ben youre the man!

416 · Backside 180 Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 836 City: Toronto

sooo sick holy sh itt! http://www.alliancewake.com/skate/ben-horans-no-comply-180/

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

someone needs to do a no comply fs big Smash

GnarShredd · Backside 180 Joined: 24 Jan 2009 Posts: 1529 City: Seattle

that's a killer spot

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

I'm not a hater (so suck it! Laughing

) but these tricks are more like foot plants than no complys.

http://www.remotewakeskates.com/?p=750

zip · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 752 City: Sydney

thats sweet beni

mad spot

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

electricsnow, I agree. Beautiful none the less. Sick shít man.

bmosing · Posted: May 12, 2010 6:38 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, agree also! i thought we all went through this when kyle walton did his monster. what a beautiful trick though! and spot! Smash

416 · Backside 180 Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 836 City: Toronto

electricsnow, yeah same i think everyone can agree, sick stuff none the less

<MikeG> · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1293 City: PBG

so sick!! i love that spot too.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

yeah, I initially said that without seeing that the remote dudes didn't even call it a no comply. I just felt disappointed with that classification when it's not that at all...but it's totally bad to the bone none the less and ben's the man.

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

That was just crazy. Definitely a footplant, but Alliance probably just messed that up.

Montgomery · Backside 180 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 976 City: Rogers

Sick

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

No Comply

1. Similar to a boneless except you don't use your hand to lift the skateboard after stepping off the board. Bizarelly, after popping the skateboard with your back foot you then use your back knee to knock the board forward and level before jumping on it off of your front foot.

looked like a No-Comply to me

Raven · Posted: May 14, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject:

ben is sizzlin this season............that ho was popped and floated.....looked like a magic trick. Birthday

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

I know what a no comply is. Years ago the skateboard mag had a great sequence of ray barbee doing one. I can't find it so I'll use this to illustrate the difference between what's going on in wakeskating and how it's actually done on a skateboard...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwqrUh-z6po&feature=related

I still think it's a 180 with a brief foot plant.

mojo · Posted: May 14, 2010 11:56 pm Post subject:

so are you calling it a 180 foot plant because he does not level the board out with his knee? i mean i dig the fact that you are trying to keep things real, but isn't that at least the wakeskate version of a no comply 180?

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

electricsnow, well then we might as well start calling our hardflips... front shuv kickflips and our varial heels....varial late toe flips

mojo, thank you, I mean its not even a split second after he pops that he's sliding his foot off

tahoe · Posted: May 15, 2010 8:52 am Post subject:

-LoGiK-, not everyone does varial heels with their toes....

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

tahoe, that is true!

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

I just think the way the foot is planted (and for how long) is a big part of the trick. I'm not even looking at his knee because when you do a no comply180 you don't really use your knee anyway. But the trick is a sequence of events. Wakeskaters don't do it like that, and especially in ben's example, his foot isn't even planted that long, and the rotation as a whole just looks more like a 180 with a foot plant than what a no-comply actually looks like. Especially when you no comply 180, you plant your foot first, then pop and initiate the rotation with your back foot.

Here's the thing, this is wakeskating, not skateboarding. Why miss apply something when it's not ours to begin with? That's the way I see it, and I dont' feel too bad about it either.