Never seen anything like this

[Budo]

I feel like I am really good at reading weather or not someone is skating switch, but that was the first time I had no clue.  Fuck yeah.

I remember reading an article talking about Van Wastell trying to make his BS 50-50s look switch.  That was cool.

Anyways, there is a dude in a neighboring town who only skates tranny switch as well and I always thought that was some weird bullshit, but I guess he isn't alone.

[givecigstosurfgroms]

From the fakie noseblunt I figured he was regs.  I'm a fan!

[palenimbus]

Here's a documentary he made about himself:

[too much]

Definitely goofy huh?

You sure?

Positive?

I dunno...

I definitely think he's goofy...he made his sw flips looks regular...that's about it...but the first link, if he's goofy those are some crazy sw tricks. Quickly scrolling through his IG he doesn't have regular footed airs.

[Yushin Okami]

This clip tells me he's goofy but dude is wild

[Monkey_Mcpott]

This clip tells me he's goofy but dude is wild

Its so crazy analyzing his skating, he riding the board like he's regular but is skating like he's goofy. The regular kickflip over the hip then followed by the goofy skating trips me out. He also rips the street course regular.

[excitableboy]

Yeah definitely goofy. Kid's going to change the game I think. This is rather exciting.

[LifeHammered]

I am in no way trying to take anything away from his skating, but it does seem when he is skating goofy he is purposely trying to make it look switch and vis versa. 98% of the time when people do that I fucking hate it but this dude gets a pass in my book

[excitableboy]

I am in no way trying to take anything away from his skating, but it does seem when he is skating goofy he is purposely trying to make it look switch and vis versa. 98% of the time when people do that I fucking hate it but this dude gets a pass in my book

Noticed that as well, like he deliberately plays around with it. Like this 'kickflip the hip':

[essal]

i think he is goofy but he is fucking good

[wallieD]

Here's a documentary he made about himself:

kind of over the top but it said written... and directed by van alpert lol...probably helping a friend out

he's skating goofy in this video... does the hill bomb goofy @ 13. i thought he was regular. this kid is amazing though. fuck keelan we have a new switch god now

[frig deuce]

I just had a long talk with my gf about this (we're both psychology geeks), because I'm kind of dumbfounded by this dude...

On one side literally, when he's skating goofy, he rips transition and does gnarly tre's over shit (rails, table tops, bump to bars), and it looks fluent, like he's naturally goofy footed.

Then on the other hand, when he skates regular, it also looks fluent (though to be honest he looks minimally more rigid in a regular stance than in goofy). He does regular kickflip front nosegrinds, kickflip front lips, etc...

A couple more people in this thread alluded to other local skaters they know of who are ambidextrous like this dude... who skate transition in one stance, and street in an other.

What's mind blowing is that I've never seen anything like this, practically no one else has.

We might be seeing a new breed of skating... or not, he might just be a total outlier and anomaly for ever...

...still mind boggling.

I personally think he's more fluent skating goofy, it's obvious when he skates tranny. I think his natural stance is goofy and his switch stance is regular, even though he does regular kickflip fs nosegrinds and kf fs lips in regular... his goofy stance is way more fluid.

You just can't become incredibly good at transition in switch, but you can become incredibly good at street in switch. That's why I believe he's really goofy footed

[GOKU]

You just can't become incredibly good at transition in switch, but you can become incredibly good at street in switch. That's why I believe he's really goofy footed

[deluxxxe]

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You just can't become incredibly good at transition in switch, but you can become incredibly good at street in switch. That's why I believe he's really goofy footed

[close]

hahahaha fuck. thats the end of the thread for me. i no longer care if this kid is regular or goofy.

[L33Tg33k]

Goofy. First video posted had me thinking he was regular after several views, then I watched the rest of his videos and am pretty confident he's goofy. This is the first time I genuinely couldn't tell for a long time and after multiple views. Still not absolutely sure. Amazing, but skaters with this level of comfort in any stance was just a matter of time anyway.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

when he goes up to the platform on the first line, he pushes along regular, then jumps around to goofy, leading me to believe that he's regular. Also, his fakie flips look like fakie flips when he's doing them regular stance.
He's definitely super rad though.
Didn't guy once say he could only do switch 360 flips so in his mind that basically was just how he did 360 flips?

[doyle]

i said he was regular earlier because of this comment he made:



seems to be the strange thing where some people skate regular and snowboard goofy (like jed anderson) but a more extreme case where he's more comfortable skating tranny switch.

[too much]

i said he was regular earlier because of this comment he made:



seems to be the strange thing where some people skate regular and snowboard goofy (like jed anderson) but a more extreme case where he's more comfortable skating tranny switch.

He's blasting huge crail grabs switch then at venice...it doesn't make sense that him or his filmer/photographer is not claiming switch...if that is the case he'll melt minds once he gets his trick selection really gangster.

[Nanda Zinger]

I can't even remember the last time a new cat hit the scene and got me to watch
Iike every clip he has online. Dude is crazy with it.

[shouldn't]

dude did couple switch flips, couple backside airs, 360 flip. what am i missing here?

kook.

[shouldn't]

if he's regular then he's airing out 4-5 feet switch, switch bs smiths on tranny, sw bs 180 nosegrind out of the tranny, switch 360 flipping pyramids, switch body jars and sw bs nosegrinds on tranny all fluent and with ease. if he's goofy then he's switch flip FRONT nosegrinding outledges like nothing, switch flip FRONT lipping rails,  switch nose bonk bigspin, switch flipping over coping and so on. when he does half cabs or fakie noseblunts you people are calling those regs? anyone who acts like his stance is easy to pinpoint is a complete fucking idiot. this dude is seriously the truth. thanks for the post. wow!!!!

