This is great
ABD.
Already Been Discussed.
Late to the party. Sorry peeps
I think itâs thread worthy. A gay twist was mentioned as another dodgy one. Any others?
If this name was used in the original game it would 100% be only known as the weddle grab now. Iâm not sure if it will take now but I hope it does.
What about pushing mongo? No idea where it comes from but always assumed it was something to do with mong.
Tranny.
Chink chink
Feeble
This is the sound it makes.
I thought this was cool. Iâd known for a long time the skater who invented the âmute airâ was deaf, not mute, so it does seem a bit more fitting.
Grossoâs input has popularised the name âMonty grindâ in place of backside Smith grind*, but Iâm also not sure âWeddle airâ will cacth on to replace âmute airâ.
Although, if itâs referred to as a âWeddle grabâ in the new Tony Hawk videogame maybe it will. Think how many people call a one-foot ollie an âOllie Northâ after seeing that in the THPS games!
*For reference, Mike Smith first invented the âSmith stopâ - a frontside, static Smith stall. Alan Losi then took it to a travelling grind (which creates some confusion as some people retrospectively call it a Losi grind, but thatâs already the name for another trick he invented, which is like a BS disaster/liplslide with the front truck kind of feebled). Then Monty Nolder developed the backside Smith grind, hence âMonty grindâ.
Iâve seen gay twist and les twist referred to as âG twistâ and âL twistâ, and more recently fakie 360 mute, but Tony himself referred to them as Cab Weddle and Cab melon in an instagram comment.
I know melon is more quick off the tongue than âbackside grabâ, but I still really think of it as short for melonchollie and the dart-boy - âsadâ shape.
Chink-chink is no problem - itâs just the sound it makes. I think that was a Ray Underhill trick, possibly?
Yep, came from mong / mongoloid, which is a derogatry term for someone with downâs syndrome. Surprised this hasnât been addressed in skating really.
And tranny is short for transition, doesnât mean we should just continue using those words necessarily.
Maybe we canât say âfatâ anymore.
âHomie just popped a bitchinâ body-positive ollie!â
I think that had already been cancelled. Definitely th ph version anyway.
âBitchinâ?
Wow, gender shame much.
Homie is also insensitive to the homeless.
Oh yeah, whoops.
In reference to a highly popped trick wouldnât it be spelt with a âphâ anyway?
Good on Big Tone for this.
âMongoâ needs to go as well. Iâve been consciously using âchicken footâ for a while now.
While weâre on this note, one of my mates totally blanked when describing a spot one day and called a Pole Jam a âWallie Barâ. It cracked me up to fuck but it kind of works too, in the sense that âWallie Barâ is the obstacle and a âPole Jamâ is the trick you do on it.
The ph-level spelling didnât come until relatively later.