People who make lame tricks cool

[Tarquin]

Andrew Reynolds has a mean fakie heelflip-shuv-it but when I try them they look like dog shit.

Good example! Such a strange trick, I always liked Dill's one on flatground in Mosaic.

[DannyDee]

MJ has good double flips. He can do ridiculous stuff like a backside 180, backfoot late flip and make it look amazing. Jimmy Carlin can do 360 hardflips that don't look terrible. Carroll is a god at making combo grinds look good.

[Baron Samedi]

I'd call MJ the cool-maker. He pretty much instantly makes any trick acceptable.

Antwuan's another one. He did tons of tricks the mainstream probably would consider very lame and made them look awesome - fakie double flip down stairs, nollie backside pop shove, nollie varial heel, etc.

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Kerry Getz had the only tolerable double kickflip for years and years.

i always liked the one tim o connor does down the brooklyn banks stairs at the end of his photosynthesis part. mobbed to hell but it looks so awesome.

[boofpremium]

BA - fakie varial flip
Kevin Romar - nollie bs 360
Rowan and obviously mike carroll - pressure flip

Fuck, it's really Mike Carroll who's the best at this. He did a tailslide bs shove to fakie and it was sick , then feeble bs smith on a ledge, 3 shoves, 5-0 front shove on a rail, and more im not thinking of

[ohhgreenworld]

I wish more people would do pressure flips down stuff.

I hated that trick until i saw someone do it down a 9 with an effortless style,
after that, i wanted more

[FROST YOUR TIPS]

Dylan has a handsome double flip. It's been said but Van Wastell's Var flip looked amazing. I've never been a fan of front heels but lately lots of people have been doing really nice ones that are caught proper, Antoine Asselin comes to mind.

[shit_for_brains]

I wish more people would do pressure flips down stuff.

I hated that trick until i saw someone do it down a 9 with an effortless style,
after that, i wanted more

Ellington did one (I think it was a pressure flip anyway) down a pretty sizable loading dock gap if I remember correctly. Maybe a Supra ad or something.

[Justis]

thailand

[shit_for_brains]

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Kerry Getz had the only tolerable double kickflip for years and years.

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i always liked the one tim o connor does down the brooklyn banks stairs at the end of his photosynthesis part. mobbed to hell but it looks so awesome.

Tim O made everything look good. I only mentioned Kerry because he almost single handedly legitimized them and did them regularly.

[jomeara1]

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I wish more people would do pressure flips down stuff.

I hated that trick until i saw someone do it down a 9 with an effortless style,
after that, i wanted more

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Ellington did one (I think it was a pressure flip anyway) down a pretty sizable loading dock gap if I remember correctly. Maybe a Supra ad or something.

Yup I remember that too.  I remember seeing that in a mag semi recently..maybe like a year ago??

EDIT: Pretty sure its the same loading dock gap or w.e in Rowley's most recent vans commercial

[Mr. Fink]

Van Wastell was the best at this.

He really was. Every trick done by Van was cool.

[doomstation55]

shane cross and jake duncombe made benihanas cool for a short time

[indni]

Nollie hardflip - - kareem

varial flip - -  Rob G.

[L33Tg33k]

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I wish more people would do pressure flips down stuff.

I hated that trick until i saw someone do it down a 9 with an effortless style,
after that, i wanted more

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Ellington did one (I think it was a pressure flip anyway) down a pretty sizable loading dock gap if I remember correctly. Maybe a Supra ad or something.

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[Koji-Wu]

Got to be Kenny Reed for the varial flip

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

[L33Tg33k]

not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

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sebo

[shit_for_brains]

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

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The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

Save that picture for the "people who make lame tricks lame" thread

[doomstation55]

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

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The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

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Save that picture for the "people who make lame tricks lame" thread

I personally think his double flip at the end of this clip down the hollywood 12 looks great

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

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The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

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Save that picture for the "people who make lame tricks lame" thread

he is the reference point to which all double flips should be compared

[reallygudsk8rkid]

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

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The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

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Save that picture for the "people who make lame tricks lame" thread

Save your reply for the, "people who make lame remarks but think they're cool" thread.

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

Ohhh shit

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not that he makes them look good but yall are fucking up not mentioning king of double flips

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The thread is about who makes the tricks look cool, not who does them a lot.

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Save that picture for the "people who make lame tricks lame" thread

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Save your reply for the, "people who make lame remarks but think they're cool" thread.

Billy we all know I'm actually cool.

[Parry]

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I was thinking about this recently as varial flips became so popular again over the past year...It's interesting when certain people are able to make a "lame" trick look cool by doing it really well/with a unique style. For example, I think nollie hardflips are a weird trick but they're cool when Cairo Foster Nakel Cairo Foster does them. Are there many other notable examples of this phenomenon?

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ReFixed.

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I was thinking about this recently as varial flips became so popular again over the past year...It's interesting when certain people are able to make a "lame" trick look cool by doing it really well/with a unique style. For example, I think nollie hardflips are a weird trick but they're cool when Cairo Foster Nakel Cairo Foster does them. Are there many other notable examples of this phenomenon?

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ReFixed.

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oh man its almost like you two have totally different yet valid opinions!!!

[southsecond]

muska makes the illusion flip look cool

No. He doesn't.

[theo]

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I wish more people would do pressure flips down stuff.

I hated that trick until i saw someone do it down a 9 with an effortless style,
after that, i wanted more

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Ellington did one (I think it was a pressure flip anyway) down a pretty sizable loading dock gap if I remember correctly. Maybe a Supra ad or something.

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Yup I remember that too.  I remember seeing that in a mag semi recently..maybe like a year ago??

EDIT: Pretty sure its the same loading dock gap or w.e in Rowley's most recent vans commercial

[wallieD]

jalba and mango make the dorky stuff look good