Never seen anything like this

[Badmeaningood]

Boulala was the same. Started skating regs when he was a little kid, gave up for a year or two and came back goofy.

[Tracer]

You dudes are weird... Guy did a little park line settle down

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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?

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This is definitely a switch front feeble I would say

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..unless he's going to fakie.

Yes of course, it could be natural stance if it is, i'm just assuming it isn't as it looks very switch even if he does go fakie. But with that trick you could probably tell the difference if he did it goofy and regular to forward.

A friend of mine also started out regular and turned out to be goofy. Happens quite a bit I think. But like with Boulala and that Kevin Davis, you can always tell. No one has even really tried to go for what this guy seems to be pulling off. Well Rodney I guess, and in a way he did succeed in looking goofy every which way he went. But this is something else. I think the enthusiasm is called for.

[GOKU]

I have a friend with a very ambiguous stance, some of you Boston cats may know him. His name's Clancy. I've seen him bomb BIG hills goofy foot, but skating flat he's pretty much regular footed.

[botefdunn]

Looks regular to me, both in stance and natural ability. Looks like he's put in a lot of time at the park though, and he's fun to watch, good ideas and understanding. Whoever said Sheffey, that occurred to me too, which I mean as a compliment.

[Kolostrum]

Dude's regular or started out that way at least. You can tell by how he holds his shoulders in goofy stance, and also b/c the original post shows him change from regular to goofy with a mongo push. Think about that. No does that going switchstance to regular, that would just be blatant mongo.

He is clearly more comfortable skating tranny goofy though, however this is nothing new. I've known a few people like this, and some posters have already alluded to this. Hell Justin Bieber only skates mini ramps regular but does flatground tricks goofy. I also think sammy baptista had the same affliction.

[AitchBeeGayBuh]

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:

I was at El Dorado when this dude pulled the switch back lip in this part. A crew of skaters (Kevin Davis, Adam Louder, and some other dudes) showed up whilst me n some buddies were skatin the 7 stair rail. After barely warming up he did the switch back lip in a few tries n a switch crooks too. If I remember correctly, he also attempeted switch varial heelflip back lips but didn't ride away. Adam Louder on the other hand I saw do a front shove to back lip in about 2 tries too, then he attempted hardflip back lips. Don't remember if he rolled away or not from that one... This was somewhere between when kickflip front boards down rails were startin to become commonplace and Billy Marks doin KFFSgrinds down rails in Good and Evil. I dunno, I remember being floored and also thinking there's no way in hell my ass is becoming a pro skater if this is what ams are doin.

[stephop]

Can't say I've ever seen anyone do massive goofy frontside airs but none regular. That's kooky along with the whole some people skate ramp better switch but I didn't grow up skating much tranny so maybe it's more common then I think obviously.

[slothflip]

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?

that was the dead giveaway for me. imagine how contrived that would have been otherwise.

[happenstance]

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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:

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I was at El Dorado when this dude pulled the switch back lip in this part. A crew of skaters (Kevin Davis, Adam Louder, and some other dudes) showed up whilst me n some buddies were skatin the 7 stair rail. After barely warming up he did the switch back lip in a few tries n a switch crooks too. If I remember correctly, he also attempeted switch varial heelflip back lips but didn't ride away. Adam Louder on the other hand I saw do a front shove to back lip in about 2 tries too, then he attempted hardflip back lips. Don't remember if he rolled away or not from that one... This was somewhere between when kickflip front boards down rails were startin to become commonplace and Billy Marks doin KFFSgrinds down rails in Good and Evil. I dunno, I remember being floored and also thinking there's no way in hell my ass is becoming a pro skater if this is what ams are doin.

Damn, crazy! I can say that Adam Louder does the hardflip backlip in the same video - Manual Labor.

I went to El Dorado frequently around the same time. Where are you from?

[L33Tg33k]

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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?

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that was the dead giveaway for me. imagine how contrived that would have been otherwise.

