Because it's been featured in some iconic skateboarding videos over many many years now.
The video doesn't do the height justice. This is as big as anyone would dare drop on a skateboard.
Almost every video spot involving Jaws includes all the bails and near miss attempts. So many people just get absolutely WRECKED before they ever land their trick.
It takes a certain level of crazy just to attempt this set. A lot of injuries have happened here.
In addition to u/Mulawooshin 's great explanation, I say you should also watch his whole "G-Ma" video part, it's well put together, gives you more context of the difficulties of tricks and size of the stairs, and builds in intensity until this trick hits at the end as a crazy button at the end of a monster video with many famously difficult skate spots
I remember when I lost my board 15ft in the air on a 12ft half pipe. For about 7 years after I would get random pieces of the tip of my elbow coming out of my skin. Wear your pads kids. Height is nothing to play with.
Yeah, some people don't count that one though. This one's undeniable.
Also worth noting is that it was torn down and rebuilt with skate stoppers at the top (basically a bunch of bumps in the concrete). I'm guessing they smoothed a strip, which makes the approach super sketchy if you're off a bit.
THIS. At that level of skateboarding, if you truly already did it, you wouldn’t do it again. If that first Tre was a real make, it would’ve went into a video part. It didn’t though, because the industry wouldn’t have counted it and it sets the standard for skateboarding low.
Also, the video with him and Luis Mora talking about it further confirms that Joslin didn’t even count the first one so he came back to conquer it
This is my high school growing up. It’s got a huge wide runway up to it and a huge open landing area and a huge simple rail that goes down the middle. I believe it’s 20 steps which is a very challenging height but just in the boundaries of what elite skateboarders could do. It’s located in sunny Southern California (Orange County which has a good skate/surf culture) so it’s available year round. It’s on a high school that’s gated so there’s an extra layer of tomfoolery involved accessing it. Lastly, it’s sort of became viral a long time ago so many iconic skateboarders have visited it.
Growing up it was fun when we’d have some weekend school activity for a club or a sport and we’d catch some famous skateboarder attempting in to get some footage. Saw a lot of boards and bones break.
This was my son’s high school too! I lived in Lake Forest for 44 years before selling my house and leaving the state. Actually, when I first bought that house, the city was still called El Toro and was later renamed Lake Forest. I had to order a new address stamp without ever moving.
Basically it was a huge stairset (20stairs) with a railing down the middle of it. Skaters always try to push the envelope, so it gained notoriety. Looks like skaters used to trick off the rail, then someone ollied the entire set, and from there tricks upped the difficulty & ballsiness. Its brutal to just land an Ollie off it, so doing increasingly technical tricks down a huge drop & nailing the landing is a huge mark of skill & bravery
Theres just a few famous spots in skateboarding. In reality you could find another stair set thats just as big, Im sure. But its a big set that got to be known so people kept going to it.
If you do a trick on a specific spot that has already been done, nobody cares and you can't even put it in a part. But going back to a known spot and landing a more difficult trick is what it's all about.
Finding spots that actually have good run-ins and outs, aren’t cobblestone, and don’t have skate stoppers is actually wayyyy harder than most people imagine. When a spot is really well set up for skating people will keep going back
It’s widely considered the gold standard for a stair that size. Most skaters when they get sponsored does a part on el toro and was a cool right of passage going pro for decades.
Better question is how the fuck they still get away with skating it, its a friggen school, i remember having to basically break in as a kid to watch ppl skate em….. JFC DUDE theyre gone?!?! They were torn down in 2019 wtf?!
Imagine watching some guy credit card a hard flip then saying you’re going to be the first to tre flip it. Also I believe this is the stair set with the death crack when you land and the wheels can get stuck. This guy is a legend
The level to which skateboarding rose in the past decades is mind boggling to me. Used to skate when I was young and it's incomprehensible to me how many consistently insane tricks they can pull off at the olympics. True art.
My friends and I would get so hyped when we would Ollie down a 3 stair, or a gap that was the length of the boards on a side walk.
One of our friends could kickflip and heel flip and he was a god amongst us.
