Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/07/08/skateboarder-impresses-with-bo.html
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That’s pretty fly.
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It’s cool, for sure I couldn’t do it, and yet it’s hard to believe that no one has done that before.
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Yeah I think that’s just B+down buttons. He should have gone into a manual to keep the combo going.
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That trick is called the “Impossible,” and it’s much harder than spinning the board horizontally in either direction, thanks to a physics principle called the Intermediate Axis Theorem. You can try it using your phone. This is all from a great video by Physics Girl here: https://youtu.be/yFRPhi0jhGc
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I think my kids were doing those tricks when they were 15 in 93’. Not really but they were pretty good and they still skate in their mid-late thirties. Who is the band playing the song? Anybody know?
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For a white guy…
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I would have just pulled up straight and down a spin down. That would be rad.
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It would be cool.
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I am an old man and got that reference, meu jovem.
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yesterday I saw 3 kids proceeding single-file down a paved walkway at a steady 4.5 mph, helmets on, effortlessly riding their hoverboards. The world of Wall-E is nigh. Pathetic.
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Big deal. If it had been a goat instead of a skateboard, I would be impressed.
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Well, you could use a simulator to see the feasibility of this antics.
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2014? Old goat, bro.
I think it is time to release a radical new version!
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yeah, this is on the Thrasher insta and has 5 times more hits than anything else because he’s doing a 20 year old trick. No.
@JeffreyHayner prior to this, every impossible spins like a backflip: you mash the tail down for the ollie then keep that momentum going and let the nose go vertical and then backwards all the way around:
What Pilz is doing is throwing the nose forward into a flip, which requires like twice the amount of ups, which is why he’s using the ramp rather than ollie-ing.
also lol at all those groms flipping out at the park
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Pollie Late Impossible.
First he has to grind up the angled round pole and pop out (pollie) rather than drop off, a hard trick on it’s own.
The board doesn’t start rotating till it’s flattened at the peak of the pollie, that’s the late part. See also “late shove-it”.
Then we have the Impossible part, he nails a pretty nice wrap around his foot without too much sideways spin. A proper Impossible.
People are freaking out about this because it’s totally ridiculous and has probably never been done before.
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Crazy, right? He slowed down time with that trick! So who was moving close to the speed of light? The skater or the person filming?
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I drew blood last night watching a kerb stone go positive to negative
