Your channel is the best in Freestyle! This was his last trick, and it's been eleven months. Have you stopped with the channel, or are you going to post new stunts? Cheers from Brazil
Thanks, mate. I was planning on doing more this year (and even have one filmed!) but injury took me out and made me change my plans. I'm still planning on getting back to it at some point, but I have to admit... RUclips's current policy regarding adblockers make me even less fond of this platform. I've always directed people to www.freestyletricktips.com instead of this channel - in part so that I could move all the videos elsewhere if needed - but while I'm not quite planning on leaving RUclips yet, I think it's safe to say that you're better off looking at the website for more content in future.
I hope you're keeping well mate. Would love to see more trick tips when you're able; I saw your comment about how busy you are (and I can relate). I've been off the board for a while and even though the weather is crap I'm trying to get some practice in before euro freestyle in a few months.
I suspect there'll be something new soon(ish). Part of the problem is not only have I been busy, I've also been injured. A bunch of nagging problems have kept me off the board, but I think I'm finally able to roll around without problems at least. I doubt I'll be contest-ready at all this year, but it'll be good to be able to just skate again!
I can't seem to find Aaron's livejournal, xanga, or melodramatic blogs anywhere? You shouldn't do tricks the wrong way tho, Aaron, shame on you. I had to watch this again just for the quotables-definitely some freestyle trick-tip highlights of the year here: "the floor tells you" and "much like an animal's tail" and "in order to get the balance for this trick, you're going to need to do a few things that won't feel right." ("If you're not even gonna do it right, get out of my trick tip!")
You should have seen what was left on the cutting room floor (both for this and on the Kickflip Everything video we filmed on the same day). A whole lotta nonsense.
The Swedish Nose Wheelie is really an entertaining trick to watch. It would be cool to see in a G-turn. It has a lot of character. I need to try it out. That parking lot also looks nice for some rolling tricks. Rad tricktip
hey tony! first, i wanna say i love your vids and that youre one of the most dynamic yet consistent freestylers ive seen. i have a conundrum if your willing to give some advice. i was thinking about getting the rollerbones wheels, as they are very cheap and im guilty of the sin of 80s fetishism, but then i saw your set up vid and was a bit hesitant. your main concern seemed to be the hardness of the wheels, however since im doing more stationary stuff on smoother ground, and looking for more spinning, im wondering if that would be an issue. i also saw a couple videos on the decomposed website of sean burke absolutely killing it with them on. id love to hear you weigh in on whether or not the wheels are worth considering for different kinds of freestyle.
Honestly, I wouldn't really recommend Rollerbones to anyone. Sean Burke liked them because they were skinny (and therefore light), but they're expensive for what they are, impossibly noisy, slippery as hell, give the bare minimum of axle coverage (you'll be back on the axle nuts before you know it), and they stop you using bearings with built-in spacers (which are generally stronger than normal ones). I found (and did a video about) some of Sure-Grip's rollerskate wheels - the Fames - and I think they're the better option. They're very similar, but I think the urethane is actually a bit better. They still fall foul of a lot of the same problems the Rollerbones do, but I enjoyed skating them a lot more. Arguably, both of them are better options than the new Mini Cubics (or was it Nano Cubics? I forget) as they're lower priced, a better profile, and the Cubics don't offer any extra axle coverage. But the Seismic Focus and Mode's two freestyle wheels are the top-tier options, easily taking the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for "best wheels to use for freestyle". Anything else is a bit of a compromise, as far as I'm concerned.
@@FreestyleTricktips thanks for the advice! unfortunately it seems the modes are out of stock at least in the states, and the seismics are just too rich for my blood, so ill prolly go for those fame things. also: do you know if all rollerskate wheels cover the axle? sure-grip happens to also sell some REALLY retro clay and wood wheels which would be perfect for my 70s set up.
