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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2021, 03:30:59 PM »
nothing I'm stoked on the stoke. my homie pushes regular mongo hangs at a 90 degree angle on his boardslide and boneless and early grabs onto slides and grinds. love his style as much as dude throwing ghetto bird on the hip

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2021, 03:34:18 PM »
When someone only does tricks because they're hard, and considers nothing else.

Your tricks are bad if there's no art to them.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2021, 07:12:28 PM »
If the skater does more than one of these things:

-pants that have words on them
-pants that have elastic at the leg opening
-high & tight ponytail (?)
-filmer zooms in on the face before & after trick then posts with some trap on Instagram.

They have a zero percent chance of having a good trick selection.
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2021, 07:22:00 PM »
Hard to pin-point, but there are some things that naturally "flow" together, and others that are way too forced and contrived. A b/s kickflip to fakie 5-0 to 1/2 cab kickflip out flows. A b/s smith to laser out does NOT. Also, there comes a point when tricks reach a natural "end point," and going beyond that just enters into absurdity (a good example being AA's 10 trick ledge combos). This is even true for simple stuff like railslides and slappies. You did a 100 yard f/s slap? Cool wax, bro. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. But, it's all subjective and as long as you're having fun....get as absurd, waxed, and contrived as you want.   
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2021, 07:42:17 PM »
watching someone at a skatepark try to bs boardslide a ledge or a manual pad. a lot of the time this is something you see a kid learning to skate try, but i've seen people who can actually skate go at it for a while too.

i'm not talking about a bonk of the middle of your board either. like, jamming the back truck up against the edge of the ledge and front wheels are totally planted down on the top surface.

as i said, it is often a kid learning to skate, and i'm not actually judging them. it's just an irritating thing to see because you know it's going nowhere. even if it does somehow work, it's horrible.

i think it's an early indicator that you have no concept of how a skateboard works/how anything works.

no hate on kids or skaters who struggle, just jesting.
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2021, 08:12:56 PM »
Back Smith is maybe the most inherently beautiful trick there is.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #36 on: January 16, 2021, 08:15:31 PM »
If you’re wavy enough, you can get away with anything. Example: Justin Brock did a Willy Grind on a bowl in debacle, that was a heat check lol.


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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2021, 08:30:17 PM »
no no complys, body varials, crooked to lipspide, fakie overload, park footage kept to a bare minimum of pool or drainage ditches.  Id rather watch someone do something fast and smooth think of Donny Barley.
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2021, 12:58:57 AM »
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Some tricks are safe: ollie up and I'd say like kickflips. But if there is a countable number of any trick, idk I'm like damn what is up with the varial heel? Obvs there's exceptions to be made, Kalis can noseblunt as much as he wants.
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a limited bag is not neccesarily bad trick selection though - id rather watch a dude who does 4 tricks really well than a dude who could do any trick but chooses to do nollie double flips

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2021, 02:31:08 AM »
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Some tricks are safe: ollie up and I'd say like kickflips. But if there is a countable number of any trick, idk I'm like damn what is up with the varial heel? Obvs there's exceptions to be made, Kalis can noseblunt as much as he wants.
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a limited bag is not neccesarily bad trick selection though - id rather watch a dude who does 4 tricks really well than a dude who could do any trick but chooses to do nollie double flips
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You like been William's?
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2021, 02:39:12 AM »
360 shoves(the "easy" way) out of crooked grinds, frontside boardslide kickflip out, weak pushes, and yo flips. oh, and pat "sinner" pasquale, aka bandana b.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2021, 02:42:56 AM »
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a proper Back Smith is maybe the most inherently beautiful trick there is.
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2021, 05:19:34 AM »
anything that lacks tastefulness

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2021, 08:34:30 AM »
Any double flips, 360 shuv its, and impossibles are a no-go for me. Backside boardslides are bad too and it feels like I see more now than ever. They are usually at gnarly spots, but if the spot is so heavy that the only trick that works is a bs boardslide I would just rather not see anything.

Damn..not even Dylan or Rowley’s?

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #44 on: January 17, 2021, 08:54:36 AM »
Switch mongo unless you look like a 90's pro
Front tail 270 out
3 shuv lipslide
manual dancing combos
coloured grip
repeating tricks in a video part
doing tricks that have already been done at the spot
not skating enough switch and nollie
too many tre flips
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muska flips
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #45 on: January 17, 2021, 10:10:00 AM »
Basically anything is bad trick selection if you do it badly enough and also the opposite. Remember how everyone liked those varial flips CJ did where he overturned them and brought them back in?

