can't focus skating street listening to music let alone go for that.

Haha naw man I was listening to Sum 41. Honestly I think I was listening to Reckless Life, Ellingtons song.

[Kanye Omari West]

the marble outledge in downtown san diego was smaller than i anticipated, my friends and i sessioned it on go skate day a few years ago before it was knobbed.

also, carlsbad is way bigger in person, it must be the grass or something, not to mention all the awkward cracks leading up to it.

Heard the same thing from a very gifted skater, if he's claiming it's gnarly then you know it's fact

Dam, I thought about making this exact thread like a couple weeks ago and forgot, it's cool someone made it happen though ha

Tampa 10 is about average maybe even kinda small for a 10

I could pretty much go on about South FL spots being more ratchet than expected but I doubt anybody would know or even care since they're not mega famous

[witty pseudonym]

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i take it you're the security guard that works at whatever strip mall this is. what kind of trucks do you have?

A Toyota Tacoma, but I don't see how that is relevant. 

[J.R.]

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I didn't think any spot could be easier to skate than it looks in video. Video always make shit look way smaller/more mellow than it looks when I see it in person. At least, for the few spots that I've skated that I've seen in videos, it goes like this: (1) I get excited thinking about all the shit I want to do when I get there (2) I get there and roll up to it (3) I realize the spot is 50,000 times harder to skate than I imagined and I suck too much to even be there.

Whenever I see any of the parks I frequent in a video, it always looks half the size that it does in person. A decent size bowl looks like a fucking mini ramp. Video is a cock tease.

[close]

This is basically true. I remember seeing Brian Anderson kickflip back tail bigspin the tomb stone at Flushing and thinking I could do it when I flew out. That didn't exactly work out as planned. The trash cans at Love were the same way.

[close]

Jereme Rogers?

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I can't believe you're the first one to figure that out.

[close]

nigga you are not jereme rogers

Yeah I'm black, so......

[Pine]

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the marble outledge in downtown san diego was smaller than i anticipated, my friends and i sessioned it on go skate day a few years ago before it was knobbed.

also, carlsbad is way bigger in person, it must be the grass or something, not to mention all the awkward cracks leading up to it.

[close]

Heard the same thing from a very gifted skater, if he's claiming it's gnarly then you know it's fact

Dam, I thought about making this exact thread like a couple weeks ago and forgot, it's cool someone made it happen though ha

Tampa 10 is about average maybe even kinda small for a 10

I could pretty much go on about South FL spots being more ratchet than expected but I doubt anybody would know or even care since they're not mega famous

railroad gap in tampa (koston switch bs flips in yeah right!) is a lot bigger than i expected, and the ground rips you apart

[Kanye Omari West]

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the marble outledge in downtown san diego was smaller than i anticipated, my friends and i sessioned it on go skate day a few years ago before it was knobbed.

also, carlsbad is way bigger in person, it must be the grass or something, not to mention all the awkward cracks leading up to it.

[close]

Heard the same thing from a very gifted skater, if he's claiming it's gnarly then you know it's fact

Dam, I thought about making this exact thread like a couple weeks ago and forgot, it's cool someone made it happen though ha

Tampa 10 is about average maybe even kinda small for a 10

I could pretty much go on about South FL spots being more ratchet than expected but I doubt anybody would know or even care since they're not mega famous

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railroad gap in tampa (koston switch bs flips in yeah right!) is a lot bigger than i expected, and the ground rips you apart

Oh shit, totally forgot about that one, it's been a minute since I've seen/heard anybody do anything down it so I guess I forgot it existed lol

[sprayTAN101]

this thing:



thought it was a legit handrail from all the fisheye footy. that was until i went there.

[Iceman]

Southern California.

Though, certain SoCal spots were the exact opposite.

[hekkahyphy]

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dkn: did you roll down the NYC courthouse drop and then think "that was surprisingly small"?

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Seriously. I went to that spot a couple years ago and it is humbling to say the least. Making it off that drop is a trick in itself.

that kink in the roll off doe

[ThugWaffle]

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i found El Toro shockingly small

the courthouse drop in NYC was also underwhelming--surprised Jake Johnson didn't pull off the fakie f/s flip

and i could go on forever about spots where the opposite applies

[close]

I did too, but my head, ankles, and hip thought differently.

[close]

What did you try, any makes?

[close]

I tried to ollie it, but it didnt work out well

[close]

My respect to you for trying that listening to music, you must of been listening to alien ant farm or something. I can't focus skating street listening to music let alone go for that.

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Haha naw man I was listening to Sum 41. Honestly I think I was listening to Reckless Life, Ellingtons song.

Now that i think about it, its totally doable if you were listening to that.

[HoudiniXLogic]

this hubba for all you hubba grinders.

http://skateboard.tv/video/6201/ryan-lay-vs-thailand-hubba

I mean its only chest high at the top. Dollin Front nose'd it.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

The westwood 10 in LA- its the spot where Greco fights the bum with the two tennis rackets. Its unbelievable that they fit 10 stairs into such a small space.
The Wilshire rail is like a perfect little skatepark rail, but I kind of assumed it would be like that after watching the coverage there.

The DWP ledges that used to be in downtown were even more perfect than they look in videos, does that count?

[L33Tg33k]

The gold square rails at the train station in SF are pretty damn small.