Is it a 360 Barley grind because it turns frontside, or an alley-oop Bennett grind because it ends up as a switch back smith?
Definitely not an alley oop Bennett. In my understanding of trick nomenclature:
Bennet Grind is a bs 180 into a switch smith grind, the defining difference between it and a Barley is the rotation of the ollie into the trick. Therefore an alley oop Bennet would have to start with a bs 180 and end up in a switch smith.
So an alley oop Bennet would be the same trick, approaching the rail bs instead of frontside and do a bs 180 into what amounts a switch fs smith.
I would say the trick done in the video is an alley oop Barley as he’s approaching the rail the “wrong” way for the trick and still starting with a fs 180.
Barley : starts with a fs 180 into a switch smith
Bennet: starts with a bs 180 into a switch smith.
We all know trick names are fucked up anyway but that’s my understanding of this beautiful mess. It’s only this much of a mess too because of the way the naming of the Bennet Grind happened.
He did it on a notable object (with style too), progressed and did variations of the trick . Instead of it just being known by it’s more mechanical name “bs 180 switch smith grind”, it was named comfortably alongside its older brother , the Barley grind.
Even though they are “grind tricks”, I think it’s true to say that the defining characteristic of a Barley grind was the fs 180 done as the starting point of the trick, not the nature of the smith grind.
If this wasn’t the case, then a switch Barley grind wouldn’t be named as it is.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is, only an idiot would come to the conclusion that this is a Bennet Grind.
Or: we accept that the name Bennet grind can only be applied to a bs 180 into a switch bs smith and a Barely grind can only be applied to a fs 180 into a fs smith and any sort of alley-oop variations such as these can not be named by the pro-namesakes because the smith grind is the wrong side.