[andocom]

The most confusing thing is why has he just come to the attention of slap, that's prolly the most impressive park cruising I have seen and no seems to have seen him previously unless they localize that park, is he hooked up by anyone, I saw a shakejunt hashtag?

[shit_for_brains]

The most confusing thing is why has he just come to the attention of slap, that's prolly the most impressive park cruising I have seen and no seems to have seen him previously unless they localize that park, is he hooked up by anyone, I saw a shakejunt hashtag?

That's (a small part of) what gets me. He looks like he's... I don't know 17-20? How is he that good and unknown for the most part? He lists adidas on his IG but seems to wear whatever.

[Willie]

I know a kid who changed stances sometime in his early teens and can do a lot of switch tricks that look like his normal stance.


I was sure this guy was goofy although the wonky way he landed the frontside ollie and the way his head was looking forward on the noseblunt makes me believe that yeah, maybe he started as a regular footer.


Dude is sick either way and I'd basically call his style ambidextrous. Which begs the question, do you give up switch credit in such a case or if you're doing most stuff "switch" does that make it your primary stance?

[Noble Experiment]

I seriously think that unless this dude does something to totally blow it (drugs, burns bridges with the industry, etc) that he's gonna be the next big thing/future legend in the making. Everyone is always talking about who the next Duffy/Penny is going to be for this current new generation (a skater that just randomly comes onto the scene out of nowhere and just blows everyone away), and with how oversaturated skateboard media has become in the 2010s, it's come to the point where almost everything that comes out doesn't seem mind blowing anymore, even the craziest shit kinda just blends in with every other web clip at this rate; a skater releases some crazy shit, gets praised for a bit but then their footage gets forgotten about a week later.  Because of this no ONE skater truly stands out out of the group of top dudes at the moment with having that special "it" factor.  Maybe Luan at the moment?  Maybe? But even that's questionable. In a time when nothing seems shocking anymore, this dude comes out of nowhere and has already boggled minds right off the bat and has eye brows raised and people confused as to what stance he is.  People are already saying that they have not seen anything like this before. Ive already shared his clips with a bunch of people and they're speechless as to what they had just seen. I seriously think that this dude is the next big thing, provided that he doesn't fuck up somehow and that he gets picked up by companies that know how to put him out there.
Or I could be wrong, and this dude will fade into obscurity in a few months, but who knows. Guess we'll see.

[jomeara1]

That was the smoothest sex change I've ever seen.  

[excitableboy]

I know a kid who changed stances sometime in his early teens and can do a lot of switch tricks that look like his normal stance.


I was sure this guy was goofy although the wonky way he landed the frontside ollie and the way his head was looking forward on the noseblunt makes me believe that yeah, maybe he started as a regular footer.


Dude is sick either way and I'd basically call his style ambidextrous. Which begs the question, do you give up switch credit in such a case or if you're doing most stuff "switch" does that make it your primary stance?

This is definitely a switch front feeble I would say

I seriously think that unless this dude does something to totally blow it (drugs, burns bridges with the industry, etc) that he's gonna be the next big thing/future legend in the making. Everyone is always talking about who the next Duffy/Penny is going to be for this current new generation (a skater that just randomly comes onto the scene out of nowhere and just blows everyone away), and with how oversaturated skateboard media has become in the 2010s, it's come to the point where almost everything that comes out doesn't seem mind blowing anymore, even the craziest shit kinda just blends in with every other web clip at this rate; a skater releases some crazy shit, gets praised for a bit but then their footage gets forgotten about a week later.  Because of this no ONE skater truly stands out out of the group of top dudes at the moment with having that special "it" factor.  Maybe Luan at the moment?  Maybe? But even that's questionable. In a time when nothing seems shocking anymore, this dude comes out of nowhere and has already boggled minds right off the bat and has eye brows raised and people confused as to what stance he is.  People are already saying that they have not seen anything like this before. Ive already shared his clips with a bunch of people and they're speechless as to what they had just seen. I seriously think that this dude is the next big thing, provided that he doesn't fuck up somehow and that he gets picked up by companies that know how to put him out there.
Or I could be wrong, and this dude will fade into obscurity in a few months, but who knows. Guess we'll see.

I agree. Remember that park line clip Ishod came on the scene with? This feels like that.

[Logan Lewis]

i have a friend who when learning to skate at a park was told by the guy teaching him to drop in EXACTLY the way he did it.. which was opposite of his actual stance... now he skates tranny regular and street goofy

[CRAILFISH TO REVERT]

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I know a kid who changed stances sometime in his early teens and can do a lot of switch tricks that look like his normal stance.


I was sure this guy was goofy although the wonky way he landed the frontside ollie and the way his head was looking forward on the noseblunt makes me believe that yeah, maybe he started as a regular footer.


Dude is sick either way and I'd basically call his style ambidextrous. Which begs the question, do you give up switch credit in such a case or if you're doing most stuff "switch" does that make it your primary stance?

[close]

This is definitely a switch front feeble I would say

..unless he's going to fakie.

[happenstance]

I have a friend who snowboards in his opposite stance from skating. He is amazing at fakie stuff and it looks nollie (facing forward). He bombs hills and powerslides totally comfortable in both stances.

If anyone remembers Kevin Davis (was on Osiris toward the end of the Storm era), he started skating regular for his first few years and then switched to goofy. I remember people referring to him as the first truly ambidextrous skater. Seems like a stretch these days, but I felt it was pretty accurate at the time: