What KILLED the IMPOSSIBLE?

[@ArmedPoverty]

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK?! you are the same guy who did all those trip tip videos a decade ago? You literally taught me how to skate man. I’ve been watching your gaming shit lately and had no idea. You are a legend on KZbin. All of my friends would gather around everytime you put out a new trick tip, you were basically the only person at the time who explained things thoroughly and wasn’t on a high horse or anything. Much respect to you man. I’m glad you are still on here and still love skating.

[@Junglistic77]

Really good video, reminded me of learning impossibles when I was 13 (I'm almost 40 now). It's interesting how people these days get away with calling a 360 shove an impossible. To me an impossible should wrap around the foot not underneath. But then I'm old and I can remember when doing a madonna from a jump ramp was cool. There's a challenge for the youth, bring back street madonnas:)

[@therareplatypus7121]

I know your comment is a bit old, but I was just telling my girlfriend that exact same thing. That for some reason, some people let 360 Pop Shuv-Its off as an Impossible. It's not the same thing.

[@TeamCesar_]

Wow I thought you looked familiar. I remember watching your trick tip video for impossibles way back in the day, back when I first started skateboarding. Great to see you're still making cool skateboarding videos.

[@therealwewin]

I'm the only one in my town that can impossible... for now lol

[@Odd_Combo]

We Win Sooooo, do you want a cookie?

[@weednose1918]

In my town, all me an the homies got impossibles!

[@viviandlamini9050]

Same here bro😂😂...it's funny how the trick kinda easy tho, when u got it

[@guyface777]

Me2 but they're never gunna catch up 😂😂

[@siker78]

@@weednose1918 do they wrap around the back foot or just do sideways 360 shove its?

[@tim1309]

Wow, now that you mention it I do remember people still calling it The "Ollie Impossible" when I first started skating in the early 90's.

[@bassage13]

Jesus, Mullen was so ridiculous. Light years ahead of everyone ever involved in skateboarding.

[@notsafeforworld]

bassage13 light years are a messure distance tho

[@barrelparty]

vden if I read your comment out loud I'm just making a bunch of sounds with my mouth doh

[@MrSimondaniel3]

its not really true, he is great but its exagerrated how he 'invented everything' .. Gonz, Natas, + many many people originated modern skating along with Mullen.

[@austintucker7341]

yeah he's miles ahead, or light years really

[@RIPJimmyA7X]

Daniel Simon yes but without Mullen everything that you do on street wouldn't be possible, he invented the ollie

[@TH-nc1gj]

One of the most amazing tricks in skateboarding.I like it because of its unorthodox nature, it would be great to see used more in videos.

[@RadRatVideo]

Me too! I get sick of seeing the same stuff so much

[@DirectorToby]

Dude, just discovered your channel. I LOVE it! Growing up with THPS I always wanted to know why no one was doing them

[@RadRatVideo]

+DirectorToby thanks! I'm glad you found me here

[@TVindustries5000]

Holy shit dude. I never realized. I remember watching some of your freestyle trick tips, WAAAAy back in the day. wow.

[@TravelingMooseMedia]

No way... you're the guy I used to watch trick tips of 10 years ago... I have been watching your videos for a few days and just realized after you showed the little clip of your impossible. What a coincidence. I watched all your trick tips. You helped me learn pretty much everything I knew

[@SimonVanliew26]

MY MAN! I totally watched your trick tip videos back when i was growing up beginning skating!! Tought me better than the transworld How-to's ever did. Right on tho man, keep making videos cuz I'm subbing.

[@robomanskate]

Holy crap you're aronl!? Loving these videos, did such a double take when your nose hook impossible from our king of the cafe '07 video was in the middle of this. I kind of assumed you must have been a mid / late 2000s skate forum frequenter as your videos seem to address so many of those trick naming things that people were always getting confused about around that time haha.

