Tricks that should be:
- switch front feeble an 11 stair handrail
- tre a 7 then lazer a 9 with no push between
- nollie hardflip and nollie late flip an 11
- switch back tail bs 180 back foot flip
- nollie hardflip crook
- perfectly switch bs flip a 9 to curb
- nollie front foot flip crook
- varial heel nosegrind back 180 in a four trick line (including an almost waist high nollie fs noseslide)
- proper fs 180 switch crook line with switch back tail heelflip
- switch flip crook and switch hardflip 5-0 in a line
- switch back tail inward heel
- any flip trick out of nollie front crook
- any flip trick out of tre flip noseslide on a non-flatground ledge
- cab flip back tail FROM THE SIDE
- switch front tail late flip 180
- inward heeling up 3 stairs, THEN nollie bs 180 late flipping the Belmont 9
- switch fs tail kickflip out looking like its regular
- switch flip back lipping a 9 rail at full speed
- nollie hardflipping Bryan Herman's Emerica nollie tre set
- switch back noseblunting a tall as shit 10 stair rail
Nollie fs flipping a man gap in a line with switch front shuv nosegrind, fakie varial heeling to nosegrind in a line with noseblunt fakie, and tre flipping a 15 aren't shabby additions either, although I'd at least considered them possible.
This is what P-Rod accomplished in his Plan B part.
Game Changer?
I'll probably need a new link by morning. From boring-but-skilled to fuck-Fully-Flared? I believe so. Wow.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Convert to Lutheran
I watched Toy Machine's Brainwash last week and didn't get to pay attention to it like I would've liked (SAM...) but I had the pleasure of finding most of the parts on youtube today. While watching Daniel Lutheran in two separate clips I became a fan, although originally I was kinda put off by his tall socks and shorts that come out occasionally. Compare these two clips:
His mag minute, full of what you could call circus tricks. Note the kickflip foot plant on the pole, nose bonk manny, and the ball assault. The tre footplant manual and the backside powerslide(?) manny are my favorites; but the real point of showing this clip is to set up a complete 180 degree portrayal in the Toy vid:
Notice the massive backside nosebluntslide, the gnarly and tall back lipslide shuv of death, the big big big 5050 from flat followed by a massive fly out ollie, the ditch feeble, and the hip to ditch nollie heelflip bomb. Lots of amazing stuff, lots of pop, lots more style than his mag minute for sure. And lets not forget that Gonzalez/Sandoval/Gravette/Provost/Elmendorf sized 5050 at the end.
While I'm on the subject of Toy Machine, I'm a bit upset at the shortness of some of the parts, ex: Provost, Bennett, Marks, Layton, but each part is pretty damn gnarly, aside from the sometimes obnoxious soundtrack(Collin's part). Bennett had some of my favorite clips of the vid, notably his switch polejam 5050, and Marks, despite a friend's criticism, had some absolutely amazing clips. A switch tre lipslide done a good bit bigger and cleaner than my beloved Guy Mariano is hidden in there, along with a Carlsbad nollie inwards that isn't on par with my favorite Carlsbad clip of all time (Billy's switch big heel) but still damn good. Provost had alot of his signature tricks from Stay Gold in his, such as the ditch front feeble, big frontside flip, and a nice and long tre and hardflip. As for J-Lay, well the boy has big boy pop to match his big boy stature, and he's the owner of the best switch tre in skateboarding in my eyes.
But Leo.
Mr. Skater of the Year 2010, I feel like some of his clips were throwaway from Stay Gold, particularly the front board on the bank to hipped red rail, although that trick itself is still very, very sick and quite unpredictable, from personal experience. I believe my favorite aspect of this part is his use of flip tricks, which were glaringly absent in his masterful Emerica part. However, Toy Machine made a mistake when it comes to this skinny fellow, and they showed WAY too much of his pushing. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much, but it looks out of place compared to his perfect skating, like he's not leaning into it or stretching his leg in front of him or something along those lines. Anyways, that's not to detract from the tall 5-0 and smith near the end, or that blue rail front feebs, but it does piss me off just watching him push up to that flyout to curb. Highlight clips include the lofty backside flip over the rail to the hill, the back 180 on the tall yellow railed flyout, and his crook pop-out, mid-double set.
One final observation about Brainwash; did the whole team go through a flyout fad the past couple years?
His mag minute, full of what you could call circus tricks. Note the kickflip foot plant on the pole, nose bonk manny, and the ball assault. The tre footplant manual and the backside powerslide(?) manny are my favorites; but the real point of showing this clip is to set up a complete 180 degree portrayal in the Toy vid:
Notice the massive backside nosebluntslide, the gnarly and tall back lipslide shuv of death, the big big big 5050 from flat followed by a massive fly out ollie, the ditch feeble, and the hip to ditch nollie heelflip bomb. Lots of amazing stuff, lots of pop, lots more style than his mag minute for sure. And lets not forget that Gonzalez/Sandoval/Gravette/Provost/Elmendorf sized 5050 at the end.
