If literally one kid sees a video of this cool ass mother fucker with long hair take a massive wipeout that would have otherwise probably killed him, jump up as though nothing happens, and then immediately says “I love helmets”, and then that one kid decides to wear a helmet, and then they take a fall but don’t suffer any major damage because of their helmet; then this man has actually saved a life. And that’s not an unreasonable thing to think about.
He was a pretty nice guy in my experience - he sat next to me in Freshman philosophy at UCF’s Honors College in 2009. Not sure if he stuck around, I don’t remember seeing him much after that.
If I recall, he was also a pretty big car guy, so we chatted about his project RX7 (I think?) a lot. I think he had a little BMW 2002 for a while too.
Our professor never wore shoes or socks. Exclusively barefoot. Weird guy. That’s all I remember.
Your jaw can be sewn shut while you drink through a straw for a few months. If you crack your skull, you could be looking at doing everything through a straw for the rest of your life, and that's if you're lucky.
I'd have thought park skaters would have embraced helmets by now. I get street skating never will, but park skaters seem to treat it more like a formal sport similar to vert skaters.
Unfortunately it's just like other protective gear in other industries, you get bullied and called a pussy for wearing it. Toxic masculinity against other dudes, fucking dipshits.
He had a helmet company for a while. IDK if it's still a thing, but the goal was to make helmets that look cool enough that skaters can wear them without committing a fashion faux pas and getting shamed by their bros.
Many have tried but ultimately going so hard that you injure yourself is something that skaters actually look up to. The most popular tricks of all time are the biggest and most dangerous. Things like Jeremy Wray over the tower gap, Sheckler's Costco gap, everyone hucking massive tricks down El Toro or Leon 25. You don't even have to land it really, Jamie Thomas leap of faith is one of the most well known tricks of all time. Anything you do to make your tricks less dangerous lessens their impact. Jaws' entire career is based on somehow still having working legs after all the crazy shit he's done.
I've always said this, you're really not being a "tough guy" or "alpha male" if you're living by the rules and definitions set out for you by someone else.
I never said it was a good excuse. I've been a skateboarder, I know the people and have held similar thoughts at one point. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. Just adding more nuance to the "it's all toxic culture" comment.
Edit: changed asking to adding.
Like strapping in the safety harness before riding a roller coaster?
Or like checking your harness before sky diving?
Or like wearing your seatbelt in the car?
Or maybe like looking both ways before crossing the street?
Being habitual about safety when you choose to participate in inherently dangerous activities is just part of the activity.
Been skating for 30+ years and not once have I seen anyone give anyone grief for wearing a helmet. Just my personal experience but generally speaking I think it’s widely accepted to be safe.
Gordon Ramsay just a two weeks ago made a video in which he showed off an injury from a gnarly biking accident, saying that without his helmet he‘d be dead. Wear your fucking helmets.
Please wear fucking helmets.
One of my oldest, best friends from my hometown went missing a few years ago and I (across the country) spent several days calling hospitals, the few people I knew in town, posting on subreddits, etc.
Just about when I’d given up, they found him in a hospital, in a coma. Of course it was after slipping with no helmet at a skate park and cracking his head open.
He came to after a few days. I spoke to him on the phone and he was barely there. And there was doubt if he was going to fully recover. But he did over the course of several months.
And then I see him posting videos doing tricks, alone in his garage on slick pavement with no helmet like nothing happened. I told him how I felt and his response was a sarcastic “what are you still upset about the coma?”
I told him yeah. It was really upsetting. I thought he was dead and if he’s going to have no respect for his own life, then I don’t really want to be friends with him. It may sound melodramatic to some but I don’t want to be attached to someone who’s just careless with their life.
I could add he’s 50 but I don’t know if it matters. Everyone’s head is fragile.
If he's 50, he's set. He's not going to change. You probably did the right thing given your own inability to handle the possibility of him doing something he's already done once.