[@ps5622]

I personally love the impossible, I wish I could do it though, I'll take a look at your trick tip! Very interesting as usual! :)

[@RadRatVideo]

Thanks! Good luck with the trick. That video is pretty old though

[@КатяПурфюрст]

I always do "impossibles" when I skate. Definitely a cool trick.

[@Nathsk8123456]

I learnt Impossibles from your old channel, it's always been my favourite trick!

[@RadRatVideo]

That's awesome to hear! I'm glad I was able to help

[@Im_K4tana]

dude i just realized it was u men i learn so many tricks back in the day form you videos i was realy in to the weird skate boarding stuff like hospitals flamingos etc and i learned them from u bro im happy to see u still rolling on youtube

[@SaccoBelmonte]

I was an impossible champ back in the 90s, got it over sidewalks and down stairs. And yes, it disappeared just as pressureflips did. But pressureflips were for the most part lame. The impossible is an awesome trick done well.

[@loweni7460]

Dylan Rieder definitely contributed to making impossibles cool again he then passed the torch to Sean Pablo

[@chrismario6371]

I remember your trick tips videos way back, so good. Good to see your still making videos

[@maxonmendel5757]

That switch to revert at 3:00 is so smooth. I want footwork like Mullen one day

[@jbtownsend9535]

Templeton was doing them, especially tail grab, all along in the nineties. When i think of impossibles he's kind of the master. He definitely kept that trick relevant.

[@tastyboi77]

When those old tutorial videos popped up i freaked out. 10-12 years ago i was in my skating prime(middle school) and you no doubt helped me with my tricks. I have only just recently started seeing your new videos but i knew i noticed something familiar about you haha

[@FakieFSflip]

i love how the little person is doing a impossible in the intro haha

[@vitorcage]

Mullet Mcnastyy I always thought it was a tre flip, but I guess you're right

[@RadRatVideo]

Haha yeah that really worked out this time

[@liontribe8489]

Reese Simmons on H Street. I love Impossibles. I've landed half cab front foots and still do them to grinds! Im 41 years old with 4 kids who all can skate...well, not my 3 year old....but soon she will! Nothing killed that trick in my eyes, and if you watch vids like Pretty Sweet its coming back in present day video parts as a legit and accepted trick once more. Impossible underflips are fun too by the way, and easy enough to do once you learn the rotation. Ocean Howell never got the respect he deserved as a master of his trade because of all the distractions in the industry such as SMA/World Industries and evolving/devolving trends during the early 90s. But the man was gifted! Another skater off topic though that i emulated outside of Rodney was Frankie Hill. Until his knee injury his style was awesome to watch. After his video parts you were out the door skating 2 minutes later going fast as hell! Great vids man, keep it up.

[@BrettOPediaTV]

I remember learning these back in the early 2000’s thanks to Rodney Mullen vs Daewon Song 2 and once I had these down (nollie, fakie bs 180, regular and switch) people didn’t even know what they were. I tried teaching people but they gave up too easily. Impossibles are probably the most rewarding flip trick around, and once you get them down you don’t forget them, much like a kickflip. I then introduced them to fs and bs boardslides on flat rails... only landed a handful of those though (without snapping my board).

[@CyrusCageSCWS]

been binging your videos with my girl. Teaching her about skating. You're great. Thank you for all the effort you're putting in. You're helping me cheer up 💚 ps: cool painting of a disc craft there.. do you research UFOs or the secret space program?

[@lowerless]

crazy i remember watching ur old freestyle videos , didnt realize it was the same guy till you showed your how to clip of the impossible

[@ryonmerglewski7357]

I always loved impossibles. I would do them in games of skate in like 05 because... well screw it, I like them lol. Most the time people would complement me and then try them. Guess enough time went by. What was old was new again.