While I'm on the subject of Toy Machine, I'm a bit upset at the shortness of some of the parts, ex: Provost, Bennett, Marks, Layton, but each part is pretty damn gnarly, aside from the sometimes obnoxious soundtrack(Collin's part). Bennett had some of my favorite clips of the vid, notably his switch polejam 5050, and Marks, despite a friend's criticism, had some absolutely amazing clips. A switch tre lipslide done a good bit bigger and cleaner than my beloved Guy Mariano is hidden in there, along with a Carlsbad nollie inwards that isn't on par with my favorite Carlsbad clip of all time (Billy's switch big heel) but still damn good. Provost had alot of his signature tricks from Stay Gold in his, such as the ditch front feeble, big frontside flip, and a nice and long tre and hardflip. As for J-Lay, well the boy has big boy pop to match his big boy stature, and he's the owner of the best switch tre in skateboarding in my eyes.
But Leo.
Mr. Skater of the Year 2010, I feel like some of his clips were throwaway from Stay Gold, particularly the front board on the bank to hipped red rail, although that trick itself is still very, very sick and quite unpredictable, from personal experience. I believe my favorite aspect of this part is his use of flip tricks, which were glaringly absent in his masterful Emerica part. However, Toy Machine made a mistake when it comes to this skinny fellow, and they showed WAY too much of his pushing. I'm not sure why it bothers me so much, but it looks out of place compared to his perfect skating, like he's not leaning into it or stretching his leg in front of him or something along those lines. Anyways, that's not to detract from the tall 5-0 and smith near the end, or that blue rail front feebs, but it does piss me off just watching him push up to that flyout to curb. Highlight clips include the lofty backside flip over the rail to the hill, the back 180 on the tall yellow railed flyout, and his crook pop-out, mid-double set.
One final observation about Brainwash; did the whole team go through a flyout fad the past couple years?
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Hey, Joe
Or should I say Cody McEntire, finally pro for Think?
I hope that's not his last nollie bigspin, for starters. His are so proper it'd be a shame. Note the lip tricks, aka buttery quick backside flip noseblunt (which he also does down the hubba, what?), blunt flip nosepick, the back tail backside flip variants, and the absolutely incredible ending trick which made me laugh quietly to myself while I'm supposed to be doing a paper.
Not as creative as Suciu's double rock, but everything is so.... good. Such control. Even on the sketchy switch heel back smith.
I hope that's not his last nollie bigspin, for starters. His are so proper it'd be a shame. Note the lip tricks, aka buttery quick backside flip noseblunt (which he also does down the hubba, what?), blunt flip nosepick, the back tail backside flip variants, and the absolutely incredible ending trick which made me laugh quietly to myself while I'm supposed to be doing a paper.
Not as creative as Suciu's double rock, but everything is so.... good. Such control. Even on the sketchy switch heel back smith.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Mad at the Mag
Always a fan but never a close follower of TSM's Mag Minute series, I was informed yesterday of this little canadian man's offering and had to check it out.
Things I like:
Heelflip front noseslide on a handrail
Nollie shuv crooks on a handrail
Fakie Heelflip
Bennett Grind
Nollie frontside flip
Nollie Flip Manny
Switch Back tail front shuv
Big Nollie heel and Nollie flip
Nollie back 180 nosegrind
Everything else
The ender
Things I dont:
The first line. Wasn't nearly as good as his other clips.
Brandon Del Bianco:
The ending switch backside flip and the fakie heel at around the 1:18 mark are not textbook executions of the trick; the fakie heel is slightly crooked, but the beautiful nosedive from the flick foot makes it one of the most glorious tricks I've seen recently. I'm not one to trip over a flip trick over a gap, but this is seriously just amazing, especially for such a rare trick. I'd watch a fakie heel over a nollie one any day, even in the case of Del Bianco's massive one several clips later. The switch backside flip is also not a textbook execution. You can see the similarity in his SS BS KFs to his switch back 180s; he uses his back foot to guide it once he's dipped the nose appropriately with the front, much like accomplished skaters do with their regular back 180s. But, the backside flip rarely works the same way switch, which is why I love the way he did this one so much. He literally catches it mega-ramp style and pushes it into the wind with his back foot. There was no monster pop, no perfect catch, just speed and a steezy back foot on an interesting execution of a rarely wonderful trick.
Things I like:
Heelflip front noseslide on a handrail
Nollie shuv crooks on a handrail
Fakie Heelflip
Bennett Grind
Nollie frontside flip
Nollie Flip Manny
Switch Back tail front shuv
Big Nollie heel and Nollie flip
Nollie back 180 nosegrind
Everything else
The ender
Things I dont:
The first line. Wasn't nearly as good as his other clips.
