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DeadBlueSky's skate challenge:

this is how the game works; its a normal online game of skate, except instead of setting and matching a single trick each round, a line of 3 tricks is set and the others must match all 3 tricks in that line, its a chance to challenge both your flip trick repetoir and consistancy, i would say the game is recommended for more advance skaters as it requires a very large trick bag. hopefully those of you who sign up have a good time playing and may the best man win :)


DeadBlueSky's skate challenge rules

1. sets are comprised of lines of three tricks, no more no less: example kickflip - heelflip - b/s pop shuvit

2. all tricks in the line must be landed for the set or subsequent matches to count

3. tricks may not be re-set if they have been used in a line already; for example: if someone sets the line:- kickflip - heelflip - b/s pop shuvit, none of those 3 tricks may be used in later sets

4. toe drag is not allowed, tricks must be rolled away cleanly

5. tic tacs are permited, but only when they are clearly not to maintain rolling (e.i: no under-rotated 360 flips where the person doing the trick stops dead then tic tacs away)

6. tricks must be executed rolling at a speed at which the person doing the trick will continue rolling upon landing

7. pushing is allowed between tricks, but not as a way to cover up a stop.

8. failure to set in time results in the setter gaining a letter (as with regualr SKATE)

9. failure to match within the deadline, being a week from the set date, results in those who did not meet the date getting a letter.

**approved by pathtek**

once sign up has been completed between 5 - 10 people competing, i will make a thread for the tricks to be posted in

Competing:
1. DeadBlueSky
2. Pathtek4
3. Supersonix6
4. Individuality
5. Qtip
6. MRCK
7. Arto-Geoff
8. Long Jetty
9. Skatinkrazy
10. Roboman

Ooooh, this sounds interesting, Ahhhh, I'll join, I'm in GOS 8 right now but I'm sure I could manage both.
We'll see how this goes, Hopefully some people sign up.

This is a very good idea. Of course, I can't play because of the snow and lack of filmer, but I look forward to watching it.

I'll join, but are you in this too DeadBlueSky?

but are you in this too DeadBlueSky?
Hahah, I was asking myself the same question :D

EDIT: ahhhh nvm, i am probably not good enough for this. I changed my mind retty quick. If you put me on (it was a short amount of itme so I doubt it) hen just takem off. This is for the good skaters. Sorry.

i'd quite like to play, i'm interested in how i'd fair :)

also a pretty obvious point, but one that needs to be pointed out: if it comes to the point where you have run out of tricks, you are out.

I guess I can do this, count me in.

Count me in ! This is going to be insane :)

sounds sick i would give it a go but i dont have a damn board at the moment im getting one tommorow though

i'll edit players into my first post as they sign up :)

By the way, no-comply tricks aren't allowed I assume, only ollie-based stuff ? :) Just wondering. And will you choose a handsign like they do in the other games of SKATE when enough the players have signed up for the game to start ?

i don't really see too much need for a hand sign as everyone knows each other and it is far more difficult to have footage for something like this just lying around, i would like to think we can all act in good faith :)

as for no comply tricks, i'll just say they are not encouraged ;)

i think that as the game progresses i will make a list of tricks that have already been used so that everyone can keep track of what is no longer allowed to be set :)

Count me in ! This is going to be insane :)
See now it gets interesting :D

i would like to add that we are going to be very tight on the rules, all three tricks have to be landed and landed well, anything that looks like it wasn't going to be landed/rolled away if it weren't for toe down/tic taccing/additional pushing simply will not count, think about it like this: you want to film the line as if it is being used in a big video, so shoddy landings simply won't cut it.,

perhaps when the game is finished someone could collect the best clips and edit together a highlights video??

If theres room, I'm in.

there is room and you are in!

i could setup an ftp on my webserver... each player could send in the best clips from the game. would be interesting

well if you think that its a good idea go for it :)

anyone who wants to play, there are only 3 spaces left!

i'm looking into some kind of actual prize for the winner :)

Overseas shipping for the actual prize?

yeah, get it sent anywhere, no problem

Yes, I would like to get in on this if I can, it sounds like fun.

you're in, 2 more spaces left...i'm looking at you roboman :P

You know what. I thoguht about it. Sign me up. say there is some good guy that wanted to ign up but was too late, give him my space. This will help me learn, i'll have fun. I will definetly lose but I can try, learn, and have fun. Please lay off te insults on me :p Well good luck everyone, I will need it the most :).

glad you could join us :)

1 more space!!!!!!!!, we'll get the game underway on friday

Ok cool. My goal is to not ocme in last place. I'm not terrible, i just can't tre flip, nollie flips or that hard sutff. but i'm getting there. Put this in your siggy and put me on the list :) Thanks! Wish me luck, because again, I will need it!

I'm sure were all gonna need the luck Skatinkrazy, lets just have a fun game and see what happens :icon_frow

i do warn you there will be a fair few obscure tricks going on, but more than a contest its a good way for us to learn from each other,and try things we would never usually try :)

I'm learning my flips fastly as we talk. My set won't be too impressive. I like to match better (even though I won't be matching everything :p).

just remember you have to match all 3 tricks in the set for it to count, this is one of the few variations of skate i play with my friends, we find its really good for consistancy, gets you into the very good habit of learning your tricks with the mind to be doing them on the go

I know. I will do my best and have fun. Say I can't do all three I will post me trying if I can land at least one of them. That way I can say "Hey, I was sort of close!" haha.

exactly, just give it a go, if it doesn't work, then dont worry, at least you tried and you now have a new idea and trick to work on :)

big ups deadbluesky for organizing this!

big ups deadbluesky for organizing this!
True dat!

cheers guys :)

i'll stick the running order in my sig when the game gets underway, and set up a thread to post sets/matches and also edit the first post in this thread with a list of tricks that have already been set as the game progresses so we can keep track of what has and hasn't been done :)

Sounds good. Still have one more spot though.............*cough*roboman*cough:icon_smil

Alright, I'll join. :D

My shoes are literally falling off my feet and it sort of hurts to skate for too long. I'm gonna run a "Destroyed Shoe comp" soon. The best person who has shoes in worse condition than mine will get a prize haha.

and we're set :)

everything ready to kick off on friday :)

i hope you guys have your thinking caps on ;)

How do you intend on picking the order of operation?

It's already determined I think, go to the first page.

i just went by long jetty's logic on in the GOS8 thread

Oh I see :p! Well good luck all, this should be fun! Figures the cold front just moved into my area, and now i'm going to have to hit the pavement a few times trying to get these 3 trick runs in...gasp, I need thermal socks..

i need thermal ankles..and now i am going to go and skate at 1:50 in the morning...goodnight and good morning :)

Is there a time limit on sets and matches?

Arg, I'm last in both GOS8 and this one, but this one I have less chance of staying in until my set :)

I dont really know how advanced people are gonna go here. This'll be intersting.

My set will not be hard at lal if i even make it to my set. Haha, i don't think I will. I hope I match a trick.

Will there be a tricks thread? Also what is time limit on sets/matches?

from friday i wil have until sunday night to set my trick, you will then have until the following friday to match then the next person has until sunday etc...

