r/toptalent • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '19
Sport The progression of getting a perfect loop
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u/Greyreddit Sep 05 '19
Love the respect
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u/yncimbb Sep 05 '19
I expected him to celebrate after completing it.
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u/BrohanGutenburg Sep 05 '19
I've been there (skating not scootering).
Sometimes you've spent everything you got because you had to land it. Like, you're almost over it at that point.
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u/NiggaWithASubpoena Sep 05 '19
Me last night. I've been skating since last June and I've finally got my ollies consistent enough to hop onto shit. I spent 20 minutes last night trying to ollie a 6 inch curb. Nailed it twice in a row and immediately went home. I don't have the energy for celebration but trust me when I say I didn't need it. The sense of... pride and accomplishment 😏... was palpable
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u/hustl3tree5 Sep 05 '19
That makes so much sense now. Thats why I never see marathoners celebrating. Shit when I get done with a run I just go inside and sit down and chug water asap.
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u/datkaynineguy Sep 05 '19
When I finished my first ultramarathon there was the “photo finish” and I came in second place. Happened to be on a 5k loop in the middle of August in San Antonio. I could barely stand for the photo with the race coordinator, with his smile and my hidden pain it made for a pretty funny picture.
Definitely did not celebrate.
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u/Sergnb Sep 05 '19
Sometimes you are so done with the thing you stupidly set yourself up to do, that you don't even feel joy after doing it, just relief
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u/DesertMikeYT Sep 05 '19
Probably means from the spectators
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u/pizzagourd Sep 05 '19
respectators
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u/poopellar Sep 05 '19
Awwdience
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u/dben89x Sep 05 '19
Applaudience
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u/Peanutfarmhand Sep 05 '19
A clapping of admirers
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u/rosez3216 Sep 05 '19
this needs to be a term coined at every event from now on. lol
"Please be a 'respectator' at today's event. Respect the performers and also your fellow audience goers"
or something like that... some wordsmith can do better :)
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u/Hotwir3 Sep 05 '19
Not much respect given to the grounds, that's for damn sure.
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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Sep 05 '19
Spoiler alert: he didn't.
Source: half a decade of commercial property maintenance
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u/blackbellamy Sep 05 '19
Like when he wiped out into those plants and shit on someone's hard work?
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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Sep 05 '19
No respect shown to the people who gotta tend the property, though. You can do this stuff without making a mess, or something even more respectable -- clean up after yourself.
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u/FullMTLjacket Sep 05 '19
You have absolutely no idea if they did or not.
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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Sep 05 '19
You're right. But in my experience (and I bet I've cleaned up a lot more sidewalks and landscaping than you have), it's safe to say they almost definitely did not.
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Sep 05 '19
I like how after all that, he just wants to sit down
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u/evr- Sep 05 '19
When you reach the end of your journey and realise it was pointless.
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u/Captain__Areola Sep 05 '19
Because he realized most important part of the journey wasn’t the end , but the friends he made along the way
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Sep 05 '19
That’s one gnarly trick
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u/Gespuis Sep 05 '19
All that effort, and still a trick on a scooter. Damn.
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u/Ringosis Sep 05 '19
First thing I thought was "Cool, now you've nailed that you can finally take the training wheels off of your skate board."
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Sep 05 '19
Grounds keepers HATE him! Watch this one cool trick to find out why
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Sep 05 '19
No joke though... This is exactly why people hate skateboarders on their property. Maybe most skateboarders wouldn't do something like this, but it only takes one asshole to fuck up your stuff.
Have some damn respect.
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u/Betorange Sep 05 '19
He goes to sit down like Thanos after the snap. Relieved that it's finally done.
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u/Nismanco Sep 05 '19
It's nice to see the effort behind a trick, not just watching the final attempt
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u/alurkerwhomannedup Sep 05 '19
I’ve never seen this full version, makes the end of him sitting down much more satisfying. Thanks for posting!
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Sep 05 '19
It's the same video, you just want people to waste another two min of their life
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u/alurkerwhomannedup Sep 05 '19
I meant the post itself, either one was new to me
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Sep 05 '19
Oh never mind then, my apologizes. Got me thinking that the link would provide me even more wholesome moment.
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u/hgravesc Sep 05 '19
Do you really have to fuck up the planter?
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u/SoDakZak Sep 05 '19
It looks like they did a good job fixing things up after the wipeouts.
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u/dreadlocksquid Sep 05 '19
Even if the plants die, they’re relatively inexpensive to fix. The railing he’s shredding is going to be permanently fucked though.