Brandon Del Bianco:
The ending switch backside flip and the fakie heel at around the 1:18 mark are not textbook executions of the trick; the fakie heel is slightly crooked, but the beautiful nosedive from the flick foot makes it one of the most glorious tricks I've seen recently. I'm not one to trip over a flip trick over a gap, but this is seriously just amazing, especially for such a rare trick. I'd watch a fakie heel over a nollie one any day, even in the case of Del Bianco's massive one several clips later. The switch backside flip is also not a textbook execution. You can see the similarity in his SS BS KFs to his switch back 180s; he uses his back foot to guide it once he's dipped the nose appropriately with the front, much like accomplished skaters do with their regular back 180s. But, the backside flip rarely works the same way switch, which is why I love the way he did this one so much. He literally catches it mega-ramp style and pushes it into the wind with his back foot. There was no monster pop, no perfect catch, just speed and a steezy back foot on an interesting execution of a rarely wonderful trick.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Back Again
Weeks of computer issues coupled with 40 pages of writing assignments led me to almost a month neglect of poor skatepolitik. But nearing the end of the semester equals three things:
1. Christmas comes soon, aka fixed VX2000
2. New Laptop
3. More Time
All three are damn essential to what I like to do on here. Starting issues I want to address but will save until tomorrow are my recent purchases of Habitat's Origin and Krook3d. I've watched Habitat a couple times and am utterly stunned by Austyn Gillette, particularly his hardflip over that roll-in manhole gap that Billy Marks kickflipped and subsequently tre flipped, and then Westgate frontside flipped. But more on all that later when I'm not at work and not needing to be thinking about other things.
So we'll go to the Politikal vault. Chase Fuller has sent me several remarkable links lately, we'll start out with Mark Suciu, who has footage on the Origin disc.
Quick-ass feet. Tranny mixed with some tech, and some originality to boot. Highlights are the proper and clean bluntslide back lip line, the early box to box combo, front feeble around the corner, wallride double(?) flip and the fakie hardflip down the stairs. Mentionable also are Daryl Angel's halfcab 5050 the hard way, and the Nguyen kid's bluntslide monster pop to fakie. On that note, why are so many skaters endowed with the last name Nguyen? Seems to diminish the recognizability of the nickname "The Nuge" for good ol' Don.
The second clip I'm gonna post is one I know absolutely nothing about. I'm assuming they're all Austrailian dudes (Jasi, get facebook lurking), but the artsy nature of this clip is pretty incredible. Skating is good, filming is on point for the most part, and the spots..... dear god. The orange wallride is a feat in itself, then that beautiful banked piece of art and the board pyramids, all set to what I'm assuming is a track from 90s weirdo spacemusic protege Enya. Not a pro level vid, like Mr. Suciu above, but still entertaining despite its length, and worth a solid viewing.
God willing, I will be posting about one of the aforementioned DVDs tomorrow.
In real life news, for you central VA lurkers, Tim Smith is opening up his skateshop, Culpeper Skateboards, on November 13th. Seen some pics, got some sick stock and plenty of it, and Tim's always had good taste in hardgoods. Swing buy! I mean, uh, by. Buy some shit and support Culpeper's first core shop.
1. Christmas comes soon, aka fixed VX2000
2. New Laptop
3. More Time
All three are damn essential to what I like to do on here. Starting issues I want to address but will save until tomorrow are my recent purchases of Habitat's Origin and Krook3d. I've watched Habitat a couple times and am utterly stunned by Austyn Gillette, particularly his hardflip over that roll-in manhole gap that Billy Marks kickflipped and subsequently tre flipped, and then Westgate frontside flipped. But more on all that later when I'm not at work and not needing to be thinking about other things.
So we'll go to the Politikal vault. Chase Fuller has sent me several remarkable links lately, we'll start out with Mark Suciu, who has footage on the Origin disc.
Quick-ass feet. Tranny mixed with some tech, and some originality to boot. Highlights are the proper and clean bluntslide back lip line, the early box to box combo, front feeble around the corner, wallride double(?) flip and the fakie hardflip down the stairs. Mentionable also are Daryl Angel's halfcab 5050 the hard way, and the Nguyen kid's bluntslide monster pop to fakie. On that note, why are so many skaters endowed with the last name Nguyen? Seems to diminish the recognizability of the nickname "The Nuge" for good ol' Don.
The second clip I'm gonna post is one I know absolutely nothing about. I'm assuming they're all Austrailian dudes (Jasi, get facebook lurking), but the artsy nature of this clip is pretty incredible. Skating is good, filming is on point for the most part, and the spots..... dear god. The orange wallride is a feat in itself, then that beautiful banked piece of art and the board pyramids, all set to what I'm assuming is a track from 90s weirdo spacemusic protege Enya. Not a pro level vid, like Mr. Suciu above, but still entertaining despite its length, and worth a solid viewing.
God willing, I will be posting about one of the aforementioned DVDs tomorrow.
In real life news, for you central VA lurkers, Tim Smith is opening up his skateshop, Culpeper Skateboards, on November 13th. Seen some pics, got some sick stock and plenty of it, and Tim's always had good taste in hardgoods. Swing buy! I mean, uh, by. Buy some shit and support Culpeper's first core shop.
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