Why is Skatepark Footage Hated?

[@ps5622]

And that's why I love frontside 360 shove its! It's convenient, controlled, it looks like a goddamn helicopter under your feet and it is quite uncommon

[@TheSupertima]

true i love em switch

[@yungtrichome7900]

Same

[@suicidaldragon3436]

I used to do them in skate 3 and I've loved then ever since

[@PeterPan54321]

@@TheSupertima lol why? what is different about the one done switch? could only possibly be uglier than ur regular side

[@MIKE2111ful]

I've tried a few hard trick to get down idk how people be doing them down gaps and stuff

[@SillagorillaSkates]

I got a shirt. It's really comfortable! Soft cotton

[@vecchioutente]

Cool! What shirt is it?

[@Jakedotgov]

Mika P. I don’t think he’ll respond,it’s been 2 years

[@sean_69]

@@vecchioutente rad rat t shirt bro

[@ibookboyuk]

Rad Rat, I love your one-take filming style. It’s such a refreshing change from all the people who can’t string even two sentences together without editing.

[@XDKvlogs]

one thing i really wanna do is, when I learn treflips, I wanna set a camera on a long shutter timer with a little LED on the nose and tail so I can see the trail of how it flips!

[@GraphicsByDMA]

You should have went with spreadshirt for your merch. You just make shirts and items available. People purchase them and you get a commission. No extra inventory lying around.

[@sroslow]

GraphicsByDMA 2nd that

[@AJ-kx4kt]

Stop self advertising

[@skaterdudeprodutions]

AJ the Filmer he's helping... Not self-promoting... You think he fucking owns spreadshirt.com?... Lol.

[@h3rteby]

It's convenient and zero risk, but you probably make way less money per shirt though.

[@inkusaido]

@@h3rteby Better to make less money than to lose money. He could always switch later.

[@goobzzz___]

i’m hooked. these deserve way more views. please don’t quit making these they’re great!

[@vpajuluoma]

Question: What is the biggest/longest Kickflip anyone has ever done?

[@MIKE2111ful]

Probably Ryan decenzo

[@AustinHansen]

When I think of long lines, the first ones that come to mind wereJeremy Wray at Carlsbad school or Koston in Yeah Right

[@rebusd]

Austin Hansen also check out Brian Lotti's part in the 1991 planet earth video

[@eight_hundred_eighteen]

I like Daewons line in "Love Child"

[@neunzehndreizehn]

I like the idea of you answering more questions in one AskRadRat. Keep up the good work, Aron!

[@360flipin2]

love this channel , please never end making these videos 😢

[@JarrettSpinks]

This is off topic but is that Zatch Bell in your pic?

[@charlestrout3886]

Really love the new idea for askradrats, I'd love to learn as much as possible per video. You do such a great job of explaining things and always answer things I have always wondered about.

[@andrewinfosec]

That Ray Barbee footage you showed is from Public Domain, not Ban This.

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

Tre flips are the benchmark because it's what shows you know how to flip and spin a board. That tricks also opens your mind to the off axis flip and spins too

[@MonkeyMagick]

I think that longer lines are seen less because it’s harder to do more tricks well in a line. For example, if it takes 5 attempts to do something well then a 2 trick combo might take up to 25 attempts, which is acceptable’ but 3 takes 75 and 4 takes 325 etc... I know this is not the best example but I think it illustrates the point. This is an issue when you only have a limited opportunity when filming.

[@iglooproductions]

Gator is up for parole this month. You should try to contact him 🤣

[@theozamparo]

Rob Dyrdek did a perfect looking 360 double flip right after getting skunked by Koston in Batb 1 Also Shane O'Neill's switch tre double always looks perfect

[@jeffhyson5156]

Parks vs Street in videos? I think it's because parks are more thought of as "practice" while street skating is like the real game. To make a football analogy (Fly Eagles Fly!), great plays from the preseason don't make it into highlight reels once the regular season starts. Same with spring training. They are for practice, just like skateparks.

[@subledger]

You have a segment on long lines and you didn't even mention miles silvas recent five minute line. He did tricks for like 8 blocks or something.

[@conallgallagher2723]

Very true!

[@movingsocks579]

You can buy a retractable tow cable for wake skating eliminating the need for a boat and maximising time spent practicing.

[@domskat3]

wakeskating is rad! especially winch wakeskating. the element of you being on water does hold you back from quickly getting up right away and trying again, but I'd like to point out that the same goes for surfing. It takes you just about the same amount of time to get another pull on a wakeskate as it does swimming back to the break and waiting for another set. This isn't what's holding wakeskating back.

