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My War: Ryan Decenzo

ThrasherMagazine9 skaters recommend it · 9 mentions, 2017 to 2025
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4.5M views · 9 years ago · Full part

Thrasher's 2017 Firing Line-style feature on Ryan Decenzo's kickflip over a 9 flat 9 double set in San Francisco. Covers his attempts at a set that had gone unrolled for years apart from a 1999 Diego Bucchieri ollie.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked whenever a huge kickflip comes up. Skaters use it as the benchmark for big stair kickflips, especially next to new double set clips.

“Ryan's [VIDEO] was 9 flat 9 so 18 stairs with a flat, this is 20 extended length stairs. Hard to tell which is bigger both big as fuck and landed so clean”

u/manymensky

What skaters said on Reddit

u/scormegatron2025 · 47 points

Decenzo [VIDEO] doesn't make your list...?

u/grandmasneighbor2017 · 30 points

same school where ryan decenzo kickflipped 9x9 double... [VIDEO]

u/manymensky2017 · 29 points

Ryan’s [VIDEO] was 9 flat 9 so 18 stairs with a flat, this is 20 extended length stairs. Hard to tell which is bigger both big as fuck and landed so clean

u/mattdebrown2025 · 20 points

Decenzo's 9 flat 9 kickflip has still gotta rank pretty high I would assume. Here's his 'my war' from 8 years ago. (6 minutes) [VIDEO] I was reminded of it because in the soty nom vid I just saw, a front 180 on the same (or adjacent) set was included.

u/ptusa2017 · 3 points

This is the same guy who did a kickflip over a HUGE double set as well [VIDEO].

u/Kjarahz2017 · 2 points

I completely agree. I think proper edits have been somewhat devalued due to social media. We still get great content from Thrasher and other YouTube channels but I think the time that it takes to create some of that media is not always understood and probably leads to less than top notch edits. Just recently Thrasher released this My War [VIDEO] and it was considerably better than past iterations. It was a massive le

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