Been a really contentious point in skate culture for a long time now, but we are seeing more people wearing helmets especially with people like Andy Anderson rocking one.
From a skateboarder's perspective. A big part of the sport is steeze, that's how effortless you make the trick look. Wearing a helmet makes it look like you're doing something difficult. That's why the pros mostly don't wear helmets.
With that said, all amateurs should wear a helmet. Pros prob should too but I get why they don't.
This is probably one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.
Not calling you dumb, just the reason for not wearing a helmet. I literally can’t think of a dumber reason. I’ll update this if I do.
I think the speed of adoption of helmets in snowboarding and skiing is almost entirely because snowsports helmets both keep your head warm and actually make it easier to wear goggles. There are multiple comfort related upsides to wearing one which really makes people want to wear them more.
Not too old at old. In my town kids ride Super 73s everywhere without helmets. They haul ass down the streets through traffic, often riding tandem.
Everyone thinks it won’t happen to them, until it happens and you can’t think.
That was great. I need to find someone to follow me around and have Weird Al style freakouts whenever I do something impressive...and I'm also going to need that person to have very low standards.
Skate 4 dev team has been putting out a bunch of videos of their current progress, looks promising. The end of their last trailer said "we're working on it" then the word "*still*" slammed down and made it "we're *still* working on it" 😂
It's gonna be on PC, also gone be a free service game, which honestly has me a little worried, but also means if done right, it's gonna last a lot longer.
They have had, and still so, have tons of closed beta testing that you can sign up to join to provide feedback. They said they've already tweaked things from feedback they've received, so that has me hopeful
Also the first woman to land a 900 was recent too! The first woman to do a 900 was 14 year old Arisa Trew just a few months ago. Crazy.
Women’s skateboarding is going nuts right now. And it’s all youngins. Basically the entire list Olympic skateboarding women’s contestants are like under 20 with like 80% of them being around 16 or younger. The future of women’s skateboarding is super bright right now.
Sorry for the little rant. Just a skate nerd and I’m excited about the future for the sport.
So, X Games was this weekend. Trew was going for the 9 in the vert best trick contest but didn't make it. The winner was a 9 year old with a 720. Youngest ever xgames competitor and she got gold. In the mens vert best trick, there was a 9 year old that got an alley oop 900, first try, and he didn't even get a medal because there was even better.
Time to Know ~ Be Waltz by Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts
From Cowboy Bepop OST - Future Blues
Its one of my favorite tunes, top 10,5? Maybe even 3.
It works well with a lot of videos. Such a good song.
Tbh one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen on a skateboard and I’ve been watching skateboarding pretty well my whole life. That’s fucked and should be impossible.
this is truly next level. it’s so cool to see the rapid progression of all sports over the last 20 years.
i remember the tricks being done in the 2006 winter olympics, and now there are 12 year olds doing way more difficult tricks. it’s really really cool to see and think about where sports will be in another 15 years
I wonder what would be the reactions if something like this was done during the Olympics. When there's a lot more viewers and people actually commenting stuff, the number of reactions like the background guy would be insane.
A "blunt" in skateboarding is a type of trick where the tail of the board is pressed onto a rail or coping, with the majority of the board having to pass over the rail/coping.
Basically, how he lands the backflip is called a blunt stall, or blunt for short.
I had no idea who David Odom was so I was expecting to see a baseball highlight. Still not disappointed.
Edit: Also, I just realized the title says blunt, not bunt. I are dumdum.
I remember saying the tricks in THPS were impossible to do irl and being correct. That state ment has been proven wrong so many times la5er in my life it's unreal
For those of you curious, the track is ["Time to Know ~ Be Waltz"](https://youtu.be/qsi7o5YmlS8?si=g2O4m3g4oVviKi14) by Yoko Kanno, scored for the Cowboy Bebop movie.
Absolute banger of a track, from a banger of a movie. Dunno why, but always gave me "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown" vibes.
