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Dork Trick Tips #10: The Swoon Dog

SOTI — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:06:55 +0000

10 Dork Trick Tips and we’ve barely scratched the surface of the ridiculousness that is skateboarding. Here’s Josh Cowan with the Swoon Dog, probably my favourite name for a trick ever. SWOOOOON DOOOOOGGGGG.

Dork Trick Tips #9: Ollie North to the Extreme aka the Byrone Olson

SOTI — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:54:31 +0000

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Byron Ready is in Spain, but the day before he took off we were able to weasel a dork trick tip out of him. It’s called the Ollie North to the Extreme, also known as the Byrone Olson. Damien Peters came up with the ‘other’ name. If you see Damien you should probably thank him in person for coming up with the dopest DTT names ever. Remember Tyrone Olson? Count the lipslides in this part from 1995 if you got nothing better to do.

Dork Trick Tips #8: NHBV’s aka the Shitty Whippy

SOTI — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:14:53 +0000

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FINALLY! It took a while, but I finally caught up with the one and only Damien Peters. I can’t believe this is the first time I’ve had a clip of him on the site…hopefully there will be plenty more in the future. Damien shares the secret of the NHBV aka Nollie Heelflip Body Varial, which from now on will be called the Shitty Whippy. Tell your friends.

Dork Trick Tips #7: Finger Flips

SOTI — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:51:22 +0000

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Thanks to photographer Lyn Yuan for filming and promising she would bail me out if I got thrown into a Beijing prison for defiling the ancient Forbidden City.

I do know one guy who actually makes the finger flip look good by doing them in huge bowls, the Action Ape himself Mr. Kurt Nischel. First thing on the list when I go back to Australia is to document this gnar-ness. Kurt also illustrates and designs graphics for skateboards, snowboards, and all kinds of other goods. Check out his work here.

Dork Trick Tips #6: Airwalks. Big up yo self Tony Hawk!

SOTI — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:25:34 +0000

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So there seems to be a lot of talk about what is and what isn’t a dork trick nowadays…. I guarantee you 10 years ago if you did an airwalk, you would get beat down by thugs wearing Osiris D3′s. Now, it seems they’re in style again and I have to agree that it’s a pretty gnarly trick, especially when dudes like Lizard King do them down Wallenberg in San Francisco. So maybe it’s a dork trick, maybe it isn’t, either way my friend from China will show you how to do them down the 3 set at Love Park in Shanghai.

Is there a dork trick you want to learn that you haven’t seen yet? Send me an email.

Also, an interview with Ademar Lucas is ready to go, I just have to see if I have enough skills to translate it from portuguese. Meu deus de ceu.

Dork Trick Tips #5: The Feeble Heel

SOTI — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:42:19 +0000

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Richard Griesbaum aka Dr. Chim Richalds is an expert on many things including nose hair extractions, the online coral scene, but most of all he’s an expert on feeble grind heelflip outs.

Check back soon, I’ve got an interview with one of the skaters from the classic video Mouse on the way…

Dork Trick Tips: Boneless Christ Air Fingerflips

SOTI — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:05:00 +0000

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Dork Trick Tips #3: Shuv Late Flips

SOTI — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:24:52 +0000

It’s a double dose for this weeks DTT and is hosted by Nike SB China’s TM the honourable Johnny Tang and fellow Nike team mate, Boss. Johnny’s explanation for the backside shuvit lateflip goes quite a bit more in depth than Boss’ frontside shuvit lateflip, but both will no doubt enlighten you to the ways of this epic shuvit variation. Enjoy.

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Check back soon for an interview with Johnny Tang, and also coming soon is an interview with one of the original riders for Chocolate Skateboards. I don’t want to give too much away but it’s not Shamil, Gabriel or Daniel…keep guessin’ fool!

Dork Trick Tips #2: Pressure Flips

SOTI — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:49:08 +0000

Damn son! I’ve had 7 Dork Trick Tips just sitting around so it’s time to start unleashing them on the world. Be careful doing pressure flips in public, you may be shunned for life by your friends and family.

Bigup to Dj Sal for filming. DORK-TRICK-TIPS-2-PRESSURE-FLIPS

Why my trucks are so squeaky?

Dork Trick Tips #1: The Ass Focus

SOTI — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:44:30 +0000

The first in a long series of useless tricks that impress no one. You will especially not get any chicks if you do these radical manouvers in public. Big up to Jeff Lamers for his first ass focus attempt. He didn’t get any spinal damage.

Watch the good quality clip here: DORK TRICK TIPS #1

Here’s a youtube one if your internet is broke ass or you’re racialist against MP4′s.