Which thread will the tricks be posted in?

i'll make a new one now, i was going to save it till friday, but i guess there is no harm in making it now :)

Hey, will random tricks like 180 powerslides, beanplants, fingerflips, tailblock slides and all that be allowed? Or is it strictly ollie / pressure tricks.

i think if we keep it to strictly ollie/pressure flips as there is a whole can of worms opened up with foot down tricks and the others catagories, for example "how long is too long for a foot to be on the floor"

We don't need a hand sign or anything do we?

no, i figured we can rely on a little bit of trust as i don't think many people will have filmed many 3 trick lines in advance, if they want to cheat, they can go ahead, but that defeats the point of the game (to have fun skating and to try new things, in my opinion)

good luck everyone thats playing, this will be intresting to watch, i like the way you organised this DBS, alot of online games dont work but im sure this one will.

I have a question. Am I allowed to stop moving in between tricks? As long as I stay in the camera's veiw. Cause I will probably have to do alot of tripod filming and won't be able to fit a whole line in it's veiw. So is it alirght if I stop after i've landed a trick and turn around?

^In the event I can't get someone to film me, I will probably just set the camera up straight at me from a distance, so i don't have to turn around or anything (just a suggestion of mine)...But I know what your saying if you do it in a garage or something, but I think that may take the combo out of it....i don't know

I'm going to start from far away, then do tricksi not camera. So the first trick you iwll not see too closely but be able to tell I did it. That is, if I cna match anything. I think I'll be able to match at least 1 set (hopefully).

man cant wait for this to get started

I'm going to start from far away, then do tricksi not camera. So the first trick you iwll not see too closely but be able to tell I did it. That is, if I cna match anything. I think I'll be able to match at least 1 set (hopefully).

Oh man I just had a really wierd but potentially cool and stupid idea...

I remember years and years ago I used to mess around with that technical lego stuff. The one with all the gears and motors etc? Hows about a motorised camera robot thing? It can drive a long and film the line! Haha, thats so freaking stupid - I gotta try it :D

EDIT: Ah well, cant find it anywhere.

Arg, I'm last in both GOS8 and this one, but this one I have less chance of staying in until my set :)

I dont really know how advanced people are gonna go here. This'll be intersting.

I thought about you when I saw your name last...Honestly, you'll make it to your set ;), but by that time, the only thing that will be left are back to back to back HARD tricks :p

Figured 10 guys, 3 tricks a piece for a set, 30 tricks before it gets to you, haha!

I thought about you when I saw your name last...Honestly, you'll make it to your set ;), but by that time, the only thing that will be left are back to back to back HARD tricks :p

Figured 10 guys, 3 tricks a piece for a set, 30 tricks before it gets to you, haha!

Well I have the tricks to make everyone elses lives rotten if I can set. But getting there could be very hard.

i'm starting hard, but not obscene, i've got a few things that will suprise everyone :)

you know, 30 tricks isn't that bad. my friend and i filmed 25 tricks over a little gap yesterday, and we didn't do anything terribly hard/obscure, and we didn't do anything too simple either, like kickflips and 180s and such. also, that's assuming everyone is able to set by the time it gets to them.

Kickflip, heelflip, fakie kickflip, fakie heelflip, bs 180, fs 180, pop shove-it, fs pop shove-it, fakie pop shove-it, fakie fs pop shove it, fakie bs 180, fakie fs 180, varial kickflip, fakie varial kickflip, varial heelflip, fakie varial heelflip, and then all of those switch/nollie is already 32 tricks. :D

exactly, sueendly it doesn't sound so bad :)
i've decided what myset is is gon abe, gonna go and film it tomorrow afternoon

I can't wait till my set i have some class ideas!

Kickflip, heelflip, fakie kickflip, fakie heelflip, bs 180, fs 180, pop shove-it, fs pop shove-it, fakie pop shove-it, fakie fs pop shove it, fakie bs 180, fakie fs 180, varial kickflip, fakie varial kickflip, varial heelflip, fakie varial heelflip, and then all of those switch/nollie is already 32 tricks. :D

Especially easy when you consider switch / nollie / fakie. So long as its all not like "nollie bigspin heel, fakie lazer, switch tre", at least for a while.

man cant wait to see this gunna be sweet

Yeah I can't wait to see DeadBlueSky's set too. I don't know about you guys but I spent the last two days thinking about my sets and as a result I still have no accurate idea about what I'll do when it's my turn :icon_conf I think I'll just improvise.

Yeah I can't wait to see DeadBlueSky's set too. I don't know about you guys but I spent the last two days thinking about my sets and as a result I still have no accurate idea about what I'll do when it's my turn :icon_conf I think I'll just improvise.
I think for my set I might use your f/s bigspin impossible, I love that trick now :D.

my set is online...you have until next friday!

GO!

Nice set ! :) Hmm, I have consistent double kickflips and nollie back foot impossibles, I've never even tried a late hardflip though. If I can learn these on time I will probably be able to post a match :) But I highly doubt I will because they seem relatively hard.

so I guess im too late for this? **** I always miss these.

that was a sweet line, late hardflip was pretty badass...can't wait to see more of these lines. good luck to everyone in the contest ;)

Wow great set DBS. Damn, I was thinking of using a double flip in my line if I get a chance. I've come close to late hardflips, but nollie back foot impossible are way off for me. Ahh well, I'll still give it a go.

That is an excellent set DBS, GJ. I look forward to matching this.

I think I won't be able to resist the urge and give it a try tomorrow morning :) Any tips I should know on the late hardflip by the way DBS ?

Excellent Set! I knew it was going to be a tough line, and you definitly came thru. Thank God you are regular, because i'm gonna have to learn nollie BF impossibles, that is a tremendous task for me! My set will look nothing like that :p, haha

my set is online...you have until next friday!

GO!

Ha, I knew you would have the doubleflip and the late hardflip, but the nollie backfoot impossible was a surprise. I've done all three of these sometime in the past, but getting all in a single line? Damn. I havent been able to do nollie BF impossibles since I got nollie varial heels.

I'll give it a shot if it ever stops raining.

is DBS..Darran Nolan??

is DBS..Darran Nolan??

Yeah.

Ha, I knew you would have the doubleflip and the late hardflip, but the nollie backfoot impossible was a surprise.

Ha, I knew he would have the late hardflip and the nollie back foot impossible, but it was the double flip which took me by surprise :) Anyway, it's sunny today so I'll probably go and give late hardflips a few tries soon. I've been worshipping them ever since I first saw DBS's part in 'This N That', if I can figure them out I'd be stoked.

EDIT - Just got back from a two hour long flatground session :) I've filmed a few lines for my upcoming set, I still don't know the one I'll use, though. About DBS's line, I've practiced late hardflips a bit, I can flip it fine every once in a while now but I kick the board way too much in front of me and thus I get my feet back on it. Ah well, I still have a lot of days left.

MRCK or DBS, any tips on the nollie back foot impossible? I've got the basic idea on the late hardflip, but I'm not even close to the nollie back foot impossible.

