Mano A Mano 2022 - Round 1 - Men's: Andy Anderson vs. Josh Borden

[@notmyfullnamepoker]

people so mad andy does tricks his opponent can’t do, that’s literally the point of the competition. andy has all the classics too but isn’t gonna waste time when offense switches off regardless of a make. y’all hate but he’s the one putting in the work to consistently land tricks no one’s ever seen before

[@Stem667]

The problem is he was doing very similar tricks exposing one weakness ("button masher"-style combos) and then a bunch of weird tricks that were not that difficult. If he did difficult tricks but they all were very different, no one would've minded

[@hardrockertoygraphy]

@@Stem667 That's just his strategies to win this round. So, it's fine he did that.

[@Stem667]

@@hardrockertoygraphy it's not just any sporting competition, there is some etiquette to it. Ideally you want to win gracefully, by doing difficult and varied tricks that look good, and not by exploiting the same trick type over and over, esp. if it is a weird looking trick. Although you might not agree with me and think anything goes.

[@ExoticDva]

@@Stem667I mean bottom line you play to win the game.

[@2enZenn]

Andy can do all the traditional tricks too. The difference is freestyle. He brings it into all skating including his transition skating. He doesn’t see street, vert, and freestyle separately, and he is constantly creating. He is also by far one of the nicest people I have ever skated with.

[@woodendoorsbtw2869]

two tries on defense would improve this contest immensely.

[@808danumba9]

Yep.. There's way too much variety on Mini available for only 1 try. And the commentary is annoying WOAAAHHWW an Indy Back D?!?!? 🙄🙄🙄🙄 ,, they can be enthusiastic without pretending everything is the best trick ever. Its disingenuous, along with the constant passive aggressive digs at Andy. this is exactly how he skates, what did they expect??

[@scooter_0113]

Probably about how a game of skate against Rodney Mullen in the 90s went lol.

[@SeeSawMassacre]

No, i think Mullen would have been a better sport, by and large. Most skaters know that they have some weird tricks they can pull out for an easy letter, so a gentleman doesn't do that crap.

[@bultronlagore4932]

@@SeeSawMassacre Agreed. Mullen is 🔥

[@dougsburner5897]

@@SeeSawMassacre yeah like one letter trick that you know you got on your opponent not all five letters being, front smith to back smith to front blunt to revert to merlin twist. Still cool stuff tho

[@bellofortis2020]

@@SeeSawMassacre "would have been a gentleman"? What?? Thankfully there is plenty of video showing Mullen doing exactly that. Do you think when Rodney was doing those tricks in the 80s anyone else could do them? Short answer, no. That's why everyone stopped to watch. Even the ramp skaters.

[@SeeSawMassacre]

@@bellofortis2020 That was a different, let alone more serious, kind of competition. It's frowned upon to do really weird tricks in a game of skate because it forces your opponent to try them, and any dope can learn a few weird tricks that they know their opponent won't be able to do. In a run-style contest you can do whatever you want and it doesn't really affect your opponents. It's a lot different.

[@jackhicks1765]

I feel like for the next tournament, if a set is done on the extended quarter, the one trying to copy the set should also have to do it in the extended quarter...

[@poja82]

Andy knows so many tricks he has to write them down.

[@gabaghoul23]

he really doesnt have to do this- it was for a single contest- he just 4 generations of flow everywhere else

[@poja82]

There, fixed, thanks.@@rbeforme

[@Cameldactyl]

He has to write it down because he does silly shit that is made up combinations of other tricks

[@TheJollyAlex]

@@Cameldactyl No need to hate, literally every trick is made up of another trick, we'd literally have 4 flip tricks if variations etc weren't a thing

[@Cameldactyl]

@@TheJollyAlex to look at these tricks and say they are not silly contrived nonsense tricks is insane man. Old heads out here just dick sucking Andy because of his mid life crisis style grinds he concocts.

[@hashbrown8670]

I don't want this to end, amazing game!

[@charlieduvall6463]

Commentary was pretty much all about Andy. Bordon crushes it as well.