You guys really think a person that is obviously trying to make his stance confusing is above pushing mongo to further the illusion? Taking that step doesn't really take that much self awareness. Not saying you're wrong, but it's certainly not the "dead giveaway" you're calling it. I mean, we all noticed it too. In fact, I think that argument is weak in comparison to the size of his goofy stanced airs in his other videos alone. I think the strongest evidence for him being regular is the video of him hitting the a frame rail. He's claiming regs, but I really don't think it matters to him for the most part.

[shit_for_brains]

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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?

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that was the dead giveaway for me. imagine how contrived that would have been otherwise.

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You guys really think a person that is obviously trying to make his stance confusing is above pushing mongo to further the illusion? Taking that step doesn't really take that much self awareness. Not saying you're wrong, but it's certainly not the "dead giveaway" you're calling it. I mean, we all noticed it too. In fact, I think that argument is weak in comparison to the size of his goofy stanced airs in his other videos alone. I think the strongest evidence for him being regular is the video of him hitting the a frame rail. He's claiming regs, but I really don't think it matters to him for the most part.

Those are why I'm positive he's goofy. Then other clips are why I'm positive he's regular.

What I really think though is that the world really did end in 2012 and we're all dead.

[frig deuce]

no one can do this switch. no one.

he's either goofy, or straight up ambidextrous... but he ain't regular footed, that's for sure.

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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?

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that was the dead giveaway for me. imagine how contrived that would have been otherwise.

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You guys really think a person that is obviously trying to make his stance confusing is above pushing mongo to further the illusion? Taking that step doesn't really take that much self awareness. Not saying you're wrong, but it's certainly not the "dead giveaway" you're calling it. I mean, we all noticed it too. In fact, I think that argument is weak in comparison to the size of his goofy stanced airs in his other videos alone. I think the strongest evidence for him being regular is the video of him hitting the a frame rail. He's claiming regs, but I really don't think it matters to him for the most part.

anythings possible i guess, especially these days. this gentlemen just didnt strike me as the type to fake the funk to that extent. it felt and looked to me like an instinctual transition to switch in the middle of a park line. more possible evidence is the lofty 3 over the bank where he and his homies get lit up. it was impressive for sure but wouldn't he have that trick reg all day? gotta go back and check the a frame rail...

[Mazzer]

He's goofy, but it's just so funny/genius He lies and says he's regular fam and goes through the trouble of filming switch flip lips and switch bennihanas (and switch flip front crook) and purposely tries to make it look natural stance and doesn't caption it switch.  That's what highlights his natural stance tranny, which it seems he tries to make look switch (but doesn't overtly claim it's switch - because it's not).  Lots of other people can skate street switch like that and tranny natural foot like that, but it's his deception that is so unique and intriguing. On the other hand, the switch flips into tranny that he makes look nonswitch is something no one else can do, but I don't think he's to the point of being ambi. Some of you are buying his pushing shenanigans or sex change / half cabbery nonsense, and that's exactly what he's selling here.  Give me a regular footed back overcrook in tranny.

[AitchBeeGayBuh]

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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:

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I was at El Dorado when this dude pulled the switch back lip in this part. A crew of skaters (Kevin Davis, Adam Louder, and some other dudes) showed up whilst me n some buddies were skatin the 7 stair rail. After barely warming up he did the switch back lip in a few tries n a switch crooks too. If I remember correctly, he also attempeted switch varial heelflip back lips but didn't ride away. Adam Louder on the other hand I saw do a front shove to back lip in about 2 tries too, then he attempted hardflip back lips. Don't remember if he rolled away or not from that one... This was somewhere between when kickflip front boards down rails were startin to become commonplace and Billy Marks doin KFFSgrinds down rails in Good and Evil. I dunno, I remember being floored and also thinking there's no way in hell my ass is becoming a pro skater if this is what ams are doin.

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Damn, crazy! I can say that Adam Louder does the hardflip backlip in the same video - Manual Labor.