I might be getting old for thinking this, but c’mon dude, wear a bucket.
[I LOVE helmets!](https://youtu.be/Ibx8N4mIPh8?si=j9UzYNXwZiZdBIpe)
[They've always been a good idea.](https://youtu.be/pD-f45TbvEw?feature=shared)
Will never not share and will never not upvote. That dude is a fucking hero
Who is he? Looks like a dude who just wiped out and said “I love helmets.” I mean, it’s good protection and all, I agree, but what makes him a hero?
If literally one kid sees a video of this cool ass mother fucker with long hair take a massive wipeout that would have otherwise probably killed him, jump up as though nothing happens, and then immediately says “I love helmets”, and then that one kid decides to wear a helmet, and then they take a fall but don’t suffer any major damage because of their helmet; then this man has actually saved a life. And that’s not an unreasonable thing to think about.
Most kids are influenced by what they think is cool, so right on
Ohh, gotcha. Hopefully a lot more skateboarders are saying that as well… if so, then they are all heros. Helmets do save lives, in many situations.
He was a pretty nice guy in my experience - he sat next to me in Freshman philosophy at UCF’s Honors College in 2009. Not sure if he stuck around, I don’t remember seeing him much after that. If I recall, he was also a pretty big car guy, so we chatted about his project RX7 (I think?) a lot. I think he had a little BMW 2002 for a while too. Our professor never wore shoes or socks. Exclusively barefoot. Weird guy. That’s all I remember.
man is the Patron Saint of Helmets in my book.
A backflip on concrete while trying to land balanced on the coping seems like a great time to wear a helmet lol
Imagine how uncool he would be tho
Would need a full face moto style helmet for that kind of thing.
Your jaw can be sewn shut while you drink through a straw for a few months. If you crack your skull, you could be looking at doing everything through a straw for the rest of your life, and that's if you're lucky.
I'd have thought park skaters would have embraced helmets by now. I get street skating never will, but park skaters seem to treat it more like a formal sport similar to vert skaters.
Unfortunately it's just like other protective gear in other industries, you get bullied and called a pussy for wearing it. Toxic masculinity against other dudes, fucking dipshits.
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Unfortunately you can't really be a pro skater without being "cool" in skate culture unless you're Andy Anderson
He had a helmet company for a while. IDK if it's still a thing, but the goal was to make helmets that look cool enough that skaters can wear them without committing a fashion faux pas and getting shamed by their bros.
Many have tried but ultimately going so hard that you injure yourself is something that skaters actually look up to. The most popular tricks of all time are the biggest and most dangerous. Things like Jeremy Wray over the tower gap, Sheckler's Costco gap, everyone hucking massive tricks down El Toro or Leon 25. You don't even have to land it really, Jamie Thomas leap of faith is one of the most well known tricks of all time. Anything you do to make your tricks less dangerous lessens their impact. Jaws' entire career is based on somehow still having working legs after all the crazy shit he's done.
I've always said this, you're really not being a "tough guy" or "alpha male" if you're living by the rules and definitions set out for you by someone else.
That and a lot of people just don't want to deal with the adjustment period of getting used to wearing something that you don't normally.
Sure, keep making (bad) excuses
I never said it was a good excuse. I've been a skateboarder, I know the people and have held similar thoughts at one point. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. Just adding more nuance to the "it's all toxic culture" comment. Edit: changed asking to adding.
Asking for nuance on the internet is like asking for a hot dog at McDonald's. It just ain't gonna happen.
I'll still insert it where it's deserved. The Internet needs more nuance.
I fully agree. Internet discourse is way too black and white in general, it's unfortunate.
I think they were talking about the hot dog.
Like strapping in the safety harness before riding a roller coaster? Or like checking your harness before sky diving? Or like wearing your seatbelt in the car? Or maybe like looking both ways before crossing the street? Being habitual about safety when you choose to participate in inherently dangerous activities is just part of the activity.
