Was T-Funk's Ollie Filmed / Documented as Well as it Could Have Been?

[rawbertson.]

Just be glad the guy who filmed Masons cover wasn’t involved

which one?

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Just be glad the guy who filmed Masons cover wasn’t involved

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which one?

I think this is the one which was in his Nike SB part

https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/TH0420Cover.jpg

5:22 timestamp

[behavioralguide]

The issue I have with it isn't the filming. It's that he doesn't pop until he's already a few feet down the bench. He looked like had the air and distance to clear it, so I think he just mistimed it and that's not really one of those tricks you go back and clean up.

I know I'm picking at the tiniest nit but it's one of those little things that bugs me. To make it even more stupid, if he took off early and landed an equal distance short but was high on the wall and carved the last foot I would think it was the coolest thing ever.

Yea OR he should ve jammed onto the bench

[swellbowed]

[lilyung]

Maybe if it wasn’t one of the most well known spots in the most documented skate city on the planet.  If aliens came down and said “show me something gnarly”, then, yeah, a little more context would be helpful. But in this case, for such a venerated spot, leaning on a little in-group knowledge is a feature not a bug. Piers Morgan don’t know!

This.
+ People forget or sometimes don't know how difficult it is to do anything on steep banks. If you're not considering this inherent difficulty then footage on these spots deceptively makes tricks seem easier than they actually are

[Pipe Dreamer]

It took almost 30 years to 1up Julien on the biggest bench, that says it all.

[sluggers]

Let’s remember the dude done did it wearing checkered Vans slip-ones, that’s insane.

[tkp]

Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

[Pipe Dreamer]

Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

Thanks for this pal.

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

Seems chill….

[Theme For A Jackal]

The issue I have with it isn't the filming. It's that he doesn't pop until he's already a few feet down the bench. He looked like had the air and distance to clear it, so I think he just mistimed it and that's not really one of those tricks you go back and clean up.

I know I'm picking at the tiniest nit but it's one of those little things that bugs me. To make it even more stupid, if he took off early and landed an equal distance short but was high on the wall and carved the last foot I would think it was the coolest thing ever.

There's an extremely narrow window to ride up that in between the bench and that metal piece that goes down the bank... probably like 3 feet? That there's no way you could go up that with the amount of speed needed to clear it and not have that angle where you're not at least partially riding above the bench first. The thing is so steep that you have to level out before you pop if you want to stay on the bank side and not go over the edge... tkp's gif really helps show that.

[radcunt]

Beats Strobecks train gap or Masons filmed cover shot.

[lurkluke]

Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

that's just silly. There's no reason to even think you could ollie that.

[lurker_and_poster]

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Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

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that's just silly. There's no reason to even think you could ollie that.

Thank you for this video - really nice reminder how fucking crazy T-Funks ollie is.
Woud love to ollie a train track - was dreaming about this for years. Same with a street gap.
This one I go really close with- it was a super small street, run up was perfect - landing was cobble stone style
sketchy... land it a couple of times - but never ride away clean. Coud call it a dirty baker maker.. but I was happy with it.

But woud not think 1 second about to frontside ollie the long china bank bench.
And I am able to frontside ollie kind of every Bank wich is little less then vertical.
But going this distance is absurd.

[radcunt]

Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

Beat perspective of how steep that thing is

[yungthug]

Eli Reed's switch backside carve is also really wild seeing how steep and long the obstacle is from that .gif angle.

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Just chiming in to share some perspective of what you would see rolling up to the bench:

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Beat perspective of how steep that thing is

Going to China banks was one of the most humbling experiences I've had skating. I went in pretty confident my first time and was NOT prepared. I've carved one of the small benches and honestly if I didn't know it's already been done, I would've said getting over a long bench is impossible...

[KGB]

Maybe if he ollied before the bench started they could of used another angle?

[sizzle_chest]

when he goes back to jam it on the bench they'll still fuck it up

[hl2]

it would be awesome if he ollied it while danny way drops into the china bank from a helicopter and strobeck was filming it prone position under the bench

[Cuban_Lynx]

Filming sucked. I could barely see his shoes.

[TMKF]

some shit is just hard to film and sometimes gnarly stuff just doesn't translate well. I've also seen stuff that looked way gnarlier on footage than it is in real life especially fisheye or really tight long lens. I will say as far as documentation goes a photo is sometimes more impactful than footage and I think this is perhaps the case with this trick. All that said I thought both angles were filmed well.

[rawbertson.]

should have had a drone shot 

[Pooh Drunx]

it was a cover....
they showed every try in the china banks doc.
Trouser was heavily praised for doing it.
He was a conterder for SOTY just from the ollie.
The clip and the photo show his whole body and the whole spot and the board.
What more does a team have to do to capture it really?

[tkp]

it was a cover....
they showed every try in the china banks doc.
Trouser was heavily praised for doing it.
He was a conterder for SOTY just from the ollie.
The clip and the photo show his whole body and the whole spot and the board.
What more does a team have to do to capture it really?

[cowboy_unit]

The issue I have with it isn't the filming. It's that he doesn't pop until he's already a few feet down the bench. He looked like had the air and distance to clear it, so I think he just mistimed it and that's not really one of those tricks you go back and clean up.

I know I'm picking at the tiniest nit but it's one of those little things that bugs me. To make it even more stupid, if he took off early and landed an equal distance short but was high on the wall and carved the last foot I would think it was the coolest thing ever.

That’s the only way it’s possible to do it. He had to ride in the narrow space between the bench and the crack, with an angle that can take him the whole distance. It’s very calculated. He couldn’t have delayed the ollie more either because he would have hit the block on the top. So it’s perfectly excecuted.


Imagine going that fast and having to dodge the crack and the bench before launching that ollie.

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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it was a cover....
they showed every try in the china banks doc.
Trouser was heavily praised for doing it.
He was a conterder for SOTY just from the ollie.
The clip and the photo show his whole body and the whole spot and the board.
What more does a team have to do to capture it really?

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God dammit, I didn't see the gopro on his head at first lmao

[Style Police]

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it was a cover....
they showed every try in the china banks doc.
Trouser was heavily praised for doing it.
He was a conterder for SOTY just from the ollie.
The clip and the photo show his whole body and the whole spot and the board.
What more does a team have to do to capture it really?

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A+

[imafugyashizup]

2000 slam dunk contest shaq is what killed me

[Pooh Drunx]

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it was a cover....
they showed every try in the china banks doc.
Trouser was heavily praised for doing it.
He was a conterder for SOTY just from the ollie.
The clip and the photo show his whole body and the whole spot and the board.
What more does a team have to do to capture it really?

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Hahahahaha this is amazing!