[@phatnana2379]

@Ryon Merglewski obv I am seeing this video YEARS later but.... your comment reminded me of my best bud who passed away a little over a year ago. When we 15-22yrs old we skated everyday and he could do straight Impossibles but i could only do no-comply Impossible (Strawberry Milkshake??). We all thought it was nuts because he could Impossible but he could barely ever land Heelflips, Front-Shuvs, or even Nollie! And as I think back, I realize that when we would go to skate parks in other towns, we would always find that only ONE of those guys could do Impossible too! Idk what you think of this but I feel like there kinda was always ONE guy in every crew (like group of 5-10 people who skate together regularly) who could do legit/clean Impossibles but then maybe struggled with something a little more common like Heelflips or Front-Shuvs, for example. To me, that was always the beauty of skateboarding and why I loved it so much! A couple of us had the most tricks in our repertoire and were considered the "best" of the crew but some of the guys who didn't have many tricks could bust out Impossibles or blast the biggest gaps/stair sets or something. If you ever do see this, sorry for the book I wrote but thanks for the memories!

[@saulorocha3755]

Rodney’s Round 3 has a impossible into nose manual up a sidewalk, ending with nollie impossible. For me that is the most beautifully executed trick sequence ever.

[@MegaWoody92]

The first trick I ever learned was a kick flip and I learned through the video you did about ten years ago or so. I had no idea you were that guy til you played the clip of the how to impossible video. Uhhhh-mazing.

[@berranskejtmann433]

i do pressure flips vertical and no scoop more like a quick stomp almost

[@iamajediirl6444]

duuuude i just realized who you are, i learnt a bunch of old school tricks off of you when i first started skating

[@brandonadams3914]

Right! I watched this cat like 8 years ago when I started learning. Just found this channel today and when he mentioned his decade old trick tip vids I was like wtf, and started to feel really old haha

[@tastyboi77]

Same! Tripped me the fuck out. There wasnt much quality skate tuts back then

[@dbaron-gamedev]

I remember doing them all the time during the early 90's, it was my favorite trick to do. It's an easy and smooth trick to pull off.

[@newgrounds90]

How important is music in a video part's quality?

[@RadRatVideo]

Good question! I'll try to make an Ask Rad Rat video about this soon

[@trevorbroadbent966]

Of course, you've noticed how a good skater can take a bad song and make you like it after good tricks and good editing :) Also, isn't there a spectrum between bad songs and ironically-used songs?

[@trevorbroadbent966]

Whoops, I just subscribed 5 minutes ago, not sure you made this Ask Rad Rat video yet

[@Mykekelli]

newgrounds90 im sure its dif for everyone but that was a huge thing for me.

[@onepunch5907]

@@RadRatVideo still waiting

[@mistervanwyk7405]

One of the coolest trick i was able to do when I was at my peak back in the day...

[@mmkmk1467]

Rodney Mullen, everytime :) love this guy

[@jirehjirehjirehjireh]

Trick trends are so fascinating. Because skating is all about style, tricks go in and out like jeans.

[@typ044]

Those impossible late varial flips Rodney does are beautiful !

[@gest667]

Great vid!!! pretty interesting how tricks would die off almost instantly... what happening tricks now do you think will go by the wayside??? kind of hard to say since everything seems acceptable now (which is good!)

[@RadRatVideo]

+Ed Fisher Good question! Probably those double no comply tricks

[@galacticjuicedaddy1305]

Ed Fisher hopefully this ollie sexchange trend haha

[@lilscrappy50cent20]

This guy is funny! Lol keep making these videos bruh! Make one about the Casper flip next! Nd shuv it tail grab

[@talktal]

why didnt you talk about dylan reviving the trick in the mid to late 2000s? or how ed kept them alive until dylan made them cool again?

[@haesklar3635]

i lov your videos man, keep doing it

[@RadRatVideo]

Thank you!

[@JonTostanoski]

Holy crap I watched that how to impossible video like 9 years ago when I was in high school and still skated. I don't know why I watch some of your videos today cause I don't skate anymore. I find them interesting

[@TheBaronVSP]

I do a variation of the impossible that I call the "flipossible". It starts with a kickflip, but i catch the grip side of the board halfway through the rotation with the top of my front foot, then scoop the board around like an impossible until the grip is facing up again and land it.