Been skating for 30+ years and not once have I seen anyone give anyone grief for wearing a helmet. Just my personal experience but generally speaking I think it’s widely accepted to be safe.
That definitely isn't true for snow sports. Snowboarding now it's odd seeing someone without one.
Gordon Ramsay just a two weeks ago made a video in which he showed off an injury from a gnarly biking accident, saying that without his helmet he‘d be dead. Wear your fucking helmets.
Please wear fucking helmets. One of my oldest, best friends from my hometown went missing a few years ago and I (across the country) spent several days calling hospitals, the few people I knew in town, posting on subreddits, etc. Just about when I’d given up, they found him in a hospital, in a coma. Of course it was after slipping with no helmet at a skate park and cracking his head open. He came to after a few days. I spoke to him on the phone and he was barely there. And there was doubt if he was going to fully recover. But he did over the course of several months. And then I see him posting videos doing tricks, alone in his garage on slick pavement with no helmet like nothing happened. I told him how I felt and his response was a sarcastic “what are you still upset about the coma?” I told him yeah. It was really upsetting. I thought he was dead and if he’s going to have no respect for his own life, then I don’t really want to be friends with him. It may sound melodramatic to some but I don’t want to be attached to someone who’s just careless with their life. I could add he’s 50 but I don’t know if it matters. Everyone’s head is fragile.
If he's 50, he's set. He's not going to change. You probably did the right thing given your own inability to handle the possibility of him doing something he's already done once.
Brain injuries are cool though /s
"Chicks dig ~~scars~~ motorized wheelchairs"
The NFL agrees
Been a really contentious point in skate culture for a long time now, but we are seeing more people wearing helmets especially with people like Andy Anderson rocking one.
_"Andy Anderson"_ sounds like a made-up American name... like _"Wes Smithson"._
More like John Johnson, no?
From a skateboarder's perspective. A big part of the sport is steeze, that's how effortless you make the trick look. Wearing a helmet makes it look like you're doing something difficult. That's why the pros mostly don't wear helmets. With that said, all amateurs should wear a helmet. Pros prob should too but I get why they don't.
This is probably one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Not calling you dumb, just the reason for not wearing a helmet. I literally can’t think of a dumber reason. I’ll update this if I do.
That’s only true about street skating. Pro vert skaters definitely wear helmets because they have a much higher chance of head injuries.
You're totally right. I was trying to keep it simple so I omitted that fact.
skiing and snowboarding have managed to integrate the helmet into their steeze package lol
I think the speed of adoption of helmets in snowboarding and skiing is almost entirely because snowsports helmets both keep your head warm and actually make it easier to wear goggles. There are multiple comfort related upsides to wearing one which really makes people want to wear them more.
Neurosurgeons hate this one simple trick
Not old. Just full of common sense.
That's what that dude in the background was freaking out about "dude, WTF....no helmet?"
Definitely old
I just shattered my pelvis watching this.
Gotta lead by example if he wants to inspire kids....
Not too old at old. In my town kids ride Super 73s everywhere without helmets. They haul ass down the streets through traffic, often riding tandem. Everyone thinks it won’t happen to them, until it happens and you can’t think.
Dude in the background is right, HOLY SHIT
I was happy to see that guy saw it, especially after the others were just walking around like nothing happened lol
That was great. I need to find someone to follow me around and have Weird Al style freakouts whenever I do something impressive...and I'm also going to need that person to have very low standards.
