Oh aye, deffo. Was just bored and wondering what other similar clips there are around (ie. illusion flips, unexpected lands, weirdly long hang-time, close shaves etc.)
Love this one: Sean Green (?) at 24.10 in “Candyland” impossibly escaping hill-bomb death
mixture of sheer balls, skill and a ton of luck. The speed wobble/swerve just after missing that woman’s cart-wheel and going into the second hill is so mental.
Big shout that, but I’d say Suciu is a bit more MJ levels of tech more than wizardry.
GT is in the wizard category too. Watching him skate in real life is nuts, makes things happen that shouldn’t even if by accident. When thrasher did the UK tour he spent about 20 minutes skating the ramp and in that time ended up on the shelf the side of the tombstone by accident, and just ragged back in. It defied logic.
Ah good shout with Mike Arnold! He’s an absurdist.
Amongst other things, the boardslide at Lloyds here (2.35) looks like he’s got cheatcodes on.
Max Palmer has tonnes of impossible moments. For example, 2.27 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8gIgXfrowI
also, at 2.37 he does some sort of nosebonk trick. I definitely hear a “bonk”, but what part of the board is bonking what part of the pipe??
Plus, at the start of his “Sure” part he seems to do a backtail on a plant pot, but on closer inspection is floating just above it in a mad shifty ollie kinda way.
As an aside, Jacob Harris has been ace at framing this kind of stuff in his new edits to highlight how uncanny their skating is.
More magic shout-outs:
Jamie Bolland’s kickflip over the rail into the wavy bank from In Motion
Paulo Diaz’s HUGE nollie over the blue block in his Las Nueve Vidas de Paco part, complete with shamanic soundtrack.
all of Colin Read’s editing on “Spirit Quest”
Levi Brown’s kickflips and 360flips, which carry on floating upwards once caught
Wenning’s nosegrinds
Puleo’s ollies and nosegrinds
That nollie 360 Penny sequence
Jason Dill riding along sitting on his board at the start of his Mosaic section which, for a split second, seems like he’s skating backwards. Fries my head each time I see it.
Jake Johnson’s wallride from Mindfield (3.25) which is impossibly stuck on. The 2nd angle in particular looks like he must be surfing some kind of bank or incline, rather than a vertical surface!
[btw, sorry if this is re-treading stuff from the Be Kind, Rewind thread. I guess what I’m looking for is more rare individual clips, often within sections, which are in some way perception-bending or appear magical. Not necessarily full parts that get you stoked, if that makes sense? Happy for the thread to be locked if redundant tho!]
I still maintain that I like him, not particularly his style or tricks but damn, some of the stuff and the consistency is mind blowing. He’s getting too involved with those Braille bells though.