EDIT - Just got back from a two hour long flatground session :) I've filmed a few lines for my upcoming set, I still don't know the one I'll use, though. About DBS's line, I've practiced late hardflips a bit, I can flip it fine every once in a while now but I kick the board way too much in front of me and thus I get my feet back on it. Ah well, I still have a lot of days left.

although it makes very little diffrence, i would prefr if everyone filmed their lines during their alloted set time, it makes things a little more challenging as you have to make do with what you can get, rather than relying on a stockpile.

as for the nollie impossible, think of it as a nollie b/s 360 shuvit, but try and slightly scoop it with your back foot by pointing your toes down, its easier than it looks,

as for the late hard, it requires a very subtle movement, without really pushing front side at all, its a very gentle touch

although it makes very little diffrence, i would prefr if everyone filmed their lines during their alloted set time, it makes things a little more challenging as you have to make do with what you can get, rather than relying on a stockpile.

Oh ok then, sorry, I thought it was OK to film a few lines in advance just in case the weather conditions would get in the way during your allowed set time or something. I know where you're coming from though, so I'll play by that rule and I won't use the stuff I've filmed today for the game. I'll go and compile it into a little montage instead, then I'll post it in the Video Vault so you can see that I'm being honest :icon_flam

MRCK or DBS, any tips on the nollie back foot impossible? I've got the basic idea on the late hardflip, but I'm not even close to the nollie back foot impossible.

DBS said it all, I couldn't have explained it better myself. Give them a few tries at your next session, they're not hard to figure out, just experiment with a few different foot positionings and remember to point your toes down in order to 'push' the deck into the spin, it will wrap around them naturally.

as for the late hard, it requires a very subtle movement, without really pushing front side at all, its a very gentle touch

Thanks for the tips, I can flip them fine now but I have a hard time staying centered over the deck while it flips (basically I kick it forwards too much with my back foot). I'm not sure about what to do exactly but I guess I just need to practice more, hopefully it won't get frustrating.

Hey hey, I got the nollie back imposs and double flip concept all right, but how much does your front foot play in this late hardflip? I noticed your front foot kind of dragged off the side of your board starting the spin then your back foot pushed foreward and finished the rotation. Is this correct?

on the whle the front foot does absolutely nothing, sometimes, when they are lazy i pop slightly f/s so that i can just use the very tip of my toes with the smallest of ollies (like the one in the video)

if you want to do it like a real man, you can just pop a frontside varial pressure flip, and give it an extra little tap after it gets going ;)

on the whle the front foot does absolutely nothing, sometimes, when they are lazy i pop slightly f/s so that i can just use the very tip of my toes with the smallest of ollies (like the one in the video)

Man this helps me a lot, thanks :) I think I can picture the right way to do the trick now, which gives me the motivation to go try it again as soon as possible.

Anyway here are the lines I had filmed this morning (and that I won't use for the game), I thought it wasn't worth a new thread in the Video Vault : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w14wl29rhQ some of them were only filmed for pure fun and would have been too sketchy to count but I put them in anyway to make the clip more interesting. Obviously my actual sets will have completely different tricks :) so don't waste your time learning the ones in this clip in advance.

if you want to do it like a real man, you can just pop a frontside varial pressure flip, and give it an extra little tap after it gets going ;)

lol, I had thought of that (I have consistent fs varial heel-side pressure flips) but thought it wouldn't count for some reason. If it does work though I'll probably be able to match this set soon.

i don't see how it would count as the pressureflip will have already started so intfering with a f/s pressureflip instead of an ollie would change the trick completely

well, i don't know about MRCK, but i was just playing around. To be honest, i think it would be very hard to tell the difference between the two, especially if the late hardflip is done immediately after ollieing as opposed to at the peak.

you can tell quite easilly, granted mine was quite lazy, but even so there is a definable difference :)

between a late hardflip like yours and a 45 degree quarter pressure flip late 135 3/4 flip? it doesn't sound like much, but i know it would be endlessly easier for me. i guess it depends on the camera angle.

just remember kiddies, cheating is bad.

And so are late hardflips. I can do the double flip at the nollie back foot impossible prettymuch. But that late hard. Damn, great set DBS.

i figured i would go with a set that would cause a couple of problems, but isn't compeltely unobtainable in terms of the tricks done, later sets will be a little scarier i think :)

how is everyone getting along?

As far as I'm concerned my legs were still sore from yesterday this afternoon so I didn't skate today, therefore no progress on the late hardflip. But I'll practice them for a few more hours tomorrow, I think I can picture how to do them better now, so I can't wait to try them again.

As far as I'm concerned my legs were still sore from yesterday this afternoon so I didn't skate today
Man, I'm going through the same thing. I'm starting to wonder how pros can skate everyday withouth their legs giving out. Well, I got both the nollie back imposs and double flip landed, but no luck on the late hard. I'll try them again when my legs clear up. Also, it's Christmas soon :)

DBS, I've got the nollie back foot impossible down, so that's cool. I'm having trouble flipping the late hardflip, I can get the ollie late f/s pop shove-it, but I have no idea how to get the flip in it. Any tips?

be very gentle whilst using the tip of your back foot, its much less of a f/s motion than you would think...

I'm getting closer :) This afternoon I worked on getting my double flips back on lock, so now I can do the first two tricks of the line in a row without any problem, and when I successfully do land them then it gives me the adrenaline rush I need to dare to stay centered over the board while it does the late hardflip (which I find hard to do when I practice late hards separately). I haven't landed the line yet though, either I get both my feet back on the late hard but the deck flips only halfway or it flips perfectly but I only get my front foot back on. I think I can do it :)

Well I got the double flip easy, the late hardflip I have landed one in primo, and have no chance of getting it in a line. I have come close to the nollie impossible but not landed it. So I'm taking a letter here, haha.

Well, doubleflips are fine (about 2/3), nollie backfoot impossibles happen about once every 10, and I've yet to land a late backfoot hardflip.

So 2/3 x 1/10 x 0 = 0/30 chance of getting these in a line. :)

Hats off to you DBS..This set is very frustrating. I can't get the tricks to link up together, and I'm having a problem with consistancy...It's alot of leg strength before you get to the hardflip part, quite tiring really

Well, doubleflips are fine (about 2/3), nollie backfoot impossibles happen about once every 10, and I've yet to land a late backfoot hardflip.

So 2/3 x 1/10 x 0 = 0/30 chance of getting these in a line. :)

If you want my advice (not saying it's worth anything though {rf)), don't get frustrated on late hards, give them a few tries until you can spin them then focus on practicing the line itself, not the individual tricks. Try the line over and over, this will improve your consistency on nollie back foot impossibles and when you manage to land the first two tricks it gives you an adrealine rush which helps a lot when it comes to land the last one. That's what I do now and so far it works well (I could have matched this today if I had had more time).

Consistency isn't too much of a problem for me - the late hard is :tongue: But I'll give everything I can to overcome it before friday.

It's alot of leg strength before you get to the hardflip part, quite tiring really
Haha, I know what you mean. Thanks to you DBS I relearnt my nollie backfooters :) Thanks. If I could get the hang of this late hard I'm sure I could get it in a line but no luck yet. Im thinkin I got a letter.

Well im obviously taking th letter here. Very nice set!

