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i think i invented the "no handed face plant"
there were quite a few tricks i "invented" but most had already been invented, but i hadn't seen anyone else do them before. so although they had been before, i'd never seen them and therefore in my own mind, made them up.
Quote from: Trev on May 19, 2007, 07:48 PMthere were quite a few tricks i "invented" but most had already been invented, but i hadn't seen anyone else do them before. so although they had been before, i'd never seen them and therefore in my own mind, made them up.i agree, definate gray area, some documented and some notCan-can Lookback Decade kickturnInverted 540
Quote from: andy619 on May 20, 2007, 03:02 PMi agree, definate gray area, some documented and some notCan-can Lookback but saying that, i think your can can lookbacks might have been the first proper ones i'd seen as well. craig c had done the can can x-up but not sure if he had stretched it to a lookback. i'm sure i saw you do them before i saw hoffman do 'em.
i agree, definate gray area, some documented and some notCan-can Lookback
I know its crap but it is mine and I never saw anybody else do it bitd , but that might be because its crap. Oh yeah I can still do it .
As the post would suggest....what freestyle trick did you invent.Many may dispute this but I THINK (and if I'm wrong don't jump on me) I invented the Tailwhip Jump. Southsea Skatepark around 83 I was trying to do a Can Can jump out of the bowl just in front of the main key hole bowl that everyone jumps out of. As I was practicing them my foot slipped off the other pedal as I stepped over the frame and the frame unintentionally spun round which gave me the idea. Next time I tried to do it and I meant to kick the frame round but didn't get my feet back on the pedals. Anyway, after many attempts I managed to get my feet back on the pedals and ride out which I think was probably one of the first Tailwhip Jumps. Albeit not as high or as stylish as they do it these days. Jess Dyrenforth did witness it if he remembers but no photographer was there at the time so you only have mine, Dave Slade's and Jess D's word for it.My mate Sid (Warren Siddall) who was one of the pioneers of street invented the BB grind which he first did on a bench, the pictures were in Action Bike at the time. I remember all the fuss that was made about it, Nick Phillips was the one who made the most fuss about it but it was hugely different and original for the time.As I said, if I'm wrong about the Tailwhip Jump then please accept my apologies but as far as I know no one had done it before then, in fact, Mike D had only just done it on the floor on BMX Beat.So come on guys - what's your claim to fame?
cool get it on here , I would love to see old footage of somebody else doing it.
Are you trying to say you learnt tailwhips to the pedals in one day in 1983 and then didn't bother to do it again?