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caprice150
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was kirbys in funboots? and gabes in those alliance videos he's been in recently?
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nick
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2010 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| caprice150 wrote: | | what happened to hardflips? nick how come you don't do them anymore, or seem to be getting into the heelflip revolution happening as of late? or maybe you are and i'm blowing up your spot... just seems like some people are getting real creative as of late and you seem to be focusing more on perfecting what you already know |
You're definitely right about me focusing a lot more on perfecting what I already know looking at last year, but I don't think that I've jumped off the creative train. Aquafrolics was mostly the same old stuff from me because frankly, I didn't wakeskate much in the first half of 2009. Really really scarcely actually, and even though it sucked and it took a major toll on my progression, I totally needed it...
If I would've kept charging like I was the 2 or 3 years before I might have gotten jaded, big-headed, or even a little burnt. If you are too deep into something that you can only see the fine details, and it becomes hard to see how fkking beautiful and great it all really is, you run the risk of ruining it for yourself. I needed to step back for a minute and refocus myself. I needed remind myself how much wakeskating means to me and I needed to grow a little bit... I spent most of that year learning other things than wakeskate tricks. Some of it was related to wakeskating, some business, how to make music, how to live alone and never be bored or lonely, what art means, what being a brother is really about, why I'm socially different than everyone else, why people are the way they are when you factor in things like time, and some more real-lifey stuff... It was basically the difference between living at my parents' house and wakeskating everyday to diving head first into a more self-reliant, harder to deal with, independent life. Some people call it the real world. I tried it out, just to see how it felt... So living by myself for 6 months in a different town doing different stuff seemed to do the trick for me and I came back starving to wakeskate, missing my friends like crazy. For all the time I get to spend hopping the globe with the world's best wakeskaters, you'd think I'd have all the time in the world to learn new tricks, but there's a lot going on while on the road and it seems like my progression always cultivates it's best naturally on the island... So I came back to my friends and back to the warm salty bays where I first rode a wakeskate. Stoke re-ignited. My obsession when I came back was taking everything that I had before I moved to California and get it 100% solid, so that's what I did. I remembered from my early years of riding how important it was to have a solid foundation of the basics when you want to move forward and up, so I had to redefine my basics. What might have been a hammer in 2008 is moved down to a supporting base for something bigger, something more complex and more technical. So I threw an extra layer of love onto all the bricks underneath and when I finished, I went to get some more bricks. What came after that in Fall 2009 was lazily documented and out of that, 3/4 of it was lost when a terrible succubus threw away my collection of tapes. What was left became this- http://vimeo.com/9803544
Those were some of the most special sessions to me ever... Toddpiece, TJ, Keaton & Kly, Cory, Josh Letchworth, Christian & Anthony, Benny, Tommy, Stu & Trav... These were the bringers of joy... Mostly Todd<3
I feel kinda bummed that even with gap-to-tail-taps, new lock-in tricks, bringing back the round pipe rail, not following trends, bringing back 50-50s, doing new flip tricks, and trying to make switch look like regular, that some people think I'm not being creative anymore, but I think in reality it's just the shift in the 2-year cycle/generation for wakeskating coupled with my less-than-refreshing section in Aquafrolics... From the outside, it could look like I haven't kept up with the progression in wakeskating, but at this point, all I need is one video section to show that that isn't true. I've got no reason to stop now. The guy in my head started riding again, and he's always been way better than me. He shows me new stuff all the time and I love learning new stuff...
The words of comfort to deal with my lackluster section in Aquafrolics weren't actually words. They were numbers. The number of people who saw Aquafrolics as their first exposure to wakeskating was exponentially larger than any other wakeskate video ever. By a long shot. Nike's reach with this video, the amount of promotion they did, and the fact that they gave it away for free made wakeskating visible to THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of people that had never seen wakeskating before. The amount of actual downloads, not to mention total views, dwarfed any wake DVD sales in our sports small history. Even though I didn't step up my game much from Fun Boots to Aquafrolics, I'd say I still did my part to show people what wakeskating is about, alongside the heros of that video; Andrew, Matt, and Ben...
I love the look of a super clean tre flip. I love the feel of a proper back tail with a popped 270 out. I do tricks because I like the way they look and feel and because it took time/energy to learn them and know them... I know I do too many frontside bigspins and too many ollie 360s and a lot of kickflips and front blunts, and I know I do too many backside 180s down gaps... I know I'm bad at regular backside noseslides and I know I wasn't destined to be able to 3 shuv. I know that don't get to winch enough and I know that heelflips are trying really hard not to let me understand them (Fun fact: my first heelflip happened within a rope's length of my first 360 flip, done 2 years earlier. I did 2 heelflips in the summer of '07 when we were filming the pro spotlight section for Volume 6 at Scott Byerly's, but it was raining out so there wasn't anyone filming. At that point you have to decide whether or not Stu Shinn is a "reliable source" haha)... but I don't want my varial heelflips to be debatable. I don't want crooked grinds on 1" nugs and no bar. I get so much more satisfaction from a popped, clean, perfectly controlled anything than from whipping around the latest trendy move. So I'm gonna do what I like to do. In the liptrick days, I didn't do lipslide 270 shuv out. In the wake to wake days, I didn't do late shuvs. When hitting gaps came about, I did anything but FS 180. These days, I try to make lock-ins look good and I'm hesitant to hit pole jams. I've had a good number of firsts for new tricks and some of them I end up not doing very much afterwards because of people making them too hot... I don't know. Sometimes not doing what everyone else is doing takes more than just doing your own thing... but that's lame too, so I should just do whatever I want and let everyone else do what they want, even though saying that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I like to push others into being creative and original and holding themselves to a higher standard. When it comes down to it, wakeskating is super selfish, you really gotta just do it for yourself...