@@rainjamba Mode have been having some issue with wheel supply for a while; I've not been able to get any in stock here for a long time. Apparently their wheel factory has had a change in management and it's thrown everything out of whack. I can't be sure on whether all rollerskate wheels are suitable; I've clocked those clay and wood wheels in their catalogue, and they look fun - but not enough for me to commit to bringing some in to sell! I'm not even sure where on earth you could ride some in the UK, to be honest. I do have some weird aluminium core Sure Grip wheels (that were insanely expensive) that I keep meaning to test out, though. They look absolutely beautiful - I hope they ride as good as they look.
@@FreestyleTricktips PLEASE review those sure grip aluminum core wheels some time. if they are the same ones they are selling on their website, they look absolutely insane and if thats actually a viable option for freestyle (or anything) i might have to reconsider my whole life. i would love to see more product reviews in general, basically nobody does it in freestyle and its an invaluable resource (much like this whole channel, may i add).
@@rainjamba I'm sure that when I do finally use those aluminium cored wheels, I'll make a video about them. They're stupidly expensive, though - I paid more for a set at wholesale than I've ever paid for a set of wheels at retail! I don't see other people bothering to give them a go. I do plan on doing a lot more product reviews and in-depth analysis - that was my goal for this summer, actually. Unfortunately, I dislocated my thumb back in June and I've spent the entire summer in splints and casts. I have to go to the hospital on Wednesday to find out if I need surgery - fingers crossed it doesn't come to that!
Honestly, I am *horrible* at 360s. I keep my trucks too loose to really hold them very well and can't be bothered to practice them, so I'll need to enlist someone like Felix Jonsson to do that tip. I do plan on coming back to this project soon, though. I'm just been injured and crazy busy with other stuff. Hopefully once the weather becomes a bit more predictable I'll be able to get some more done.
Well, that's the most ridiculous name I've ever heard. Honestly, I've never heard of a widely accepted and accurate name for this sort of thing. Revert isn't applicable, as you've not turning 180. "Late" doesn't work, as you've technically already landed. As a kid, I referred to them as "juggles" - i.e. "kickflip shuvit juggle" - as that was the closest comparison I could think of, but that just sounds dumb. Almost all alternatives I've heard people come up with are similarly dumb or demonstrably wrong. Nowadays I just say "X to Y", as in "flip to shuv", if someone asks. Usually I just don't talk about them. It's easier that way!
@@FreestyleTricktips all I know is your friend (or at least somebody that mentions you as his friend) Rad Rat (Aron Lawrence) said, that it's called a shuffle. Tail shuv to nose shuv is a shuv-it shuffle according to him.
@@dididiihas Ah, Aron's misremembering; the shuvit shuffle is a bank trick where the skater does a 180 shuvit (off the nose, i.e. the original shuvit), catches the board on the back wheels, and does a kickturn in the opposite direction to the shuvit without putting the front wheels down in between. The OG version of Freestyle Tricktips, Bob's Trick Tips, had a guide for that one back in 2003: web.archive.org/web/20030802084829/www.bobstricktips.com/tricktips/sis.shtml I assume @radratvideo remembers the name from there as we're both roughly the same age and learned a lot from Bob Loftin back in the day, but has just forgotten the finer details. Also, hello Aron, if you see this! It's been a while.
@@FreestyleTricktips ruclips.net/video/1N5_j705-58/видео.html feel free to post a comment correction in this video (the misinformation about the shuvit shuffle is at about 13:10) lol
I never practice without at least wearing kneepads; I think safety equipment should be encouraged more in skateboarding (freestyle or not) despite the stigma. I remember an interview with Andy Anderson where he said magazines refused photoshoots with him because he wore a helmet!
