Author Topic: Skill Levels for skate (Read 3670 times)

Dead to Me · « **Reply #30 on:** April 19, 2021, 07:48:44 AM »

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I've long felt like 360-flips have pretty much become the new "kickflip" in terms of being a metric of how much time/effort someone has put into skating. But then there's those that you can tell rushed into learning those before even being able to do a solid 180 and can barely do anything on transition/ledges. Parroting everyone else, I think how well-rounded you are says a lot more about where your "skill level" is.
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idk I feel like many people find tres naturally easy. it might actually be an easier trick than a kickflip if you learn it right. once I learned the "trick" to doing them it took me less time to get solid than kickflip. even to this day I have to practice kick flip all the time to hang on to them, whereas I can just whip a tre around after not doing them for weeks
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Shit now I gotta learn 360 flips

For me, they're fucking difficult. I hope to get them on lock one day but right now they never come without at least around a half-hour of trying them at the moment.

j....soy..... · « **Reply #31 on:** April 19, 2021, 07:57:09 AM »

I only care about my rep on slap.....

exlurker · « **Reply #32 on:** April 19, 2021, 08:54:52 AM »

Kickflips require more energy than tres, if you're doing the latter right. Or maybe i just do the former wrong.

Mine have always been dogshit and inconsistent, so maybe it's just jealousy, but I always think a good backside tailslide on a ledge marks someone as a good skater, even if they barely have any other tricks. That trick alone will do.

Christmas Complete · « **Reply #33 on:** April 19, 2021, 11:48:55 AM »

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Brguy · « **Reply #34 on:** April 19, 2021, 01:17:54 PM »

I learned hardflips before 360 flips, but now I can do 360 flips and no hardflips, life sucks sometimes.

homegrown83 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 19, 2021, 02:42:13 PM »

Just skate and have fun.

CorneliusCardew · « **Reply #36 on:** July 21, 2021, 09:43:21 AM »

Quote from: camp chill yourself on April 19, 2021, 05:05:20 AM

i gotta say for a communist you’re really concerned w/ hierarchy my man

Communists tend to be realists we're concerned with what is really going on especially in situations of massive hypocrisy when people act like there is no social structure to the way things are done when in fact they really is.

DaleSr · « **Reply #37 on:** July 21, 2021, 10:00:01 AM »

I think being well rounded and able to do a little bit of everything is the key and the standard I've been trying to hold myself to. I try and do as much as my body allows me to, and still try and push my limits.

MadeYouLook · « **Reply #38 on:** July 21, 2021, 10:18:53 AM »

I think my only critique of other skaters is style... I know this dude who has the patience and will to learn any trick but everything is so sketchy. Him and some other people I know don't spend enough time cruising and pushing.

yghartsyrt · « **Reply #39 on:** July 21, 2021, 10:23:06 AM »

I suck, but i'm too old to care. As long as there's some hanging around and beer involved – i'm fine

Lenny the Fatface · « **Reply #40 on:** July 21, 2021, 10:41:21 AM »

Are you having fun, and are you being a dick? Those are the only questions you need to ask yourself.

ndsr · « **Reply #41 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:07:53 AM »

Quote from: ungzilla on April 18, 2021, 08:21:56 PM

If u can back tail you're a level 9 warlock

Even if I can only nollie into them?

rawbertson. · « **Reply #42 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:08:17 AM »

90% of humans: cant stand on a board without falling
D tier: can ride the board without falling
C Tier: Can scoop the tail
B Tier: Flip trick + 5050
A Tier: fs flips + blunts
Flow: kickflip back tails
Am: nollie flip crooks on rails
Pro: Crook Nollie flip on rails
Legend: Rail of Coke

Hinna · « **Reply #43 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:15:37 AM »

i always just thought back tail switch back tail that sort of thing and switch backside flip/tre/hardflip/good switch flips etc means someones pretty fucking good. if they can sit on a noseblunt or something thats spectacular. not really into switch crooks as the gold standard. i see the redbull kid treflipping in and out of everything and it does nothing for me

jerrygurneyscream · « **Reply #44 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:16:04 AM »

backflip - pro

can not backflip - am

ndsr · « **Reply #45 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:17:16 AM »

Quote from: rawbertson. on July 21, 2021, 11:08:17 AM

90% of humans: cant stand on a board without falling
D tier: can ride the board without falling
C Tier: Can scoop the tail
B Tier: Flip trick + 5050
A Tier: fs flips + blunts
Flow: kickflip back tails
Am: nollie flip crooks on rails
Pro: Crook Nollie flip on rails
Legend: Rail of Coke

Unfortunately most of my former skate crew are legends.

rawbertson. · « **Reply #46 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:27:37 AM »

Quote from: Hinna on July 21, 2021, 11:15:37 AM

i always just thought back tail switch back tail that sort of thing and switch backside flip/tre/hardflip/good switch flips etc means someones pretty fucking good. if they can sit on a noseblunt or something thats spectacular. not really into switch crooks as the gold standard. i see the redbull kid treflipping in and out of everything and it does nothing for me

switch 3 flip definintely is heavy skill, regular 3 flip not so much

switch crooks is whatever. a long ass back noseblunt or back rail? pro af. any of that blind shit

skunty · « **Reply #47 on:** July 21, 2021, 11:41:17 AM »

your skate identity is more than your tricks. it's everything. including your posts on slap

drcroc · « **Reply #48 on:** July 21, 2021, 04:41:14 PM »

Level 1: Ollie a deck, front 180

Level 2: Ollie 2-3 decks, kickflip OR heelflip, front shuv, 3 shuv.

