Tricks that look easier than they actually are...

[graibe]

I'll start by saying that slappy grinds look easy as fuck when you see someone do it but when you go to actually do them, they are pretty hard. Same with wallrides. Although, wallrides make it look like you defy gravity, which makes them look more difficult. People that can wallride steezy make that shit look easy tho...

[goodatmeth]

Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?

Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.

[graibe]

Starting lots of bad topics looks pretty easy, how hard is it?

Also 360 pop shuvs, I can only do them fs for some reason.

not very difficult when all you feel like doing is procrastinating your college assignments by talking about skateboarding

360 shuvs are difficult. I had an uncle tell me that I should learn them before tre flips, and I still think that's kinda crazy lmao.

[SatanicPanic]

Slappy back 5-0s.
Frontside nose slides
Heel flips

[graibe]

Slappy back 5-0s.
Frontside nose slides
Heel flips

Heel flips are definitely one of them. To non-skaters it looks just like a kickflip. But we know they are much harder. Some days I can heel flip and some days the board flips so far behind me that there's no way I can catch it. such a mixed bag

[Vintagebody]

360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip

[dannyprovolone]

/r skateboaridng

[cookiecuttersuburb]

Alley oop topsoul

[graibe]

360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip

you raise a good point. however, I think I'm tryna talk about tricks that look easy but are actually difficult, not the other way around.

[Vegeta]

360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip

id agree if its a crappy, full scoop, nopop tre, but a properly popped tre caught with one foot while still in the air is way harder imo.

[KGB]

Ollie. I mean it was hard at one time right?

[yourbreakfsat]

Judos and handplants/inverts

[versacekid420]

Whoever said slappy back 5-0 is spot on. To add to that, front crooks look simple, but is the hardest fucking trick. Everything else I’ve ever learned on a ledge or rail is miles easier than front crook

[Allen.]

Manual shove, manual bs 180

[Mean salto]

^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot

Not for everyone but for me backside bluntslides, front 180 to fakie manual

[skatebruh]

Manual shove, manual bs 180

180 manual and then 180 out the opposite way.

Like half cab manual frontside 180 out

[Rubbrick]

Manual front 180-anything never works out for me. Seems so simple, but the body position coming out of a manny always feels awkward

[IpathCats]

switch flips

[CAPTAIN NOBODY]

Back nose grind but just for me personally. Just because I’m so used to crooks. I have been landing them more lately though, want to get them more consistent.

[backside_frontside]

Backside 180 to switch manual. Seemingly simple yet probably the hardest 180-manual of them all.

[BurgerCop]

360 flips is THE trick in that category. It looks difficult, but is actually easier then doing a genuinly good kickflip

Definitely not a universal truth, I've struggled with 3 flips for two decades now.
One day I'll land them almost every try, the very next day I'll land 1 out of 50.
Whatever the knack is for them, I just don't have it, or at least I can't keep it for long periods of time.

My kickflips are always on point tho!

I said it in another thread, doing a good FS nose slide is way harder than people give it credit for being.

[ok boomer]

I suck at tre flips so those

[Allen.]

^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot

I still think it’s easier, but I’ve definitely landed on and walked off of so god damn many under rotated and stiff leg front shove outs.

[rawbertson.]

switch manny and fakie nosemanny

[versacekid420]

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^oh similar I say manual front shove. It always gets stuck to the front foot

[close]

I still think it’s easier, but I’ve definitely landed on and walked off of so god damn many under rotated and stiff leg front shove outs.

one of my last mental breakdowns was on manual front shove. I almost cried

[Dark Knight]

BS 360s on flat.  I’m old and they were the thing then but could never do it without pivoting

[GrayCellGreen]

B/S Bigspins. I can do them, but man, they take significant effort for me to make them look "effortless." If that makes any sense.

Also, variel heels

[ExpensiveHandjoe]

kickflip
I mean fuck i've been skating for over twenty years now and every freakin kickflip feels different, and i never really feel like I can get to the point where I know how to do it properly and on / over obstacles..
like those type of skaters that can do the same kick flip over and over.
pretty jealous of this actually

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Switch f/s bigspins seemed like they would be easy for me, based on how going frontside switch feels comfortable. It looks easy as well. It's not easy at all.

[pleasent street]

all of 'em