[@kanescrimes4848]

...Plus you have to have a boat...a vehicle to haul it, or a place to dock, enough good weather throughout the year to help make it all worth the hassle, money for gas for the boat, someone to drive the boat(there's winch options but that opens up a whole other can of worms as you can probably imagine) The list probably goes on too. It's thing's like this that hinder many people ability to snowboard enough to get good.

[@daisyshinyweather]

I also think that street skating is more promoted as it tents to wear your gear faster: from wheels to your clothes. That is beneficial for a seller who is trying to make you replace your stuff as frequent as possible.

[@ethanwelles]

I got to skate Powell's Bones Brigade HQ (now Skate One?) back in '91, right after they built the bowl and mini ramp. It was completely out of this world coming from western KS (and I still have the helmet I accidentally stole from them, lol). Back then, parks weren't everywhere you looked, BBHQ was the first and only non-DIY park I've ever been to. You only seemed to find decent parks in metro areas, so for some of us, having ideal terrain was completely alien. We only had real, raw, often barely skateable street to skate. Parks have a definite place, but street is the real deal.

[@apexskateboards]

Make a video on new deck technologies, always wild to see what people are cooking up. The Powell flight decks are hot

[@nutday5]

2000 tries over 2 weeks for a 3sec clip. Legit!

[@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz]

but that sideby side thing where hes pushing is actually really nice bro ^^

[@sroslow]

Thumbs up for Frankie hill footie. G-O-A-T!

[@jerred7664]

It would be boring if everyones part was street skating at parks. the real streets give the film variation along will all the other reasons you mentioned.

[@LeatherCladVegan]

I'm liking this channel more and more.

[@therealjuggernaut1303]

0 dislikes! what a great community of great videos and followers. nice bro!

[@josephsmithyman2182]

This channel is super underrated!

[@blabek]

Hey man, can you make a video about snakeboarding?

[@loading5578]

Ur channel deserves way more subs

[@caseyquinnart418]

You should make the designs and sell them through a print on demand site like cafe press or red bubble. Then there is no printing investment.

[@nobocks]

Got a question for you : What is the lightest weight a full board can be and at what point its too light to make a kickflip due to wind ?

[@oswaldfigglebottom]

I'd say make a version of the shirt without the logo, because people don't really like wearing KZbin merch in public

[@backtotheboard837]

Yeah, Jeff.. geez.

[@trentheselden8574]

Is there a link or something to buy these shirts? Update: ... Have you got any of those dvd’s left bro?

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

Fuck! Forgot its every Wednesday. Probably a quick one and easy to answer, when's the proving ground review coming?

[@ythan5245]

already happened

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

X Paquiao where.. I can't see it

[@safetyvest3070]

Grant Taylor is making skateparks great again.

[@tracphonevirtualmagazine]

PeterPockets but that's bowls and transition.

[@daugbret]

I had successfully blocked the old KZbin quality limits out of my memory. Thanks a lot haha

[@saxenas]

The thing is that back in the early 90’s, there weren’t many skateparks and so skaters had no choice but to skate the streets. I’ve talked to older skaters and they said that if they had access to the skateparks around nowadays, they’d for sure have skated the skateparks. Also i’ve seen pros from the 90’s skating nowadays. And they skate skateparks. At the end of the day, skateboard purists just wanna skate. They’re not necessarily looking to destroy public property and i think that kind of separates the men from the boys. Cuz boys are looking to destroy property and start fires and anarchy!!! and all that bs. Real skaters just wanna skate and roll away from tricks. Whether it’s at a skatepark or in the streets is not make or break for them.

[@straycat9869]

Sewa has a smooth 360 double flip

[@thedude9014]

learn t-shirt screening print yourself , you can just order the shirts and just print them when needed

[@jasonlanzarone5121]

Do you need a front truck and back?

[@evanbbfkf5887]

Please do a retrorippers on karma tsocheff

[@Imjakejones2322]

You still see park footage in video parts. You just aren’t supposed to include park footage if you’re doing a street part.

[@daverunstrain]

With the rise of KZbin channels like Majer, Skate Kitchen, Braille, etc, everyone skates strictly parks and skate videos are on the backburner.

[@amadkaramo9415]

Randy Shredmenton Nahh I think it’s just different crowds attracted to park vids vs street

[@daverunstrain]

That's why I'm grateful for channels like Lurknyc

[@kasper5688]

Randy Shredmenton and extracrispNYC! Fuck braille, it's for five year olds.

[@purplegill10]

Kasper 777 if braille brings 5 year olds into skating I think that's a really good thing

[@danmacfarlane3444]

Perfect answer.