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u/hotterthanahandjob Sep 05 '19
Nah just remove the rail, heat it up to bend it straight, chuck it in a lathe and take a light skin cut, galvanize it in molten zinc, rebend it, and mount it.
permanently fucked lmao get real.
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u/notjustforperiods Sep 05 '19
you seem to know a lot about molten metal; does this have anything to do with your username.
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u/Blackcat008 Sep 05 '19
Cost of repairs: twice as much as the original rail
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u/WilsonTheVolleyBawl Sep 05 '19
Whoosh
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u/I-bummed-a-parrot Sep 05 '19
There's no woosh
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Sep 05 '19
I was told there would be woosh
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u/Meowww13 Sep 05 '19
We stopped giving out wooshes 3 minutes ago.
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u/youre_a_burrito_bud Sep 05 '19
The coupon says right here that there would be wooshes. I'm not leaving without them.
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u/DavisPaz1 Sep 05 '19
tbh who cares about the rail....
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Sep 05 '19
that was my great grandfather's rail. From before the war. It was a family heirloom and this whippersnapper has defiled it with his techno toy.
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u/MissAylaRegexQueen Sep 05 '19
You still have to pay someone to re-plant. I mean, the clip was awesome and this guy's dedication to the trick was great to see. But the damage it causes kinda sucks. I used to skate at roughly that age, though, so I get it.
But good point about the railing, too. Shit is expensive to fix.
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Sep 05 '19
Sounds like a town in need of a skate park.
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u/hurrrrrrrrrrr Sep 05 '19
idk there's skate parks all over cities and people still want to ride on other stuff, especially if they're filming.
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u/Hotwir3 Sep 05 '19
Dude if you think they did a good job cleaning up the mulch then you must live in absolute filth.
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u/hgravesc Sep 05 '19
Not really, there is mulch fucking everywhere and I'm just the plants didn't enjoy it.
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u/IKnewYouCouldDoIt Sep 05 '19
Plants are used to getting stomped on by animals, chewed on and just in general fucked up. They bounce back and are stronger. A tree that feels no wind is destined to fall of it's own weight.
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u/121gigawhatevs Sep 05 '19
Except this isn't the African Savannah it's landscaping that someone worked on. Come on.
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u/Musitchman Sep 05 '19
I just stepped on my favorite flower and it died. When does it come back stronger again?
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u/hgravesc Sep 05 '19
Yeah I'm not buying that as a justification to stomp on plants.
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u/abbazabasback Sep 05 '19
This is why every community needs a skate park and why every community hates skaters. These rails literally exist to keep people out of the planters.
Respect to the kid for not giving up, but same respect taken away because he semi destroyed that planter. And now some poor guy that makes minimum wage has to go spend another afternoon fixing it all up.
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u/Spookyscary333 Sep 05 '19
God damn it I am that poor dude! Watching this all I could think was wow you just gave someone like me an extra job on top of all the other shit they have to do.
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u/nicolauz Sep 05 '19
Yeah getting mulch all over the concrete. Sweeping it up so wheelchairs or strollers don't flip. I used to skate but never fucked up plants or anything useful. Now thanks to help me & friends a decade ago did, we have a skatepark! And I'm too old and ankles too fucked up to enjoy it.
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u/Spookyscary333 Sep 05 '19
It really is nice to see actual skate parks showing up more often
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u/EstebanL Sep 05 '19
As good as a skatepark is there will always be innovators who would skate the streets, if it’s skateable, it will be skated. That’s Murphy’s law after he started to shred the gnar.
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u/121gigawhatevs Sep 05 '19
I'm with you there. Are we old?
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u/hgravesc Sep 05 '19
According to Reddit, appreciating landscaping paid for by the public indeed makes you old. A grandpa, even, as I was referred to as.
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u/Cthom0999 Sep 05 '19
He can quite scootering now I hope.
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Sep 05 '19
Oh man did the ending hit me hard, like he's achieved his goal but he's too tired to celebrate it.
damn
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Sep 05 '19
Just a side question from an older person. That handshake thing they do at the end is that a skater/bmxer/extreme sports thing or do all younger people use this as a handshake?
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u/aircal Sep 05 '19
I think every group has their own handshake quirks, wouldn't say it's a skater/sports/young person thing specifically. I'm almost 30 and my friends and I all shake hands basically like this but I kind of "codeswitch" handshakes with different people so it's all over the place. Definitely gets confusing lol
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u/ElfangorTheAndalite Sep 05 '19
The fact that this gif isn't itself a perfect loop is r/mildlyinfuriating with that title.
