Author Topic: COTG Transition Skating Challenge (Read 103462 times)

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1050 on:** January 04, 2011, 12:39:32 PM »

yea backside ones can be ok sometimes, but still i think they're lame as whole.

GnArcIsSisTic · « **Reply #1051 on:** January 04, 2011, 01:08:48 PM »

The debate over whether certain tricks look good or not also deals with if you can do them properly.. It's still an opinion thing I suppose

Watson · « **Reply #1052 on:** January 04, 2011, 01:21:13 PM »

Quote from: ChildoftheGhetto on January 04, 2011, 11:54:24 AM

3 weeks* it definitely would have been more competitive.

Delusional. I like it better when you're real with us holmes.

wake and bacon · « **Reply #1053 on:** January 04, 2011, 01:25:36 PM »

it's like... if only you had more time, right? jeremy REALLY should've given you more than 3 weeks for this contest. what an asshole...

kevbo999 · « **Reply #1054 on:** January 04, 2011, 01:53:11 PM »

Yeah he should've had more time. 12 months isn't enough to skate mini a few times AND learn all those sweet Pine tricks he does.

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1055 on:** January 04, 2011, 04:40:37 PM »

Quote from: Watson on January 04, 2011, 01:21:13 PM

Quote from: ChildoftheGhetto on January 04, 2011, 11:54:24 AM
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3 weeks* it definitely would have been more competitive.
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Delusional. I like it better when you're real with us holmes.

You're fat and you probably have never skated 21 days consecutively in your life. you're the delusional clown tht has no grasp on skateboarding.

Sleazy · « **Reply #1056 on:** January 04, 2011, 05:23:49 PM »

i'm not following the lack of tech progression on vert. to me it feels like it progressed a shit load (collin mckay, hawk, bob, danny, pierrer luc) and that it became obvious that as far a marketability that no one really gives a shit to see another 180 added to the most rotations or collin rolling around at the coping doing tech shit that no one really even gets. what made transition skating popular again was people like TNT taking the hosoi route and bringing style and power back to the game. and as several have mentioned cheese n crackers brought in a new era of tech skating on transition and it seems like a good bit of street skaters can crush minis now with all kinds of tech. but i'd much rather watch the kind of transition skating that tnt, drehobl, etc... do than collin mckay and you can see younger guys doing the same things. i prefer collins p's transition skating to grants but i think it's kids realizing what people want to see and going out and filming it.

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1057 on:** January 04, 2011, 05:32:59 PM »

What made transition skating "popular" is the abundance of skateparks. Even then it's not really really popular. If you looked at the board sales of the people on plan b, and then looked at the ones of anti here or creature you would see a world of difference. The reason people don't skate vert anymore, is because it's not accessible to everyone. If you notice the amount of people that skate shit is directly correlated to how accessible it is. I would be willing to bet money that if there were a shitload of mega ramps there would be way more mega ramp skaters.

grimcity · « **Reply #1058 on:** January 04, 2011, 05:55:25 PM »

I'm part of the movement that's worked on getting parks built in the south east area of Louisiana (and state wide counting some legislation we had passed in 2001), and while I agree with you that transition skating has had a real assist because of the park explosion (I've seen a shit ton of street rats get some skills in both the mellow transitions and our local bowls), you have to consider the kids and former kids that grew up way outside the city. While there was street to be skated, even in the poor ass little country town I lived in we'd have at least two backyard minis to skate at any given minute.

I don't know if that's generational or geographical... just never grew up separating skating a quarter or mini with any other type of skating. Vert was always it's own genre, but transition just always seemed like a natural part of the mix- especially since some spots down here are street spots with legit and also some harsh transition.

Watson · « **Reply #1059 on:** January 04, 2011, 06:03:04 PM »

Quote from: ChildoftheGhetto on January 04, 2011, 04:40:37 PM

Quote from: Watson on January 04, 2011, 01:21:13 PM
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Quote from: ChildoftheGhetto on January 04, 2011, 11:54:24 AM
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3 weeks* it definitely would have been more competitive.
[close]

Delusional. I like it better when you're real with us holmes.
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You're fat and you probably have never skated 21 days consecutively in your life. you're the delusional clown tht has no grasp on skateboarding.

You're an idiot.

Lurkenstock · « **Reply #1060 on:** January 04, 2011, 06:04:42 PM »

COTG is partially right, as far as parks go there are an abundance of them now and whether they are street oriented plazas or big transition types the kids that localize them and skate them everyday will no doubt become good there.
It is a definitely a matter of what's available to them and yeah if there were more mega ramps you'd definitely see more people getting good on those too.

That being said I think I can speak for more than a few here that we would still love to see the trick or tricks that you've done on transition that you believe that Jeremy cannot do.

At the very least if you're not going to post the footage at least divulge what the trick or tricks are, shit man you can't make lofty claims like that and then not deliver.

It's some kind of flip to stall type shit right?
Am I close?
Throw us a bone. No homo.

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1061 on:** January 04, 2011, 06:12:26 PM »

even if there were a few mini ramps where you lived, I'm sure that not a lot of people have access to backyard minis. skateparks everywhere is a new occurrence. If you started skating in 1997-2003 there weren't a shitload of skateparks everywhere. Kids killing at park and street is new, too. I remember wenning said back in the day all the skatepark guys sucked at street, but not the skatepark guys are the best street. some of my homies have probably been to a true skate park(not plaza) maybe 15-20 times at the most. All we cared about was going street skating. Hell, that's still all i care about, I just go to the plaza's because it accelerates how good you get at street skating.

Quote from: Lurkenstock on January 04, 2011, 06:04:42 PM

COTG is partially right, as far as parks go there are an abundance of them now and whether they are street oriented plazas or big transition types the kids that localize them and skate them everyday will no doubt become good there.
It is a definitely a matter of what's available to them and yeah if there were more mega ramps you'd definitely see more people getting good on those too.