[@jamal9756]

Could you do a video on supreme

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

Before I watch the video, to me it's at least the fact that skateboarding sprouted from the streets. Skating the things that were just there, not meant to be skated and not nearly as perfect as all these concrete parks built with skateboarding as it's sole purpose. It's fun to skate them and they are in some cases really fucking good but if you are filming a trick, the skatepark makes the footage lose its charm. If you take something that is from the streets and built around the streets and it's urban environment, and then take it all away you kind of take away a part of the skateboarding itself even though the tricks are still there. A metaphor, although maybe a bad one is to compare running marathons in rough terrain to running a marathon on a track that just goes around in circles, it's kind of the same but not really.

[@aidancarlisle6237]

Thanks RadRat! I’ve been hoping you’d make a video on this. I was also wondering, why aren’t powerslides as big in street as they are in longboarding? Thanks! Love your videos!

[@LeatherCladVegan]

Because they're just a bit 'naff' (if you know what that word means) on a regular skateboard, whereas on a longboard, it's one of the very few things/'tricks' you can do. Power slides were big back in the 70s and 80s, when skating was more like 'surfing on the street', but with the design of the regular skateboard changing to allow for far greater versatility towards the end of the 80s and into the 90s, it would just seem kinda silly to flat-spot your wheels for something that, IMO, is hardly a trick at all on a regular skateboard. Similar thing with wallrides; although people still do them occasionally nowadays, they were huge back in the 80s, because the kinds of tricks you could do on a board back then was very limited. Longboarding remains much more like 'surfing on the street', so it makes sense that you would see more power-slides on them.

[@haewonchong8371]

Rad Rat for president 2020

[@vladislavserenko7657]

Ask Rad Rat: im a beginner, so there is a thing which bother me. Should i switch to a super light tensor mag light trucks for learning basic tricks, or is it just a technique which matters not a weigh or size of a trucks? At least at kick flips, pop shuvs and up to 360s and fs flips? P.S. i realy love my avenue trucks but im stuck with an ollie on a certain level and cant get higher.

[@vladislavserenko7657]

Jeffrey Bowring thanks man, appreciate it.

[@kilo393]

Doing an ollie over things helped me get them very high.Just start off small and work from there.Im confident that you will eventually ollie over taller things and then you will be able to get those ollies higher.

[@JerryRiceBall]

Go to any bank Rat, they’ll convert that $20 canadian into a crispy fresh $26.50 american quiche.

[@josephlozano4533]

Isn't CAD less than the USD at the moment?

[@HaakonAnderson]

Yeah but Canada has way better healthcare system and it's safer for minority cause Trump supporters aren't out looking to kick your ass as much.

[@lthorsemanship8150]

you get what you pay for when it comes to healthcare...

[@fintanoclery2698]

Haakon Anderson Health care in Canada isn't free, it's universal and it's paid for by the working adults tax money (I'm assuming from your comment you're a child). As per roving bands of Trump supporters kicking people's ass? Get out of the house (it's safe to assume you live in Brampton, mississauga, or Scarborough) more and travel kid. I'm no trump supporter but the really violent people seem to be on the far left. Enjoy the bubble you live in and for your own sake live with mommy and daddy as long as you can.

[@fintanoclery2698]

luke teneycke Exactly, the two children above you have from the sounds of it never payed taxes, never lived in another country, and have never sat in a (Soviet style) Canadian emergency room for up to 6 hours to be seen by a physician, or waited 2 months to have an MRI. The smug canadian superiority talk is always from the ones who contibute nothing to the system, brainwashed by the Canadian public education system.

[@invucy]

I think it was a kick flip or a heel flip nose slide

[@alistaircushnie5551]

Boom Tetris for Jeff... Wait wrong video...

[@fatass4985]

What if someone did an entire line as a part and it was like shit your pants good? There would be a new crown.

[@shanfer123]

I really love that Japanese picture behind you. What's it called?

[@chrischristopher7808]

the great wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai

[@ibookboyuk]

Hi there 👋If you ever need to know something like this again you can take a screenshot and use an online Reverse Image Search. Really clever tech.

[@ibookboyuk]

You only need a partial and it will show you the full image.

[@JacobNorwood1]

It's a open doorway cover for a closet. I have the same one. It's on Amazon for like 20 bucks.

[@KonamiKonami]

its by an artist that draws octopus porn, i forgot his name

[@chill187]

Chris Joslin credits of his etnies part

[@ryanhouk3560]

What's the spiderman comic?

[@MichaelSvenson]

I'd watch Tom Penny skate a park anyday.

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

Bro, giveaways help promote and you get rid of backed up stock

[@salladz3863]

Four words. All hail John Cardiel.

