Trick originator list.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

Let's make a list of tricks with the name of the rider who landed the trick(s) before anyone else. The year they were landed first would be awesome to have too.

I'll start this list off with the few trick originators that I know of.. Let me know of any inaccuracies. I think this will be interesting to see.

I'll edit my post as you guys make additions to this thread.

cjbecker · Posted: May 23, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

8. Reed Hanson: bs big flip
9. George Daniels: bs flip

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

GD didn't land the first fs flip. I think it was Daniel Lovett, not sure.

10. Adam Lawrence: varial heel

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

Thanks guys. Keep them coming.. Does anyone know for certain who the first FS flip was thrown by?

canalskater · Guest

kenny davis did the fs flip first.

Daniel Lovett- varial flip

ripava82 · Guest

this is kind of a guess, but

Nick Taylor - FS Big Flip

wakemitch · Posted: May 23, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject:

Daniel Lovett- W2W Kickflip
Scott Byerly - 360 Shuvit
Drew Danielo - W2W FS 540

NaRC-P rider · Posted: May 23, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject:

think Aaron reed was the first to do wake to wake back big, also the first wake to wake 3 shuv no grab, Drew D did a w2w 3 shuv to stalefish back in the flatline days though on a flat deck...freak. also A. Reed does wake to wake front bigs as well as i recall hearing through the grapevine. i know steve schoenhals was landing some aroud the same time.

thomas horrell: w2w toe 3 (back in ... what was the video? damn)
reed hansen: double kickflip, double varial flip
matt manzarri: w2w 3 flip, w2w double flip
blood: switch fs flips
ross gardner: pioneered the late shuv
danny hampson: w2w body varial revert
aaron reed: frontboard backbig out on a rail, shuv onto a rail (him or grubb?), backlip 270 shuv on a rail (asterisk 1), backlip back big on a dock (issue 2), front and back 3's into the flats
daniel lovett: back big (metronome Smash

)
aaron reed: backlips on rails? def the first backlip shuv (sfumato), and inside out backbig (sfumato), also front blunts, backtails, back noseblunts
thomas horrell: front and back noseslides, noseslides shuv outs
kyle walton: reentry front 3 shuv (In Its Travels, but this may have been done before that, wouldnt doubt it)
steve schoenhals: his part in relentless bonus: 270 shuv to front board on a rail, reentry front bigs, shuv on shuv off a rail...great tech stuff
brian grubb: sex change (asterisk...kind of ironic he invented that trick pshhaha), toeside one footer revert w2w
nick taylor: benihana to blind (inside out: Esoteric and issue 5), front 3 bigspin (toeside flats)
george daniels: frontside flip off an incline (counterfeit this), flats frontside flip (wbm sequence), kickflip onto a rail, w2w switch front big (both C.T.)
nick taylor: flats hardflip
stu shinn: "top secret" toeside flip tricks... haha
brian dalton: TS inside out heelflip
chase connor: first one I SAW do an inside out toe back big and a backside reentry back big

thats all i got for now, also i remember landing backside reentry kickflips and frontside reentry FS flips before i saw anyone else do em, not sure about it though

NaRC-P rider · Posted: May 23, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

how about some clint thompkins stuff: kickflip off a kicker (fill in the blanks), boardslide hardflip out, switch frontboard 270 shuv (issue 3)

timmy K: toeside backside 180 w2w (that's right)

tahoe · Posted: May 24, 2007 12:08 am Post subject:

NaRC-P rider, stu's couple tricks

CapriSunAllNatural · Posted: May 24, 2007 12:55 am Post subject:

Where is Daniel Lovett?!

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: May 24, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

Guys guys guys!! are we forgetting the unforgetables? hah canal u got it right kenny davis landed the first fs flip check the vid Razz

These guys were inovators, i remember just starting wakeskating and watching lovetts and semans vid and just being amazed at how good they were and how ahead of there time they were.
http://www.wakeskating.com/showarticle.php?a=26

NaRC-P rider, didnt you land first shuv late back foot kick? and who was the first to land a back footed kicky? walton?

88skisupreme · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1342 City: ATX

didn't those guys ride behind a pontoon boat? I think one of them did the first w2w kickflip too.

KirbyJosh · Posted: May 24, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

didn't kenny davis get a switch flip back in the day, my memory is blurry

NaRC-P rider · Posted: May 24, 2007 9:57 am Post subject:

KirbyJosh, no idea, what happened to that guy though?

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

kirby josh, you're right.

Also, I know grubb had a kickflip off of some obstacle on one of his wooden sbg models back in 02...I can't remember if it was a kicker or what (I'll check, though). I just know it was mobbed as hell.

and I don't remember the exact combination, but I'm pretty sure steve sheonhalls (sp) had the first something to 450 shuv out. I think it's in relentless and it was definitely in wbm.

KirbyJosh · Posted: May 24, 2007 11:12 am Post subject:

grubb's was off the old small incline at the projects, i think they showed it in the credits of all or nothing, but i heard that he didn't actually ride away from it, I could be wrong. In wbm they showed steve do a 270 shuv to front lip 450 shov out .

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

well, there was a full sequence published of grubb's obstacle trickery in combination with a kickflip dismount. I can't remember where it was though and this thread has me going through all of my old mags and now my fingers feel funny.

I feel like some of this stuff is really iffy to claim...like it's hard to just go by a magazine or a video as opposed to just being there....you don't really know when the footage was captured or anything like that. Plus, like with spins off of the wake...thomas and byerly have been doing that stuff on cut down wakeboards, and drew was pretty much a ninja back then too. but some cool stuff I ran across was a sweet back lip by thomas on one of the 03 concaves (on a dock), and based on these little magazines, I'd say grubb did the first shuv onto a rail in 02 (ish, of course). Finally, there was a cool sequence of reed doing a front board 270 shuv out...

Right, I also need to throw out thomas' wake to wake frontside shuvit and his wake to wake body varial in decline...I want to say that BV is one of the first wake to wake, and definitely toeside. Seriously though, I'm sure most of these guys aren't all that big on claiming who did what first back in the day.

chriscut · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 2000

electricsnow, I agree, I bet they arent all into it either. I just thought it would be kind of cool to see a list of who was working on what back in the day.

NaRC-P rider, I know of someone who was doing backside re-entry kickflips in 01, but i wasnt sure if they were the first. Thanks for the additions!!! thats a ton.

This stuff is really hard to figure out. like esnow said, just because it was in a video or mag doesnt mean that they were the first to land it. so if the list is incorrect... speak up! Smile

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

Plus, It just wasn't documented hard core...like this guy was wakeskating in france in late 94, at the least(alex barnoin). I'll eventually have a thing about that on the front page, but he was jumping the wake in some fashion...who knows what he was up to. And it's crazy because jason messer was doing his thing too...it's not like they would have known about each other either, which makes it all so interesting.

but yeah, messer's landed stuff too. He doesn't have it documented and he's never ever tried to claim it (though he's told me he's done it, and I have no reason to believe otherwise because he's as true as they come), but I'll suggest his wake to wake shuvs. He was close in that fresh water clip we have on the site and we have a shot of him trying one on a directional wakeboard with a huge surf dog fin on the back...so I just think there's a lot that we don't know.

But otherwise, I like your idea for the thread. This and the transworld anniversary makes me want to pay closer attention to this stuff.