I almost have it, but 'almost' is nothing but an excuse for those who fail at their task, so basically yeah it means that I still can't do the late hardflip. I can't even flip it anymore, while I can do the double flip and the nollie back foot impossible almost everytime. Here are the problems I'm experiencing : the most common one is that I end up doing a late fs shuvit / late 1/2 fs impossible because I can't get the right tap of the toes and thus I can't get a proper flip. Sometimes I end up flipping semi flips by accident, or late varial flips instead of a hardflip. The rest of the time I just flip regular hardflips and my back foot kicks in the air.

Another thing is, I'm not quite sure about what to do with my shoulders. Should I be facing the direction I'm going, have them parallel to the length of the deck, or somewhere in between ? I'm a bit tired of experimenting with a lot of different positionings.

Here's a clip showing some of my attempts just in case you want to tell me what I'm doing wrong DBS : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8G1qiwlpuE hopefully that's not too much to ask.

set your front fot up a little flatter against the bolts, its stops it from flipping until you want it to, the most common problems with the late hard are putting too much effort into the late hard itself (actually kills the flip, hence you can only flip it 1/2) or inadvertantly interfering with a poor front foot position. if you adress one of these problems then the solution to the other will become apparent :)

I landed a late hardflip today :D. I'm gonna go out tomorrow and try to get it in the line, I learned that if I wait a bit longer before trying the late hardflip, and if I tweak my ollie a bit, the flip is easier.

Thanks for the tips DBS, I'll go and try them one last time this afternoon... But I doubt I'll get it, the more I think about it the more I realize that my only chance to get the board to flip right would be to have it thunderstruck during a late fs shove-it or something, then again I'll have to pray for it to count :icon_haha I don't think that's a trick for me. Anyway that was an awesome set :) Made me get consistent double flips back, and gave everyone new trick ideas. Congrats on the late hard Qtip by the way.

-= Edit =-

Allright... I learned late hardflips today, I landed several of them during the afternoon (including a perfectly clean one that got me by surprise) and I can flip them everytime now (I often only get 1/2 flip though, but I just need to practice more). Qtip's tip was really helpful, I had to pop more and kind of mix the back foot motion of a late back foot flip with the front foot motion of a late fs shove-it. However I didn't manage to get the line itself :icon_shru I kept trying tonight until it got too dark... So give me the letter. Ah well, at least I have a new trick now :)

and it appears to be letter all around for this first set, Pathtek, you have until sunday to set, i look forward to seeing it :)

You know whats funny? In the end what got me was the nollie back foot impossibles. I landed a few, got them pretty consistant, and worked on the late hards. In the end I got the late hards but couldn't get the nollie back foot impossibles back. Good set, can't wait to see Pathtek's.

if it gets around to my next set i'm hoping to mix it up a little and pull a few suprises

if it gets around to my next set i'm hoping to mix it up a little and pull a few suprises
More late stuff?

no the only thing he could do to surprise us is setting something really easy and attainable.

no the only thing he could do to surprise us is setting something really easy and attainable.
Setting something really easy and attainable to get our hopes up then shutting us down at the end with something incredible :D
This set was hard.........I'm sure all of the sets will be hard........lucky we have more than one try :)

Aww sorry everyone. I didn't even make an effort to make this line. The moment I saw that vid i was like ****....

Yeah that set was awesome, a perfect challenge for everyone :) And even if noone matched it, everyone got tricks back / learned new tricks from this experience, which is what actually counts. However I think I'll still try to get that line on film for personal contentment, haha. My whole body is still sore because of all these efforts, yet I can't wait to try Pathtek's set. This is gonna be fun :icon_drib

if it gets around to my next set i'm hoping to mix it up a little and pull a few suprises

Aw come on, do you honestly think you could be out before your next set ? :) Man, I haven't seen you skate in real life so I could be overrating your skills of course but from what I've seen of you so far, I reckon that there may be about one chance in a billion that you may get half a letter in this game ?

Aw come on, do you honestly think you could be out before your next set ? Man, I haven't seen you skate in real life so I could be overrating your skills of course but from what I've seen of you so far, I reckon that there may be about one chance in a billion that you may get half a letter in this game ?
Hey man, We all have our weaknesses and I'm sure DBS has his. It's just a matter of finding out :)

Hey man, We all have our weaknesses and I'm sure DBS has his. It's just a matter of finding out :)

Eating spaghettis ? {eye)

Sorry for that useless post. I shall go out as soon as I stop laughing

Is there a deadline when someone sets?

Yeah, for me it's today..But it is all good, cause I would of had it posted yesterday if it wasn't for youtube slacking here (still processing)

For those of you that can view Zippyvideos, I uploaded it there for the meantime until youtube gets on the ball here...

My Set is:
Halfcab-Flip to 1/2 Pressure 1/2 Lateflip to 360Flip

Good luck guys, I banged out all the tricks I enjoy the most first :)

My match is up, now envy my killer secret skate spot :) I'll probably refilm all the tricks in a straight line with my new camera though, because the quality of the clip I posted is really questionable.

Pathtek explain to me exactly what is going on in the 1/2 pressure 1/2 late flip.

My match is up, now envy my killer secret skate spot I'll probably refilm all the tricks in a straight line with my new camera though, because the quality of the clip I posted is really questionable.
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Have you seen the quality of my videos lately? Ughh!
My match is up. Pretty much tha same as MRCK's . Not in a nonstop straight line. But I hope it'll do. Should have a better Camera/ better quality videos next week.....

Man that sucks you guys can't do it in a straight line :(...Not taking ANYTHING away from you guys, cause your matches were phenomenal, but that entire 1 shot line takes alot out of ya. Oh well, you do what ya gotta do

My youtube link finally got done processing after a full days wait..it's editted into the tricks thread

And Qtip...I'll post up a better video of the 1/2 Pressure 1/2 Lateflip
Here you go: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlCiJgRhqm0
*I find it can be easier to get the board to pop correctly upside down easier if you put your backfoot on the far corner of the tail and place your front foot on the close end of the nose right above the bolts.
Your back foot does all the work in getting the board to pop upside down, and your front foot gets out of the way, then returns over the board, kicks down, and is in prime position to get both feet on the board again*

I don't get how the board ends up upside down.

Pressure on opposite ends/corners of the pop give it a veriticle lift

i've matched it, i'm just waiting for my footage to arrive in my email :)

I'm going doooooown :)

Haha, I think I'm in over my head in this game. Like half the tricks are fine, but then there are the ones I can never get very well *cough* inverted shove it lateflip *cough*

Ah well, I'll give it a go...

Haha, i can do them tricks. I always just call the second one a pathtek flip when i do them in games of skate or in front of me mates. Ill have a match up tomorrow.

I don't get how the board ends up upside down.

Think of it as a 1/2 impossible, or a bs varial toe-side pressure flip during which the deck only flips halfway, then you kick down with your front foot to do a late half flip in order get the griptape side of the board facing up again and land :) Don't worry they're not too hard (and they're even easier when you can do pop shove-it late flips, so you know what motions to go through with your front foot during the late flip part).

Speaking of late stuff : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7TeBityaA I finally got DBS's line on film, three days beyond the time limit and the nollie back foot impossible is pretty sketchy, oh well :) I'm so glad I finally got those late hardflips I couldn't resist to post the link :icon_redf

MRCK you might wanna use putfile, youtube has been pretty slow on the uploading recently.

