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Login/Join to ParticipateFlying Water Muppet
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So I really dislike the way that these exreme sports have say a "360" and an "opposite 360", which is apparently much harder than a 360 because it's turning the other way.
Discuss.
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yay the rant has continued to HoP
you do realise that is gonna be the new heckle
"do a fakie matrix!!"
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big and good and broken
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switch or fakie is the term for riding/doing a trick with the wrong foot forward.
frontside and backside describe which way you turn/spin.
some people naturally prefer frontside spins, others backside.
'the other way is much harder' is too general - some tricks are easier frontside, others backside and other times it just comes down to the personal preference of the individual.
do a search meg
cole. x
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Flying Water Muppet
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but riding and doing tricks switch is "harder" and not just the other way around that you never bothered to learn, you lame ass skaters. I think you'll find.
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big and good and broken
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most decent skaters and boarders can ride switch to a pretty high level - i'm a crap snowboarder yet i can get down most runs riding switch
you're right - it is just a matter of learning it the other way.
of course, switch is forced upon you sometimes in that if you want to do a 180 you either have to take off switch or land switch.
which do you think we portray as being harder there?
there are a few riders that specialise in doing stuff switch which like you say is 'simply' doing it the wrong way.
but a snowboarding or skating trick takes so long to learn normally that taking off and landing switch equates to a massive investment of time and a ridiculous level of skill.
skating is not contact staff miss meg...
get a board and learn to ollie up a kerb.
then learn to nollie.
then learn do both switch.
if you manage to do that within 5 years, i'll buy you a beer
cole. x
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Flying Water Muppet
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Yeah I could, but unfortunately skaters have thee most stupid way of jumping I have ever seen, which is why: they can barely do it. An eight year old can jump higher than the person with the highest ollie in the world.
So as much as I would love to learn to jump using one of the most jump crippling devices known to man, I'd rather just use my feet.
speaking of which, powerisers don't get much more jump height than a basketball player would have. But I suppose they are stilts you can jump in, so it's all made up for by that.
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big and good and broken
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Written by: mcp
So as much as I would love to learn to jump using one of the most jump crippling devices known to man, I'd rather just use my feet.
or in other words:
jumping and doing tricks on a skateboard is "harder" than doing it without and not just the a way that you never bothered to learn, you lame ass non-skaters.
i think you'll find.
cole. x
can an 8 year old jump this high?
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Flying Water Muppet
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that isn't even above his head! and that's the best they can do?
That is sooooo , oh wait, I'm trying to be pc here.
Yes, jumping on a skateboard is harder, so hard in fact that they can't do it very well, at all. It's soo crippling that they can't even jump what a kid wouldn't hesitant to jump. in other words why would I want to learn that?
Bladers however are a different beast, as there just complete mentalists.
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big and good and broken
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your 'blading is amazing' taunts have no effect on me - i am no extreme sports facist.besides, even my nan knows that blading is easier than learning to use chopsticks
incidentally, if you've seen an 8 year old that can do a two-footed jump above head height then i believe you are mistaking 8-year-old children for grasshoppers.
your position here seems to have moved away from 'it annoys me that people say doing tricks switch is harder' towards the extreme of 'if its hard, its not worth learning in the first place'.
which would be why when it came to extreme sports, you've chose pk over even the extreme novice-fest that is blading since it requires no skill apart from being able to run and being able to jump
most of us were doing that by the age of five...
going back to your original point, i'm glad to see that you have conceded entirely:
"Yes, jumping on a skateboard is harder"
if you state that simply jumping on a skateboard is ridiculously hard then doing a trick, with your wrong foot forward on takeoff and landing and spinning the opposite to your natural direction can only be defined as 'harder'
cole. x
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Still wiggling
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Getting to the other side 
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perhaps meg was originally suggesting that there should be more (geeky) appreciation of spinners whose switch spinning is as strong as their non-switch. But then forgot what her original point was so started talking rubbish.
so which is goofy? clockwise or anticlockwise?
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
big and good and broken
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more (geeky) appreciation of spinners whose switch spinning is as strong as their non-switch.
i would have agreed with that!
upon seeing a new trick i generally ask to see it the other way (e.g. backwards) with a smile as cruelly exposing people's current limits makes me feel better about not being able to do it at all.
goofy is mickey mouse's dog.
cole. x
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goofy is mickey mouse's dog.
Pluto is Mickey Mouse's dog
Goofy is Mickey Mouse's best mate... dunno what the hell species he is though
Other than that, I kinda agree with Cole here...
