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<blockquote data-quote="Coastal Redneck" data-source="post: 166659" data-attributes="member: 11287"><p>Wow, I just watched the Street League Skateboard World Championship (or some such grandiose title), a contest for women who were absolutely tearin' it up... these gals were doing technical tricks that blew my mind, even the gals who ate $h!t and finished last (or near last) pulled some tricks unheard of back in the day. And the trick that won the contest for Lacey Baker? A nose manual (what we used to call a nose wheelie) the length of a ledge, then a "nollie kickflip" off the ledge, and I think there might have been a 180 or a fakie landing in there, I can't keep up with the $h!t, LOL. That nollie kickflip business, that's flipping your board off the ledge while in the middle of that nose wheelie, and I'm pretty sure the gal flipped the board lengthwise as well, not just a standard kickflip where the board spins around its long axis... DO YOU HAVE ANY F#%G IDEA HOW TECHNICALLY DIFFICULT THAT TRICK IS??? And the gal pulled it with STYLE too... the nearest thing I can think of in terms of technical difficulty would be some sort of ice skating maneuver, yet those triple or quadruple axels in ice skating are one-dimensional compared to what these skateboarding gals are doing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>Most of these competitive skaters were in their teens or 20s, but a couple of 'em were 31 years of age, go figure. They didn't fare as well as the younger gals, but they still pulled off some gnarly tricks (when they weren't falling and slamming on deck, LOL). And the younger gals? Jeez, we never had gals skating like this when we were young, and I say this in all honesty... the level of proficiency has risen so dramatically that old skaters (like moi) are just friggin' dinosaurs, 10-4? There was a hot young Asian gal skating in this contest, I think her name was Aori Nishimura (don't quote me here, I suffer from CRS), and her successful tricks were so technical and SO F#%G STYLISH, they just blew me away. Granted, these gals all started young and kept at it day after day, year after year... the same way today's great motocross riders started out, ya know? And most had supportive parents, a BIG factor in success, but I don't hold that against them, it still takes phenomenal talent to stay on top nowadays with the technical bar raised so high. Had anyone told me in the '70s that young women would be pulling the tricks they're pulling today in the skateboarding world, well, I would've thought that person was high on crack... oh, wait, I don't think crack was even invented back then, LOL. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p></p><p>DAMN, I CAN'T EVEN "CRACK" A JOKE WITHOUT FEELING LIKE AN OLD ROGUE DINOSAUR... AND LORD KNOWS WE DID ENOUGH OF THE PERUVIAN & COLOMBIAN FLAKE BACK IN THE DAY, LOL. MEH, ALL PART OF GROWING OLD, I RECKON. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /></p><p></p><p>Y'ALL HANG LOOSE, I WON'T BE A COMPLETE STRANGER, ESPECIALLY IF THINGS TURN AROUND FOR ME HERE... AS I HOPE THEY SOON WILL. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/whistling.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistling :whistle:" data-shortname=":whistle:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coastal Redneck, post: 166659, member: 11287"] Wow, I just watched the Street League Skateboard World Championship (or some such grandiose title), a contest for women who were absolutely tearin' it up... these gals were doing technical tricks that blew my mind, even the gals who ate $h!t and finished last (or near last) pulled some tricks unheard of back in the day. And the trick that won the contest for Lacey Baker? A nose manual (what we used to call a nose wheelie) the length of a ledge, then a "nollie kickflip" off the ledge, and I think there might have been a 180 or a fakie landing in there, I can't keep up with the $h!t, LOL. That nollie kickflip business, that's flipping your board off the ledge while in the middle of that nose wheelie, and I'm pretty sure the gal flipped the board lengthwise as well, not just a standard kickflip where the board spins around its long axis... DO YOU HAVE ANY F#%G IDEA HOW TECHNICALLY DIFFICULT THAT TRICK IS??? And the gal pulled it with STYLE too... the nearest thing I can think of in terms of technical difficulty would be some sort of ice skating maneuver, yet those triple or quadruple axels in ice skating are one-dimensional compared to what these skateboarding gals are doing. :eek: Most of these competitive skaters were in their teens or 20s, but a couple of 'em were 31 years of age, go figure. They didn't fare as well as the younger gals, but they still pulled off some gnarly tricks (when they weren't falling and slamming on deck, LOL). And the younger gals? Jeez, we never had gals skating like this when we were young, and I say this in all honesty... the level of proficiency has risen so dramatically that old skaters (like moi) are just friggin' dinosaurs, 10-4? There was a hot young Asian gal skating in this contest, I think her name was Aori Nishimura (don't quote me here, I suffer from CRS), and her successful tricks were so technical and SO F#%G STYLISH, they just blew me away. Granted, these gals all started young and kept at it day after day, year after year... the same way today's great motocross riders started out, ya know? And most had supportive parents, a BIG factor in success, but I don't hold that against them, it still takes phenomenal talent to stay on top nowadays with the technical bar raised so high. Had anyone told me in the '70s that young women would be pulling the tricks they're pulling today in the skateboarding world, well, I would've thought that person was high on crack... oh, wait, I don't think crack was even invented back then, LOL. :confused: DAMN, I CAN'T EVEN "CRACK" A JOKE WITHOUT FEELING LIKE AN OLD ROGUE DINOSAUR... AND LORD KNOWS WE DID ENOUGH OF THE PERUVIAN & COLOMBIAN FLAKE BACK IN THE DAY, LOL. MEH, ALL PART OF GROWING OLD, I RECKON. o_O Y'ALL HANG LOOSE, I WON'T BE A COMPLETE STRANGER, ESPECIALLY IF THINGS TURN AROUND FOR ME HERE... AS I HOPE THEY SOON WILL. :whistle: [/QUOTE]
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