[@fliplaraman5383]

I love the depth of research you put into this vids,, very good man 👌🤙🤘. Brings back so many memories as-well

[@mouija1450]

I grew up skating in the early 90's and what you're saying is 95% true. All your facts are right, and you even alluded to the fact that street skating was like the wild west. It might be kinda hard to comprehend by today's standards, but it was pretty common for almost every video you watched over the course of 1991-1993 to have some trick that was so innovative that it was hard to wrap your head around what was happening. Between the time that Ed Templeton's first New Deal part came out and the second video like a year later, there was a flatground sea change where impossibles were the absolute coolest trick you could do, to impossibles being so lame 6 months later and everyone was bouncing their boards off the ground with 38mm wheels and grinding a wedge into their noses from thousands of pressure flips on rough concrete. Everything happened at light speed back then. One month impossibles were the best, then pressure flips, then double and triple flips, then switch tricks, and it all came to head when Jeremy Wray came along and clean, basic tricks took over and street skating rebuilt itself. About a year ago I hit the park and was warming up with a game of skate with some kids sessioning the flatbar, and these young teenagers all have 360 flips locked down totally effortless. You can get me every time with that trick, but none of them could do a varial kickflip, pressure flip or even the most basic no-comply 180. I even got all of them minus one with a half cab kickflip. This one kid was really good and after I bailed a FS 360 nollie, he blew me out with nollie heel variations one after the other. At least they thought it was cool that an ancient 30-ish guy could still skate and do "old school" tricks so well.

[@MrSimondaniel3]

4:49 that is undeniably cool

[@tomf4087]

In 90 I spent months learning them properly. Wrapped. Then front foots, then Nollie back foot Impossibles. Then in 92 they were victim of fashion. I think they were seen as an 80s trick. A bit dated. They weren't the only victims. Late shove its, late flips, pressure flips. Some were ugly but the rise of pros who popped high going faster and keeping it simple and stylish. I stopped doing tons of tricks in 92. Annoying coz I loved them. I might add, in my opinion, many ridiculed certain tricks coz they couldn't do them. It's great how anything is acceptable these days. But I am injured so not great

[@ianturnbow7011]

Impossibles came back hard as fuck a few years back. Kind of a shocker, but it's dope to see proper ones.

[@anti_fox8987]

Pressure flips are coming back and that's good!

[@RadRatVideo]

I'm with you there!

[@powerviolents]

no

[@sasukekuniski1959]

why?

[@TheJenslenaerts]

i`ve been doing impossible and ff impossibles since 2007, and did them for 6 years, when i stopped skateboarding. I love these tricks! Too bad for me that I was the only one that could do em and nobody really liked it... at least not in belgium.

[@chantsurwhen5475]

It was one of the first tricks I learned I loved the look of it and the way it wrapped the foot. Though to be fair my first skate idol was rodney mullen🤣

[@hippywolf]

My dude - Love your videos! I am 40- right in the sweet spot of seeing skateboarding in the 80's, 90's and into the 2000's. And remember Ed Templeton's part in Useless Wooden Toys like a favorite song. He didn't invent it but he brought alot of style to it. So I would say to anyone-rather than here we blabber about it-if you haven't seen that part then you should. It is not unlike The Gonz in Video Days in that he does so many tricks that could still be in video parts today. Impossible to blunt slide? That is RAD. And I don't know if anybody has done them since (Mr. Rad Rat-I am sure you could correct me on this) I think (like many others) Dylan Reider thankfully brought them back. And he did them SO PROPER.

[@saiiiiiii1]

Dude your knowledge is insane.

[@vk2172]

HOLY SHIT hahahaha I only just realised I watched your trick tip YEARS ago I had no clue you were the same person! I only just got back into skating after a 6 year hiatus. Bless.

[@performancetesting1]

I like people who do tricks despite peers telling them they're not cool. I used to push mongo BECAUSE it irritated people just to demonstrate that I can do whatever I want on a board, and that no one but me chooses how I skate. When people quit being snobs, I will quit be operationally defiant.