Honestly, 99% of the time, knee pads not only aren't needed for freestyle, but are actually pretty useless: kneepads will protect against scuffs and scrapes (which are minor) but won't do anything against things like ACL tears (which are major). So, the argument goes, that pads can actually be worse for the skater as they result in a false sense of security. They're only useful where big drops to the knee are likely or encouraged (i.e. vert). Andy's photoshoot issue is a bit more complex, though. Magazines (and the larger industry) have largely been problematic for the pushing of image over logic or substance - ostracising things like freestyle, women in skateboarding, and so on. However, Andy's "helmet" is about as useful as a chocolate teapot - not only is it wafer-thin and has no padding, but that brim would act as an axe blade if he fell flat on his face with force. To hold him up as a paragon of safety is ludicrous - it's a fashion accessory and nothing more.
@@FreestyleTricktips I 100% agree with all of these points, and feel that every skater can/should gauge for themselves if pads make them safer-or obstruct their movements. The only exception I have is with regards to Andy's helmet... I wonder if you are thinking of his hard-hat days? He now has a helmet company. I don't personally own one, but they do have safety certifications and good reviews (a very similar helmet is also used by snowboarders). It seems to surely be more than a decorative wafer?
It certainly wasn't last time I saw him (end of 2018). We actually had an argument about it, as he was talking then about the fact he was planning on releasing some signature helmets but they didn't pass any certification and he was unable to sell them. He couldn't see why they'd been effectively banned - and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. His attitude was that landing on the thin sheet of nothing that was his helmet was better than having no protection at all. I counter-argued that we have real world evidence of how protective equipment changes behaviour (rugby vs American football, most notably), and how repeated small blows to the head can cause long-term damage in the form of CTE. Add into that the fact that the helmet would have done absolutely nothing against large impacts, and what he was planning on selling was truly irresponsible. If he has moved on to using and selling helmets that actually have a significant degree of protection, I'm glad. But that conversation left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Do they still have the brim? Because that is still an impossibly dumb design, and I'm surprised it's allowed. I seem to remember reading that even a GoPro mount on a helmet has been the source of significant problems with regards to impact and the way the head can move/slide across the ground in high-speed falls, so imagine the damage a brim can do if you fall in the wrong way. Urgh.
@@FreestyleTricktips Ah. That does sound like a case of tunnel vision on his part. This debate seems to be longstanding in society, whether or not "some protective measures are better than none at all" and people tend to have a hard time holding space for those nuances (i.e. cases in which the cure has a potential to be worse than the disease, or vice versa). It's a difficult subject. Andy is full of great ideas and his freethinking spirit/skating is something a lot of people are inspired by, but there is always a downside to "positivity"... when ideas collide with reality. Sometimes creative ideas have to be "negated" too. Hopefully he keeps himself open to constructive criticism. It's hard in a world that's so polarizing. Most people end up surrounded by either "Yes Men" or naysayers. Sometimes both at once, with nobody quite telling us the whole truth. It's either excessive praise or excessive criticism. Ideally we find a healthy balance-between creativity and destruction. His helmets do still have the brim, which I'm guessing is partly for the sake of a signature aesthetic. I believe it also carries over from the snowboard design and is used to shield out the sun. I hadn't considered that it might pose a danger.
Your channel is the best in Freestyle! This was his last trick, and it's been eleven months. Have you stopped with the channel, or are you going to post new stunts? Cheers from Brazil
Thanks, mate. I was planning on doing more this year (and even have one filmed!) but injury took me out and made me change my plans.
I'm still planning on getting back to it at some point, but I have to admit... RUclips's current policy regarding adblockers make me even less fond of this platform. I've always directed people to www.freestyletricktips.com instead of this channel - in part so that I could move all the videos elsewhere if needed - but while I'm not quite planning on leaving RUclips yet, I think it's safe to say that you're better off looking at the website for more content in future.
I hope you're keeping well mate. Would love to see more trick tips when you're able; I saw your comment about how busy you are (and I can relate). I've been off the board for a while and even though the weather is crap I'm trying to get some practice in before euro freestyle in a few months.
I suspect there'll be something new soon(ish).
Part of the problem is not only have I been busy, I've also been injured. A bunch of nagging problems have kept me off the board, but I think I'm finally able to roll around without problems at least. I doubt I'll be contest-ready at all this year, but it'll be good to be able to just skate again!
