First of all, you realize that you posted nearly the same reply twice in a row? Are you copy&pasting replies now?
Second, sincerely, fuck you Bob. You don't get to put words in my mouth. You're a white american and you have to own your shitty, racist past.
It's not about reperations or blame, it's about your unwillingness to own your countries' racist, slave-owning, segregationist past.
The ancestors of white americans invaded, stole, raped, murdered, kidnapped and enslaved brown people to get where they are today. Your ancestors did.
If you refuse to own this, you make yourself an accomplice. You help the perpetrators to get away with it.
I own my countries past. I'll tell you all I know. It may be too little, it may be not good enough but at least I'll try. Go visit Buchenwald. I did it twice and I must say, the first time I was too stupid to understand what it meant. I'm ashamed of that.
I stood in the doorstep of a tiny little room where people would enter, believing they were there to have their height measured. They didn't know there was tiny opening in the wall where they stood. They didn't know that on the other side of the wall there's a man with a pistol waiting to shoot them in the neck. They burned the bodies in a large oven.
I want you to know this. I want everybody to know this.
I'm not at fault. I wasn't around. I'll be an accomplice if I wouldn't tell you about it. I know about a crime and I will tell you all I know about it. That's why I'm not guilty.

You, on the other hand, stand in a puddle of blood (haha, you're a clown called Puddles) and deny anything's wrong.
Maybe you didn't own slaves. Maybe you never lynched a black man. Maybe you're not a cop who shot a black person for no reason. Maybe it's not your fault.
But you help them to get away with this by telling me there's no crime.

That's the difference between us two, you don't mind the blood on your hands while typing your manifestos on the internet. I do. I'll tell you all about it.

Some of the weightlifting and balance ones are amazing... I mean they are all very good in their own way, but some of them... like the lady at 1:25... and the lady with the ball in the thumbnail... one doing a one handed hand stand on a block on a pole.... and the lady who does a wall climb with a weight...
Beat me by 31 minutes so *promote instead.

eek. climbing up a tall structure is understandable but holding on with one hand or doing hand jump hand stands on a beam. No one is ever going to say 'he died doing what he loved'

If you like Gou Miyagi's style, check out Kilian Martin!

http://videosift.com/video/Kilian-Martin-Altered-Route-Freestyle-skateboarding

Pogos, random darksiding, multiple board use, hand stands, etc. Good to see this in the Top 15 but I would kill to see Kilian AND Miyagi there together.

And if you want more skateboard originality check out:

* Omar Salazar
* Willy Santos
* Sergio Yuppie
* Rodney Mullen (Of course!)
* And bonus half pipe creativity from Daewon Song & Chris Haslam

Also, JFYI, we may look weak but don't f with us (we're like zerg): http://videosift.com/video/Guy-with-Gun-Confronts-Skateboarder-Street-Justice-Ensues

I was promised a hand stand and you did not disappoint. Upvote.

Holy crap people are stupid. Go watch the video... It defies common sense and gravity.

You can tell it is being lifted in the air because of the way the feet are. If it was a balancing issue, your feet would be on the ground one second, then in the air. In every case here, the dog brings his feet forward everytime they pull up on the string around his stomach.


Want to argue, well go look at the video.. If the spine was a rigid board pivoting around front feet, that isn't the case here, as the head and front feet stay perfectly still. Well ok, you say, he is just doing a front hand stand, well think about doing one yourself, you have to bend your legs and kind of spring into the air. This isn't happening in the video, someone is simply lifting the dog.

>> ^RhesusMonk:

>> ^fjules:
It's really not that complicated. Alright, the triple back was impressive, but again - many Olympic gymnasts can perform this. The one arm hand stand was nice but again - I've seen this trick being performed by other top world gymnasts. So yeah, all in all - good, but not THAT GOOD!
Dude, you reference world-class athletes and OLYMPIANS for Christ's sake--as in a handful of people in 6 billion. Who exactly is it that could do this better? Pilobolus? Your Chinese gymnasts? One the girls in this troupe is TWELVE. When Branford Marsalis plays the fucking saxophone, you don't stand up and walk out cuz "He's no Charlie Parker." Ridiculous.


He didn't walk out on Branford Marsalis. He said that it was good. Chill out.

>> ^fjules:

It's really not that complicated. Alright, the triple back was impressive, but again - many Olympic gymnasts can perform this. The one arm hand stand was nice but again - I've seen this trick being performed by other top world gymnasts. So yeah, all in all - good, but not THAT GOOD!

Dude, you reference world-class athletes and OLYMPIANS for Christ's sake--as in a handful of people in 6 billion. Who exactly is it that could do this better? Pilobolus? Your Chinese gymnasts? One the girls in this troupe is TWELVE. When Branford Marsalis plays the fucking saxophone, you don't stand up and walk out cuz "He's no Charlie Parker." Ridiculous.

If you think this is out-of-this-world-unbelievable then you haven't seen professional Circus acrobats and mostly Chinese acrobats. Seriously, I do gymnastics myself and although this was a great performance, I've seen much better ones done by professional circus artists and Chinese acrobats. Let's analyze a bit - human jump rope is an old trick that is being used a lot by breakdance, freestyle dance crews. It's really not that complicated. Alright, the triple back was impressive, but again - many Olympic gymnasts can perform this. The one arm hand stand was nice but again - I've seen this trick being performed by other top world gymnasts. So yeah, all in all - good, but not THAT GOOD!

Take a look at this, for example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AXWLwf4K_s

Whats with all the hate? HES DOING A HAND STAND USING JUST HIS FINGERS! appreciate it for what it is instead of bashing things that arent related or trolling.

"It's easier to do a hand stand while taking a shit."

One thing pretty impressive is the size of this guy with respect to the physics of his Kung Fu combinations-He aint no low-center-of-grav chinaman!

That viddy link that someone posted here with the monk doing the one-fingered hand stand??? I have that entire viddy-It is the first time they let cameras into the northern Shaolin monastery, with a view to showing the world what goes on in there-(1969-70) Much nore amazing feats than the old monk.

I like his flamenco footwork incorporations.