How Mike McGill Invented The McTwist!

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@Qwazim0d00 2 жыл бұрын

Shout out to Rog for getting the footage on screen.

@BigFatCock0 2 жыл бұрын

Jamie pull up that super 8 footage of Mike McGill.

@AxeOfViolence 3 ай бұрын

When I was a kid in 80's Mike's parents had a plant nursery by my house and my parents stopped by one day. Mike's mom was so proud of "Mikey" that she gave me an issue of the skate mag he was in. That mag got me hooked. That kind gesture began my love of skating. I lived a few houses from the McGill's in early 2000's. His mom was very nice and very proud of Mike.

@jamesbenton4123 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not even a skater and I love these podcasts.

@jimbeam-ru1my Жыл бұрын

the footage of the first mctwist looks like the inversion was just an accident because mike was trying to get through that first half of the spin too quick.

@lurker-mq4fp 11 ай бұрын

McGill has always seemed like a great guy from when I first saw him 86-ish onwards. He was such a massive figure and hasn't been ruined by that level of fame (crowds of demented kids at a demo screaming for a twist).

@TheHabiat 2 жыл бұрын

please correct me if i'm wrong. this trick might used to called mctwist, but by modern standards this is a 540. for a mctwist nowadays you have to be inverted.

@rebusd Жыл бұрын

I always thought 540 as the generic term.

@patientzerobeat 9 ай бұрын

It's true that some do it more like a 540 spin, and some do it more like a 180 spin with a front flip. I prefer the latter. Gator probably had amongst the best ones like that (his Miller Flips were like that too).

@dwayneandrews2059 8 ай бұрын

Mctwist is a mute grab 540 and McGill was the 1st and best, hands down. Any other grab is a 540. Please learn your skate history and terminology. Mike deserves the name, respect and recognition. Practically a flip with a twist, so sick.

@iamnotanumber100 4 ай бұрын

I feel a 540 is more of a spin whereas a mctwist is more on a twisting / upside down move. You see 540’s where they aren’t fully upside down.

@anthonysmith8321 2 жыл бұрын

I was 10 yrs old and my friend who got McGill board when i started we shared it. Gleaming the cube movie why I started skaterboarding. McGill did the mctwist in the movie.

@mikaellofgren7 8 ай бұрын

I was at the Eurocana Skate Camp in Hägersten, Stockholm when Mike did the the first McTwist 1984!

@johnsambo9379 7 ай бұрын

Lol. Right.

@Strawman333 2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the magazine sequence. I was blown away. Skateboarding was brought to a new level.

@coreyfisher2542 2 жыл бұрын

Mike is cool. I actually need some wheels and bearings I think I’ll go down to his shop and support those guys.🤘

@newvocabulary 2 жыл бұрын

I always though you had to go upside down for it to be a McTwist.

@erichanhauser3190 2 жыл бұрын

Upside down was a helicopter. Tony Hawk used to spin em straight rotation. He was techy robot. Then the tight 720. Upside down was style. Hawk was tech.

@rebusd Жыл бұрын

I looked at it as a sort of hack to complete the spin. I knew a guy who practiced them for six months on a couch

@ohalistair Жыл бұрын

Originally it was just a 540 but now it's become more of an inverted 540.

@ghxfit 8 ай бұрын

I remember meeting Mike in Tulsa in 1989. I asked him when he invented the McTwist. He replied “summer of ‘84!” It was a joyous moment!

@russslagel514 3 ай бұрын

Fred Blood was a pro bmx for General bicycles with R.L. Osborne

@nillocyor2747 2 жыл бұрын

A true legend

@ohalistair Жыл бұрын

It's kind of crazy to see how he's developed it over the years too. That early footage just shows it as a 540, which was wild at the time because it hadn't been done. Now it's a distinctly different trick by being an inverted and stylish 540. I'd say it's arguably one of best looking tricks when done clean. Like the tre flip of vert/grab tricks.

@patientzerobeat 9 ай бұрын

My favourite versions of the McTwist were more like a 180 spin with a front flip, as McGill did them. Hawk's early versions were more of a 540 spin for example.

@SpaceNigs 8 ай бұрын

180 spin with a flip would be a flare tho, even in the clip they played he's clearly doing a 540

@patientzerobeat 8 ай бұрын

@@SpaceNigs I've never heard of a flare so I googled it. All I found was a scooter move called a flair which is a back flip with a half twist. I then realized that BMXers probably have the same move because of the nature of having handlebars, and there it was. I tried to seek out actual skateboarders trying this and found some awkward attempts. A McTwist on a skateboard would be more akin to a front flip with a half twist.

@crazyralph6386 Жыл бұрын

What’s crazier, is he went and pulled it off at the Del Mar pool.

@stevenbaker436 2 жыл бұрын

Skating is awesome.

@danielkiser416 Жыл бұрын

you know he's a pro if he's saying 9ft transition and one foot ftof vert is small 😂

@patientzerobeat 9 ай бұрын

In the context of a ramp with vertical, a 9' radius is quite small by even late 1980s standards. I've skated miniramps with a 9' radius (maybe 6' or 7' high), and they are gloriously big.

@michaeljohn8905 Жыл бұрын

My first board. The PP Mike McGill board with that crappy material it was made out of. I forgot what they called it but the moment it got a drop of water on it pure disintegration! Not great for street skating in NY. 😂

@xl5388 6 ай бұрын

They called it Bonite. The decks were 5 ply with 2 layers of yorkite sandwiched between that looked like tap paper. Def not good for east coast street skaters.

@Paul-np9dx 4 ай бұрын

Corn on the cob

@ryanrowe1975 2 жыл бұрын

Invented the trick from Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, and Rodney Mullens?!?

@ryanschuler9827 2 жыл бұрын

Used to love skateboarding until I broke my ankle going off a jump in the neighborhood. Then got laughed at and walked home on a broken ankle in 6th grade. Focused on football basketball and baseball after that lol.

@erichanhauser3190 2 жыл бұрын

Get a board and just roll. It's the best. Sidewalk surfing. Go fast. Good wheels & bearings.

@Paul-np9dx 4 ай бұрын

Quarter pounder with cheese