I went to El Dorado frequently around the same time. Where are you from?

From a town called Phelan in the high desert, grew up skatin with Herman and Matt Allen. Moved to Huntington Beach in 05 n I'm still fuckin here. Fun fact: Don't know if u remember, there was the rail down the middle of the set everyone skated then one next to the brick wall on the right side. At one point the owner of Pharmacy (Donny) smashed out a good part of the wall with a hammer so we could hit it up. Footage of it is in an old Pharmacy video.
Just remembered too I got to witness Arto cab back lip attempts down that rail around that era... That was a rad spot back then.

[Monkey_Mcpott]

He's goofy, but it's just so funny/genius He lies and says he's regular fam and goes through the trouble of filming switch flip lips and switch bennihanas (and switch flip front crook) and purposely tries to make it look natural stance and doesn't caption it switch.  That's what highlights his natural stance tranny, which it seems he tries to make look switch (but doesn't overtly claim it's switch - because it's not).  Lots of other people can skate street switch like that and tranny natural foot like that, but it's his deception that is so unique and intriguing. On the other hand, the switch flips into tranny that he makes look nonswitch is something no one else can do, but I don't think he's to the point of being ambi. Some of you are buying his pushing shenanigans or sex change / half cabbery nonsense, and that's exactly what he's selling here.  Give me a regular footed back overcrook in tranny.

[wallieD]

He's goofy, but it's just so funny/genius He lies and says he's regular fam and goes through the trouble of filming switch flip lips and switch bennihanas (and switch flip front crook) and purposely tries to make it look natural stance and doesn't caption it switch.  That's what highlights his natural stance tranny, which it seems he tries to make look switch (but doesn't overtly claim it's switch - because it's not).  Lots of other people can skate street switch like that and tranny natural foot like that, but it's his deception that is so unique and intriguing. On the other hand, the switch flips into tranny that he makes look nonswitch is something no one else can do, but I don't think he's to the point of being ambi. Some of you are buying his pushing shenanigans or sex change / half cabbery nonsense, and that's exactly what he's selling here.  Give me a regular footed back overcrook in tranny.

probably wouldn't go at this switch... 

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[Jud Nestorkins]

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

 

I think this clip proves he's regular. At least I'd say it puts no doubt in my own mind that he's regular.


The first kickflip over the hip doesn't look switch at all. That fakie/nollie flip into the bank/roll in after the bs/s 360 looks fakie for sure. In fact it looks pretty much exactly how Reynolds does his fakie flips.


Also that frontiside ollie followed by the lipslide was the switchest looking frontside ollie EVER! The lipslide looks super switch too.


 


And to everyone who says he HAS to be goofy because no one can do airs that good switch, are you telling me that if someone is regular but can do frontside bigspins, or hardflips in the goofy stance almost every try but takes them 100 tries to land either one regular footed that when he does a frontside bigspin or hardflip in the goofy stance that's actually a regular one and not switch because he's better at that trick in that stance?

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

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I think this clip proves he's regular. At least I'd say it puts no doubt in my own mind that he's regular.


The first kickflip over the hip doesn't look switch at all. That fakie/nollie flip into the bank/roll in after the bs/s 360 looks fakie for sure. In fact it looks pretty much exactly how Reynolds does his fakie flips.


Also that frontiside ollie followed by the lipslide was the switchest looking frontside ollie EVER! The lipslide looks super switch too.


 


And to everyone who says he HAS to be goofy because no one can do airs that good switch, are you telling me that if someone is regular but can do frontside bigspins, or hardflips in the goofy stance almost every try but takes them 100 tries to land either one regular footed that when he does a frontside bigspin or hardflip in the goofy stance that's actually a regular one and not switch because he's better at that trick in that stance?

You lost me.

[concerned_parent]

i'm so happy this wasn't a clip of aaron goure or some welcome kid saying "i've never seen anything like this" while someone does a trick at that tempe park

[Prison Wallet]

no one can do this switch. no one.

he's either goofy, or straight up ambidextrous... but he ain't regular footed, that's for sure.

Vov?

[ADOLF SHITLER]

I don't see the confusion he doesn't really have a natural stance but skates tranny better goofy

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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:

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I was at El Dorado when this dude pulled the switch back lip in this part. A crew of skaters (Kevin Davis, Adam Louder, and some other dudes) showed up whilst me n some buddies were skatin the 7 stair rail. After barely warming up he did the switch back lip in a few tries n a switch crooks too. If I remember correctly, he also attempeted switch varial heelflip back lips but didn't ride away. Adam Louder on the other hand I saw do a front shove to back lip in about 2 tries too, then he attempted hardflip back lips. Don't remember if he rolled away or not from that one... This was somewhere between when kickflip front boards down rails were startin to become commonplace and Billy Marks doin KFFSgrinds down rails in Good and Evil. I dunno, I remember being floored and also thinking there's no way in hell my ass is becoming a pro skater if this is what ams are doin.

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Damn, crazy! I can say that Adam Louder does the hardflip backlip in the same video - Manual Labor.

I went to El Dorado frequently around the same time. Where are you from?

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From a town called Phelan in the high desert, grew up skatin with Herman and Matt Allen. Moved to Huntington Beach in 05 n I'm still fuckin here. Fun fact: Don't know if u remember, there was the rail down the middle of the set everyone skated then one next to the brick wall on the right side. At one point the owner of Pharmacy (Donny) smashed out a good part of the wall with a hammer so we could hit it up. Footage of it is in an old Pharmacy video.
Just remembered too I got to witness Arto cab back lip attempts down that rail around that era... That was a rad spot back then.

Ah, you guys were responsible for that? It sure was helpful.

I was from Irvine. I knew a dude or two from the old Pharmacy crew in the early 2000s. All I can say is it produced a bunch of superstars!

My knees aren't too happy with the fact that I came of age in that era.

[MintySandwhich]

so does this dude only skate Venice? lol

[Monkey_Mcpott]

I don't see the confusion he doesn't really have a natural stance but skates tranny better goofy

Whats your sig from?

[ADOLF SHITLER]

I've answered this question at least 5 times and had niggas pm'ing me asking and shit. Go to you tube and search "teekayda how can i love you" it's some niggas in sacramento and i'm not sure why they got thqt lil white with them

[Jud Nestorkins]

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

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I think this clip proves he's regular. At least I'd say it puts no doubt in my own mind that he's regular.


The first kickflip over the hip doesn't look switch at all. That fakie/nollie flip into the bank/roll in after the bs/s 360 looks fakie for sure. In fact it looks pretty much exactly how Reynolds does his fakie flips.


Also that frontiside ollie followed by the lipslide was the switchest looking frontside ollie EVER! The lipslide looks super switch too.


 


And to everyone who says he HAS to be goofy because no one can do airs that good switch, are you telling me that if someone is regular but can do frontside bigspins, or hardflips in the goofy stance almost every try but takes them 100 tries to land either one regular footed that when he does a frontside bigspin or hardflip in the goofy stance that's actually a regular one and not switch because he's better at that trick in that stance?

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You lost me.

Basically if some if someone is better at a certain trick(s) switch than regular does his stance change for those switch tricks only just because the actual non switch ones are harder? Of course it fucking doesn't.

I'm saying that just because he might skate tranny better goofy than regular doesn't magically mean he is goofy

[GatorsGhost]

Interesting that so many people here have known guys like this.  There used to be this kid that would come to my local park, shred the ledges and do flip tricks regular, then drop in and skate tranny goofy.  I guess it isn't as weird as I thought.

[MintySandwhich]

You're mentally ill if you think this dude is regular.

So he can boost back 3 nosegrabs.. switch?
He can frontside air like 5ft.. switch?
Even the gnarliest of tranny dudes can't do that.

People have styles where they look like they're skating switch. This is not a new thing.
Are you guys new to skateboarding?