tricks you love or think are awesome

[doomstation55]

Balanced nosegrinds...
particularly backside nosegrinds...
particularly ones where the person pops out in the middle...

Brian Wenning's career

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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Balanced nosegrinds...
particularly backside nosegrinds...
particularly ones where the person pops out in the middle...

[close]

Brian Wenning's career

I still miss him.

Another addition, long frontside noseslides. Locked in and slid far is beautiful, short and slapped are ugly

[sharkin]

shuv to 5-0s of any variety

[Allen.]

Carroll's Frontside Shove-it Frontside 5-0 Grind.

[heritage]

Hurricanes. Classiest trick in existence. Regular or Frontside.

On curbs, ledges, handrails, or vert, doesn't matter.

[Paul Cicero]

A well dipped back smith always looks amazing to me.
Back lip front 180 out on a ledge
As gip said, a proper kickflip will always be beautiful

[swag nollies]

Ollie off an incline where you can tell the incline popped the ollie higher than normal.

[hsggreen]

impossibles

[lk130]

Lately any revert or pivot trick in s.k.a.t.e you have in your bag but never do

[ducky darnsworth]

i like pretty much any trick that i can do on the way to somewhere with zero chance of eating shit in the process.

[iKobrakai]

I have so much respect for people who can do bluntslides. I've done two or three noseblunts in my life, so I'm so jealous... Also, skating handrails like Jon Allie, man, that would be so sweet...

[SodaJerk]

I have so much respect for people who can do bluntslides. I've done two or three noseblunts in my life, so I'm so jealous... Also, skating handrails like Jon Allie, man, that would be so sweet...

Thanks, it means a lot to me. I do them for people like you.

[Eric ricks]

I have so much respect for people who can do bluntslides. I've done two or three noseblunts in my life, so I'm so jealous... Also, skating handrails like Jon Allie, man, that would be so sweet...

All ive ever done is bluntslide and nosebluntslides.

For 20+ tears ive dreamt of proper front bluntslides to no avail. Also they scare the living shit outta me

[CreepySweaty]

1080 on mega quarterpipe

[Madam, I'm Adam]

Balanced nosegrinds...
particularly backside nosegrinds...
particularly ones where the person pops out in the middle...
or backside 180's out....
or even better, backside 180's out in the middle

B/S nosegrind shove-it out in the middle of a ledge is awesome. Pappalardo in Photosynthesis, someone in Chomp On This did it really well...

I always love seeing a b/s noseblunt slide that's fully ollied into over the side of a ledge and locked in at 90 degrees. Bobby Worrest is the grand poobah of this.

A long, locked b/s smith grind will never go out of style, preferably not down something and across something instead.

B/S shifty flips where the board is tweaked to 90 degrees.

Lofty F/S ollies on transition are also awesome. F/S wallrides with no hands on the wall. F/S slappies going fast.

If a trick was 180'd into, I like seeing the opposite 180 out of it. B/S flip fakie manual, then F/S halfcab out of it instead of a regular halfcab for instance.

Any trick where someone's barely holding onto it but still rides away is fun to see.

Lucas Puig's whole Bon Appetit part.

[drunkaroos]

I really like a good front tail on a bump to high ledge.

Alex Olson's backside flip.

Nollie backside(?) heel.

But a back smith on anything is the holy grail of style.

[mattchew]

I, too, think that a back smith is probably the most beautiful looking grind.
Backside noseblunts are fucking sick looking too, especially on a ledge/hubba. I wish I could do those.
A well popped/caught/stomped 360 flip (think Carroll's opening line in Modus) is pretty much the essence of street skating to me.

Probably my personal favorite trick that I have on lock: Rick flip. I love that trick so much.

[Lasernaut]

Front shuvs
Pop shuvs
Hiphop shuvs (nollie front shuvs)
Sweepers
Kickflips
Back nosegrinds
Mute
Japan

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

incoming unpopular opinion...
nollie back lips
see matt reason for proper form

[SodaJerk]

incoming unpopular opinion...
nollie back lips
see matt reason for proper form

I love that trick and it's one of only a handful of tricks I have preserved on video from my 90's footage vault.

[Fecal Fury]

Front rocks

[DannyDee]

FS Half-cab flips. Those look amazing when taken down sizable gaps.
Big Spin Back tails
Nollie back Heels

[billyerlife]

Slob Boneless cuz no one does them
Front Salads when they're done properly
No Complys over street gaps
Back Feeble Back 180
Hardflip Back Tail Fakie
Fastplants on Tranny
Bring back Shifty Ollies
3 Shuv Fs Wallride
Front Tail Kickflip out to regs
Front Tail 3 Flip out to regs

Those goddamn brick banks in your clip used to be my favorite, where's the clip from?

On the same principle as the 180 in, opposite 180 out, I like any trick in which the components are the same as a flatground trick, but with a grind or manual in the middle, e.g. in the 180s case it would add up to or a flatground 360, or a half cab manual shuv out, which adds up to a fakie bigspin.

Frontside shuvs where the board somehow doesn't leave the feet.
The kickflip frontside pivot on a bank that Jason Lee did that one time.
There is something very complete about a regular to regular 540.
Stalefish, especially when the board goes 90 out and back.

All of them, literally every possible trick is amazing. See Todd Falcon for proof.

[B-Rad is the Raddest]

Switch front bigspins

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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incoming unpopular opinion...
nollie back lips
see matt reason for proper form

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I love that trick and it's one of only a handful of tricks I have preserved on video from my 90's footage vault.

Noice! They work well on both ledges and flat bars. Of course I prefer the ledge version though

[Dave Fuck]

Ollie
Ollie One Foot
Nollie/Nollie Shifty
F/S Halfcab
Backside Bigspin
Fastplant
Nollie Wallride
Nosebonk F/S 180
Backside/Frontside Ollies on Transition
Wallie/Polejam
Ollie Impossibles
Pop Shuv It Rewind
Backside 50-50
Frontside Nosegrind
No Comply 180 Rewind
Kickflip
Proper 360 Flips

[Buck Bundy]

incoming unpopular opinion...
nollie back lips
see matt reason for proper form

I was looking at a transworld from 2002 and there was a check out with Jimmy Astleford. He had a sequence doing one down a decent sized rail. Looked really sick. You're not alone on liking that trick. Also, totally agree with gip about locked in, long fs noseslides. Feels so good sliding it as long as possible.

[shitdick22]

front tail front shuv

[CreepySweaty]

I really like a good front tail on a bump to high ledge.

Alex Olson's backside flip.

Nollie backside(?) heel.

But a back smith on anything is the holy grail of style.

[BraveUlysses*]

You can't do any of those 270 pretzel tricks and not look cool. Back lip front 270. Front nose 270. Back nose 270. Etc.