[@drze7910]

yeah but they were funny, a little of bit of salt for the weirdness of Andy... I couldn't agree more btw

[@sk8fm448]

Josh Borden main business is in the big bowl. 👍

[@justincase9888]

Messi Ronald Andy

[@michaelmercado1953]

We got a hater

[@Hazy-_-Daze]

Big difference between skating for the freedom and skating competition bud

[@blowinshtup6553]

This series is incredible

[@willcartom7999]

Josh Borden was not enjoying this lmaoo

[@seltic13]

wouldn't of blamed him if he dropped in skated off the mini and right out the door shaking his head

[@BradT_Herping]

Josh was killing it, we all know Andy was gonna be more creative and do tricks only he thinks of/can do

[@pulsierenderspeer2956]

/thinks are cool/wants to see in reality

[@benoitdeclercq9722]

so glad this mini ramp comp exists... it s nice.. can push it how u wish

[@MrVanee]

hahaha, for mi thats a big ramp :(

[@elquixotedelascanarias]

SO much fun watching.

[@danmacfarlane3444]

Nice game! 1 foot fakie disaster is a Todd Falcon signature move 🦅💥 He was doing them at Lake Owen Woodward in 2002

[@ethanfulton9659]

You know Matt Ramiller??

[@juanmanuelcoco]

merlin twist is sick, but way too low under the coping, for deffense is good but not for offense also josh did it well, his offense tricks weren´t so offensive

[@dudemountain6689]

it doesn’t matter where you do the trick on the ramp as long as you land it

[@DaScheissIchDrauf]

they messed up the last turn. it was josh bordens offense turn.

[@switchback3638]

@@dudemountain6689 Under coping is equivalent to going stationary or really slow in a flat ground game, yeah it could count just lame and could be better

[@ntnnot]

@@dudemountain6689 Yep, all these silly qualifiers, smh

[@juanmanuelcoco]

@@dudemountain6689 for me does a lot, really under the coping like in a bank a very crazy tech trick cmon play hard but play clean....... that was like a non popped trick on a flatground game for deffense its ok but not for offense

[@robr135]

Gatekeeper skaters in this comment section crying over the tricks. Skating used to be creative and represented counter culture. now its "Be the same and do the same tricks and follow the supreme leader" type cult mentality.

[@John_Lee_]

skateboarding has always been gate kept by the cool people.

[@Weirder88]

for me, 2 tries for defense (like at sldes&grinds) would be much nicer here!! but still like it tho..

[@drze7910]

Yeah and there is so much tricks in mini like that, even 3 tries would not shock me at all... This poor guys have one try to learn a new trick is not enough

[@RealSkateStories]

Word, Slides and Grinds rules!!

[@davidst-pierre8972]

and it says in the rules- last letter gets two attempts- wth

[@johnwalton178]

This is the most letters I've seen andy get yet well played 🔥

[@mutatontherocks01]

Lotta haters in here but that's how things progress. I remember when the back flip was landed on dirt bikes and a lot of the other guys didn't want it allowed in competition because they couldn't do it, but now moto freestyle is full of people doing back flips. Just gotta flow with the times and except change. Plus dude put up a good fight

[@SuperDeucen]

Right. Tons of dudes stopped skating vert after McGill started doing mctwists for the same reason.

[@SeeSawMassacre]

Eric Koston was doing semi-goofy multi-trick combo grinds back in the nineties. It's bad form to do really weird stuff you know your opponent has never done (or is too long to even remember) in a game of skate. Then you're forcing them to try it, even though they have no chance. And it's boring to watch.

[@freedomcaller]

Honestly moto freestyle is kinda lame to watch now, because every trick is a backflip combo. They need to set limits on the number of backflips you can get points for in a run, it would make it way more fun to watch.

[@meowforjasper2838]

I really really really hope you're not implying that people are being negative towards any in this specific contest because "they couldn't do it". Like I'm honestly really hoping that's not what you genuinely believe.

[@Ateamdeferred]

Lol. Dude nothing && did was progressive at all. The only thing difficult about his coping dancing stuff is remembering an exact order he's been practicing and you haven't. The guys a kook.

[@Ale.alvargas93]

in the last letter it was josh's turn for offense not andys'.. nobody noticed that???

[@10luberda]

andys so sick love watching him play skate hes so humble its great josh borden has great attitude

[@Stem667]

Totally not what was going on, but it was fun to watch :)

[@mattmattmatt3091]

Lmao literally the opposite, Andy isn’t humble at allllll and josh has a notoriously bad attitude

[@ben_west]

Andy might lead to something like no "Malto manual shit" connected to his name sooner or later in this competition... Just saying. Much love to Andy.