Speaking of late stuff : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI7TeBityaA I finally got DBS's line on film, three days beyond the time limit and the nollie back foot impossible is pretty sketchy, oh well :) I'm so glad I finally got those late hardflips I couldn't resist to post the link :icon_redf

Nice line there man, glad to see you posted it!! That hardflip was really flip last minute...late late!! haha, excellent!

personally i wouldn't have counted the late hard as it was very under-rotated, i'd just like to remind everyone we areplaying a strict game :)

personally i wouldn't have counted the late hard as it was very under-rotated, i'd just like to remind everyone we areplaying a strict game :)

Yeah I know, to be honest if I were you I wouldn't have counted anything except the double kickflip, so I don't think I would have submitted this as a match anyway. I guess I'm just so glad that I managed to get the line on film even though it was quite sketchy that I couldn't resist to post the link. I'm sooo in love with these late hardflips now, to the point where I let my feelings overcome my will, which eventually results in me flooding online message boards with pointless footage of myself performing random tricks on a piece of wood with wheels - sorry for the inconvenience.

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Anyway I'll try to get a better match of Pathtek's set, in a straight line, in the upcoming days. Even though I've always practiced consistency a lot, I find this game really good when it comes to get a lot of new tricks on absolute lock :)

there is alot that can be done with late hardflips, they work very well into and out of manuals as well as other variations and the mystical late hardflip f/s 5-0 :)

bah, i'm still waiting for my match to arrive in my inbox, also updated my sig with the matches so far.

Nice match DBS. Extra clean points ;)

don't even get me started, i hit so many cracks, stones and bits of glass filming that, it drove me mad, i nearly came off the 1/2 pressureflip 1/2 late flip because of it, i landed fine and hit something causing me to tic tac like mad,

the 1/2 pressureflip 1/2 late flip gave me a little trouble because i am very used to doing both pressureflip late flips and shuvit lateflips, so to get something inbetween with only a half flip took a little getting used to, but its there now, learnt it all stances so watch out ;)

Ahhhhhh, No but seriously it was cleaner than my match! ( also in one continuous line) Haha. But you still popped that 1/2 pressure 1/2 late pretty high. Well I havnt learnt that trick in all stances.........so I will watch out:icon_snif

don't even get me started, i hit so many cracks, stones and bits of glass filming that, it drove me mad, i nearly came off the 1/2 pressureflip 1/2 late flip because of it, i landed fine and hit something causing me to tic tac like mad,

the 1/2 pressureflip 1/2 late flip gave me a little trouble because i am very used to doing both pressureflip late flips and shuvit lateflips, so to get something inbetween with only a half flip took a little getting used to, but its there now, learnt it all stances so watch out ;)

I'm a ready :p...I spent many days learning the numerous stances of it (except nollie is driving me insane, probably shouldn't of said that, haha)
Nice match everyone, and extra nice match to you DBS! I noticed when you did the 360flip at the end, you had to ride your board ''backwards'' cuz of the 1/2pres1/2late...I started out all the tricks riding ''backwards'' on the board, so when I got the the 360flip, the board was normal....not that it really matters, but hey, I noticed anyways

it felt really weird, but i got a nice little pop out of it, so all was well :)

Talking about this, I was wondering about something the other day : does it ruin your match / set when you're riding your board backwards between two tricks and you do an extra shove-it during your line so you end up riding your deck the right way, as long as you mention in your post that the shove-it doesn't count as one of the three tricks ? Because I just can't skate my board backwards and it's an old habit of mine to do a shove-it variation during my lines to have my nose facing the right way again. Or should I just stick to body varials while pushing and pivots to end up riding my deck the right way because the shove-it would count as a trick and therefore kill my line ?

i have exactly the same problem as you, i just stick to the line as it comes though, because what happens if someone sets a shuvit?

I have the next set :icon_woow
I'm just confirming if it's alright to set like I did my last match.
I don't have a big enough area to do a three trick line in one straight run. I got to push and turn around to so each trick. Is this alright? I'm still doing three tricks consecutively in the camera's full view. I'd personally think that a straight line looks better and is a better method but I just can't manage.............:icon_bunc

well so long as they are consecutive, if there is no way to manage in a more open space then its fine, so long as the tricks are good enough to count

i look forward to seeing your set!

i look forward to seeing your set!
I bet you do :icon_woow
Hah, It won't be too techy........not as techy as I'd like it to be........ but I'm going for some of my favortite tricks like Pathetek.
And.......I'm hoping this week or early next week I'll get my new capture device for my camera so I can get some better quality video up........mines just horrible.....:icon_snif

Deadbluesky, I' not oging to match any of this stuff lol. This is way over my skill level, I regret signing up and if you want to, you may just take my name off the list in your siggy. Save you osme space and I won't be matching anything (.00001% chane I will).

Deadbluesky, I' not oging to match any of this stuff lol. This is way over my skill level, I regret signing up and if you want to, you may just take my name off the list in your siggy. Save you osme space and I won't be matching anything (.00001% chane I will).
If you maybe learn one trick out of this whole game it will be worth it. I definatly learnt and re-learnt a couple tricks off DBS's first set, even though I didn't match it. Give it a go, try and learn something new, have fun........you never know, you may suprise yourself :)

Ok leave me in! I won't match anything but I'll try and if I get like 1 trick out of the thing I'll post it. don't make fun of me tohugh, I'm under your skill level.

Ok leave me in! I won't match anything but I'll try and if I get like 1 trick out of the thing I'll post it. don't make fun of me tohugh, I'm under your skill level.
Now why would we make fun of you. I came into this game knowing that I would have to face off with Mrck and Darran Nolan the tech God's of the forum. I really didn't think I had a chance but why not. I may be under there skill level but competing in this challenge may improve my skill level and gain me some skill/knowlege I don't have. Yea but even if you get one trick, don't be afraid to show us and maybe we can give you some pointers and help you out.

Now why would we make fun of you. I came into this game knowing that I would have to face off with Mrck and Darran Nolan the tech God's of the forum. I really didn't think I had a chance but why not. I may be under there skill level but competing in this challenge may improve my skill level and gain me some skill/knowlege I don't have. Yea but even if you get one trick, don't be afraid to show us and maybe we can give you some pointers and help you out.
Thanks for the being nice and getting me pumped. I was repping you but accidentalyl pressed enter so the reason may be some weird word. I was saying "Thanks for helping me out, being so nice, and very understanding." Thanks!

yeah, the game is alot more about what you get from it personally than the result,
no doubt there will be things that crop up that i don't normally do, so they will encourage me to do them better and improve their consistancy, which is why i had the idea for the game, everyone gets something out of it, even if you don't match a trick you open your eyes to more tricks you didn't know you were capable of doing, and if you do match the tricks you are showing consistancy with the tricks you do. infact if i get that far, i am looking to mix up my future sets so that i am doing lines of tricks that are less common for me to do, so that my overall cruising bag of tricks (tricks that can be done more or less whenever/whereever) is increased, as aiming to do tricks in a line teaches you the mentality and gives you the confidence for spontainious skating at a higher level than you would normally think about

so long as you take something from the game its a success :)

I can do all those tricks but.. my older brothers in town, haven't seen him in a couple of years so didn't get any skating in. So yea..