Wait a second: Lots of ellipses and stray points, oh man... Yeah... yeah I'm definitely rambling right now. Dang, sorry about that you guys. Anyways...
Jump to present. So now that I'm at a point where my consistency is right about where I want it and Florida itself is thawing out after a brutal winter, I think I can say for sure that this summer will be the most progressive one I've had in a long time. I've learned more new tricks in 4 sessions with Travis Doran this last month than I did in all of 2009. Pretty wild stat when I think about it...
This is gonna be a good year.
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caprice150
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2010 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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any idea when your going to have a new video part? gap to tail tap sounds sick where can i see this?
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There's a whole lot to respond to and I'm not sure I can do it. For whatever it's worth nick, I think that little video you posted on the internet was more exciting to me than most sections I see in mass produced wakeskate videos over the past few years. I especially liked that 50 50 on that concrete ledge, your tail tap of course, and the way you gapped the wakes into a quasi lipslide. That last one was probably the best of them all because it's reading and using that terrain different than anyone else. And it's not JUST about the riding. You put a lot of thought into your edits and it turns into a complete package; a rider produced piece of art that displays their art. And you're keeping the art in the edit, because I really think that's been lost in wake over the years.
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scottyb
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 12:18 am Post subject: |
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I hate this website.
and I miss wakeskating, wakeskaters, and wakeskating.com about 4 or 5 years ago.
and now i will see you all in another year.
i hate you all,
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electricsnow
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Good to see you scotty. I hope life is treating you well. 
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scottyb
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 12:28 am Post subject: |
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hi e-snow  , damn i still do miss some of you
lifes awesome, hope all is good with you too. its been too long |
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electricsnow
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that's great to hear! It's definitely been a long time. Hopefully some day we can shred again.
SHADES!
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caprice150
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 1:48 am Post subject: |
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after re-watching Yeah 2009! i'll take back my creativity comment. some good stuff in there, especially that tail tap. 270 shuv on always kills me too. i agree with e-snow on the editing as well, some of it really lined up with the lyrics. also liked the subliminal messages, anna maria island $on!
that video was a lot of fun and creative. but i love a hooksteeze heelflip. keatons are sick too.
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| electricsnow wrote: | | There's a whole lot to respond to and I'm not sure I can do it. For whatever it's worth nick, I think that little video you posted on the internet was more exciting to me than most sections I see in mass produced wakeskate videos over the past few years. I especially liked that 50 50 on that concrete ledge, your tail tap of course, and the way you gapped the wakes into a quasi lipslide. That last one was probably the best of them all because it's reading and using that terrain different than anyone else. And it's not JUST about the riding. You put a lot of thought into your edits and it turns into a complete package; a rider produced piece of art that displays their art. And you're keeping the art in the edit, because I really think that's been lost in wake over the years. |
WORD.
nick, so many valid point raised
love your passion for our sport dude
The comment the comment regarding your creativity was WAY OFF, and i think he how realizes this after re-watching Yeah 2009!
making switch tricks look reg......soooo hard....props dude.
love that your still an active member of ws.com
p.s. this thread has made for some great reading over the past month or so
peace
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Jama
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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nick, I was trying to show my disinterested grandfather wakeskating about two weeks ago through aquafrolics. He lives right near my lakehouse, and he is constantly wondering what I have to do on the lake that is so much better than jug fishing. Anyways, he sat kind of silent for most of it- except about 1 minute in to your part he goes,"That's a bad mother right there, ain't it?"
I feel like that is a pretty good representation of what you bring to the table. |
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bob.
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nick, <3, great post, lets ride in the near future por favor
it's cawwed a heew fwip because it's wike a kickfwip, but wif yor heew
scottyb, i miss you beautiful
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mcthrust
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Why is andrew pastura so good at wakeskating?
He looks more natural on a wakeskate than anyone. |
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Assayer
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, I know I'm relatively new to the site, but I just wanted to get some opinions on something. Apologies if it's been discussed before....
After reading some recent posts on here (read: To you from me), it seems like a lot of people that have been around the sport for a while are starting to get bummed about a lot of the aspects that come with the growth and exposure of the sport. Basically my question is, would you guys rather see the sport stay with relatively the same core size of participation and steady progression, or do you think it would be better to see a huge increase in participation and deal with the negatives (whatever they are) that come with it?
I've only been doing it for a year or so, but it seems like the sport is progressing like crazy. But at the same time, i think it would suck to see the sport that everyone can carry around in their back pocket get overexposed and just end up sucking......
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ZackFL(BRE)
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| Posted: Apr 25, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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mcthrust, That's a bold statement, but he is amazing.
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Assayer, I love teaching newbers to waterdance. It brings my stoke to Max potential. So let it grow and if not fuçk it.
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2010 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| ZackFL(BRE) wrote: | | Assayer, I love teaching newbers to waterdance. It brings my stoke to Max potential. So let it grow and if not fuçk it. |
WORD!!!
SAME dude......i love teaching others, seeing them progress, watching them fall in love.
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Evan71
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| Posted: Apr 26, 2010 12:27 am Post subject: |
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nick, i have realized you really dont do three shuvs.
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Evan71, its because in a past thread he gave them too me. but it hasnt helped much  |
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