...Anything beyond that you're a beast. Oh, and you should be able to boardslide a flat bar or curb also.

FutureAccident · « **Reply #49 on:** July 21, 2021, 05:00:19 PM »

I think the previous analogy to music was a good one if we're discussing skateboarding as an art. When people evaluate your art or skateboarding or music they'll never appreciate it for the same reasons you do. They don't know the context, how you felt, etc. at the time you made it. They don't know that something that seems simple, minimal, or easy perfectly encapsulated how you felt. Or that it was something simple for most people but difficult for you. So, IMO if you've accomplished what you set out to do then you are "good" because there is essentially no scale.

If we're talking raw jock hucking down handrails "good" then I think you have to be able to switch back lip a 10 stair or higher. If you can flip in then you're "really good".

Hinna · « **Reply #50 on:** July 21, 2021, 05:23:19 PM »

Quote from: rawbertson. on July 21, 2021, 11:27:37 AM

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i always just thought back tail switch back tail that sort of thing and switch backside flip/tre/hardflip/good switch flips etc means someones pretty fucking good. if they can sit on a noseblunt or something thats spectacular. not really into switch crooks as the gold standard. i see the redbull kid treflipping in and out of everything and it does nothing for me
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switch 3 flip definintely is heavy skill, regular 3 flip not so much

switch crooks is whatever. a long ass back noseblunt or back rail? pro af. any of that blind shit

i mean all switch for the rest of the sentence after switch backside flips pardon the confusion. i got tres and hardflips but it doesnt make me good or anything at the end of the day

Sifter · « **Reply #51 on:** July 21, 2021, 05:48:38 PM »

F Rank - Stand on board in cracks or carpet
D Rank - Roll/lean on flat, maybe shuv, first kickflip
C Rank - Flip board, basic lip tricks, fs/bs boards and 50-50s
B Rank - Most fs/bs slides and grinds on ledge or flatbars. Some switch
A Rank - Flip into and out of above. Airs, tech lip tricks, handrails, stairs, switch
S Rank - Most of the above in all stances

XP rewards released next patch update

Sifter · « **Reply #52 on:** July 21, 2021, 05:50:28 PM »

S+ Rank - It's ALL fun

radcunt · « **Reply #53 on:** July 21, 2021, 06:06:36 PM »

Me > all u losers

Madam, I'm Adam · « **Reply #54 on:** July 21, 2021, 06:24:11 PM »

A great Skateboarder article written by Meza - 50 best things about skating - said that if you can do back tails, you’re good.

Mickey Reyes wrote something in Thrasher that if a kid can switch flip a decent sized set, they’re probably on the road to being sponsor-worthy.

And it’s not just like a select group of tricks that determine what’s good. I’ve always been surprised at how many pros can do way more tricks than we know them for. Remember when the Butcher got third place in the Es game of skate? No? Well, it was something.

valuecommonsense · « **Reply #55 on:** July 21, 2021, 06:33:39 PM »

If you think pushing mongo is faster then pushing regular you are F tier.

and F tier stands for get the Fuck out of my sight.

I don't really have any other tiers.

The Drew · « **Reply #56 on:** July 21, 2021, 07:57:42 PM »

Quote from: cucktard on April 18, 2021, 08:19:16 PM

I have a loose system for snowboarding which can translate into skating.

AAA-Top-tier pro

AA-Pro

A-Small brand Pro

BBB- Amateur

BB- Couple of sponsors/flow

B-Shop flow/ local shredder

CCC- Shredder

CC- Competent

C- Decent

D- The rest of us

And population-wise, its a pyramid, with the smallest amount of people at the top, largest population base at the bottom.

yay for "D's"... i feel like Im in high school over again Just like school

DaleSr · « **Reply #57 on:** July 21, 2021, 08:01:29 PM »

Quote from: valuecommonsense on July 21, 2021, 06:33:39 PM

If you think pushing mongo is faster then pushing regular you are F tier.

and F tier stands for get the Fuck out of my sight.

I don't really have any other tiers.

lol

mushroom slice · « **Reply #58 on:** July 21, 2021, 08:41:43 PM »

Preform tricks for Rib.

ndsr · « **Reply #59 on:** July 21, 2021, 08:44:52 PM »

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Author Topic: Skill Levels for skate (Read 3670 times)

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