So to understand the gazelle underflip, we have to take a look at the original gazelle. It’s a trick Rodney Mullen invented back in the early 80s, and it’s what we would call a nollie backside 540 shove it with a 360 body varial. So a nollie bigspin with a full extra 180. But nobody […]
If you look up who invented hardflips, you’ll get a lot of results that basically say that nobody knows. Some people will say Daewon, and some will say Mullen, but they’re all wrong. Let’s take a look. Back in the 1992 video “Love Child”, Daewon Song landed the first ever RECORDED hardflip. Eric Koston followed […]
Alright, so I reviewed Pro Skater 1 a little while ago. It’s a really good game, but it doesn’t really hold up that great. Not having manuals seems like a glaring oversight in retrospect, and it just doesn’t feel like a Tony Hawk game yet. The series was new and it needed to grow up […]
The impossible is one of the coolest tricks in skateboarding. It’s unique, stylish and a lot of fun to do. This is the story of the impossible, from rise to sudden fall in the 90s. Just like most classic flip tricks, the impossible can be traced back to Rodney Mullen in the early 80s… but […]
When you think of Kareem Campbell, one of the first things that comes to mind is his signature trick, the Ghetto Bird. I already made a video about what the trick is exactly, and one thing I noticed in my research… is that he wasn’t actually the first person to do it. Did he steal […]
Crooked grinds, or K-grinds, are one of my favorite skateboard tricks. And everyone knows,even Wikipedia, that Eric Koston created them, right? Well Eric Koston actually wasn’t the first person to land the trick. So who was? And how did they get to be so linked to Koston? Let’s take a look. So, real quick, a […]
A lot of skaters are using no-brand blank decks to save money. But is that hurting skateboarding in general? Is it worth saving a few dollars? Let’s figure this out. A lot of new skaters are young. They save up their allowance or cash from raking lawns, and they just want to stretch it as […]
If you want to play Tony Hawk 1 these days, you’ve got 4 – more like 3.5 – choices. PS1, N64, Dreamcast, or Xbox. We can kind of rule out the Xbox version right away though. The career mode from Pro Skater 1 is included in Tony Hawk 2X, but you unlock it after you […]
Long before there was Skate, there was Thrasher, the most realistic skateboarding sim of the PlayStation era. I loved this game back in the day, but does it still hold up? Let’s take a look and find out. Thrasher: Skate and Destroy came out in September 1999, about a month after Tony Hawk 1 hit […]
If you do any research on the Ollie, you’ll find two names for who invented it. First is Alan Gelfand, who landed it on vert, and second is Rodney Mullen who did it on flat. Right? Well there’s a guy who claims to have done both variations first. And it actually seems pretty credible. Let’s […]
