Top 5 jawdroppers

[Dirk Wiggler]

I'd be surprised if this subject hasn't popped up before. Which 5 tricks amazed you most at the time you first saw them? In no particular order...

1. Mike Carrol's? 360 flip down a 7 set: Hokus Pokus
2. Pat Duffy's ender 50-50: Questionable
3. Geoff Rowley's backside 360 ollie into a bank: Thrasher Cover
4. Jeremy Wray's water tower ollie: 411
5. Ronnie Creager's switch hardflip-lateflip: 411

I know I've missed about 50 tricks, but fuck it.

[ahlee]

leap of faith. i was young, and baffled.

[Home Skillet]

1) Guy Mariano's late bigspin
2) Ron Allen's airwalk boardslide
3) Frankie Hill ollie down that huge ass bank in Ban This which Markovich later backside 180'd in another vid
4) Jeremy Klien's 360 flip on the steep bank in Rubbish Heap
5) Koston's switch 360 flip down embarco in Falling Down

Definitely in no particular order.

[fuckingvegan]

Ed Templeton - The poster in his first TWS interview, nose grind down a kinked hand rail, blew my mind at the time plus that interview is still one of my all time favorites.
Jeremy Wray - The ollie at the beginning of his Color video part
Jeremy Wray - The tower to tower ollie, that shit is still unreal
TNT - That crazy spine transfer he did at Burnside, when you go there and see that shit in real life it is mind blowing
Zered Basset - His TWS cover, that shit is so sketchy, I think it is one of the best cover photos ever.

These are off the top of my head.

[SprintCellPhone]

HEATHS BACKNOSEBLUNT DOWN THAT RAIL IN HIS "SIGHTUNSEEN" PART . IT WAS FILMED FROM 2 ANGLES

& HIS FRONT BLUNT ON THAT HIGH ASS WHITE HUBBA

ALSO ON THAT SAME HUBBA   BRIAN ANDERSON'S BACK SMITH ....

[beeda weeda]

reynolds- fs blunt kf out in the End
Tim O'conner falls into trash can in 411 first div. wheels section
Josh Kalis- sw bs kf and heelfip over the brooklyn banks wall
Creagers switch tailslides in the credits of trilogy
Stefans switch kfs 50 50 in mosiac (his whole part) all of his aprts

[Guinness]

Stefan's switch front 50 down the long rail was insane

[thisistom]

jeremy wray's backside 180 in barcelona off that fountain and over the stairs, the one butcher ollied.

found it

[tubbs]

reynolds backside heelflip down the big 5 at bercy. if you've ever been there you'l know how ridiculous it is

[Slack Jaw]

Chris Cole - b/s 270 noseblunt down a rail and the tre flip down Wallenberg.

Geoff Rowley - f/s 50-50 that massive ledge in a Vans ad.

J.T - Leap Of Faith and the drop in to f.s 180 melon off that white ledge at Point Loma High School in Thrill Of It All.

Tom Penny - that line he does at a school with no pushing that ends with a b/s tail down a rail.

[Anton]

This aint "steezy" or anything but if you watch the whole part this is pretty ridicolous -

[Choad Muskrat]

Jeremy Wray ollieing that super high gap on those 2 giant cement cylinders.

JT's leap of faith.

Kostons bs noseblunt on hubba

Rowley's ollie into bank in sorry

Heath's entire sight unseen part, but if I have to pick, his ender The fs tailslide to gap.

[skatetimeUSA]

Ronnie Bertino Switch backside lipslide Second hand smoke

Heath Kick flip bs Lipslide Transworld video

[1987]

Jeremy Wray - Sports Arena ollie (the whole fucking thing is huge!)
Tom Penny - Radlands run (you know the one).
Hosoi - Frontside thruster at Savannah Slamma
Natas - ollie up a full sized picnic table
Sheffey - tweaked fakie ollie over a full sized picnic table
Keenan - switch flip over picnic table

[Zurg]

basically all the jeremy wray shit. that one ollie from an old video that was in the epicly laterd, water towers and the back 180 at taragona

[ahlee]

corey duffel - n word droppin interview

[grimcity]

Randoms in no order:
Natas: Pickup truck rollbar slide
Gonz: Mega channel ollie back in the 80's on that Y-shaped mini
Hensley: 540 Caballarial with steez (90's?)
Cole: First time I ever saw him spin around a 360 kickflip (the one where he turns 360, not a tre)
Duffy: Everything he did when he first blew up.