[@odex2002]

Awesome video, big thx for making content!

[@RadRatVideo]

Thank you!

[@ChaosPootato]

Many impossibles look like 360 shove-its IMO

[@seanissomething]

I remember seeing Rodney Mullen do an Impossible-Late-360-Shove ON FLAT on his Globe Opinion part and TO THIS DAY it still blows my mind.

[@gregoryhill5119]

The first street impossible I remember was Chet Thomas public domain before Templeton popularized them in the New Deal Video promo

[@gregoryhill5119]

After the New Deal promo it went viral

[@gregoryhill5119]

The First Street impossible not tree LOL

[@AnklepantsSkateZine]

I wish nollie nosegrab airwalks would become the new thing and never die out.

[@courtwalnut6652]

gosh has it really been 10 years ? damn ! I got them really well now thanks to you.

[@RadRatVideo]

Yeah, time flies!

[@ViniAndradeMusic]

man you should get the official skateboard trick name list. you would be honored by the skateboard community like forever. like a dictionary of tricks. how do you feel about it? gj keep going

[@drivermontana2757]

i really should start skating this is one of my favourite tricks which i first saw on thps games, which is pretty much every trick tbh....

[@lonelylongdistancekiller9844]

Your doing awesome stuff for the skate community

[@michaelmartinez3235]

Very informative, I like this channel!😀

[@loleksk8]

Impossibles and presure flips are cool tricks i love to do them .

[@zeoalexo]

Why did it take me a year to figure out you used footage from the Animal Chin video when you mentioned the Bones Brigade (On a side note, Search for Animal Chin is a really cool video)

[@jamescorbett5729]

Alex Moul definitely deserves a mention. He was the UK’s impossible master.

[@DingusMcBrungus]

Holy crap, is this the dude who used to post all those freestyle tricks and trick tips like 10 years ago?

[@DerukuAnjiru]

Hey Aaron, Why wearing a helmet is not popular in the skateboarding society?

[@RadRatVideo]

A couple people have asked this, but I don't know if I have much to say about it. I just think it's more edgy and cool to risk getting hurt. It looks a lot more confident to do something without a helmet compared to wearing one, which is basically only there because you're planning to fail. It's Aron, by the way

[@Rebius]

Well, you can't wear a cap and a helmet at the same time :D It's my opinion: I say without protection gear I can move more freely. Also, you know what you are getting into if everything fails and you go down, so it also builds a kind of a mind set to be prepared for anything and to really try not to fall, or to fall safely at least. But it's actually, more or less, just about style (which is kind of the other way around in vert). Try to imagine your favorite skater in his best street skate vid part and imagine him with a helmet. It just wouldn't look that good, that confident, that "I don't care what can happen because I got this" mind set :)

[@jacksamunster4407]

Nothing wrong with helmets. Your head and brain is worth protection especially if you're skating some big ramps. For street I avoid helmets like the plague but if that's your thing do you, don't let others discourage you.

[@luisnarvaez2673]

i wear helmets cuz i have nothing to proof but everything to loose

[@roger285]

That's ironic I seen you in KZbin before when I was kid learning how to the impossible video of yours. Now I meet you again but older that's crazy 😂

[@Parooh]

impossible is one of my fav tricks, learned it before flips lol

[@robertarispe3586]

Geoff Rowley impossible roof to roof gap was insane and he has the best looking imposibles in my opinión

[@nyranking5258]

Mullens Vans at 2:22

[@Tsudkyk]

I could never figure out how to land back on an impossible, excellent name for the trick in my opinion.

[@keepinitGcode]

Good video! *pauses to swallow* Keep it up.

[@TheGlassjaw28]

I wish inverts would come back to vert. Such a stylish trick, but you never see them in pro competition.

