First 720 Landed by a Woman

[Septa Bus]

oww owwwwwwww get it girls!!!!!

[HeapsCool]

It’s so cool to see how fast women’s skateboarding is progressing.

[Sloppy Krooks]

Talking about camaraderie. Check out an Instagram account called BBAskateclub. They are a club of women who skate and it’s my favorite account. I know them because we are the same age. They are not doing McTwists by any means. Their members are at different levels. Some of them are beginners and some of them are pretty good. This is a side of Japanese skateboarding which is never portrayed in interviews or videos. If you are looking for gnarly tricks this is not your account but if you want to know how Japanese people enjoy skateboarding beyond the stereotypes.

Babas are sick, I want a t-shirt from them

[manysnakes]

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Obviously the skaters are better than ever, but seeing the stuff that goes down, it must also be that vert ramps are just much, much better now, right?

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Definitely different than the vert golden age. For one, a lot less flatbottom for sure so they are able to keep speed to chain multiple 540s etc without having to do a bunch of backside airs to get speed. I think this is a case where computer assisted design along with vert ramps being constructed and then torn down relatively quickly for contests and expos have helped smooth out what a vert ramp needs to be.

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Tony Hawks vert ramp is 22 years old, the other standard competition vert ramp design is 14 years old. The other one, the one you might see at XGames or see tour is bigger and generally people go bigger on it. The reason vert is progressing is there are new skaters. There is the biggest amount at the moment since vert died in 1991

No one is saying that ramps make up all the difference, but just that a few decades spent figuring out what makes an effective halfpipe and then standardizing that design has probably helped with vert's progression.

[ggrimmedd]

CONTROVERSY not INCOMING

Apparently, she was the second girl to do it, Karen Jonz pointed on instagram that Hikari Satake did it first.

Edit: I'm plain dumb


https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuIJsnAvRCg/?igshid=Y2IzZGU1MTFhOQ==

[Cranberry Relish]

I thought they made it clear that she was the first to do one in a competition? 

First sentence from that BBC article:

"Australian skateboarder Arisa Trew has become the first female skateboarder to land a 720 - a trick which involves making two full rotations in the air, in a competition."

[TheDraught]

CONTROVERSY not INCOMING

Apparently, she was the second girl to do it, Karen Jonz pointed on instagram that Hikari Satake did it first.

Edit: I'm plain dumb


https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuIJsnAvRCg/?igshid=Y2IzZGU1MTFhOQ==

That first McTwist done by a woman in that clip looked better than both 720s combined. So perfect. (Edit: it was Lyn-Z Adams)

[ndsr]

I count myself lucky I get to witness this fuckin' bonkers, meteoric progression of women's skateboarding in real time.

Well spoken sir. Respect

[switchfakie]

This is sick in my opinion, getting tips from the Birdman. Plus just how she lands it...pretty gnarly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66038745

damn, that announcer didnt do a great job of hyping that up