You know, a lot of people get fakie trick spin names wrong, or some people have the nollie ones messed up. You know what, let me show you what I’m talking about really quick. Here are some clips from the trickipedia on the Berrics. A nollie backside heelflip from a regular skater and a frontside […]
So what is a casper flip? For the sake of the video, it’s a half flip late vertical shove it, regardless of how exactly you do it. Some people will call the back footed versions casper flips and the front footed versions hospital flips. If you want to be really technical, you can use those […]
Skate or Die was released in 1988 for a bunch of different personal computers, MS-DOS, and… the NES. Now, I was BORN in 88, so obviously, I didn’t play it when it was new. My family was a little behind the times though, so I did actually grow up with an NES until about 1996. […]
So what exactly is ‘cheating’ in skateboarding? It’s all art, right? You can do whatever you want, even weird footplant stuff where you end up with both feet on the ground. You might not get a ton of respect, but it’s not ‘cheating’. The gray area where it starts to get a little sketchy is […]
When Tony Hawk 3 came out on PS2, I got it the day it came out, just like millions of other people. But I’m actually going to be playing the Xbox version for this review. For this whole generation of games, the Xbox version is better. The graphics are better, there are more effects, and […]
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 […]
