How Mike McGill Invented The McTwist!

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[@rumpelRAINS]

Shout out to Rog for getting the footage on screen.

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

Jamie pull up that super 8 footage of Mike McGill.

[@Strawman333]

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

[@jamesbenton4123]

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

[@anthonysmith8321]

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.

[@lurker-mq4fp]

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]

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]

I always thought 540 as the generic term.

[@patientzerobeat]

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]

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.

[@newvocabulary]

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

[@erichanhauser3190]

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]

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]

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

[@coreyfisher2542]

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

[@ghxfit]

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!

[@nillocyor2747]

A true legend

[@ohalistair]

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.

[@mikaellofgren7]

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

[@johnsambo9379]

Lol. Right.

[@danielkiser416]

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

[@patientzerobeat]

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.

[@patientzerobeat]

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]

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

[@patientzerobeat]

@@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]

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

[@stevenbaker436]

Skating is awesome.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

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.

[@ryanschuler9827]

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]

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

[@ryanrowe1975]

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

[@LoveMeBack]

I’ve always associated the McTwist with Tony Hawk.

[@michaeljohn8905]

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]

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.

[@erichanhauser3190]

I think Lance had the best McTwist. Hosoi was bad ass too. Helicopter. Gator had a mean one too. Oh, & Mike McGill did a nice one. Ha ha.

[@rebusd]

I think it was Lance who said once in an interview that he felt he was done when he first saw it, but he practiced his ass off.

[@barclaydonaldson8863]

On the "vice" John cardiel...documentary..there's a clip of him doing the mctwist....

[@erichanhauser3190]

@@barclaydonaldson8863 All Hail Cardiel. Padless too right?

[@barclaydonaldson8863]

@@erichanhauser3190 ...your Damm right....!!! All hail....the dude is a inspiration!!! Always

[@HitMarkersAreFun]

I used to be a skater like you. Then I took a board to the knee.

[@dannyblitz2122]

Should have got the kneepad dlc

[@ryanschuler9827]

Um 1st?

[@ryanschuler9827]

And 1st like wins a million dollars and ps5 right? That's what I heard lol

[@roscoecoltrane9523]

Please get Lester on the show!