First Freestyle Skateboarding Session of 2020

Winter may be a long, dark, and dreary affair in England, but I'm still alive (just about). The sun finally came out for a day and so I grabbed my board and a camera and went out to get a skate session in. Amazingly, my leg muscles haven't wasted away to nothing, so here's some footage where I actually land tricks - which is a radical concept in England in January. Enjoy.
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[@nickbeaulieu44]

Dramatic Reconstruction 😂😂😂 that's great

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Great AND accurate!

[@EdGarnham]

Had me rolling that bit

[@ljxn]

These videos have been great. Now that I'm self quarantining for awhile, I'm watching all your videos and practicing in the driveway everyday. I'm loving it. Hope ya'll get through everything OK over there.

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Hey Louis, glad you've got a space to skate right now. I'm kinda struggling a bit - the only really safe location close to my house has the most abrasive surface known to man! I think I might have to just accept the fact that a board will have to be sacrificed to the cheese grater to get me through this.

[@ezedjay]

Nice one. I fear some binge watching is about to happen. nearly 02:00 and I have work tomorrow.....oh well - more than worth it :) Thanks for all the content - it's so good.

[@FreestyleTricktips]

You want to be careful about binging on Tony Gale. I've been on a 33-year long non-stop Tony Gale binge and it's done nothing good for my sanity.

[@cloutdracula807]

little would he know the hellish year that would lie ahead

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Oh, to be young and innocent again.

[@jimgoodrich214]

As rough as that session was, it was good to see you skating again. I'd say it's a winner overall. The highlight, of course, was your dramatic reconstruction. ;)

[@FreestyleTricktips]

No expense was spared on that reconstruction; I really stretched the budget out there.

[@jimgoodrich214]

@@FreestyleTricktips And it's greatly appreciated, mate.

[@stewmartin5500]

Time to binge watch all your videos thanks for the entertainment and hopefully some tips 🛹

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Hah, I suspect that for a lot of these videos, it's tips first, entertainment second, but I hope you enjoy them either way.

[@stewmartin5500]

@@FreestyleTricktips yeah sorry that was a silly way of putting it, yeah definitely finding them useful. Every video I'm wanting to go skate and try the tricks you are showing.

[@primus1111111]

Great session to start the year. also Happy new year. Hope to see you on a contest this summer! greatings daniel

[@FreestyleTricktips]

I'll be out and about this year for sure. Lots of events on the calendar already!

[@oldachm]

The Coconut wheelie to hangten was sick!!! Thanks for your content man you've helped me learn so much!

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Thanks, mate. That coco to hang ten was one of the scariest things I've ever learned - genuinely knocked myself out learning that bloody thing. It's so fun to do now, though.

[@grosha77]

Love your style.

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Thanks, Stefan. Appreciate it.

[@grosha77]

@@FreestyleTricktips Sure. When I was a kid I thought skateboarding was about flipping your board around. Now I'm also very interested in the movements of the whole body especially the upper body. This is where you truly shine!

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Yeah, I was much the same. If you look up footage of me from the early to mid 2000s it is bloody awful. Lots of flips, but everything is awkward. No flow. I actually quit for a while and only got back into skateboarding at all through longboard dancing. All that cross-stepping, carving and board walking did wonders for my style. Made me think more about movements and less about flips and rotations. Best thing I ever did.

[@bradevans8982]

Dude you are crazy good! Your channel is underrated!

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Thanks, mate. I've been letting it slip a bit lately - got too much going on elsewhere. Hopefully I can start getting videos back up soon.

[@linjader]

Amazing!!

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Thanks! Glad you like it.

[@calebshaffer2087]

Great session!! What was the hang ten fingerflip called?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

That's the bebop. I had to ask Hazze Lindgren for confirmation on that one.

[@calebshaffer2087]

@@FreestyleTricktips Awesome! I'll add that to my trick wishlist!

[@TheTimB]

Glad I found your channel. Been looking for somewhere in UK to buy a freestyle board and now I have. Great video too. Not only will I buy a board from you, but I'll subscribe too

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Thanks, Tim. Glad I could help! Hopefully once this goddamn virus clears off we can meet up for a skate at some point.

[@TheTimB]

@@FreestyleTricktips sounds good. Meanwhile it's just living room practice, I guess

[@xmqqv9209]

I can barely get any momentum for casper disasters when im not rolling fakie, kinda amazed how you pull out 360 ones from basically standing still

[@FreestyleTricktips]

I realised a while back that you can't really do a 360 one from fakie cleanly - you want to exit out of any casper disaster rolling forwards if you can due to the way your momentum shifts as you come out of it - so I'd need to roll into it forwards. The problem is that if you roll into it too fast, the damn thing just throws you off. So the solution is to roll relatively slow, wind up like crazy, and use your upper body to push through the first 180 as hard as possible - meaning the final 180 should feel just like a regular 180 casper disaster. It takes some getting used to for sure, but it's a great feeling once you've got it.

[@xmqqv9209]

@@FreestyleTricktips okay! I really gotta try this. Casper Disasters are my favourite trick

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Definitely find a relatively non-abrasive surface before you give it a try. It'll tear up your rail like crazy. Also, I think 97a is the sweet spot for these. 95a is too grippy and tends to judder a bit. 99a+ is likely to slide out if you're not careful.

[@xmqqv9209]

@@FreestyleTricktips alright ill need to be careful then, i ride the seismic focus 101A haha

[@EdGarnham]

Hahah Happy New Year Tony!

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Happy new year to you too, Ed!