[@muruzabal]

haha that'd be nice!

[@nickcalabrese4829]

The new rule will be no more than five front smiths per trick.

[@RealSkateStories]

"No more Andy wiggle shit?" 🤣

[@j.w.213]

no more andy grinds

[@xxphysic4994]

lmao is just matter of time

[@nickbix2718]

Getting matched with Andy for round one will ruin anyone’s day.

[@bmartinot]

I thought skating was a counter culture movement but everyone's slating Andy because he's a bit wierd and doesn't do what everyone else thinks he should do. He'll go down in history as one of the best whilst the rest of those posers will be long gone and forgotten.

[@mattmattmatt3091]

🧢

[@bendakstarkiller4827]

Lol best what?

[@SeeSawMassacre]

He's a great skater, of course. I just think he's got bad sportsmanship. There's no way anyone's going to do a five trick combo they've never done before on defense- it makes for an uninteresting game.

[@switchback3638]

its his etiquette, not his tricks

[@mattmattmatt3091]

@@switchback3638 0 etiquette, just like when he was trying to claim he did the Indy to disaster when he whiffed it, jus all around cheeky and has zero shame.

[@RealSkateStories]

The most smile inducing skate viedo possibly ever. Still can't wipe it off 😁

[@aslanbc]

Not the same energy as BATB but I’m happy to see more games of skate on my timeline

[@CJWest]

Winkowski vs Anderson would be sick

[@fugitvontherun9624]

Andy for the win!

[@CarlBeatty]

What’s up with the x patterns in the coping? Is it supposed to help you grind better?

[@samfountain8804]

Shouldn't have counted. Andy set 2 tricks in a row. It's supposed to alternate regardless

[@jonesjones5803]

He did a grab when Andy didn’t do a grab and got a redo .. when andy didn’t grab he got a letter

[@TheJunglePulse]

josh was getting creamed let him have it

[@sctim123]

Completely different scenario

[@Atsah]

@@sctim123 not at all. A fs 180 is not a fs grab. Not grabbing compared to grabbing is a straight up different trick, the fact he got a redo on defence when he straight up just didn’t do it is annoying. It’s funny watching josh get upset he’s nothing compared to Andy and he knows it

[@jonesjones5803]

@@Atsah exactly! straight up different trick!

[@northernsnow6982]

Oh, you ou put something extra in there compared to you missed doing a thing all together. Also we got the edited version, we don't know what conversation lead to those decisions. Maybe Josh thought that was the trick, while Andy possibly knew the trick and missed.

[@imdevbutok]

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Esse cara não ficou nem um pouco contente com essas tricks do Andy. As tricks são tão louca que precisa anotar

[@yago8672]

Ai sim! hahahaha

[@PabloPazosGutierrez]

That's not supposed to be skated. Says the guy keeping all the fun out off the game. We need rad guys commenting, not my grandfather...

[@fmjay6419]

THIS WHY ANDY MY FAVORITE SKATER FR

[@pdx503]

Andy Anderson def wins the game of KOOK.

[@unkokusaiwa]

Aw, baby needs his bottle?

[@pdx503]

@@unkokusaiwa Admittedly, I haven't seen this video in two years, but it's still the same one in which Andy goes out of his way to do weird tricks and ends of losing because of it? I'm not saying he is not a good skater, he really good. But it is his brand to do weird, kooky shit. I don't care for that.🤷‍♂

[@permesworld]

How's Andy getting practice slides?

[@EastsideDonkey]

That type of shit is happening in every game, they seem to just be cool with it.

[@verskil]

Andy's board looks like it's some hybrid between his own signature flight deck and a normal popsicle shaped deck. I'm about to buy a flight deck so would like to get some intel on that!

[@TheWizardCody]

He's messing with a new deck shape

[@ajfsound]

Me too about to buy his flight deck

[@Eford12345]

Lowkey mad at the combos a little but way to hyped for him and wooten to care

[@aminestoisthebesto806]

Every trick that Andy did would be a special

[@Ateamdeferred]

A special, what?