[@drewcausey9651]

When done right it feels so good and of u can do them flat u can do it down stuff too easy transition

[@rebusd]

I think the move to skateparks kind of pushed me away from the sport for awhile

[@parkersnyders5764]

What was your old channel?

[@majesticuncasual186]

"catch it bolts"!

[@JamesWaton]

I wanted to ask something, we all know that pros use the double kicktail(Popsicle boards) or the pool type boards, but do you think there could ever be a pro who loves the cruiser layout, with say size 60 soft wheels, for hypothetical sake, this said pro tricks complement the size and shape of the cruiser, does great tech and the usual street shenanigans, would he be penalised by a skate company just because his (or hers) preferred board layout was say.......a jay adams Zflex?

[@ariekanibalie]

It's funny, despite his obvious skill, I always found Chet Thomas boring to watch on video, like he was milking every single hardflip and flip to noseslide variation in his lines. Fans of lines that go on and on should check out Miles Silvas One Stop video: 5 mins of continuous skating through nighttime LA set to chill jazz music, it's already one of my favourite things to come out recently.

[@skatedd2451]

Where do I buy shirts from.

[@moegerms]

His website.

[@delmanglar]

Parks usually make great videos.

[@einstinsk8s557]

2:16 kickflip noseslide

[@davidtehle6093]

yo what was that trick at 11:38

[@thejawaiian9897]

Pop shuv late flip

[@arthurjrrycyk]

You are a great youtuber

[@LAUZERTV]

Rad Rat is a Rad Sk8 Rat ^_^

[@GFEBMX]

i dunno what the skatepark footy thing is all about have you seen dan drehobl skate a park

[@ared18t]

You dont ever talk about your merch in your videos you need to work on it

[@sheldoncollier8927]

People are fine with skatepark footage

[@ythan5245]

i always had the same problem with tre flips as you described with impossibles... just me?

[@GeoffThompsonOnline]

Nope. People say "lean back" before popping is the trick, but that's not exactly right. I think having ~90% on your weight on your back foot is more accurate. This helps ensure the board pops, flips, and rotates in front of you rather than under or behind (aka feet on nose). Hope this helps

[@ythan5245]

the tip that actually got me to land em like the pros was to kinda "push your back foot through the board" instead of just scooping back. kinda like an impossible... the irony

[@ythan5245]

i can do them just fine nowadays i just thought it was funny his example was a tre flip but i had the exact same problem with tres haha

[@Meachumz]

No we want a rad rat logo shirt.

[@bigblackdaddyblue]

Is the Laser Flip similar to the Tre Flip?

[@roofb1612]

Kick flip is to Treflip as Heelflip is to Laserflip.

[@FORGOTTENooo]

Brian Jules A 360 Flip is a Backside 360 Pop-Shove-It mixed with a Kickflip. A Laserflip is a Frontside 360 Pop-Shove-It mixed with a Heelflip.

[@matthewschroeder8576]

Hey do you have an Instagram!

[@pfunkera3298]

Broo i need a XXL in that shirt

[@yellowdartsnobrd1080]

We want you to make tons of videos Rad Rat but we don't want to support you in any useful way (monee), is all. Also- I want to use this video as an excuse to diverge into a pointless discussion of whether the US or Canada is better. Any "thoughts"?

[@stangkiller1789]

Heyyyyy! Its that guy

[@abyssalspecter93]

Skatepark obstacles are purposefully made to be skatable so it's less impressive to hit a hard trick or line on things engineered for that reason while 100% street skating is overcoming something made for something else. edit: oh that's what you ended up saying, nice

[@Derictab]

LINES SO HAVE NO PUSHES

[@groovefiend25]

#buyradratmerch

[@brentmorales8818]

Does SOTY matter? Does voting for SOTY matter or is it all politics? For example the year AVE won is the biggest to me. I personally thought AVE deserved it and I voted for him but do you think otherwise and why?

[@DreDay1993]

I dont know why skatepark footage has always been hated. Majer crew is pretty fuckin tight making SP videos and thats pretty much all they skate. Maybe just another reason for SOME skaters to be judgemental cynical assholes. Even though they probably couldnt back it up. Lol

[@SOLIZ.]

Kickflip bs tailslide

[@alexandroszenios4388]

CYPRUS?? HAHAHA im from CYPRUS!

[@ProjectRevoltNow]

Personally I think 360 flips are one of the most boring tricks to watch

[@jimboshrump]

Yeah Jeff fuckin Christ...

[@nachojimenez2420]

It is time for skating to lose the criminal thrill element.

[@Lostflipper24]

nacho jimenez with skating being in the olympics, probably will in the next couple years anyway

[@SlushieFan55]

9:00

[@anthonyreieo7231]

Yeah? Well nobody asked you