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enthusiast
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i disagree with ... cole (although only because mcp is losing this argument pitifully, and i feel like helping her out).
you seem to have strayed from meg's original point and confused her with your backside talk.
doing a trick with a different foot forward is not a different trick. nor is doing it spinning in the opposite direction. if they were spinners they would know this. sure the tricks take longer to learn in both directions, but they should be less lazy.
skaters have far more energy than hippies and take less drugs, therefore their days last longer, and they spend more of the day not off their faces. therefore they have considerably more time to learn things, so they have no excuses.
infact i think skaters should also learn all their tricks with both of their feet on the front of the board and then with both of their feet on the back of the board. i'm relatively certain that those are called "riding daffy" and "riding porky", respectively.
Flying Water Muppet
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back from a spinning meet at bournemouth to find this amount of bs in the thread. At this point I could break out my brilliant joke: "what's the worse thing about skating?" "having to tell your parents you're gay" but I think this would worsen my position.
Most skaters I know are basically [censored] at it. Tony hawk hasn't got the 900 solid, idiot, and neither has sandro dias. WHy not I don't know, got bmx'ers and bladers can get 1080's and further, so I don't know why skaters have such trouble. But this is all beside the main point of skaters, bmx'ers and and fmx motocrossers being sissy
for being so directionally challenged. And why whipping and the can can are still considered tricks in FMX is beyond me.
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Written by: simian
so which is goofy? clockwise or anticlockwise?
You're laughing now but I THINK that ICoN was using the term 'goofy' to describe when one arm is doing a flower and the other is doing an antispin flower. (So like both going 'forward' but doing butterflies with the arm)
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Stream Entrant
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skateboards are great for improving balance. Just practice standing on one.
me thinks goofy foot is an o'l surfie term, for um left foot? fwd.
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big and good and broken
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@ girlfriend#2bags and mopyour arguments get get weaker and weaker and your insults just seem like desperate lunges towards the nirvana of wit that you never seem to actually reach.
so, if you have no further jumbled ramblings i'll consider this discussion officially 'rubbish'.
goofy is right foot forward - left foot is regular.
nyc - that's just the most recent use of the word goofy to describe poi moves.
don't you remember 'goofy weaves' from a couple of years back?
cole. x
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I'm gonna joing hte switch/goofy poi appreciation society.
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Macaque of all trades
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I'll just agree with 2bags and mcp....plankers are lazy...
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Still wiggling
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"you're arguments get get weaker and weaker and your insults just seem like desperate lunges towards the nirvana of wit that you never seem to actually reach."
Splendid...
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Getting to the other side
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RE: Goofy terminology
Ninjasteve (TheHIPS) started doing a bunch of back-of-hand wallplane single staff things where the fingers were pointed in opposite directions (thumbs in same direction) so one arm is reaching in front of the staff, while the other is behind.
hmm, that was overly complex and easily misunderstood explanation, but what the heck...
anyway, we used the adjective "goofy" to describe it. It's a good word. But not as good as "wonky".
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
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your arguments get get weaker and weaker and your insults just seem like desperate lunges towards the nirvana of wit that you never seem to actually reach.
Can a thread be closed due to the mercy rule ?
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
whatever dude. You're argument is: Skating is hard therefore they can be forgiven for talking [censored] about "switch" moves being harder. (rather than exactly the same and the opposite way around)
If anything they should be easier. Cos your body has learned it one way, it'll be easier to learn the other. Juggling research proved that didn't it? In a link you posted from juggling db I seem to recall.
Therefore skaters, fmx'ers and bmx'ers are just lazy
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I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
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MCP calling someone 'lazy'?
Would that be like me calling someone 'sarcastic'?
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
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master of disaster
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MCP~~have you ever tried to jump straight up and do two or rotations cleanly...
note which way you choose to turn
now do that the opposite way....
try not to fall
hint for form..cross your arms and legs
then come back and tell me how its 'laziness'
incidentally, as an ice skater, its funny how the 'wrong' direction idea never caught on... it was either you did things lefty, righty, or some combination
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big and good and broken
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whatever dude.
the sheer power of your analytical arguments overpower me - i can take little more of this barrage of the senses...
so, what link was that i posted exactly?
you must be right though cos all jugglers do pirouettes both ways don't they?
they must do cos learning to spin round the other way is easy innit.
what?! anthony gatto only does his 7 club 7up piro turning clockwise?!!???
i guess he's just plain lazy - slack mutha-f that he is
cole. x
p.s. fakie is even harder than switch
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they do porridge."
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Flying Water Muppet
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I take it then that jugglers don't ever bother with those left handed showers then? As they're extra hard cos you do them the wrong way? Same with half showers, windmills, and juggling tricks I don't know that are lopsided?
So you're going to argue that a shower from the left hand is harder than the right handed one? And not just the other direction? I bet gatto is really struggling with that 5 ball left hand shower since it's soooo much harder than the right handed one.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
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