My match is up, strng language, landed it in the rain, ****in lethal

My match is up, strng language, landed it in the rain, ****in lethal

Just watched it, haha it was awesome :) Looked like you were having a great, fun sesh.

sorry about the delay....supersonic6 up to set!

Good on you staying in the game skatinkrazy, you had the same thoughts about this game as i did with gos8 and i'm still playing,

+rep for carrying on :)

EDIT: i think i gave u a bar of rep lol :)

My match is up, strng language, landed it in the rain, ****in lethal

OMG!, Hahahahaha, F***ing Lethal!! That match was cool, and so was that dude! Kinda got all trippy there during the 1/2pres1/2late match, it was freakin' me out man :p

Wow I didn't even get to try pathtek's set.

Alrighty guys, My set is up. First trick is a Haslam flip ( half varial flip / half front foot late flip ), followed by my personal favorite, a Gazelle ( nollie 540 shuvit 360 body varial), then of course the impossible. A fairly easy and FUN line if you've learnt these 3 tricks before. If not, start practicing !
:)

i have a slight problem with b/s nollie gazelles, they are a little shoddy, so i think i'll haev a little trouble with this one

i have a slight problem with b/s nollie gazelles, they are a little shoddy, so i think i'll haev a little trouble with this one

Same here, I can't do them consistently and when I do get one it looks more like a nollie fs big spin to pivot than an actual 540 shuvit 360 body varial (would that still count if the pivot is smooth enough ?). Nevertheless, I did give that line a few tries today (just in case luck would be on my side - but it quickly turned out that it wasn't :)), which made me relearn consistent haslam flips, and I can already ollie impossible consistently, so the main trouble I'll have to overcome for this turn really is my consistency on these gazelles. It's going to take some practice but I still think I can do it.

The Majority of people I've seen, do there Gazelles with that last revert which is alright and actually looks stylish. So don't worry on getting the full rotation.

my problem is that i pop my nollie b/s gazelles, so sometimes i land off balance

my problem is that i pop my nollie b/s gazelles, so sometimes i land off balance
Hmmmm, I've never seen a popped nollie b/s gazelle. That would look awesome. I can see the problem with those though.

its the only way i can do them, because i learn gazelle back foot impossibles before my nollie b/s gazelles were any good, so its just a habit i got into

i'm going ot have to tqake a letter as i have come down with the flu and my body aches a little too much to go out and skate :(

i'm going ot have to tqake a letter as i have come down with the flu and my body aches a little too much to go out and skate :(

Man, hope you feel better man. When the legs are shaky and the heads out of place, its next to impossible to land the simplest of kickflips....take it easy DBS

so, how is everyone doing with this set? remember you don't have long left :)

Not good...Besides the fact that it feel like 10 degrees outside, and my feet don't enjoy that too much, the gazelle is killing me. I guess I really don't understand what it is, to sum it up. Is it like a 540shoveit with 360body varial or something? I can't see it in my head, so therefore, I can't repeat it on the board...??

Not good...Besides the fact that it feel like 10 degrees outside, and my feet don't enjoy that too much, the gazelle is killing me. I guess I really don't understand what it is, to sum it up. Is it like a 540shoveit with 360body varial or something? I can't see it in my head, so therefore, I can't repeat it on the board...??

Yeah, imagine the nollie bigspin that Long Jetty for GOS8, but land on just the leading wheels and pivot 180 until you are rolling forward again. I suck at them, I'm not sure which foot to boost the spin from (whether to use the front foot to pop it round or use the back foot to swing it round).

I might as well get help on this trick now actually :). I have nollie back 360's on lock better than nearly every othe trick. A lot of the spin is the front foot, popping out and guiding the board around until the "rear" wheels touch down for a short pivot after 270 degrees. But whenever I try gazelles, the front foot is no longer in contact with the board throughout, so getting a fast enough spin is a terrible task. Not to mention trying to keep the board located enough to land in the pivot at the end. The board often flies out behind me as it grabs on the ground and spins away.

How do other people approach this one? Its a trick I've always wanted to be able to do :)

i treat them as b/s nollie 360s with an adjustment to the front foot, i found i was rubbish at trying to pivot the trick and instead opted for popping it and getting the rotation in the air, just takes a little extra wind-up on a popped nollie big spin :)

So (since i'm regular), I should pop the B/S 360 shove-it, turning with the board 360body varial, then catching it to pivot the last 180 to make it 540?...is that it?

So (since i'm regular), I should pop the B/S 360 shove-it, turning with the board 360body varial, then catching it to pivot the last 180 to make it 540?...is that it?

Not quite. More like:

I should pop the B/S 360 shove-it, turning with the board 180body varial, then catching it to pivot the last 180.

It can be like a nollie backside bigspin, land in a short fakie manual position thing to pivot out...

Or just boost a nollie backside 360 with an extra shove it inside like deadbluesky does. Although that method would take some maaad spinning.

Seems as I cant do either I'm not really in the position to say how to do it though :)

Not quite. More like:



It can be like a nollie backside bigspin, land in a short fakie manual position thing to pivot out...

Or just boost a nollie backside 360 with an extra shove it inside like deadbluesky does. Although that method would take some maaad spinning.

Seems as I cant do either I'm not really in the position to say how to do it though :)

Well, I appreciate you clearing that up for me, cause I was really confused...I think I have it now....It's really hard to tell whats going on when I watch it, only because things happen SO FAST (even in frickin' slow mo), that I can't keep up with all the spinning O\o, lol

Going to get at it again today, wishing myself luck :p

Good luck Pathtek :)

As far as I'm concerned I gave this a few more tries today. I have really consistent haslam flips now but the gazelle still kills me, even though I've practiced them for a while separately and landed a few smooth ones. I'll give this one last try tomorrow, but it's very likely that I'll have to take the letter (if I can match this on the very last day I'd be stoked ! and I'd be so pissed if I can land the first two tricks perfectly clean then mess up on the ollie impossible, haha). I have a few ideas for my set already :icon_goog

I was out trying to do gazelles today, and I skidded out on one and smacked my head into a wall. Does it count if we do a nollie bigspin with a revert, but without ever stopping the spin?

well that is exactly what a gazelle is so it counts :) as far as reverts go, as long as they are a fluid part of the trick then they are allowed, its just down to personal preference

what he said,..congratulations!

I didn't manage to get that line on film today, which was the last day, so I'm taking the letter. Congrats supersonix6, your set was truely awesome ;)

Individuality, you're up to set, you have until sunday :)

I didn't manage to get that line on film today, which was the last day, so I'm taking the letter. Congrats supersonix6, your set was truely awesome
Truly Awesome!
Man, I'm in 4 Games of skate now!
I'm a working man :)

i'm going to give the line a go when i am well enough to skate, chances are i'll get it too, oh well, one letter isn't the end of the world :)

i'm going to give the line a go when i am well enough to skate, chances are i'll get it too, oh well, one letter isn't the end of the world
True,
When do you suspect you'll be able to skate again?

not too long, probably about tuesday, this has hit me a little worse than i anticipated

Oh thats where you were i hadnt seen you at southbank over the weekend thats why lol.

yeah i went to bed with a sore throat one day and woke up feeling like i had been hit by a truck :)

Does my set count? I tail scraped on the Switch Pop Shuvit Revert..

