Not when JB does them and that’s how shit is done.
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i think you’d know by now if i was as good as JB buddy! maybe i’m just 360 flip retarded. my front shove’s stay still under me. perhaps i should just do lazers instead
The thing with tres is I used jump/Ollie to Chase the catch where ever the board was going. That meant travel.
So my Ollie was never straight up, it would be a jump forward with movement left or right.
Once I realised I let my ankles do all the trigger work rather than the legs i then started jumping/olliing straight up . The board then did its helicopter under me no flying off to the left or right.
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I ain’t either! You don’t have to be perfect to be a perfectionist, you just have to be passionate.
I might be a nerd but I always wanted to have most tricks like ollies, where you can kind of take them out of their regular context and adapt them to whatever you have in front of you, if that makes sense.
For example, if you learn backside nosegrinds or backslide lipslides on ledges, you should learn all the different versions: from start to finish, mid-ledge, from the middle of the ledge coming out at the end of the ledge, coming straight to the ledge popping out early.
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This probably came from watching Gonz frontside 180ing into fakie backside grinds at Wallenberg in Video Days. I remember being young and trying to imagine how hard that would be. 30 years later, I haven’t done that trick yet. But I will some day.
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A hot mess of a documentary!
Dude is your annoying friend who doesn’t step on a board in months and still rips with impeccable style.
Look at all the dust and shit on the floor of his flat when he’s doing those yoga exercices at 3:00ish! 
He seems quite lonely.
Incredible skater.
His tune at the end was lovely, almost sounded The Curesque.
I often forget that Alex Olsen isn’t just a jazzy NY hipster guy, he’s actually really fucking good at skating.
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“detoxifying your organs”
Ugh.
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Ok , here you go , did as many in one run as possible for the edit doubters .
They’re all pretty straight except For 2 . But fuck , can’t be Shane O’Neill.
I even put a tape line in for you and I ride loose trucks .
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i cannot believe you actually went and did that. also, before @voodoo says it, you moved to the side a bit on all of them
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Slightly but mainly the pressure before the flips. The land pretty much back on course, not way off except for a couple. But i always aim for landing in the line . You win some you lose some and learn from it ha. Fuck it . Had to see
Mate it’s impressive as fuck anyway mine look like shit and travel like a metre sideways
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Bonus points for the line on the floor as well.
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Rad stuff but you clearly take off on one side of the line and land over on the other side with most of them, haha.
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Definitely consistent enough to huck one down a 20 set without dying
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Yeah I hold my hands up , could have had no line and everyone questioning even more , could have had a skinny line to make it less clear, could have done just one straight tre and posted that.
Makes me want to get them even more bang on now haha .
Cheers was worth the experiment 
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I think the thing about AO is that with all the lifestyle videos of him through the years, they all end up presenting the exact same formula - he’s into some cool, obscure or exclusive thing that nobody else ‘gets’ or knows about and he proclaims that this is his new defining passion, be it obscure 70s gay disco records, vintage synth, Paris fashion shoots, Shaman rituals, Hollywood party scene, making surf boards… the list goes on.
He always seems simultaneously dedicated to sharing these passions with us whilst also projecting some air of insouciance and a general reluctance to talk about things - as if he has been forced to do these videos. On top of that, then there are hints as if he’s already over it and moving onto the next new thing. I wonder if he knows this his ‘thing’ just appears to be finding a new thing.
I love his skating and actually reckon he’s a really good and cool bloke, but it seems to me like he’s a bit insecure with himself and how he’s perceived.
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Some good but distasteful tech skating:
