Penny

ihatethegeneralpublic · July 9, 2021, 3:15pm

I actually wouldn’t say that about Kalis, it’s the same style but he used to wear stuff way baggier than you see him in now.

Penny moved to gigantic and often colourful clothes in the early 00s, some of his polo shirts are gigantic!

anon3368876 · July 9, 2021, 3:17pm

I always wonder how Tom doesn’t just melt away into a floppy skin sack wearing all that gear especially in Barcelona. Skating in a beanie and three layers when it’s 28 degrees?

anon90826813 · July 10, 2021, 6:10pm

Don’t get this thing about this Virgil character

The es Penny’s always made me think of Sylvanian families. Mate had loads of Penny samples in random colours, the light blue/purple just looked cute.

navitronic · July 22, 2021, 2:04pm

Hadn’t seen this before:

ihatethegeneralpublic · July 22, 2021, 2:37pm

There should be a whole other cult account dedicated to Penny’s regular heelflips.

BDF · July 22, 2021, 2:46pm

You dont really see many bs tricks from him either do you? Or am I just missing them?

Spanky · July 22, 2021, 2:48pm

That backtail up the hubba is like one of his most famous tricks. And he did bs alley oop flips on tranny all the time. That bs nollie flip into the tranny at that skatepark.

So yeah, pretty balanced mix I reckon

BDF · July 22, 2021, 3:02pm

True, i was thinking for the amount of frontside flips and shifties there weren’t many bs flips.

Fair point about the back tails and bs nollie flips though

voodoo · July 22, 2021, 3:04pm

BDF · July 22, 2021, 3:09pm

Theres one

andy_smoke · July 22, 2021, 4:02pm

did one over the 50p at Radlands 94.
also his transition bs flips are quite splendid

BDF · July 22, 2021, 4:04pm

For the record Im not saying he cant do them just that the balance is tipped towards frontside 180 flips (from what Ive seen)

Les_Zeppelin · July 22, 2021, 4:23pm

That 110 degree backside flip into a quarter is like one of the sexiest tricks of all time.

5.33.

krillmonger · July 22, 2021, 4:52pm

It’s so perfect. Little me couldn’t comprehend how anyone could do that and look so in control.

voodoo · July 22, 2021, 5:02pm

Then does a BS Flip to tail, revert in a pool straight after too.

Londonskater · July 22, 2021, 6:00pm

Theres also the bs flip to tail over a driveway to the down block where he just sort of smashes it into place as it tries to escape.

franc · July 22, 2021, 8:40pm

411 14 opener. So shocking back then and still pretty damn good by today’s standards.

He also backside tailslid Hubba, right?

For some reason for years we mainly saw reg and switch frontside flips but he always had a deep bag of tricks.

voodoo · July 22, 2021, 8:45pm

Come on, his Switch BS Flip closed down The Chain forever, it’s the thing of legends!

anon3368876 · July 22, 2021, 9:30pm

There’s that photo sequence of him fakie lazer flipping up the gap at Prissick. I always assumed he could probably do any trick he felt like it but enjoyed a few more than others so why not just do them?

Maldoror · July 23, 2021, 2:13am

what are some other good examples of unexpected “one off” (footage) Penny tricks?

here are some that I’ve only seen him do once

switch hardflip (bump to stairs in Extremely Sorry)
perfect switch fs heelflip over a funbox
switch 360 fs flip over the same funbox (both on some shanky unused footage)
rock to nosestall revert (sorry b-sides)
kickflip manual revert-to-fakie manual fs flip down a massive drop in Columbia
massive nollie hardflip (Videoradio)
bs 180 nollie melon grab over a funbox (old unused park footage)
nollie fs shuv over funbox (glissexpo)
fs tailslide a massive hubba (really sorry)