Whoa its dark. Its a good thing you have the tricks listed, otherwise I'd have no clue.

Damn, the switch pop shove revert will give me some hassle.

the revert counts as the scrape clearly doesn't infere with the trick,

ah, you are all going to see the worst swich heelflip ever when it comes to my match :)

I gave that line a go today and contrary to my expectations (I'm not too good at switch heelflips) I actually landed it several times, I even got it on film but the quality is awful because it was getting too dark, I'd rather submit a decent quality clip so I'll go and refilm it tomorrow.

ah, you are all going to see the worst swich heelflip ever when it comes to my match :)

Just wait until you see mine, I don't seem to be physically able to pop them higher than one inch high, therefore they basically roll over the floor and bounce back to my feet :tongue:

Match is up. My heelflip aint the greatest either :)
Same with the switch fs shuv revert. I've never done them before...

Ok guys, the worst person in the game is giving this a go! (me)
I can switch pop shuv it and switch pop shuv it revert or whatever, and I have been working on my switch heelflips lately. I probably won't get it but I will most likely get close. I'll show you guys a vid in the discussion section on how close I got if i cant get it.

go for it!

my switch heels are terrible, no cinsistant quality, they are either pretty high or roll along the floor, nothing in between

Nice Match Mrck.
Hows everyone doing with this set so far?

nice matches guys, just to ask that everyone shows a good amount of the roll out from the last trick in future as it stops any dubious thinking about stopping dead after 3/4 feet :)

I'm gonna give this one a go. I have switch front shoves and switch heels down, but the idea of a switch front shove rewind is wierd cos the revert is backward.

I'm gonna give this one a go. I have switch front shoves and switch heels down, but the idea of a switch front shove rewind is wierd cos the revert is backward.
I can do a trick roboman cant!!! :):):):) I feel special. It is pretty sketchy, like my tail might hit a bit but I can do it I guess. (I know your way bettert hen me roboman so let me treasure this moment without you going "can you switch double kickflip?" or osmething. lol) I'm working on switch heels though. I wont egt this in time.

I can do a trick roboman cant!!! :):):):) I feel special. It is pretty sketchy, like my tail might hit a bit but I can do it I guess. (I know your way bettert hen me roboman so let me treasure this moment without you going "can you switch double kickflip?" or osmething. lol) I'm working on switch heels though. I wont egt this in time.

Thats a true statement. :)

i'll have my match up in the nick of time tomorrow i reckon, horrid weather has stopped me from skating the last couple of days after recovering from the flu, lame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBVJTk_HSk
Does this count?

^^
Man you had that heelflip nice. What happend with the landing?
Looks like you should have had it.
I doubt DBS will count this.

i can't count that one Qtip, for future reference, the roll away needs to be clearly under control,

we're running a tight ship guys, lets keep it rolling :)

also Qtip you are up next i hope you have a good idea of what you want to set :)

Haha yeah I wasn't expecting it to count, I was just beeing lazy so I wouldn't have to try it again. I need a better surface to skate, as you can see with the sw heel and the sw fs shove, it's all cracked up so sometimes I stop and need to revert to keep from falling forwards. I'm surprised I got that switch heel, I haven't tried them in ages, and that was the first one of the day. And yeah I got a pretty good idea for my set.

excellent, i look forward to seeing it and hopefully a re-match as you have showed you can easilly do it :)

Sign me out this game. Broken ankle. Sorry...

will do, sorry to hear it

Man, That switch heel was rocketed DBS!
Hehe, At least you got your match in ;)

Haha I love the little laugh of relief after DBS's switch heel :) Come on Qtip, bring on your set !

I only get two days to set?

thats true for everyone friday evening-saturday-sunday, sorry f it was too shor tnotice for you, but it seems to keep the game moving nicely

Nice Set.
My Match is up...........Im soooooo sore right now. I need to take a week off of skating............too much = old man walking :(

just so everyone knows, on the first pos tin the tricks thread i have edited in all the tricks that have been set so far and colour coded them according to stance, just makes everything easier to keep track of i think

just so everyone knows, on the first pos tin the tricks thread i have edited in all the tricks that have been set so far and colour coded them according to stance, just makes everything easier to keep track of i think
Yea! I noticed that, Your doing a great job hosting this game. I like how in your sig it also says who matched the trick.

some of you guys get the matches in quickly :)

Haha, better to get it outta the way like ya no. Ps thats probably the greatest nollie heel ive ever done lol

Haha, better to get it outta the way like ya no. Ps thats probably the greatest nollie heel ive ever done lol
Haha, Go figure, thats like one of the worst nollie heels I've done.......

mine are terrible, i have a problem with straight nollie flips, they are always shockingly bad, my nolie heels are bad, my nollie kickflips are bad, but i can do the variations of them really quite well on the whole

just one of those things i guess

This will make your eyes melt : http://media.putfile.com/ARGHMYEYESTHEGOOGLESDONOTHING

Pure sketchiness, I thought I'd give it a go today despite the fact that it was really annoyingly windy outside and here's the most decent attempt I could get on film since I messed up a screw thread on my back truck in the process, causing one of my wheels to pop off during every trick I would attempt from then on (which also led me to go back home with more useless footage of myself wandering around the spot looking for the bolt I had just lost than actual skating footage). Would that count, even though the nollie heel and the fakie 360 flip are just horrendous ? If it doesn't then I'll try to find a new bolt for my back truck tonight and I'll get up early tomorrow just to go film a better version of the line, provided that it doesn't rain or snow during the night of course. I'm quite pissed off because I usually can do the three tricks consistently and rather clean, I had pretty bad day.

personally i wouldn't count the nollie heel as you were clearly way off balance, but i would like a couple more opinions on it

I thought it was fine cause he stayed on the board and was rolling away, like he didn't need to tic-tac. But it's up to you DBS you're the judge, mate.

Technically you landed all the tricks but as DBS said earlier, I quote:I would like to add that we are going to be very tight on the rules, all three tricks have to be landed and landed well, anything that looks like it wasn't going to be landed/rolled away if it weren't for toe down/tic taccing/additional pushing simply will not count, think about it like this: you want to film the line as if it is being used in a big video, so shoddy landings simply won't cut it.,
If were going to be strict on the landings then rules should be enforced. I havn't had solid landings on my tricks as I would like to.
Again it's up to DBS

Allright, I'll go charge up the batteries of my camera, pray that it won't rain or snow during the night, and give it another go tomorrow morning ;) I'm fine with the rules, I just wanted to know whether I needed to refilm it or not.

i probably won't be matching this set due to having commitments with my band, we're playing tomorrow night so i'm giving myself the pending letter

My match is up, does it count ? I guess it does but I'm so used to being said it doesn't that I might become paranoid :)

And I think I know what my set is going to be, I've been practicing the line over the past few days, if I can get it on film then expect something relatively hard.

^^you can't join in the middle of a game, and you have to have more than 1 post and 1 bar of rep...