[@AS34N]

I've neve seen skate where they switch offense even after landed tricks but I dig the ability for both skaters to be aggressive

[@donovanhays]

Yeah it's more like how games of bike are played. I liked it. Sometimes in BATB someone will go on like a 20+ trick offense run lol

[@riotpb10]

Barnum and Bailey called, they want their Andy back.

[@megaflux7144]

killer battle, killer commentary, killer format.. just killer!

[@Apr0x1m0]

It's really hard to compete with Andy. Like who does a Merlin twist on mini ramp?!?

[@importon]

I hope it doesn't take a death for this be fully appreciated

[@unkokusaiwa]

Wat

[@arcadeattic]

Andy is so good,his board control and balance is unreal

[@gabaghoul23]

the simping for josh 7:12 trick is NOWHERE even near what they called legit!@

[@slimnics]

this series is tight.

[@franckbabou38]

Go go andy Anderson ! ❤

[@XWhiteWinter]

Andy is the mannnnn

[@BeachBumsk8]

Want to see Andy vs Jamie Griffin

[@Bryan-sy6es]

SUPER

[@bendydrecher772]

7:53 you can see josh in disbelief when andy says front foot impossible

[@tripas421]

Andy’s videos are soooo gonna get the most views on this tournament

[@Kale1993]

If Andy had the “I’m gonna skunk every one of these guys” attitude he’d walk through everyone. But he’s just out there just having a great time, like the Olympics he very easily could’ve placed but he just went and repped for the love of skating and that’s respect right there

[@zkipa]

yeah andy is really good for this style of competition, he can lay down combos all day long. gona take someone with a lot of power and big tricks to counter him in this format

[@SeeSawMassacre]

Oh yeah, it super casual. I'm being sarcastic; he had a notebook.

[@meowforjasper2838]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

[@kylehardy7519]

I love Andy but he never even had a tiny chance to medal at the Olympics lets be real. Even without his injuries he would've never made it to the finals.

[@ryanboudreau8263]

@@kylehardy7519 If he put effort into "competition skating" he definitely would. Dude took like 2 days to learn how to do late kickflips over hips. People that go for the olympics are practicing day in day out to work on their routine and tricks for those types of competitions, meanwhile Andy is doing 80 different youtube collabs with random people having fun and showing what ACTUAL skating is. Andy entertains, the olympians PERFORM.

[@DanHovington]

loved this game !

[@tobieone4918]

Borden has a dart board with Andy’s face on it now.

[@brianboyd2611]

So a guy should skate a contest, but half way try to win by doing tricks his opponent can do? Mmm, next I guess is a participation trophy. Stuff he did was ridiculously hard and amazing.

[@alecklecky]

Andy's trick are absolutely blowing my mind. What a show! :D

[@mattfontana]

seriously ? you like the thinker? c'mon

[@bellofortis2020]

@@mattfontana well, Josh couldn't do it. That was a total gift from the judges. Forget the corny pose, Josh didn't hit the stall at all.

[@nickpasquarello1291]

I feel like andy's bag of tricks is a little unfair in this type of game. Like, he did all of the tricks correctly of course, but it feels way too straight competitive from him instead of actually trying have a fun game. Not a fan.

[@roccy5735]

Ya he could do some tricks that are actually possible for the other dude to do

[@summercameron597]

"Is there really a winner though?" - Andy

[@iwikongzilla2942]

Andy Anderson is the greatest of all time!

[@postmodernerkindergartner960]

idk, but it would be way more entertaining if he wouldn't resort to some of those more strange bumpy tricks he's frequently doing, like those stalls? ugly af. looks like they've been thought out by some normiekids from the skatepark.

[@allanreyes5520]

O Conner..best sk8board heckler ever lol

[@pierroperso]

Incroyable

[@Cycleplayer117]

Andy is a killer for real 👊🏾 great game on both parts 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@JMARKS19702]

The gravity wizard does it again!!

[@eze8024]

Andy is a WIZARD

[@elchicodelapatineta]

QUE PASO AL FINAL FUE DOS VECES A CREAR SEGUIDAS NO ME PARECE JUSTO 😧😧😧😧😧😧😑💔

[@Dan_Slee]

06:36 yeah def not the same trick, Andy's foot was on top of the tail bearing his weight, not doing whatever the judges let that guy do lol. Without the stall its just not possible to do the same trick.