[jf]

I'd be surprised if this subject hasn't popped up before. Which 5 tricks amazed you most at the time you first saw them? In no particular order...

1. Mike Carrol's? 360 flip down a 7 set: Hokus Pokus
2. Pat Duffy's ender 50-50: Questionable
3. Geoff Rowley's backside 360 ollie into a bank: Thrasher Cover
4. Jeremy Wray's water tower ollie: 411
5. Ronnie Creager's switch hardflip-lateflip: 411

I know I've missed about 50 tricks, but fuck it.

that 360 flip was actually david graves if i rember correctly

[Cattelan]

^

Not to dick ride too hard but this guys nollie backside flip from that parking lot to parking lot fence gap was pretty jaw dropping.

[Dream Turns Into Dreamt]

There's nothing mentioned in here that isn't amazing.  However, I'll add...

Natas' fire hydrant spin in that fucking Santa Cruz video
Jason Lee's 360 flip
Tommy Guerrero's whole part in "Future Primitive"
Mike Vallely's manual at the end of his "Rubbish Heap" part
Animal Chin ramp
and even though it's kinda "X-treme" and all, Danny Way's first Mega Ramp shit in "the DC video"

EDIT: Daewon's semi-trailer to semi-trailer shit in "Round 3"

[sanch]

Matt Hensley's whole part in  Hokus Pokus
Brian Lotti's whole part in Now N Later
Tae Tae's part in Now N Later
The Gonz in the first Blind Video
Guy Mariano- mouse part
Pj's wonderful part

Trickwise

Sheffey-backtail table in Life video
Koston-backside nose blunter hand rail
Cairo- Front railslide presidio ledge
Stevie-switch crooks man block by pier 7
Stevie-switch back heel piv grind on man block
Frankie Hill- crazy rail shit
P Rod- the sign of a strong new generation
 So many more but can't think...

[1987]

Gonz: Mega channel ollie back in the 80's on that Y-shaped mini

I was actually there when he made that.  Shit was ridiculous.  Danny Way also pulled a legit Mctwist on that mini, too (during practice).

Natas' fire hydrant spin in that fucking Santa Cruz video

That might be the one that broke the most VCRs with the rewinding.

[Dream Turns Into Dreamt]

^^^^ The copy of that video that the shop used to rent (yes, children, we used to have to rent skate videos) had a huge spot on that section where you could tel people would just sit there and rewind it over and over.  Kinda like that Phoebe Cates scene in "Fast Times"

[damian]

tom penny 'uno' & arto saari 'sorry' part (ali's 25 stair bail too, not for the stairs, for how his knees must have felt). koston's last trick in 'yeah right'. donger and reese forbes ollies and 180s.

[somekid]

1. marty mcfly skitching to school.
2. the first time i saw a kid ollie.
3. gonz kickflipping on a bank in psycho skates.
4. germ. coffin drop.
5. choppy omega running over a cop at burnside.

[TheDraught]

Matt Hensley frontside ollie under the fly-over in his TWS interview
D-Way backside kickflip on vert about 8 foot out in Second Hand Smoke
Rodney Mullen's darkslides and rusty slides
Jason Lee kickflip b/side tailslide in Video Days
Hopefully a lot of stuff in Fully Flared

[Zurg]

some of ryan smith's shit in the old rds vid. noseslide that huge hubba, noseblunt and fs flip nosegrind hydro hubba.

[dave v-house]

Duane Peters' Invets to truck bash

[Mooley]

Pj's wonderful part

Agreed, Definitely changed my idea of what people could do at the time.
Menikmati was my first real skate video, and blew my mind. Rick McCranks 100mph nollie hardflip over a handrail in a line, Koston's perfect kickflip back tail on a handrail. Plus Koston doing dork tricks in the bonus features made me realize just how good he was.

[PAWL]

the turd life intro at the end where some dude butt-acid drops into i think burnside.