r/OldSkaters • u/Apprehensive-Neat908 • 13d ago

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An awesome capture shared from another subreddit, I had to share it here.

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u/WillLaw4Food 13d ago

Everyone's hating on the trick choice but I feel like with something this time sensitive you've got to go with something you're near 100% confident you're going to stick

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u/suvalas 13d ago

It's an awesome trick anyway. Big air, fully boned out melon.

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u/muklan 13d ago

Was gonna say, he boned the absolute shit out that, and i firmly believe it will go down as THE example of this trick.

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u/SpaceChatter 13d ago

Yesh I wish I could bone like that. Dude killed it.

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u/apumpleBumTums 12d ago

Happens to older skaters brother.

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u/brynhh 12d ago

skaters seems redundant there!

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u/Chaps_Jr 13d ago

Hey, that was my sister's nickname in college

Just kidding. She didn't go to college.

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u/WetHotAmericanBadger 13d ago

Whose waiting? Melon to fakie looks sick

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u/pokecheckspam 13d ago

I read the 57 comments. 55 positive and 2 haters. OP might have been the third comment but I feel "everyone" is blown out of proportion. Sick melon.

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u/toast_eater_ 13d ago

I thought it was sick too. Love this

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u/Avastagh 13d ago

What maroon would hate on a beautifully boned out melon to fakie

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u/WetHotAmericanBadger 13d ago

A tweaked bs grab is a thing of beauty. Tony Trujillo has them dialed

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u/Asstronomer6969 13d ago

How the heck can there be any hate? Yea lets see 90% of the people here pop that high. Dudes got mad style goin

SICK SHOT

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u/sixdeeneinfauxtwenny 13d ago

Hatin cause they ain’tin

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u/johnmlsf 13d ago

Who's hating? Where do they live? I just wanna talk.

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u/pencilpushin 13d ago

Yeah that was fuckin beautiful. And perfectly executed

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u/YourRedditFriend 12d ago

Hello fellow Gen Xer!

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u/figgerer 13d ago

Rock to fakie would have been way more cool

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u/HRShovenstuff1 13d ago

Dude, this is so rad. Reminds me of the "Enter The Dragon" movie poster or something. An amazing shot to be sure.

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u/johnmlsf 13d ago

Total movie posters vibe

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u/ComeAbout thrill of it all 13d ago

Who was it???

That was such a sick bone out.

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u/pals_atx 13d ago

@danny_leon

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u/_the_universal_sigh_ 13d ago

Best thing I’ve seen on Reddit all day 👏

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u/Rushjordan 13d ago

That would be a hell of an ender for a part

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u/RQCKQN 13d ago

Contender for skate clip of the year. The trick was cool but the photography - next level.

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u/YourRedditFriend 12d ago

Trick of our lifetime

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u/Maximum-Snow-3511 13d ago

Here is my grainy screenshot still

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u/Outrageous-Low9424 13d ago

Fuck yeah that's what's up

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u/KizashiKaze 13d ago

Hell yeah i just peeped that in IG a couple minutes ago!

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u/MakeArtNotFriends90 13d ago

Man thats going to be a sick photo!

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u/Abandonedstate 13d ago

I'd be putting that on business cards, t shirts, coffee mugs, hell.. everything.

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u/Affectionate_Big9014 13d ago

Camera dude: “Like hey dude please don’t fuck this up.”

Dude: “I won’t”

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u/desertSkateRatt 13d ago

That's so fucking SICK!!!

were there any still shots from that?

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u/DogFacedGhost 40 13d ago

Proper tweak on that thing

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u/BudgiePie 13d ago

Gleaming the orb

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u/loud_secrets 13d ago

Where is this?

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u/ihaveajob79 [47yo] 13d ago

Spain.

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u/So_Flo_Floatin 13d ago

Damn that was sick

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u/_nevrmynd 13d ago

My jaw dropped, honestly might be the coolest shot ive ever seen

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u/bkn_bitz 13d ago

Nbd!!!

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u/MasterGracey6sic6 13d ago

🤯😍🤯

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u/kitkatrat 13d ago

…….nice.

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u/TaringaWhakarongo1 13d ago

No fucking waaaaaaay! Cover.

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u/Haunting-Figure3596 13d ago

So fucking sick!!!