[@BrooklynJPakathi]

josh did not looked amped!

[@mytorment]

Just noticed Andy destroyed twice with a front foot impossible 😔🥳🐉😋🫒

[@mytorment]

Pudwill blues

[@davidritz2921]

The Merlin Flip. Alright

[@marcusarruzza319]

I love this but why didn't they get Andy at the BATB again?

[@ryanbacher5434]

andy finally in the contest yay

[@landonbolts7650]

Thank god for Tim o Connor

[@maloghurst2741]

Everyone loves Andy until they play this game against him.

[@drze7910]

Not sure bro, I find him kind of cocky... I don't know, a guy like Mullen seems very very chill and his little weirdness make him lovable, but the weirdness of Andy make him, for a lot of people including me, a little cringe...

[@milesendebrock373]

DrZe Yeah, I don’t think he’s really as cocky as he can come off sometimes. I read it more as being uncomfortable socially, which I can’t really blame him for. The dude is pretty much a skate-hippie

[@meowforjasper2838]

@@drze7910 Cocky indeed. After he was getting some recognition I saw him in tampa. It was a few years ago. Dude was just in the way constantly trying to showboat his weird tricks. It's definitely cocky behavior masked with "look at how much fun I'm having."

[@mattmattmatt3091]

@@meowforjasper2838 bro yes this 100% and most of it isn’t fundamentally hard it’s jus basic stuff but made to look harder by being different or something

[@punku5003]

People hate on Andy here bc they thinks being “try hard” but if being try hard is executing difficult maneuvers then i dont see a problem only jealousy lol

[@oscarmondragon1543]

I like how ANDY gives ZERO fucks about all the shade the bums off the boards are throwing and he's all, .. WATCH THIS PROGRESS. . This the Thinker lmao

[@YeahdudeProductions8]

josh borden is sick

[@Wqtcs]

This was so crazy best Mano to Mano I’ve seen yet I think

[@xaviersanchez6224]

The thinker ?

[@mattfontana]

great how josh semplified that s#*t

[@jhomer38]

any video with Andy will go viral

[@TheChupacabra]

Just make sure to send that 10% over to Koston

[@leonneldayoc5715]

no offense they are all good but i miss how bucky lasek and tony do flip tricks unto grind on small or even big pipes. Combinations are good but i hope transition skater give a little bit variations. Im not a transition skater but i really love watching transition guys who do flips in transition like Deawon, Haslam, Rowley and Tom Penny they are all mainly street skater but man they also good in transition tricks. No offense to the guys in the contest good luck to all

[@KillKount187]

Bc Canada!!

[@TLFILMS]

Dat trick at 4:55 is soooo scary, hangup is looking at you

[@dixienormus6070]

I don’t really like watching Andy skate, not that he isn’t good, because he has crazy board control. But it’s almost like watching young Rodney Mullen, cool land tricks, but i wanna see some nollie lasers or something.

[@wildbitt]

okay so, Andy is my new favorite weirdo; I love that he has a trick book

[@nekro9t2]

This series is very entertaining so far and Andy is a ridiculous skater, you just don't know what he's gonna pull out of his bag of tricks

[@postmodernerkindergartner960]

it's rather cringe most of the time

[@j1shin]

Why is the coping ripped?!?

[@jamesbest9806]

2:10 It’s only called a Merlin Twist when it’s switch m8

[@9drzipe]

Can some one explain to me why they have crosscuts on the coping? Is it for wax or something? Sounds awful... :S

[@wolfhands2508]

I noticed Andy is not riding his signature Powell board with the skull and helmet?

[@SuperDeucen]

He has been trying out new shapes

[@K1LL3Rm0nkay]

That coping looks so satisfying to grind

[@Nmzc]

Andy all day

[@Pete42069]

Andy what a legend

[@herscheljackson2781]

Andy is Powells golden child 😂

[@beaverr7230]

josh was not having it

[@RadioactiveHipsters]

Borden does his tricks proper I don’t care what anyone says. Looks 1000 times better than anything Andy did

[@loganramsay378]

ANDY! 👀

[@Surfer06]

Andy whooped the guy 😂😂

[@unkokusaiwa]

When the competition has a BOOK, you know its over. Nice for everyone to get a lesson from the teacher. Wonder what the homework is?