I can't seem to find Aaron's livejournal, xanga, or melodramatic blogs anywhere? You shouldn't do tricks the wrong way tho, Aaron, shame on you.
I had to watch this again just for the quotables-definitely some freestyle trick-tip highlights of the year here: "the floor tells you" and "much like an animal's tail" and "in order to get the balance for this trick, you're going to need to do a few things that won't feel right."
("If you're not even gonna do it right, get out of my trick tip!")
You should have seen what was left on the cutting room floor (both for this and on the Kickflip Everything video we filmed on the same day). A whole lotta nonsense.
The Swedish Nose Wheelie is really an entertaining trick to watch. It would be cool to see in a G-turn. It has a lot of character. I need to try it out. That parking lot also looks nice for some rolling tricks. Rad tricktip
It's nice to roll around on, but it is bloody abrasive - as Aaron found out. You really don't want to do any caspers or knee slides on it.
@@FreestyleTricktips I especially enjoyed how the odd pebble would jump out in front of me to end it
That's all Putin's fault. Weaponised gravel.
hey tony! first, i wanna say i love your vids and that youre one of the most dynamic yet consistent freestylers ive seen. i have a conundrum if your willing to give some advice. i was thinking about getting the rollerbones wheels, as they are very cheap and im guilty of the sin of 80s fetishism, but then i saw your set up vid and was a bit hesitant. your main concern seemed to be the hardness of the wheels, however since im doing more stationary stuff on smoother ground, and looking for more spinning, im wondering if that would be an issue. i also saw a couple videos on the decomposed website of sean burke absolutely killing it with them on. id love to hear you weigh in on whether or not the wheels are worth considering for different kinds of freestyle.
Honestly, I wouldn't really recommend Rollerbones to anyone. Sean Burke liked them because they were skinny (and therefore light), but they're expensive for what they are, impossibly noisy, slippery as hell, give the bare minimum of axle coverage (you'll be back on the axle nuts before you know it), and they stop you using bearings with built-in spacers (which are generally stronger than normal ones).
I found (and did a video about) some of Sure-Grip's rollerskate wheels - the Fames - and I think they're the better option. They're very similar, but I think the urethane is actually a bit better. They still fall foul of a lot of the same problems the Rollerbones do, but I enjoyed skating them a lot more.
Arguably, both of them are better options than the new Mini Cubics (or was it Nano Cubics? I forget) as they're lower priced, a better profile, and the Cubics don't offer any extra axle coverage.
But the Seismic Focus and Mode's two freestyle wheels are the top-tier options, easily taking the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for "best wheels to use for freestyle". Anything else is a bit of a compromise, as far as I'm concerned.
@@FreestyleTricktips thanks for the advice! unfortunately it seems the modes are out of stock at least in the states, and the seismics are just too rich for my blood, so ill prolly go for those fame things.
also: do you know if all rollerskate wheels cover the axle? sure-grip happens to also sell some REALLY retro clay and wood wheels which would be perfect for my 70s set up.
@@rainjamba Mode have been having some issue with wheel supply for a while; I've not been able to get any in stock here for a long time. Apparently their wheel factory has had a change in management and it's thrown everything out of whack.
I can't be sure on whether all rollerskate wheels are suitable; I've clocked those clay and wood wheels in their catalogue, and they look fun - but not enough for me to commit to bringing some in to sell! I'm not even sure where on earth you could ride some in the UK, to be honest.
I do have some weird aluminium core Sure Grip wheels (that were insanely expensive) that I keep meaning to test out, though. They look absolutely beautiful - I hope they ride as good as they look.
@@FreestyleTricktips PLEASE review those sure grip aluminum core wheels some time. if they are the same ones they are selling on their website, they look absolutely insane and if thats actually a viable option for freestyle (or anything) i might have to reconsider my whole life.
i would love to see more product reviews in general, basically nobody does it in freestyle and its an invaluable resource (much like this whole channel, may i add).