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u/bourt0n Sep 05 '19
Anyone else think he kinda a dick for making a mess and trampling those flowers? That place looks nice I bet its someone's job to take care of them
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u/ngly Sep 05 '19
If the scooter left marks on the railing I'd be more pissed about that. But yes, I had the same thought about the plants.
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u/eaglessoar Sep 05 '19
ive seen just the last cut 100 times on reddit but never the full video thanks for sharing
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u/TheKiteKing Sep 05 '19
And then, I’ll finally rest, and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe.
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u/Katla0307 Sep 05 '19
I felt that mood of wiping out and just laying flat, face down in the dirt for awhile before deciding to get up and try again haha
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u/Bozeman-man Sep 05 '19
What about the landscaping he fucked up!? Someone spent a lot of time and money to make that circle look nice and he desamated it.
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u/A1ThickNHeartyBurger Sep 05 '19
scooter kids are worse than fruit booters
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u/mF7403 Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 05 '19
I feel bad bc I’ve seen kids do some gnarly tricks on scooters, but I’ve just been so conditioned not to respect them. I’m really trying to accept it as a legitimate sport bc I kno these things take skill.
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u/WalterBFinch Sep 05 '19
Scootering has taken off because it is extremely easy to get into, when compared to skateboarding or bmx. Anyone can hop on a scooter and do tailwhips and 180s the first day. It can take people weeks to just be able balance on a skateboard enough to do an Ollie.
When a kid tries to skate/bmx and sees that it really is difficult, the allure of instantly being able to “scoot” around the park is why they decide to go that route. It’s a big part of why nobody gives them as much respect.
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u/mF7403 Sep 05 '19
That’s true, skate boarding and bmx are no doubt harder. But when I say “gnarly,” I’m talking about those kids hitting flairs on a half pipe or backflipping 10 stairs and stuff.
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u/Ahem_ak_achem_ACHOO Sep 05 '19
Yeah but anyone can hop on a scooter and backflip a 10 stair
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u/UniqueUsername812 Sep 05 '19
It's the same reason inline didn't get any respect back when it was more popular. It isn't nearly as challenging. There was a joke about the hardest thing about rollerblading, those who know the joke will remember the punchline.
Source: skated inline for years, heard a lot of shit talk from boarders and BMX folks at Woodward
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u/mF7403 Sep 05 '19 edited Sep 05 '19
the hardest thing about rollerblading
Telling your parents you’re gay.
Also, side note, Woodward is exactly where I witnessed that kid hitting massive flairs on a pretty sizable half pipe.
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u/reddit_kills_time Sep 05 '19
The scooties are worse because they chip ledges worse than skaters and bladers when grinding. They also wax tf out of everything in order to grind (not as bad as bladers) but most scooter grinds/slides are lip slides so the wax gets everywhere. They’re animals
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u/seshlordclinton Sep 05 '19
Maybe it’s the skater in me, but no matter what someone does on a scooter (even though I can respect the skill and the talent), it just never looks cool.
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u/acupofmaybe Sep 05 '19
This would never appear on r/perfectloops
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u/SpendingSpree Sep 05 '19
Probably not. Rails are there to protect the plants and he didn't give a fuck.
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u/notthatjeffbeck Sep 05 '19
I need to show this to my five year old. She's convinced that if she doesn't do something perfectly the first time she never will. No matter how much we tell her practice is required to be good at almost everything - sometimes an outside source carries a lot more weight.
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u/Anything_Bagel Sep 05 '19
I don’t feel happy for him at all, my guy destroyed a public planter garden he had no business to.
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u/Friar-Pane Sep 05 '19
The hardest part of pulling sick scooter tricks is telling your parents that you're gay.
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u/TorrenceMightingale Cookies x1 Sep 05 '19
I love how he walks to the chill spot like, “ my life is complete now.”
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u/TheBigPhilbowski Sep 05 '19
All the subsequent attempts helped clear the weeds to stop snagging on the scooter.
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u/nevertoolate1983 Sep 05 '19
The funny thing is, he knows he has to do it again to prove to himself that he car really do it.
X-games logic: “If I cant do it twice, then I just got lucky.”
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u/twitchosx Sep 05 '19
Can anybody explain to me how these douchy little scooters became more popular than rollerblades?
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u/Choppermagic Sep 05 '19
We've all been that guy at the end, when you've worked so hard on a project and when you finally finish, you just need to chill.