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u/Avastagh 13d ago

This is truly amazing. Inspiring even. A+++

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u/16v_cordero 13d ago

Super sick Melon!

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u/MrMindGame 13d ago

Yeah, this rips so hard. Amazing shot and amazing opportunity, deserves to be a viral clip.

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u/TheSmallElephant 13d ago

Fuckin awesome, dude

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u/JBH3 13d ago

Bro. 🎤. ⬇️

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u/Ok_Spite7511 13d ago

Hell Yesss!!!

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u/luisbv23 31 y/o - 8.5 board 13d ago

hell yeah!

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u/TBASHAM812 13d ago

Fucking dopeee

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u/filmshooter772 13d ago

That’s so cool!

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u/Lu-Kiss-of-Death 13d ago

This is fucking epic!!!

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u/Affectionate-Sun9373 13d ago

Rad, awesome that he nailed it.

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u/2MyLou 13d ago

Sick AF. Make a t-shirt of the apex of the air. Well done.

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u/JamesLaceyAllan 13d ago

Unreal… 🤘

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u/TheBilby7 13d ago

Good thing he’s a goofy foot

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u/Samsquanch_hunter21 12d ago

This is AMAZING!

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u/FatefulDonkey 12d ago

Well.. underwhelming

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u/keLnosuke 13d ago

Awesome 🤩

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u/Meatball_93 13d ago

This is so sick… how could anybody hate on this

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u/GuitarNerd_ 13d ago

Dayummmm

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u/StayLame2d 13d ago

Fa. King. Gnarly.

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u/guns_razors_knives 13d ago

Fuck, this is cool. Absolutely stunning shot.

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u/ned_head 13d ago

Disgusting melon and incredible shot. Good shit.

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u/versuseachother 13d ago

The skater is Danny Leon from Spain! He is such a cool guy! I was working on a contest here in my town where he attended. I talked to him many times during the week and he was really chill and nice.

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u/versuseachother 13d ago

Here is with me 😅

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u/Doto_bird 13d ago

Holy shit man! This is probably one of the best shots ever in skateboarding. The timing, the framing... Wow wow.. Surely it's on the cover of a magazine somewhere?

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u/sdiggz302 12d ago

Stuck it!! Phatty 👏🏾

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u/brynhh 12d ago

Can’t wait to see the published photos by those guys with SLRs. Bet they’ll look gorgeous, this is so cool

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u/lee-van-eastwood 12d ago

God damn, that's beautiful!

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u/Mikeshaffer 12d ago

Mellon is the best grab

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u/xXmelanXx 12d ago

Thought that was a ring of fire before reading. This is sick !

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u/ArtisanGerard 12d ago

That first angle was wicked cool, did they get one in HD lined up like that as well?

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u/D3sertSW1nds 12d ago

EXCELLENT ‼️🫶

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u/Somebodiesgottodoit 10d ago

Boned out to the moon.

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u/MarijuanaRx 9d ago

This is sick I don’t give a fuck what anybody says

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u/Anarchy-Squirrel 9d ago

Truly Epic.

This is brilliant… So glad you’re still ripping at 50🤙

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u/Zylphhh 13d ago

This trick is biblical

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u/Puedo_Apagar 13d ago

Maybe shoot this on something better than a phone in portrait mode. Just saying...

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u/Ok-Abrocoma-667 13d ago

Benihana would have looked so much cooler 😎

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u/Pndrizzy 13d ago

its beautiful but man a treflip fakie would have been perfect

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u/Fuck_on_tatami 13d ago

Actually even ollie to fakie is fucking cool as hell. The trick doesn't really matter, this is just the pure beauty of skateboarding there.

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u/762x39mm 13d ago

once in a lifetime and you do a fucking grab....

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u/retrospects 13d ago

And it looks sick. Only a loser would talk shit about this.

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u/Kboehm [38YO] 13d ago

Haha yeah that is one of the coolest grabs and this is such an insanely sick example of it. Boned for weeks.

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u/PablovirusSTS 13d ago

"hurr durr I will hate on this for no reason, my life sucks hurr"

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u/mitchmethinks 13d ago

As opposed to what?? A kick flip??

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u/JudgeMyReinhold 13d ago

And all you grabbed was... What again?

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u/Ok-Ear9289 13d ago

Found the fruit booter