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How Tony Hawk Ruined Hardflips

Rad Rat Video3 skaters recommend it · 3 mentions, 2016 to 2020
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467K views · 10 years ago · Other

Rad Rat Video looks at how Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and other 1990s and 2000s skate games got hardflips wrong, and why new skaters mix up hardflips with frontside flips. Clips from THPS, X-Games Skateboarding and more.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked when someone asks what a hardflip really is or why the trick name gets mixed up with frontside flips and body varials.

“Rad Rat did a whole video on hardflips and why people mix them up, pretty interesting watch”

u/philsubby

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u/philsubby2020 · 5 points

Rad Rat did a whole video on hardflips and why people mix them up, pretty interesting watch [VIDEO]

u/morpheuslovesyou2020 · 1 points

what you said doesn't make any sense. a hard flip is just a frontside pop shove it with a kickflip. aka the exact same motion as a frontside flip, without the body varial. he's doing this trick fakie, with a body varial (in the same direction his board rotates), so it's a fakie half-cab flip. I don't mean to sound like a dick, but you are flat out wrong dude. I've been skating for 20 years, I know what I'm talking ab

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