Worst trick && could do at iconic spots

[L dog]

This guy being on the nine club experience made me feel like he was kind of arrogant and narcissistic. I wholly admit that I could be reading it wrong. However, it’s been easy for me to hate on dude since then.

Love that he’s doing his “own thing” but it’s not my shit and don’t think he’s the good guy we all assume he is

i've watched more of those powell team vids on youtube than i care to admit and anytime he has a crowd watching him at venice he just lords over the park, taking endless long runs and just being a showpony in general. looks like it would suck for any locals just trying to have a chill session although maybe they're used to that kind of thing at venice. regardless if that was my local and he just showed up and skated the whole park for 1 hour without stopping i'd be bummed

[sacking rails]

anti casper to truckstand to primo slide down blubba

[ChipSuey]

What if he did a shot by shot remake of Dylan’s Gravis Part but with way more primo slides and Swedish manuals?

That’d be a neat trick.

[Freelancevagrant]

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i would love to see that dude going to philly plazas and get beaten up

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I hope no one ever hits anyone.

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coward

[Gab]

Handstand hangten anti Casper @ #avebench

[Banned from the room]

I'd ask for something but I don't think he's got anything switch.

[EdLawndale]

I tried to show my friend one of Andy Anderson's parts and my friend shut it of midway through and told me not to show it to him again lol

[TurdyBird]

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This guy being on the nine club experience made me feel like he was kind of arrogant and narcissistic. I wholly admit that I could be reading it wrong. However, it’s been easy for me to hate on dude since then.

Love that he’s doing his “own thing” but it’s not my shit and don’t think he’s the good guy we all assume he is

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i've watched more of those powell team vids on youtube than i care to admit and anytime he has a crowd watching him at venice he just lords over the park, taking endless long runs and just being a showpony in general. looks like it would suck for any locals just trying to have a chill session although maybe they're used to that kind of thing at venice. regardless if that was my local and he just showed up and skated the whole park for 1 hour without stopping i'd be bummed

I’d be bummed too ha!

[rocklobster]

I tried to show my friend one of Andy Anderson's parts and my friend shut it of midway through and told me not to show it to him again lol

1) why would you do that to a friend
2) at least you associate with people of high moral standing

[sacking rails]

the copy and paste && joke

[able]

I'd ask for something but I don't think he's got anything switch.

You must have missed this absolute fire switch biggie from page 2

Obviously a switch bigspin on any flatground:

[Coping Grinder]

Why’s his shirt tucked in? My shirt is tucked when I’m at work. I’m not trying to bring that serious of a vibe to my skating.

Anytime I see him skate my mind naturally plays “Entrance of the Gladiators.” I’m half expecting && to pull some balls out and start juggling mid boardslide. Looks like if there was a moment of silence when hanging out with him he’d silently procure a deck of cards from his sleeve and start doing a card trick.

[Lethatefillyourheart]

Mind blowing this is what a sponsored skater can look like in 2022. Dan riding coattails for views lol.

[DaleSr]

&& doing an airwalk into the car wash bank

[Sloppy Krooks]

I was gonna try to stay out of this, but i decided i want to put this thought down somewhere so i can point at it later and tell all the haters ‘I told you so’.

I love Andy. That’s not to say i idealize him. Some of his stuff is a bit too much for me (&&, if you’re reading this, please tweak your methods out! They feel better that way!)

But thats OK, because Andy obviously and maybe obliviously only skates for himself. He can be quite smooth and even look aesthetically good when he’s warming up somewhere and just doing Gonz-style stream-of-consciousness tricks. It’s when he gets stuck on an idea of something complicated that he loses that.

While Andy is not really concerned about the beauty of his skating, he is definitely devoted to the creative side of it, just like Rodney was. And thats going to be his legacy.

There is a whole generation of groms growing up on watching &&, and his approach to skating is going to be a major influence on a lot of them. They’re are going to be a few who will be able to take &&’s tricks and make them look good, just like how people took Rodney’s pigeon-toed approach to tricks and built them into things of beauty.

Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

[kabi]

i could see him doing a mean mallgrab airwalk down el toro

[DaleSr]

&& doing a varial kickflip down each of the sets individually of the sports arena triple set

&& doing switch flip Manny at the courthouse

&& doing a willy down the Stanford hubba

[S.]

I was gonna try to stay out of this, but i decided i want to put this thought down somewhere so i can point at it later and tell all the haters ‘I told you so’.

I love Andy. That’s not to say i idealize him. Some of his stuff is a bit too much for me (&&, if you’re reading this, please tweak your methods out! They feel better that way!)

But thats OK, because Andy obviously and maybe obliviously only skates for himself. He can be quite smooth and even look aesthetically good when he’s warming up somewhere and just doing Gonz-style stream-of-consciousness tricks. It’s when he gets stuck on an idea of something complicated that he loses that.

While Andy is not really concerned about the beauty of his skating, he is definitely devoted to the creative side of it, just like Rodney was. And thats going to be his legacy.

There is a whole generation of groms growing up on watching &&, and his approach to skating is going to be a major influence on a lot of them. They’re are going to be a few who will be able to take &&’s tricks and make them look good, just like how people took Rodney’s pigeon-toed approach to tricks and built them into things of beauty.

Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

I am a low key fan of && as well. I only know him through video content. I have never met the guy. But I don‘t really know if he‘s all about doing the thing and being creative. Especially the videos in the past two years he seems to be really full of himself. I can‘t really listen anymore when he explains why his setup is amazing for 15 minutes. I enjoy hid skating the most when it is fluid and fast. I don‘t think he has bad style, he just frequently chooses to do tricks that look really silly to most of us.

I don‘t don’t mind if he defaces more of skateboardings landmarks with his freestyle tricks. A Space walk up Lombard street would be dope!

[Frank]

Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

i really hope kids don't start to skate like him. and && really doesn't do anything new besides chaining old freestyle tricks into thps combos. it's not that creative imo. yeah, he's gifted, he could probably skate normal pretty good. imo those grind combos are just tasteless. going to a spot and filming that acting like it's sick is the real crime here. there's nothing cool or avantgarde or futuristic about smith to nosegrind to lip to smith to front board pop out to slow tic tac.

the worst thing about && is that he skates slow as fuck, you can see he wants to do some casper or primo bullshit all the fucking time so he can't just haul ass. when he skates handrails he goes 3 mph and locks in almost in a standstill so it takes him a minute to grind that shit and he will still turn it into another trick one the last two feet of the rail before coming out so it has some "creative" edge to it.

the guy just always finds the worst and most dumb looking ways to skate a spot, it's incredible. a true legend.

i hope you're wrong and i'd wish the kids would emulate franky villani instead. that's a creative skater that actually skates with style and speed, still hits spots in unexpected ways and can make illegal tricks look great.

and i have nothing against && personally, just think he's way overhyped because he's different, not that cool and edgy. something the always online hyperdorks of gen z can identify with. and old heads love him because they fetishize powell and the bones brigade and the good old times before actual street skating. they love that he doesn't comform to the typical modern street skating norms. well ok, i just think his skating is derivative, trick selection is ugly and i couldn't even tell you about &&s style. he pretty much has no style, positive or negative, which makes it negative again.

other than it being needlessly complicated and convoluted in approach there is really nothing new or innovative about &&s skating.

[Mean salto]

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Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

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i really hope kids don't start to skate like him. and && really doesn't do anything new besides chaining old freestyle tricks into thps combos. it's not that creative imo. yeah, he's gifted, he could probably skate normal pretty good. imo those grind combos are just tasteless. going to a spot and filming that acting like it's sick is the real crime here. there's nothing cool or avantgarde or futuristic about smith to nosegrind to lip to smith to front board pop out to slow tic tac.

the worst thing about && is that he skates slow as fuck, you can see he wants to do some casper or primo bullshit all the fucking time so he can't just haul ass. when he skates handrails he goes 3 mph and locks in almost in a standstill so it takes him a minute to grind that shit and he will still turn it into another trick one the last two feet of the rail before coming out so it has some "creative" edge to it.

the guy just always finds the worst and most dumb looking ways to skate a spot, it's incredible. a true legend.