I want to live my life with 10% of that joy
I thought this was only possible in Skate 3. Damn.
i don’t even think you can do this in skate 3😂😂
You can if you have 3 hands
Skate 4 dev team has been putting out a bunch of videos of their current progress, looks promising. The end of their last trailer said "we're working on it" then the word "*still*" slammed down and made it "we're *still* working on it" 😂
If they make a pc port then I will get it....3-4 months after it releases so it gets fixed for the most part lol
I’m pretty sure it’s confirmed for PC
It's gonna be on PC, also gone be a free service game, which honestly has me a little worried, but also means if done right, it's gonna last a lot longer. They have had, and still so, have tons of closed beta testing that you can sign up to join to provide feedback. They said they've already tweaked things from feedback they've received, so that has me hopeful
skateboarding never stops evolving, it's wild
Nothing does
What about the DoDo
DoDon’t remind me 😔
And the kids are getting better and better too! There's a like 8 year old who can do a 900
Also the first woman to land a 900 was recent too! The first woman to do a 900 was 14 year old Arisa Trew just a few months ago. Crazy. Women’s skateboarding is going nuts right now. And it’s all youngins. Basically the entire list Olympic skateboarding women’s contestants are like under 20 with like 80% of them being around 16 or younger. The future of women’s skateboarding is super bright right now. Sorry for the little rant. Just a skate nerd and I’m excited about the future for the sport.
So, X Games was this weekend. Trew was going for the 9 in the vert best trick contest but didn't make it. The winner was a 9 year old with a 720. Youngest ever xgames competitor and she got gold. In the mens vert best trick, there was a 9 year old that got an alley oop 900, first try, and he didn't even get a medal because there was even better.
Idk if it’s the stoner in me, but I thought he’d do a sick flip and grab a blunt to smoke after
Videos that end too soon 😔
No way.... This is absolutely INSANE. Congratulations to this fella. This is unfockingfassbarely the trick of the year, maybe the next half decade.
yeah this was an NBD on another dimension. might actually be a milestone in skateboarding since it's inception
I genuinely don't think this will win trick of the year. Street spots typically win
Rightfully so
Agreed. This is cool but it's no T-Funk china banks ollie
There it was indeed. nice one
Fucking unreal dude
Mind = Blown
Minds were going to be blown as soon as he attempted the trick one way or the other.
Duuuude...... effff youuuuu! That's fucking sick, major props dude
Pff it's clearly filmed in reverse
That would be even more impressive!
Sick
Dude is a freak of nature 😂😂🕺
Straight proper
Tony Hawk pro skater tricks are so unreal. Damn, this fella made it to the next level of realisation.
I can almost stay standing on a skateboard. How far away am I from attempting this?
What are you waiting for? JUST DO IT! don't let your dreams be dreams. DO IT! JUST DO IT!
*breaks neck*
As a proud member of r/neverbrokeabone about to turn 40 I think I have to bow out. Can't risk my streak
That was crazy
This music is so familiar. Anybody have an ID? My gut feeling is telling me it's from Neon Genesis Evangelion but I can't find the track.
Time to Know ~ Be Waltz by Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts From Cowboy Bepop OST - Future Blues Its one of my favorite tunes, top 10,5? Maybe even 3. It works well with a lot of videos. Such a good song.
Thank you! Can't believe I didn't recognize it, Kanno and the Seatbelts have so many bangers.
What in the skate 3 did I just witness
I’m 100% sure I can do this without any issue.
Judging by the fact he’s not wearing a helmet he couldn’t have failed too many times without getting brain damage.
I saw Owen Wilson pull this one off in 2009.
Yeah Right!
Tbh one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen on a skateboard and I’ve been watching skateboarding pretty well my whole life. That’s fucked and should be impossible.
How many attempts?
Well, he's doing a flip while on a ramp and not wearing a helmet, and he's still conscious, so not too many.
I look forward to watching people try and pull this off on SLS
Put him in the Olympics
So skate 3 was realistic?
I love the music
Wow have you seen the new skate4 leak vid
Dayyuuummm!!
this is truly next level. it’s so cool to see the rapid progression of all sports over the last 20 years. i remember the tricks being done in the 2006 winter olympics, and now there are 12 year olds doing way more difficult tricks. it’s really really cool to see and think about where sports will be in another 15 years
Clearly AI Absolutely Insane
hockey players are much tougher—and they wear helmets.