[@gregoryhill5119]

Also I saw your video on influential video parts and you really have to give props to Ray Simmons and Jeff Pettit for the first ones to really go knarr are around the same time as Frankie Hill and before ban this

[@deadgekkos]

Just so you know the impossible has had something of a comeback in the last couple of years seems every kid at my local can do them now

[@triffen7174]

I do impossibles all the time and some of my friends do too, didn't know it was even dead, then again tho, I was born in 2002 so I wasn't around for the 90s when they were super popular

[@Rebius]

Once a trick has been done it can not be undone :) It doesn't matter what people think, sooner or later every trick and combo will be done and re-done and so on. I personally think every trick deserves a shot, I just know I'm not capable of doing them all :D (I think a rad rat vid was about how many tricks there are and how long it would take to learn them all?!?) Just skate what you want to skate and nothing else matters :D

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

Unrelated side note: applying the scooping motion of impossibles to 360 pop-shuvits will give you a really cool looking vertical 360 pop shove.

the nut slicer!!! lol

[@anthonysmith8321]

I haven't did a Ollie impossible and pressure flip since 94 or 95. I was good at both tricks until it died out. I remember it. I was the new kid coming up at this time. So when I turn 16 in 95 skateboarding change again. People started poping their tricks.

[@alphasalazar2490]

Impossible didn't "deserve" to be banned, but it's like anything that gets super hot and burns out. People just overused it to the point where you're seen as uncool to do it, because you don't "get it" anymore.

[@philiphershman4809]

You are doing gods work young pagawan

[@crimson1718]

Varial flips need to come back too, as well as varial heels

[@darkXwolf17-UD]

@Rad Rat Video in your shred school nose hook impossible video do you think i can do a nose hook impossible using the tracker flip-side? (Or is that too long)

[@mershymershy1425]

what happend to old school kickflips?

[@RadRatVideo]

Long story short - you can't pop them, so they aren't that useful in street. You can't do them up curbs or into grinds, and the forward foot position makes it hard to do them off kickers and ramps.

[@mershymershy1425]

Rad Rat Video ok

[@PurpleSnake]

One of the very few things I honestly dislike about the skate culture is how some tricks are seen as "absurd" or "wrong" or "foul" or whatever by so many. I honestly never understood this. To me personally a trick is a trick and if you like doing it then just keep on doing it. What is and what isn't a "good looking trick" is entirely subjective whatsoever so why even bother complaining, y'know?

[@JarrettSpinks]

Impossibles or 3 shoves (Depending on how the wind is pushing) are fun though I could never do them with 1 foot actually it would wrap around both of my feet and I hated it but this was the most effective way of doing them

[@ismelljello]

Another reason could be that people were trying to avoid the ambiguity of naming a trick before footage or during game of skate. We've all heard "that wasn't an impossible, it was a 360 shuv, REDO!" (and vice versa) plenty of times at the park. Same goes for varials and pressure flips. People would rather not risk looking fraudulent by trying to get 2 tricks out of the same execution.

[@unattendedcandle]

You are awesome bro!

[@francescosaturnino113]

side note: Mullen even did a impossible nosemanual nollie impossible out.

[@RadRatVideo]

He sure did, but that was almost 10 years later

[@francescosaturnino113]

yes of course!

[@nollieflipcrook]

I always thought it was Ed Templeton or Jason Lee that invented the impossible. The story I heard was that Templeton did the first tre flip and Jason Lee did the first impossible, but Templeton was credited with the first Impossible and Jason was credited with the first tre flip. Guess I was wrong. But I am pretty sure that Jason Lee did do the first tre flip.

[@travisguide4516]

Problem with the impossibles is some people can make them look better than others at the bottom of the barrel is sort of a 360 shuvit with your back foot stuck on like a pizza tosser flicking the dough. At the top of the food chain were some inspirational variations of board angles wrapping around the foot like rodney's more over the top looking cool or tom penny doing front foot impossibles that are completely horizontal around his foot trip me out too

[@c0m4g1bb]

Cool video man

[@CheesyCola1]

This title sounds like a deep philosophical question.

[@antinia2385]

I still love impossibles flips!

[@JohnQueSacc]

I knew you looked familiar! I remember your trick tips dude