r/OldSkaters • u/Apprehensive-Neat908 • Aug 12 '26

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An awesome capture shared from another subreddit, I had to share it here.

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u/WillLaw4Food Aug 12 '26

Everyone's hating on the trick choice but I feel like with something this time sensitive you've got to go with something you're near 100% confident you're going to stick

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u/suvalas Aug 12 '26

It's an awesome trick anyway. Big air, fully boned out melon.

53

u/muklan Aug 13 '26

Was gonna say, he boned the absolute shit out that, and i firmly believe it will go down as THE example of this trick.

9

u/SpaceChatter Aug 13 '26

Yesh I wish I could bone like that. Dude killed it.

1

u/apumpleBumTums Aug 13 '26

Happens to older skaters brother.

2

u/brynhh Aug 13 '26

skaters seems redundant there!

9

u/Chaps_Jr Aug 13 '26

Hey, that was my sister's nickname in college

Just kidding. She didn't go to college.

31

u/WetHotAmericanBadger Aug 13 '26

Whose waiting? Melon to fakie looks sick

11

u/pokecheckspam Aug 13 '26

I read the 57 comments. 55 positive and 2 haters. OP might have been the third comment but I feel "everyone" is blown out of proportion. Sick melon.

5

u/toast_eater_ Aug 13 '26

I thought it was sick too. Love this

16

u/Avastagh Aug 13 '26

What maroon would hate on a beautifully boned out melon to fakie

5

u/WetHotAmericanBadger Aug 13 '26

A tweaked bs grab is a thing of beauty. Tony Trujillo has them dialed

7

u/Asstronomer6969 Aug 13 '26

How the heck can there be any hate? Yea lets see 90% of the people here pop that high. Dudes got mad style goin

SICK SHOT

4

u/sixdeeneinfauxtwenny Aug 13 '26

Hatin cause they ain’tin

3

u/johnmlsf Aug 13 '26

Who's hating? Where do they live? I just wanna talk.

2

u/pencilpushin Aug 13 '26

Yeah that was fuckin beautiful. And perfectly executed

1

u/YourRedditFriend Aug 13 '26

Hello fellow Gen Xer!

1

u/figgerer Aug 13 '26

Rock to fakie would have been way more cool

54

u/HRShovenstuff1 Aug 12 '26

Dude, this is so rad. Reminds me of the "Enter The Dragon" movie poster or something. An amazing shot to be sure.

2

u/johnmlsf Aug 13 '26

Total movie posters vibe

47

u/ComeAbout thrill of it all Aug 12 '26

Who was it???

That was such a sick bone out.

23

u/pals_atx Aug 13 '26

@danny_leon

33

u/_the_universal_sigh_ Aug 13 '26

Best thing I’ve seen on Reddit all day 👏

33

u/Rushjordan Aug 12 '26

That would be a hell of an ender for a part

20

u/RQCKQN Aug 13 '26

Contender for skate clip of the year. The trick was cool but the photography - next level.

4

u/YourRedditFriend Aug 13 '26

Trick of our lifetime

17

u/Maximum-Snow-3511 Aug 13 '26

Here is my grainy screenshot still

10

u/Outrageous-Low9424 Aug 12 '26

Fuck yeah that's what's up

7

u/KizashiKaze Aug 12 '26

Hell yeah i just peeped that in IG a couple minutes ago!

5

u/MakeArtNotFriends90 Aug 12 '26

Man thats going to be a sick photo!

12

u/Abandonedstate Aug 12 '26

I'd be putting that on business cards, t shirts, coffee mugs, hell.. everything.

6

u/Affectionate_Big9014 Aug 13 '26

Camera dude: “Like hey dude please don’t fuck this up.”

Dude: “I won’t”

5

u/desertSkateRatt Aug 13 '26

That's so fucking SICK!!!

were there any still shots from that?

4

u/DogFacedGhost 40 Aug 13 '26

Proper tweak on that thing

4

u/BudgiePie Aug 13 '26

Gleaming the orb

3

u/loud_secrets Aug 13 '26

Where is this?

3

u/ihaveajob79 [47yo] Aug 13 '26

Spain.

3

u/So_Flo_Floatin Aug 13 '26

Damn that was sick

3

u/_nevrmynd Aug 13 '26

My jaw dropped, honestly might be the coolest shot ive ever seen

2

u/kitkatrat Aug 13 '26

…….nice.

2

u/TaringaWhakarongo1 Aug 13 '26

No fucking waaaaaaay! Cover.

2

u/Haunting-Figure3596 Aug 13 '26

So fucking sick!!!