[@arissinclair6419]

What's the trick at 3:40 called? An will u be doing a trick tip on it at a later date? Cuz I definitely want it in my bag of tricks lol

[@FreestyleTricktips]

That one is a 360 heliflip. Or a gaz-heliflip if you're feeling particularly silly, as it's basically a gazelle version of the heliflip (please don't call it that). I'll do a tricktip for the "base" heliflip (which is "just" a bigspin) at some point, but I doubt I'll ever do a tricktip for the 360 version, as it's such an absolute pain the ass (and back) that I have to visit a chiropractor just to think about it. Seriously, I think I do about three of those a year. They're not easy and they hurt. A lot.

[@EugenioHertz]

Hey man... im curious. Can you tell me the best trucks and decks for freestyle? The only companies i found were european. Any tips on this matter for an old freestyler that got stuck in time?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

There's a page on the website listing pretty much everywhere which sells freestyle product right now, no matter where you are: freestyletricktips.com/freestyle-retailers/ (I can ship worldwide through offsetskatesupply.co.uk/ though.)

[@landit2588]

Great stuff!

[@cloutdracula807]

whats the trick at 3:32? ive seen it before but I never learned the name

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Hah. It's ALWAYS the bebop that gets that response/question. That pop from hang ten is the real bebop. The one basically everyone else on KZbin calls a Bebop - the fakie 180/half cab one - isn't. I actually asked Hazze Lindgren (who invented the trick) about it a couple of years back and he confirmed it for me.

[@cloutdracula807]

@@FreestyleTricktips thank you so much! have you done a video on the trick yet?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Not yet. It's been on my to-do list for a while but I lost it during the winter (due in part to the Covid lockdowns) and I've had to relearn it again. I'm sure I'll get around to it soon.

[@obiwanjermobi]

was that a vita or psp? also whatcha playin'?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

That's a Vita, although I love my PSP (Go, for the record) dearly! Not sure what I was playing back then - I know I had a HUGE addiction to Rainbow Skies over the winter, and then I started playing the language-patched Catherine: Full Body at some point not long after. Right now (when I have time) I've been playing a few original Playstation games - usually the first Armored Core or Vigilante 8.

[@majesticmf7514]

Happy 2020...just getting into freestyle and I'm building my first board...really like yur deck, what trucks pair good with it

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Personally, I use these Film trucks: offsetskatesupply.co.uk/product/film-109mm-raw-trucks/ I've been using those for over a year now and love them. The other trucks I highly recommend are the Paris 108: offsetskatesupply.co.uk/product/paris-108-trucks/ I've currently got those on my single kick setup (there's a video on here of me building that board up), and they're really great to ride - just good solid trucks.

[@majesticmf7514]

Thanks

[@flyinggazelle]

That toe spinny spin footwork...

[@FreestyleTricktips]

So much fun! That fakie/backwards toespin is my 2020 goal.

[@PHeMoX]

Do you know how you're supposed to get into The Hospital (an old stall trick balancing on the nose, one foot underneath the tail/nose, one foot on a truck, heavily leaning forward) in a similar way as a no handed 50-50? Contrary to casper stalls, 50-50 or rail stands, it's pretty tough to get into The Hospital without having a foot on the ground at first (as in a 'poorly done casper stall' ;) ).

[@FreestyleTricktips]

I have literally no idea what you're talking about. I can't picture it at all. Do you have a video or something?

[@Fozzzmk1]

If I had to guess, if you watch Peter Eysink's 2nd run from Paderborn 2015, I think that's his last trick

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Oh, right. Now I know what we're talking about. I wouldn't really consider that a trick per se... I think anything where you're starting standing on the floor like that is pretty much just an interesting way to get onto the board. See also: bomb drops, drop-hops, "ghost railflips", etc.

[@gonzo13ist]

I. Interested to know how you got into freestyle considering it was almost dead by 1990?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

It was actually through a Saturday morning TV show in the UK. They interviewed Dan Gesmer while he was in London, and it blew me away. I went out and tried to learn to nose wheelie/hang ten and promptly fell on my face. Thanks to the internet, I found the original version of www.freestyletricktips.com - bobstricktips (now sadly gone) - and started learning freestyle. I was hooked. The actual video is on KZbin now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXzbnYaifdqWapo Funnily enough, watching it back, I didn't even remember the Rodney Mullen clips in there. It was the Gesmer stuff which always stayed with me!

[@josehopkins1265]

If it is what kind of glue is that bro

[@FreestyleTricktips]

You talking about the ragged state of my shoes? That's a mix of something called Ripcare - a slightly more wear-resistant substitute for Shoe Goo - and regular 'ol superglue. Use superglue to bind any actual tears back together, then paste Ripcare everywhere until you're really nailing that Hobo Chic. It's going to be the hot fashion trend for 2020.

[@DargonaidMusic]

u rock

[@salty8083]

2:29 i wanna get this

[@Rumi_Rune]

One foot fs casper disaster trick tip

[@FreestyleTricktips]

It's on the list, don't worry!

[@Rumi_Rune]

@@FreestyleTricktips omg, :O

[@stevenaustin4591]

3:39 - WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!?!?

[@FreestyleTricktips]

Hah. That's a 360 heliflip. I've not done a tricktip on basic heliflips yet - I will eventually - but they're basically a kickflip bigspin which doesn't flip. You start out in the kickflip position, but as you do the kickflip, you grab the board on its side between your feet, spin 180º, and then push the board back down with an additional shuvit, rolling away fakie. A while back I realised I could twist like a madman and do a complete 360 in the air, meaning the board goes 540 in total (and my spine screams in agony). I don't do them often. They hurt.