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #46 on: January 17, 2021, 11:02:54 AM »
taking the easy way out at spots.

just ollieing something instead of a 180, ride on grinds etc..

feeble grinds instead of something harder, boardslides but not coming out fakie..

nollie bs 180 stuff instead of frontside, tre flips in lines instead of something we dont see in EVERY part..

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #47 on: January 17, 2021, 11:32:04 AM »
Dumb tricks

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #48 on: January 17, 2021, 12:46:14 PM »
watching someone at a skatepark try to bs boardslide a ledge or a manual pad. a lot of the time this is something you see a kid learning to skate try, but i've seen people who can actually skate go at it for a while too.

i'm not talking about a bonk of the middle of your board either. like, jamming the back truck up against the edge of the ledge and front wheels are totally planted down on the top surface.

as i said, it is often a kid learning to skate, and i'm not actually judging them. it's just an irritating thing to see because you know it's going nowhere. even if it does somehow work, it's horrible.

i think it's an early indicator that you have no concept of how a skateboard works/how anything works.

no hate on kids or skaters who struggle, just jesting.

Completely agree with this which is why it's weird that I love to see it done frontside

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #49 on: January 17, 2021, 05:24:45 PM »
Some tricks just look gross. Like the way the body contorts to spin/flip/manipulate the board and it's not a factor of one's style. Laser flips look gross 99% of the time. Sex changes as well. Just the fluidity of the motion is all off imo.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #50 on: January 17, 2021, 06:20:33 PM »
kick flip to 5-0 , yes Sean Pablo's as well

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #51 on: January 17, 2021, 06:30:00 PM »
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Gino Iannucci performing a switch backside tailslide or Josh Kalis a 360 flip.


The preciseness, power, control, bolts and also the spot/street they are....


also the pants yeah...


also, sorry but I hate any variation of smith grinds, I think their whole body position is ugly....
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Have you seen a well done dipped back smith?

I don't think I've seen a double flip anything I liked.

Same here on the double flips but then I saw Gravette do a sick one on flat like a year back. Completely effortless. He might be the exception for me.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #52 on: January 17, 2021, 06:40:26 PM »
tough crowd

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #53 on: January 17, 2021, 11:01:00 PM »
Andy Anderson and Josh Kasper come to mind...

Trick selection seems to me to be dependent on the genre of skating or the personality of the skater. Sometimes weird stuff just works. Josh Kalis made a heelflip body varial look dope.

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection tao you?
« Reply #54 on: January 17, 2021, 11:01:12 PM »
ask yourself " would Jeffwon film this"? if the answer is no, it is a bad trick

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #55 on: January 17, 2021, 11:53:02 PM »
if it has the inward in it it's fucking kryptonite to skating being worth watching or even doing
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #56 on: January 18, 2021, 12:46:24 AM »
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Gino Iannucci performing a switch backside tailslide or Josh Kalis a 360 flip.


The preciseness, power, control, bolts and also the spot/street they are....


also the pants yeah...


also, sorry but I hate any variation of smith grinds, I think their whole body position is ugly....
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Have you seen a well done dipped back smith?

I don't think I've seen a double flip anything I liked.
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Same here on the double flips but then I saw Gravette do a sick one on flat like a year back. Completely effortless. He might be the exception for me.

Andrew Wilson did a sick one over some bins in Johns vid, and another one that sticks out to me was the one Danny Brady did in Lost and Found down that 10 stair, I think it might’ve been his ender

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #57 on: January 18, 2021, 02:17:30 AM »
a limited bag is not neccesarily bad trick selection though - id rather watch a dude who does 4 tricks really well than a dude who could do any trick but chooses to do nollie double flips

A small bag of tricks done well is better than someone who's got a ton of tricks but does them all stinking.
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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #58 on: January 18, 2021, 02:54:56 AM »
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a limited bag is not neccesarily bad trick selection though - id rather watch a dude who does 4 tricks really well than a dude who could do any trick but chooses to do nollie double flips
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A small bag of tricks done well is better than someone who's got a ton of tricks but does them all stinking.
i think bruce lee said something similar along the lines of, "i dont fear the man who has done 1000 different punches one time, i fear the man who has done one punch 1000 times."

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Re: What defines a bad trick selection to you?
« Reply #59 on: January 18, 2021, 03:31:30 AM »
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a limited bag is not neccesarily bad trick selection though - id rather watch a dude who does 4 tricks really well than a dude who could do any trick but chooses to do nollie double flips
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A small bag of tricks done well is better than someone who's got a ton of tricks but does them all stinking.
1000x this

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