@@rainjamba I'm sure that when I do finally use those aluminium cored wheels, I'll make a video about them. They're stupidly expensive, though - I paid more for a set at wholesale than I've ever paid for a set of wheels at retail! I don't see other people bothering to give them a go.
I do plan on doing a lot more product reviews and in-depth analysis - that was my goal for this summer, actually. Unfortunately, I dislocated my thumb back in June and I've spent the entire summer in splints and casts. I have to go to the hospital on Wednesday to find out if I need surgery - fingers crossed it doesn't come to that!
Yooooooooooo Aaron good job on the video. Loved it. DO MORE!
I'm sure I'll end up roping him into doing another video once winter's over. Not sure what for, but we'll figure something out.
For you Pat, of course, if you have any suggestions please say :)
Bloody good, Aaron.
Thanks Jim, hope you are well it's been a while!
@@aaronwatts1870 too long, mate.
That varial out is epic. Great trick tip. "The floor tells you." This has GOT to be a t-shirt put out by Offset....
I wonder if anyone would pay for a special edition covered in sweat and blood.
@@FreestyleTricktips I think I have enough of both to make a limited run
I'll stock up on light tubes and we'll make a proper go of it.
Nice Skateboarding tutorial!
I don't think anyone's ever referred to either myself or Aaron as "nice" before.
@@FreestyleTricktips Gotchu Bro!
Great video, nice weather:)
Yeah, in case you couldn't tell, we filmed this quite a while ago!
please make more videos I love watching these. maybe a trick tip on 360s?
Honestly, I am *horrible* at 360s. I keep my trucks too loose to really hold them very well and can't be bothered to practice them, so I'll need to enlist someone like Felix Jonsson to do that tip.
I do plan on coming back to this project soon, though. I'm just been injured and crazy busy with other stuff. Hopefully once the weather becomes a bit more predictable I'll be able to get some more done.
Haha awesome video!
Shots fired!
Great breakdown. There goes my excuse not to work on this one.
I suspect more shots will be coming in future videos. We're 70 tips deep at this point; there's going to be a lot less room for sloppiness now.
can you do gymnast plants tutorial
What's it called when you land a trick like a flip trick landing into a nollie shuv instead of a revert
Check out Dominik Túri page to see what I'm talking about he 540 flips into it calling it an illusion revert
Well, that's the most ridiculous name I've ever heard.
Honestly, I've never heard of a widely accepted and accurate name for this sort of thing. Revert isn't applicable, as you've not turning 180. "Late" doesn't work, as you've technically already landed. As a kid, I referred to them as "juggles" - i.e. "kickflip shuvit juggle" - as that was the closest comparison I could think of, but that just sounds dumb. Almost all alternatives I've heard people come up with are similarly dumb or demonstrably wrong.
Nowadays I just say "X to Y", as in "flip to shuv", if someone asks. Usually I just don't talk about them. It's easier that way!
@@FreestyleTricktips all I know is your friend (or at least somebody that mentions you as his friend) Rad Rat (Aron Lawrence) said, that it's called a shuffle. Tail shuv to nose shuv is a shuv-it shuffle according to him.
@@dididiihas Ah, Aron's misremembering; the shuvit shuffle is a bank trick where the skater does a 180 shuvit (off the nose, i.e. the original shuvit), catches the board on the back wheels, and does a kickturn in the opposite direction to the shuvit without putting the front wheels down in between.
The OG version of Freestyle Tricktips, Bob's Trick Tips, had a guide for that one back in 2003: web.archive.org/web/20030802084829/www.bobstricktips.com/tricktips/sis.shtml
I assume @radratvideo remembers the name from there as we're both roughly the same age and learned a lot from Bob Loftin back in the day, but has just forgotten the finer details.
Also, hello Aron, if you see this! It's been a while.
