![]() “I think as a whole it’s like no one ever thought of these things they're just like, oh yeah, it's different in surfing,” he said. ![]() Layer echoed a similar feeling of frustration. We should all know enough to know we should stay in our lane.” “I don’t know a single surfer trying to do the opposite and name snowboard maneuvers. “We’ve got snowboarders trying to tell us how to name surf maneuvers,” he said. Slater’s frustration with the situation is palpable. Richards and Wikberg are dead set on “alley-oop backside 360.” “In these days, it's very hard to do something that isn't just a combination of existing tricks, and you would just give it that name.”įor his part, Hawk calls Layer’s move an “alley-oop 540,” counting the final 180 degrees rotated on the wave in the name, similar to sliding the final half rotation on a ramp. “I think the unwritten rule for skating at least was if you did something truly unique, you get to name it,” Hawk said. Although if Layer’s name were different, this might not be as cute of an option, and the bar to having a namesake trick is debatable. Slater calls it an “Albee-oop,” avoiding direction or degrees of rotation altogether in favor of using Layer’s name. Layer calls his move a “double alley-oop,” attempting to avoid one of the key aspects of the debate: the degrees of rotation. Tony Hawk quickly responded.įreddy Booth came around to thinking like a skateboarder and snowboarder after going back and forth with Pierre Wikberg. I followed along on Instagram as Todd Richards, a former professional snowboarder, sent text messages to pioneers in skateboarding who invented some tricks and have namesake moves.
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