Tricks that look easier than they actually are...

[switchfakie]

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legit back 5-0s in tranny.

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This, and you rarely see people doing them properly and extended. I reckon Monty grind is easier.

i agree, i cant even get a BS 5-0 stall proper without immediately pivoting back in

[Mantracker]

Impossibles

No complys

I honestly don't think I'll ever land an impossible - shit looks so fun and easy but my brain doesn't compute

[douchenozzle]

Switch tre is the bane of my existence

[scary]

Slappy crooks.

Feel this heavy. Its probably the only slappy trick I know that is super dependent on what curb it is.

[JoseCansnake0]

Pivot fakie (backside)

I payed the piper learning those boys

[Beeda Weeda]

heel to toe

[girlfriendplease]

quadruple kickflips. when i do em none of the park-ladies clap, yet ill do a boneless and their tits will harden

[hameesvx]

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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

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Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.

You can do it.

After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.

This + try transferring your weight from your front foot to your back foot as you pop if you don’t already, this in particular has helped me with consistency. It might sound weird but you can also try aiming the flick/kick with your heel, so like straight off the front of the nose, not up, not down, just straight off and through the nose aiming with your heel.

[Willie]

Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.

[chomperz]

Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.

Popping on transition. Can only imagine it is the coolest feeling for those who can do it proper.

[lemonchicken91]

Airs on transition. Figured I’d learn them in year or two of skating. 30 something years later, no dice.

The only "legitimate" ones I could do were at places where there is a hip? I'd say its more of a transfer but it wasnt much of a change just a slight hip. An angle makes it much easier than on a vertical wall

I could only get a few inches above the coping but seemed to work

[ExpensiveHandjoe]

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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

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Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.

You can do it.

After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.

thanks mate !

[JoseCansnake0]

heel to toe

That is the move. Now that I read it, it is pretty easy lol

[Gammon_]

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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

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Take a wider stance, cover the rear two bolts of your front truck with your front foot (or just slightly behind). Dont angle your front foot much. should look almost like an ollie, but with less of your front foot on the board Kick STRAIGHT off the nose. move your back leg to allow the board to level out.

You can do it.

After having horrible kickflips for like the first 14 years of me skateboarding, i forced myself to re learn them. best decision i ever made. feels so good to stomp them cleanly and consistently.

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This + try transferring your weight from your front foot to your back foot as you pop if you don’t already, this in particular has helped me with consistency. It might sound weird but you can also try aiming the flick/kick with your heel, so like straight off the front of the nose, not up, not down, just straight off and through the nose aiming with your heel.

I don't want to muddy this up but I just got kickflips consistent after I had stopped for a while. If I go straight off the nose the nose would always drift in front of me, like a 45 degree varial flip. I could land on the board but wouldn't roll away. The way I got them more consistent is trying to keep my shoulders and body completely in line with the board and the flip is done just with the front foot, a little to the back side of the end of the nose. Imagining kinda how people do switch flips with their shoulders not open at all. Now I can get them and I don't need perfect foot positioning.

Anything transition, but that's just cos I'm a wuss.

[thebacker]

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

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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.

then why did you name the thread "tricks that look easier than they actually are"

[Gab]

Slappy crook pop over, I got them, but every time I try I’m like “do I really want to spend 20-30 mins to get one?” Luckily last session I landed like 3 in 30 mins. Getting better, but still difficult for how “simple” it looks

[versacekid420]

I took the time to learn front feebles today. And it made me mad how easy they began to feel

[YeoWhattup]

Nollie fs 180 sw back 5050

[GAY]

Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.

[whale]

Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.

Would you do a Sean Penn?

[GAY]

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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.

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Would you do a Sean Penn?

He's one of those people who I'd definitely be like, "that old man is kind-of hot" and then he'd start talking and I'd immediately lose my erection.
Gloryhole sex would be fine though.

[IpathCats]

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Madonna. That ho look easy af but honestly in the end she isn't worth it.

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Would you do a Sean Penn?

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He's one of those people who I'd definitely be like, "that old man is kind-of hot" and then he'd start talking and I'd immediately lose my erection.
Gloryhole sex would be fine though.

is it ever not?

[switchfakie]

back crook was the easiest ledge trick ive ever learned

maybe thats just me tho

[signtime]

Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!

[crepes]

Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!

To the people who can do them, they are.
Just one hell of a learning curve.

[cucktard]

A nice looking front smith

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Ughhh I wanna backside air so bad!! Why does it look so easy??!!

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To the people who can do them, they are.
Just one hell of a learning curve.

Yeah, I'll keep at it.. just be getting bodied till I gottem lol

[Lashes2ashes]

Alley oop topsoul

tru spin top souls are much easier

[JRF]

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.

Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.

[goodatmeth]

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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.

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Set your feet on your board in the same position you would to do an inward heelflip, don’t move your front foot, make an over exaggerated backside pop shove flick with your back foot.

Sounds insanely uncomfortable, but I'll try it. Thanks!

On the topic: BS Boneless. On flat and transition. I keep shooting my board out or grabbing the truck.