The sad thing was already running before the melancholy/ollie was named - from sadplant, (which incidentally was named after Sadlands), it’s all in the straight front leg. Without straightening your front leg you’re just doing a backside grab. Before we said ‘meloncollie’ , which was quickly shortened to just ‘melon’,we’d say ‘sad grab’ . So the melon grab (backside sad grab) was already kind of a play on words from the start. I haven’t heard anyone say sad grab for a long time now though - it’s good that the term’s hung on somewhere.
Neil Blender did the method air in order to win a high air contest where the height was measured from where the skater’s board was…that was his ‘method’ to go the highest. He later did the opposite, in that he grabbed in the same way but turned frontside, hence the name - Neil reversed became Lien. They, (lien airs) can be grabbed both ways. Properly backside for a methoded out lien air or, as is more commonplace, like you said, nearer to the nose, especially when going to tail. Frontside melons are grabbed backside with the front hand but have to have the sad/boned out front leg in order for them to be considered melons…but you all knew that
Isn’t there a Partridge thread? The third one’s up and it’s not as unfunny. Some really terrible stuff (interview with the Guardian guy) but there’s a few funny lines.
“Have you ever seen Spaghetti Junction? I had a helicopter ride over it for my 40th. Best birthday present I ever bought myself.”
Not sure if I’ve ranted about this on here before. We went to visit the brother in law this afternoon. We were there about 4 hours and were not offered a drink. Not even tap water. Useless bastards.