@@FreestyleTricktips ruclips.net/video/1N5_j705-58/видео.html feel free to post a comment correction in this video (the misinformation about the shuvit shuffle is at about 13:10) lol
The angle of the front foot makes a lot of sense, I'm going to stop keeping my foot straight going forward.
Yeah, the second Aaron pointed that out to me it was like a lightbulb going off over my head. I don't know why that hadn't occurred to me before.
Z Russia is watching your video V
I never practice without at least wearing kneepads; I think safety equipment should be encouraged more in skateboarding (freestyle or not) despite the stigma. I remember an interview with Andy Anderson where he said magazines refused photoshoots with him because he wore a helmet!
Honestly, 99% of the time, knee pads not only aren't needed for freestyle, but are actually pretty useless: kneepads will protect against scuffs and scrapes (which are minor) but won't do anything against things like ACL tears (which are major). So, the argument goes, that pads can actually be worse for the skater as they result in a false sense of security. They're only useful where big drops to the knee are likely or encouraged (i.e. vert).
Andy's photoshoot issue is a bit more complex, though. Magazines (and the larger industry) have largely been problematic for the pushing of image over logic or substance - ostracising things like freestyle, women in skateboarding, and so on. However, Andy's "helmet" is about as useful as a chocolate teapot - not only is it wafer-thin and has no padding, but that brim would act as an axe blade if he fell flat on his face with force. To hold him up as a paragon of safety is ludicrous - it's a fashion accessory and nothing more.
Use your old jeans :)
@@FreestyleTricktips I 100% agree with all of these points, and feel that every skater can/should gauge for themselves if pads make them safer-or obstruct their movements. The only exception I have is with regards to Andy's helmet... I wonder if you are thinking of his hard-hat days? He now has a helmet company. I don't personally own one, but they do have safety certifications and good reviews (a very similar helmet is also used by snowboarders). It seems to surely be more than a decorative wafer?
It certainly wasn't last time I saw him (end of 2018).
We actually had an argument about it, as he was talking then about the fact he was planning on releasing some signature helmets but they didn't pass any certification and he was unable to sell them. He couldn't see why they'd been effectively banned - and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. His attitude was that landing on the thin sheet of nothing that was his helmet was better than having no protection at all. I counter-argued that we have real world evidence of how protective equipment changes behaviour (rugby vs American football, most notably), and how repeated small blows to the head can cause long-term damage in the form of CTE. Add into that the fact that the helmet would have done absolutely nothing against large impacts, and what he was planning on selling was truly irresponsible.
If he has moved on to using and selling helmets that actually have a significant degree of protection, I'm glad. But that conversation left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.
Do they still have the brim? Because that is still an impossibly dumb design, and I'm surprised it's allowed. I seem to remember reading that even a GoPro mount on a helmet has been the source of significant problems with regards to impact and the way the head can move/slide across the ground in high-speed falls, so imagine the damage a brim can do if you fall in the wrong way. Urgh.
@@FreestyleTricktips Ah. That does sound like a case of tunnel vision on his part. This debate seems to be longstanding in society, whether or not "some protective measures are better than none at all" and people tend to have a hard time holding space for those nuances (i.e. cases in which the cure has a potential to be worse than the disease, or vice versa). It's a difficult subject.
Andy is full of great ideas and his freethinking spirit/skating is something a lot of people are inspired by, but there is always a downside to "positivity"... when ideas collide with reality. Sometimes creative ideas have to be "negated" too. Hopefully he keeps himself open to constructive criticism. It's hard in a world that's so polarizing. Most people end up surrounded by either "Yes Men" or naysayers. Sometimes both at once, with nobody quite telling us the whole truth. It's either excessive praise or excessive criticism. Ideally we find a healthy balance-between creativity and destruction.
His helmets do still have the brim, which I'm guessing is partly for the sake of a signature aesthetic. I believe it also carries over from the snowboard design and is used to shield out the sun. I hadn't considered that it might pose a danger.