That being said I think I can speak for more than a few here that we would still love to see the trick or tricks that you've done on transition that you believe that Jeremy cannot do.

At the very least if you're not going to post the footage at least divulge what the trick or tricks are, shit man you can't make lofty claims like that and then not deliver.

It's some kind of flip to stall type shit right?
Am I close?
Throw us a bone. No homo.

I can do some flip tricks and some flip to lip stuff. I'm going to see if i can go film some stuff in the next few weeks, but i probably won't be able to do anything, because I'm trying to get all my tricks back and get good again.

Sleazy · « **Reply #1062 on:** January 05, 2011, 09:01:35 AM »

parks may have given more kids access to tranny but these parts gave the hype. i was skating at skateparks when the parts came out and you saw the same kids that never even thought about messing with tranny start skating it.

dan drehobl - free your mind (couldn't get a link from my work)

those parts changed the game and it's because they took a different approach than what the vert guys that came before had done.

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1063 on:** January 05, 2011, 09:06:43 AM »

I guess because of where i live, but i don't know one person that cares about tnt, or john cardiel. but again I really didn't even start skating at skateparks really untill 2008

finknoos · « **Reply #1064 on:** January 05, 2011, 09:17:50 AM »

Quote from: ChildoftheGhetto on January 05, 2011, 09:06:43 AM

I guess because of where i live, but i don't know one person that cares about tnt, or john cardiel. but again I really didn't even start skating at skateparks really untill 2008

seriously? cardiel is super gnar gnar

Gomez · « **Reply #1065 on:** January 05, 2011, 11:49:44 PM »

in this debate about vert progression i'm surprised that no one has mentioned ben hatchell (as far as i know). he's definitely bring tech to transition and will continue to do so i'm sure. that run he had in a pool in fun was the only pool run i've seen where i was actually surprised by the tricks done.
0:26, 1:38 is worth a mention too

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1066 on:** January 06, 2011, 08:06:36 AM »

I always talk about how good ben hatchell is.

ice nine · « **Reply #1067 on:** January 06, 2011, 08:53:24 AM »

That feeble 270 isn't a real trick. He is great though

Choad Muskrat · « **Reply #1068 on:** January 06, 2011, 08:57:58 AM »

that ben hatchell part is mind blowing

props to COTG for posting footy, he's already better than me at transition

Gomez · « **Reply #1069 on:** January 06, 2011, 10:22:22 PM »

Quote from: ice nine on January 06, 2011, 08:53:24 AM

That feeble 270 isn't a real trick. He is great though

why is that?

finknoos · « **Reply #1070 on:** January 07, 2011, 02:14:40 AM »

Quote from: ice nine on January 06, 2011, 08:53:24 AM

That feeble 270 isn't a real trick. He is great though

youre a kook

barkeep11 · « **Reply #1071 on:** January 07, 2011, 06:01:14 AM »

Haven't been paying attention to this thread for a while. Good to see the footy COTG!

Giovanni Falcone · « **Reply #1072 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:27:15 AM »

COTG, do you think you will skate transition again?

ChildoftheGhetto · « **Reply #1073 on:** January 08, 2011, 12:44:16 AM »

maybe. I might take a month to actually get good in the next few months.

Giovanni Falcone · « **Reply #1074 on:** January 08, 2011, 03:26:55 AM »

Locbrew · « **Reply #1075 on:** January 08, 2011, 06:51:25 AM »

Quote from: Giovanni Falcone on January 08, 2011, 03:26:55 AM

Where is this park at? Looks like the un-official Cons training facility.

I know this guy who's line on a mini ramp consists of dropping in, rock to fakie then tail stall, would seriously do it like 10 times before doing another trick, and that was mostly kick-outs.

Belligerent Irish Cop · « **Reply #1076 on:** January 08, 2011, 08:27:32 AM »

Quote from: Gomez on January 05, 2011, 11:49:44 PM

in this debate about vert progression i'm surprised that no one has mentioned ben hatchell (as far as i know). he's definitely bring tech to transition and will continue to do so i'm sure. that run he had in a pool in fun was the only pool run i've seen where i was actually surprised by the tricks done.
0:26, 1:38 is worth a mention too

0:26 is too funny. All those fat old guys and lamers in helmets are just speechless or pissed and barely acknowledge this dudes crazy run. If he had done a bunch of slash grinds you'd hear dudes going "woooh!!!! YEAAAAAAH!!!".

Mackattack · « **Reply #1077 on:** January 08, 2011, 10:08:02 AM »

Ben Hatchell is a freak! Don't think I'd ever seen that before.

Stoeipoes · « **Reply #1078 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:12:40 AM »

I don't skate very often in the winter. 2 times a week maybe due to bad weather. and the indoor where i mostly go to has a really nice bowl, but that's always so busy.

I can't really do grinds on top of the coping. Only feebles and fiftyfifty grinds. I'd like to learn five-o's on top, but I can't get the feeling of that trick.

Tips anyone?

Belligerent Irish Cop · « **Reply #1079 on:** January 08, 2011, 11:30:55 AM »

Quote from: Stoeipoes on January 08, 2011, 11:12:40 AM

I don't skate very often in the winter. 2 times a week maybe due to bad weather. and the indoor where i mostly go to has a really nice bowl, but that's always so busy.

I can't really do grinds on top of the coping. Only feebles and fiftyfifty grinds. I'd like to learn five-o's on top, but I can't get the feeling of that trick.

Tips anyone?

grow a beer belly, start wearing dickies and riding an 8.5+ deck.

Author Topic: COTG Transition Skating Challenge (Read 103462 times)

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Giovanni Falcone

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