i hope you're wrong and i'd wish the kids would emulate franky villani instead. that's a creative skater that actually skates with style and speed, still hits spots in unexpected ways and can make illegal tricks look great.

and i have nothing against && personally, just think he's way overhyped because he's different, not that cool and edgy. something the always online hyperdorks of gen z can identify with. and old heads love him because they fetishize powell and the bones brigade and the good old times before actual street skating. they love that he doesn't comform to the typical modern street skating norms. well ok, i just think his skating is derivative, trick selection is ugly and i couldn't even tell you about &&s style. he pretty much has no style, positive or negative, which makes it negative again.

other than it being needlessly complicated and convoluted in approach there is really nothing new or innovative about &&s skating.

This is how I feel. Every dork including myself has done the horrible ledge/coping crab walks. it takes no skill people just trick themselves into believing whatever makes them seem less shit. Why not copy Shane O'Neil's ledge combos? Oh nah that's not cool...... I'll do the nosegrind to lipslide to smith... It's totally original....
I'd honestly rather kids copy Mike v and just do fucking bonelesses. Actually I remember when pig slaughterhouse came out it was like every dork started bonelessing, buttsliding and baker maker-ing all day and I'd take that again over whatever && comes up with.

[Ricky Vaughn]

Andy is aiit. Does his tricky tricks.

[DaleSr]

Folks all these thoughts are nice, but I'm gonna need to hear some famous spots and then what horrible crime against God && would do there.

As an example

&& doing a hang ten 5-0 to fingerflip down hubba hideout

Or

&& doing a pressure flip over the grate at flushing Meadows

[IpathCats]

darkslide blubba, but with his whole board on top of it, not half hanging off the side.

I was gonna try to stay out of this, but i decided i want to put this thought down somewhere so i can point at it later and tell all the haters ‘I told you so’.

I love Andy. That’s not to say i idealize him. Some of his stuff is a bit too much for me (&&, if you’re reading this, please tweak your methods out! They feel better that way!)

But thats OK, because Andy obviously and maybe obliviously only skates for himself. He can be quite smooth and even look aesthetically good when he’s warming up somewhere and just doing Gonz-style stream-of-consciousness tricks. It’s when he gets stuck on an idea of something complicated that he loses that.

While Andy is not really concerned about the beauty of his skating, he is definitely devoted to the creative side of it, just like Rodney was. And thats going to be his legacy.

There is a whole generation of groms growing up on watching &&, and his approach to skating is going to be a major influence on a lot of them. They’re are going to be a few who will be able to take &&’s tricks and make them look good, just like how people took Rodney’s pigeon-toed approach to tricks and built them into things of beauty.

Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

I can see that, would be very interesting to see him divert that focus into his style and a more "tasteful" trick selection. Serious potential, it would be cool to see him work some of these kooky ass tricks in ways that made them cool if done right. If he approached skateboarding with a less is more/style over substance mindset. Hm, alternate timeline && sounds rad

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

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i really hope kids don't start to skate like him. and && really doesn't do anything new besides chaining old freestyle tricks into thps combos. it's not that creative imo. yeah, he's gifted, he could probably skate normal pretty good. imo those grind combos are just tasteless. going to a spot and filming that acting like it's sick is the real crime here. there's nothing cool or avantgarde or futuristic about smith to nosegrind to lip to smith to front board pop out to slow tic tac.

the worst thing about && is that he skates slow as fuck, you can see he wants to do some casper or primo bullshit all the fucking time so he can't just haul ass. when he skates handrails he goes 3 mph and locks in almost in a standstill so it takes him a minute to grind that shit and he will still turn it into another trick one the last two feet of the rail before coming out so it has some "creative" edge to it.

the guy just always finds the worst and most dumb looking ways to skate a spot, it's incredible. a true legend.

i hope you're wrong and i'd wish the kids would emulate franky villani instead. that's a creative skater that actually skates with style and speed, still hits spots in unexpected ways and can make illegal tricks look great.

and i have nothing against && personally, just think he's way overhyped because he's different, not that cool and edgy. something the always online hyperdorks of gen z can identify with. and old heads love him because they fetishize powell and the bones brigade and the good old times before actual street skating. they love that he doesn't comform to the typical modern street skating norms. well ok, i just think his skating is derivative, trick selection is ugly and i couldn't even tell you about &&s style. he pretty much has no style, positive or negative, which makes it negative again.

other than it being needlessly complicated and convoluted in approach there is really nothing new or innovative about &&s skating.

it's so funny to think about rolling up to a skatepark in 10 years and a) every kid is wearing a helmet with a brim and b) every kid is doing handstand caspers or balancing smith stalls on every obstacle in the park. Flat bar? Handstand. Funbox? Handstand. Stairset? Handstand.

