People who make lame tricks cool

[Sad dad]

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 does them. Are there many other notable examples of this phenomenon?

[Greg]

muska makes the illusion flip look cool

[pabloalvarado]

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 does them. Are there many other notable examples of this phenomenon?

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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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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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[L33Tg33k]

Any trick looks good when done correctly. And you fools are slippin. Penny had the best nollie hard flip. I don't know who it was, but some poster has the gif.

[Silky Johnson]

Dan Lu KF Frontside Boardslide on the Black Hubba in NYC, Not lame but just not common to see boardslides on hubbas.

[Tarquin]

Van Wastell was the best at this.

[ben shraider]

Daewon.. Most of the stuff he does these days would look kooky and disgusting if it was done by any other skater

[ChuckRamone]

People who can make pop shove its look good are pretty awesome. When you see some dude with really tight trucks do an ugly pop shove it, it can ruin your week and traumatize your soul.

[360 frip]

Daewon.. Most of the stuff he does these days would look kooky and disgusting if it was done by any other skater

Did anyone see that clip of him doing a double kickflip backside nose blunt slide? It looked great.

[reallygudsk8rkid]

i use to hate seeing feebles on ledges, but if you can do a front feeble on a ledge and keep your front wheels from touching the ledge that's the coolest looking trick. Carroll has a great one obviously, also his fakie hurricanes on ledges (I just call em Carroll grinds) are really stupid if done incorrectly, and amazing if done properly.

[DIMETURD]

Stephen lawyer? check out his Instagram, some wizard shit

[Farty McBoner]

Van Wastell varial flip. Also i think most lazer flips look a little lame but Yoshi Tanenbaum manages to make them look cool to me

[sk8fool]

Carroll and BA have good varial flips, Rick McCrank has a nice Nollie Hardflip

[TrustNo1]

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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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[Zurg]

thaynan costa

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Mike Carroll said MJ can make the weirdest trick look good. I guess it's true. He did a pop-shove late flip in his Fully Flared part and it wasn't spasmodic.

[French manicure]

Any trick looks good when done correctly. And you fools are slippin. Penny had the best nollie hard flip. I don't know who it was, but some poster has the gif.

[Silky Johnson]

I couldn't find the clip but Alex Olson does a really rad looking nollie Laser flip at a Choco/Girl demo in NYC a few years ago

[jomeara1]

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Any trick looks good when done correctly. And you fools are slippin. Penny had the best nollie hard flip. I don't know who it was, but some poster has the gif.

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Yup that's the one.  I was even thinking that before you even mentioned Penny.  Hands down the best nollie hardflip I have ever seen.

I always thought inward heels were super awkward, but only regular or switch ones.  Nollie and fakie inward heels look a lot better to me.  P-rod does a nice switch one at the end of his Forecast part.

[Jordick]

Pressure flip- mike Caroll
Double flip- Mj
Dolphin flip- Darrell Stanton
HUF, Tim o Connor- varial

[chunkythrusts]

Genesis Evans- Varial Flip Revert had me 

[slapshakle]

The varial flip Nate Jones does at the end of a line in Real to Reel is a thing of beauty.

[Tracer]

[augustmoon]

BA is the king of making lame tricks look great

[doublesteveburger]

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

[Molte]

My experience was that big spins came through with Yeah Right! Koston and Carroll.
Varial flips, BA had a voice.

Ss fs biggies. It's like this bang for the buck kind of trick. It's like the mayonaise.. No it's like. I don't know, but difficulty wise, to me, it count's as much as an ollie. An ollie can sure be cool looking, but ss biggies a just so mundane. It's like it doesn't matter. And, if somebody ends their part with a ss biggie, everything is just reset. It's like, congratulations, you didn't have a part.
And lazer flips. Maybe it was cool in THPS.. I don't know, but in real life it sure is not, and making it nollie doubles the amount of aaaurgh aaaurgh awmygad awmyaaaurgh aaaaarugh   

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[CRAILFISH TO REVERT]

Gonz made knee boarding look cool.


sortof.

[shit_for_brains]

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