There it is
Totally wild that helmets have become completely normalized in skiing and snowboarding but not here... On concrete.
Did the young man who lost his mind ever find it again.?
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I wonder what would be the reactions if something like this was done during the Olympics. When there's a lot more viewers and people actually commenting stuff, the number of reactions like the background guy would be insane.
Where's the blunt?
A "blunt" in skateboarding is a type of trick where the tail of the board is pressed onto a rail or coping, with the majority of the board having to pass over the rail/coping. Basically, how he lands the backflip is called a blunt stall, or blunt for short.
He just missed the X-games this weekend. This could have won him a medal in best trick.
I was pleasantly surprised that slo-mo didn't kick in at the last second and make this video 45 seconds long.
I was under the impression that he was just gonna light up mid flip 😭
how many points would this be in Tony Hawk?
The upside down hand change was a nice touch
This is some THPS shit. Wow
I can't recall many skate vids that made my jaw literally drop. wow
I thought I read the title wrong and then watched the video, holy shit that is impressive!!
Holy shit🫡
Imagine just skating at the local park and you see this.... the other dude yelling what the fuck would be me fully restrained
Where's the blunt?
that's cool, but what's with the music?
Unexpected Cowboy Bebop soundtrack cameo.
shout out to camera man with the tight footage and perfect commentary
I can easily do that. In 20 years of practice.
I had no idea who David Odom was so I was expecting to see a baseball highlight. Still not disappointed. Edit: Also, I just realized the title says blunt, not bunt. I are dumdum.
I did this in Tony Hawks Pro Skater once.
I want to hire the guy in the background that flips out to follow me around and randomly do his freakout a few times a day.
That's a sure-fire way to get skull soup one day
New trick called: The Sickflip
Amazing but would be super scared of crunching a few fingers off minus the other risk factors
Sick.
i must be getting old, seeing THPS tricks in real life???
yeah, I’m quitting.
This is some Tony hawk pro skater shit
I remember saying the tricks in THPS were impossible to do irl and being correct. That state ment has been proven wrong so many times la5er in my life it's unreal
I woulda done a move I prefer to call “cranial blunt force trauma”
I woulda done a move I prefer to call “cranial blunt force trauma”
What in the fuck
Yooo thats the waynesville skatepark!
I heard the tony hawk special move sound effect in my head 😮😮😮
There it is!
Just like in the flash video games
Bet he can't do backflip to blunt slide
Didn’t see him smoke a blunt
i thought this was from the baseball sub and got very confused for a second.
Wouldn’t that be a wildcat or equivalent? Not that it would make it any less impressive.
I wouldn’t even try that in a bouncy house without a helmet
I know enough to know now a blunt is the thing he did at the end. But I came looking for weed.
They just keep upping the ante. Imagine what these maniacs will be doing 20 years from now.
Is that so far ahead of everything else, like Tony‘s 900 back in the day?
Brought back some good skate 3 memories
***THERE IT IS***
The guy on the board is pretty rad, but his hype man is next level.
Saw this earlier and assumed it was fake. This is legit? Holy hell.
That's fucking nuts.
For those of you curious, the track is ["Time to Know ~ Be Waltz"](https://youtu.be/qsi7o5YmlS8?si=g2O4m3g4oVviKi14) by Yoko Kanno, scored for the Cowboy Bebop movie. Absolute banger of a track, from a banger of a movie. Dunno why, but always gave me "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown" vibes.
Hype man losing his mind. I can almost hear him screaming “Lisan al Gaib”.
Thats some tony hawk pro skater shit
yeh sorry but the more that i watch, the more fucking batshit crazy it gets awesome job to that guy
Yo, is this Waynesville NC?
Not the 'blunt' I was expecting but ok.
That guy is how us suppose to react
What In the skate 3
You know what, felt. And the only way to react to this imo
Dude in the background had my reaction
Napoleon Dynomite plays casually in the background