^^
Drugs are bad:icon_doh:

It's my turn to set now right ? I'll try to film my line this afternoon.

yup... i'll update my signature

My set is up, considering remaining players' technical abilities when it comes to fancy flippy tricks I had to do a pretty hard line in order to challenge everyone a little bit ;) It will probably take some practice, but I don't think it's unsurmountable. My tricks look pretty sketchy but I think they're good enough to count since they don't have any major flaw apart from being ugly, I wanted to use my new complete but I'm still not used to it enough to pull of complicated tricks with it so I had to hammer the frigging bolt back in place on my old set-up and use the old board. Anyway good luck !

It will probably take some practice, but I don't think it's unsurmountable.
I don't think I will be surmounting this one haha. I can't even properly do nollie gazelles or kiwiflips, so a siyoun spin would be pretty hard.

Sorry DBS,
I accidently posted in the trick thread.
But this set is a typical set I thought you would post Mrck.
My weak spot is a regular front foot impossible. I learnt them switch. Might as well give them a go...

Oh, I didn't match a single trick. The worst part about it is that it was over half the tricks in this I can put in a line, but theres always one I can never learn.

1st set: Cant backfoot hard
2nd set: Cant inverted shove it lateflip
3rd set: Cant haslamflip or gazelle
4th set: Finally! I can do these tricks! Its raining... for 4 days in a row... then I forgot about doing it.
5th set: I did this one so many times, but would always mess up on the fakie tre. If I werent doing that line, the fakie tre would work fine.

Ah well, its still been a lot of fun. I've almost learnt gazelles from it, got my full cabs consistent and rediscovered my hatred of fakie tres :)

Oh, I didn't match a single trick. The worst part about it is that it was over half the tricks in this I can put in a line, but theres always one I can never learn.

1st set: Cant backfoot hard
2nd set: Cant inverted shove it lateflip
3rd set: Cant haslamflip or gazelle
4th set: Finally! I can do these tricks! Its raining... for 4 days in a row... then I forgot about doing it.
5th set: I did this one so many times, but would always mess up on the fakie tre. If I werent doing that line, the fakie tre would work fine.

Ah well, its still been a lot of fun. I've almost learnt gazelles from it, got my full cabs consistent and rediscovered my hatred of fakie tres :)
I didn't match anything either, although I could have done the 2nd and 4th set, but didn't try them too much.

i'm not sure if this is me being too picky, but the nollie impossible seems awfully unbalanced pre-tic-tac

again i don't want to make anyone feel like i victimise them, but i do feel that sets in particular should really adhere to the rules

but again i'd like opinions on this

i'm not sure if this is me being too picky, but the nollie impossible seems awfully unbalanced pre-tic-tac

again i don't want to make anyone feel like i victimise them, but i do feel that sets in particular should really adhere to the rules

but again i'd like opinions on this
I think my fakie tre was uglier than that, and mine counted.

i'm not sure if this is me being too picky, but the nollie impossible seems awfully unbalanced pre-tic-tac

again i don't want to make anyone feel like i victimise them, but i do feel that sets in particular should really adhere to the rules

but again i'd like opinions on this

Man, don't worry I don't feel like you're victimising me at all, it's a good thing to point it out when a trick looks questionable, and I perfectly understand your point most of the time. However in this particular case I don't think anything is wrong with my fs 180 nollie impossible apart from the fact that it looks ugly as hell, I didn't stop dead, I didn't tic tac to maintain rolling, no toe-drag or anything, and here's what the rules mention :

5. tic tacs are permited, but only when they are clearly not to maintain rolling (e.i: no under-rotated 360 flips where the person doing the trick stops dead then tic tacs away)

Not to mention that it's pretty hard for me to land things cleanly on my old set-up (I could have used my new one but I'm not quite used to it yet), I think that this makes it obvious : http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q311/mrck41/montageboards.jpg that thing is a hell of an unsteady ride. I'll use the new one for my next sets / matches though so it doesn't happen again.

I think it should count because technically even though it may be a disgusting make it's still a make, it doesn't go against anything in the rules.

And don't get the idea that I'm irritated by your contestation because I'm not, I'm just voicing out my opinion on this.

my problem with the impossible is that the tic-tac is so bad, in that your feet seem to not even know if they are on the board, that is was the only way you could have possibly stayed on the trick, which technically falls within rule 5

and rule 4 is violated with the front foot impossible, but i'm more concerned with the nollie impossible

Well. First, please take into consideration that I'm sincerely sorry to have to justify myself like this because it makes me sound like a whining hypocrite, which I don't think I am and I hate to come out like, but I honestly swear that my toes didn't touch on the front foot impossible, I actually landed on my heels then quickly jumped back in order not to toe-drag - if I had toe-dragged I wouldn't even have kept the line and submitted it, since I wanted something technically flawless according to the rules, which led me to do the line multiple times until I got something I thought was fine, if I had messed up on the last trick I would have deleted the whole thing and tried again just like I did about a dozen of times before. You don't have to trust me, and I would perfectly understand if you didn't since it indeed really looks like I violate rule 4 during the slow-mo and my toes weren't even an inch above the ground when I landed, I just wanted to clarify myself on that matter, now that I'm done think whatever you want, I don't mind.

I also fail to see the point of debating on the validity of the fs 180 nollie impossible if you think the set doesn't count anyway because of the front foot impossible, so I'm a bit confused about the ongoing discussion. And to be honest I think I've seen quite a few tricks in the various sets and matches that were a tad more questionable than my impossible, your switch heel match being one of them, you basically landed in tailstop.

Again, don't think I'm attacking you or blaming you for anything, I'm just a bit confused about the ongoing discussion, I'll let the other players express their opinion now. Just one more thing, for the record I'm not able to skate today, therefore if my set doesn't count I'm not going to be able to re-set.

my switch heel, i looked over and over to make sure it was not a tail stop, rocketed and a diabolical result of being too lazy at the end of a session yes, tail stop no,

the problem is, i feel that (on the whole) we have a large amount of time to try and try and try our sets until they are just right,

as for the the other "questionable" sets/matches, on the whole there has been nothing that has screamed out to be question, Qtips fakie tré was slightly underrotated, but he continued to roll away balanced without tic-tac

supersonic's switch f/s shuvit revert, yes it was almost as bad as my switch heel, but he clearly rolled away with balance without a hint of compensating.

the case with the nollie impossible is that there is no sign of stability until after the tic tacs,

the thing is though, i know i can be overly critical, thats why i am asking for other opinions, i have had 1 in your favour and one against via pm,

but if you do have to reset i am happy to give you an extension to do so until tomorrow if you are unable to skate, because i expected this to be cleared up a little quicker

I'm fine with that, sounds fair, thanks :)

aside from that, i'm probably going to struggle slightly on any trick that gets set in the next couple of weeks, my ankle on my right foot is stiff as hell

thats a good set right there, if my ankle holds out i'll give it a bash tomorrow, never tried front foot impossible body varials before, can do them nollie though so i might be succesful

New set is up in the DBSGOS Tricks thread :)

my match will be up sometime thursday :)

*In fonze accent* "A................"

my match will be up sometime thursday :)

That's awesome man :) Out of curiosity, do you think you would have matched my first set as easily if it had counted ? I knew that my re-set wouldn't give you too much hassle, I actually wanted to do something a bit harder than that but I was in a rush and since I had just woken up I wasn't in great physical condition too :icon_bore (I always have the worst excuses to the point where it's getting ridiculous)