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Is It Called A Nose Grind Or A Frontside Overcrook?!

The Nine Club2 skaters recommend it · 2 mentions in 2024
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37-second Nine Club clip with Chris Roberts, Roger Bagley and Kelly Hart on whether a trick counts as a nose grind or a frontside overcrook. Cut from a full podcast episode.

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Linked in threads where skaters argue over trick names and the overcrook debate, as a quick take from a popular skate podcast.

“… I just find the supposed FS nosegrind vs overcrook debate amusing …”

u/smithoski · Full comment

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u/smithoski2024 · 1 points

That’s my philosophy on trick names, too. I just find the supposed FS nosegrind vs overcrook debate amusing, and in my opinion scenarios that look like this one where you go *over* a two sided grindable obstacle like this (as opposed to a single round rail) to crooked grind on the far side of the obstacle, angled away from the direction you came from, that it is very hard to call it a “nose grind” because not only are you crooked, you went over, frontside. When you pop over back to the side you came from it solidifies the “over” part in a funny way. The scenario is very rare, which is why I think it’s funny. It’s all semantics and is one of the most asinine things about skateboarding, so perfect for it to fester on the internet! I’m kinda trolling here, so I hope I didn’t waste too much of your mental energy. Here’s an old example of the stupid debate I’m referencing: [LINK] Nine club ramble on it: [VIDEO] These examples focus on the crooked angle vs straight balanced nosegrind on something like a flat rail, but I think it was a Dan Corrigan video where someone did something similar to you here and he pointed out the “over” part of it where a nosegrind on the same obstacle would ob…

u/AdSpiritual32052024 · 1 points

Trick names can just be so stupid frustrating. [LINK] and [VIDEO]

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