[Frank]

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Andy is taking skating in a fresh direction, and while he himself may not be taking it to its final beautiful form, he’s providing the groundwork for the next generation. I mean,. Ishod is good, but he’s not bringing anything new to the table. Andy is doing that work. And I’m here for it, even it it isn’t polished. Other people will do that.

That being said, reverse spacewalk to fakie ollie off the diving board at the next Vans Pool Party

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i really hope kids don't start to skate like him. and && really doesn't do anything new besides chaining old freestyle tricks into thps combos. it's not that creative imo. yeah, he's gifted, he could probably skate normal pretty good. imo those grind combos are just tasteless. going to a spot and filming that acting like it's sick is the real crime here. there's nothing cool or avantgarde or futuristic about smith to nosegrind to lip to smith to front board pop out to slow tic tac.

the worst thing about && is that he skates slow as fuck, you can see he wants to do some casper or primo bullshit all the fucking time so he can't just haul ass. when he skates handrails he goes 3 mph and locks in almost in a standstill so it takes him a minute to grind that shit and he will still turn it into another trick one the last two feet of the rail before coming out so it has some "creative" edge to it.

the guy just always finds the worst and most dumb looking ways to skate a spot, it's incredible. a true legend.

i hope you're wrong and i'd wish the kids would emulate franky villani instead. that's a creative skater that actually skates with style and speed, still hits spots in unexpected ways and can make illegal tricks look great.

and i have nothing against && personally, just think he's way overhyped because he's different, not that cool and edgy. something the always online hyperdorks of gen z can identify with. and old heads love him because they fetishize powell and the bones brigade and the good old times before actual street skating. they love that he doesn't comform to the typical modern street skating norms. well ok, i just think his skating is derivative, trick selection is ugly and i couldn't even tell you about &&s style. he pretty much has no style, positive or negative, which makes it negative again.

other than it being needlessly complicated and convoluted in approach there is really nothing new or innovative about &&s skating.

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it's so funny to think about rolling up to a skatepark in 10 years and a) every kid is wearing a helmet with a brim and b) every kid is doing handstand caspers or balancing smith stalls on every obstacle in the park. Flat bar? Handstand. Funbox? Handstand. Stairset? Handstand.

every kid would be that kid that stalls for way too long and ends lines in some stationary trick to tic tac. it would be horrible. every turn would take half an hour. everyone would try and turn their bails into some made up trick to continue their runs. it would be the worst type of chaos and no cool tricks would be done. instead of manualing the top of the funbox kids will try to perpetually g-turn on it and just block it out even more. instead of using ramps for gaining momentum, they will be used for crabwalk races up and down. devil sticks will be the most popular side activity for young skaters. instead of actual bikes, skaters will ride to the spot on unicycles and instead of yewing at each eachother they take swigs of kerosene and cheer each other on with fire breaths while listening to fishbone.

[thebacker]

pogo down the love levels woulda been badass

[Gnarfunkell]

I could see him eating a party size bag of Funyuns at EMB

[wahwahwah]

This whole thread is gonna get written down in his secret trick notebook.

we giving him more weapons for his next miniramp game of skate

[wahwahwah]

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i would love to see that dude going to philly plazas and get beaten up

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That would suck. If I was there I'd probably get beat up too trying to save the pillow team. Damn.

I hope no one ever hits anyone. Let's keep it to making fun and finding new spots

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Imagine feeling offended by this && character so much you would wish them harm. Gtfo with that.

man i aint actually want him or anyone get hurt its just funny to imagine how badly he would fit in there

[sacking rails]

andy anderson was that kid who would come over your house and not say hi to your parents