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How-To Skateboarding: Can Opener with John Rattray

RIDE Channel5 skaters recommend it · 5 mentions, 2014 to 2020
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212K views · 14 years ago · Tutorial · Intermediate

RIDE Channel Trick-a-Day tutorial where John Rattray breaks down the can opener, a freestyle-era trick. Runs under three minutes with step-by-step instruction.

Why skaters like it

Linked as the reference whenever someone asks what a can opener is or how to learn one, including as a stepping stone toward impossibles.

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“If you have access to a good bank spot, learn can openers. It's a goofy oldschool trick but it helped me learn to impossible on flatground.”

u/WandererMelmoth

What skaters said on Reddit

u/rcaz2014 · 18 points

Frontside 180 can opener [VIDEO].

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u/LifeandTimesofAbed2020 · 4 points

[VIDEO] You must be right! Damn he does it so well here...Not a rick-roll...probably :)

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u/thoughtzero2015 · 3 points

He's combining some movements from several old freestyle tricks but he's not really *doing* the tricks since he's standing on the ground on his other foot the whole time. This is much more of a goof around than a guy doing real tricks. If you did each trick for real you'd have a 50/50 stand [VIDEO], then a can opener [VIDEO] to rail, and a rail flip [VIDEO] out.

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u/WandererMelmoth2015 · 2 points

If you have access to a good bank spot, learn can openers [VIDEO]. I say "bank" and not "quarterpipe" because it can be tricky to drop in fakie. It's a goofy oldschool trick but it helped me learn to impossible on flatground.

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u/robiannelli2014 · 1 points

I just watched the trick-a-day how to on this trick. Trick-A-Day [VIDEO]

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