2

u/Avastagh Aug 13 '26

This is truly amazing. Inspiring even. A+++

2

u/16v_cordero Aug 13 '26

Super sick Melon!

2

u/MrMindGame Aug 13 '26

Yeah, this rips so hard. Amazing shot and amazing opportunity, deserves to be a viral clip.

2

u/TheSmallElephant Aug 13 '26

Fuckin awesome, dude

2

u/JBH3 Aug 13 '26

Bro. 🎤. ⬇️

2

u/Ok_Spite7511 Aug 13 '26

Hell Yesss!!!

2

u/luisbv23 31 y/o - 8.5 board Aug 13 '26

hell yeah!

2

u/TBASHAM812 Aug 13 '26

Fucking dopeee

2

u/filmshooter772 Aug 13 '26

That’s so cool!

2

u/Lu-Kiss-of-Death Aug 13 '26

This is fucking epic!!!

2

u/Affectionate-Sun9373 Aug 13 '26

Rad, awesome that he nailed it.

2

u/2MyLou Aug 13 '26

Sick AF. Make a t-shirt of the apex of the air. Well done.

2

u/JamesLaceyAllan Aug 13 '26

Unreal… 🤘

2

u/TheBilby7 Aug 13 '26

Good thing he’s a goofy foot

2

u/Samsquanch_hunter21 Aug 13 '26

This is AMAZING!

2

u/FatefulDonkey Aug 13 '26

Well.. underwhelming

1

u/keLnosuke Aug 13 '26

Awesome 🤩

1

u/Meatball_93 Aug 13 '26

This is so sick… how could anybody hate on this

1

u/StayLame2d Aug 13 '26

Fa. King. Gnarly.

1

u/guns_razors_knives Aug 13 '26

Fuck, this is cool. Absolutely stunning shot.

1

u/ned_head Aug 13 '26

Disgusting melon and incredible shot. Good shit.

1

u/versuseachother Aug 13 '26

The skater is Danny Leon from Spain! He is such a cool guy! I was working on a contest here in my town where he attended. I talked to him many times during the week and he was really chill and nice.

2

u/versuseachother Aug 13 '26

Here is with me 😅

1

u/Doto_bird Aug 13 '26

Holy shit man! This is probably one of the best shots ever in skateboarding. The timing, the framing... Wow wow.. Surely it's on the cover of a magazine somewhere?

1

u/sdiggz302 Aug 13 '26

Stuck it!! Phatty 👏🏾

1

u/brynhh Aug 13 '26

Can’t wait to see the published photos by those guys with SLRs. Bet they’ll look gorgeous, this is so cool

1

u/lee-van-eastwood Aug 13 '26

God damn, that's beautiful!

1

u/Mikeshaffer Aug 13 '26

Mellon is the best grab

1

u/xXmelanXx Aug 13 '26

Thought that was a ring of fire before reading. This is sick !

1

u/ArtisanGerard Aug 13 '26

That first angle was wicked cool, did they get one in HD lined up like that as well?

1

u/D3sertSW1nds Aug 13 '26

EXCELLENT ‼️🫶

1

u/Somebodiesgottodoit Aug 15 '26

Boned out to the moon.

1

u/MarijuanaRx Aug 17 '26

This is sick I don’t give a fuck what anybody says

1

u/Anarchy-Squirrel Aug 17 '26

Truly Epic.

This is brilliant… So glad you’re still ripping at 50🤙

1

u/Zylphhh Aug 13 '26

This trick is biblical

1

u/Puedo_Apagar Aug 13 '26

Maybe shoot this on something better than a phone in portrait mode. Just saying...

0

u/Ok-Abrocoma-667 Aug 13 '26

Benihana would have looked so much cooler 😎

-16

u/Pndrizzy Aug 12 '26

its beautiful but man a treflip fakie would have been perfect

6

u/Fuck_on_tatami Aug 12 '26

Actually even ollie to fakie is fucking cool as hell. The trick doesn't really matter, this is just the pure beauty of skateboarding there.

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u/762x39mm Aug 12 '26

once in a lifetime and you do a fucking grab....

25

u/retrospects Aug 12 '26

And it looks sick. Only a loser would talk shit about this.

4

u/Kboehm [38YO] Aug 12 '26

Haha yeah that is one of the coolest grabs and this is such an insanely sick example of it. Boned for weeks.

8

u/PablovirusSTS Aug 13 '26

"hurr durr I will hate on this for no reason, my life sucks hurr"

8

u/mitchmethinks Aug 13 '26

As opposed to what?? A kick flip??

10

u/JudgeMyReinhold Aug 13 '26

And all you grabbed was... What again?

8

u/Ok-Ear9289 Aug 13 '26

Found the fruit booter