Nowadays these kids are on some video game type shit and it blows my mind. I’m so proud of the sport and where it is, I just want to know where they got their Michael’s secret stuff from
I was rewatching Plan B Questionable and had this exact thought. Crazy thing is it's not just "last ten years"
I started skating in 03 and at my peak (~2009) I could do basically everything that pros were doing in that video from 1992. And I was barely sponsored by a local shop.
I think it must have something to do with the fact that so much of skateboarding just comes down to having the chutzpah to try something.
He's 29 and father of two, still looks pretty fit, and landed on bolts. The tricks tend to get more technical and lower to the ground for all the older skaters so hopefully he follows suit too. Big props to him finally making this and hopefully he ventures into more joint safety skateboarding.
Marine and lifelong surfer. Just had to have back surgery. I asked if it was from all the carrying shit and being dropped on my head. Doc said, “Probably genetic.” So live your life.
BTW the surgery worked great and I’m surfing again.
Interesting, because I’ve heard that genetics line too, ‘genetics is the biggest predictor of health’ etc But just yesterday I was reading this article about Parkinson’s. Fascinating. Seems the realization maybe that genetics doesn’t play as big a role as was thought in many cases.
The article sort of centers around a former naval officer and her time spent at lejeune and the issues there with TCE contamination. Seems like that’s a big one for Parkinson’s. Basically though it sounds like there is a changing mentality in some areas of the research wherein they are now looking more at exposure to various environmental factors for Parkinson’s (and other diseases) and what role those might play in conjunction with genetics. The article is a bit of a long read but I found it interesting.
Just wanna add some context to his reaction because it's not disbelief you're seeing.
So a couple years back he went to try this and this happened. (Tldw he landed it rolled away then fell off). His truck was broken on that attempt so he didn't send anymore down it.
So for two years we in the skating community have been debating whether or not anyone had tre flipped el toro. A lot of people think (rightfully) that that attempt didn't count because he didn't roll away clean.
So what you're hearing is less disbelief and more "no one can fucking deny now that I Tre flipped el toro"
Funny thing is this was announced idk 3-4 months ago but how GMA part just dropped. So we all knew he had done it but now we can see it.
If you're wondering why this spot is so insane. The Dern Brothers have done a history of the spot video and it's so so interesting (if you're into skating). They discuss every single trick ever done down it too and now a tre down it is just so fucking nuts.
Suuuuuuper famous. This is a mini doc from the Dern Bros that explains some of the lore. I’d argue this is the “900” for street skating. Chris Joslin is a fucking legend.
I know nothing about skateboarding. But why no helmet or other protection? There are 20 stairs in that staircase. That’s a crazy high drop to do even fully geared up, much less unprotected.
Kinda wish they got the top-down angle that they sometimes use like for the bachinsky kickflip. It would really show you just how fuckin huge this thing really is.
He went back 3x’s for this 360 flip and he landed with so much control. Most people would be scared to look or walk down this mf. I skated down 8 stairs and that was difficult. I could not process doing an Ollie on this and we’re the same age. Chris Joslin is an absolute unit man!
This proves me right about the first one when his truck broke, he jumped off and everyone said he landed it. If he went back and did it again, he knows in his heart the first one wasn’t a real land. What a big dawg for going back and actually getting it. Fucjing legendary 💪
His attitude though is quite jarring, as someone who grew up in the 80s/90s. Not used to seeing the whole "I am him" big ego thing in skateboarding. Really hope that isn't how the sports going
If I didn’t know El Torro and I didn’t know Chris Joslin, I might formulate a similar opinion.. but nah. This is arguably one of the most iconic and hardest sets of stairs in skateboarding and this is easily the sickest trick ever landed down them.. by far. Joslin stomped a tre flip 8 years ago but his truck literally broke and he didn’t completely roll away. It was super controversial. He had a fucked up life. He beat all odds. He got sober and returned to the spot for a redemption sesh after they skate stopped the fuck out of it. He also returned with his kids which made it more epic. Joslin is modest af, but he has every right to say it out loud. He fucking tre flipped El Torro. He deserves all the love and all the glory.
Landing a basic ollie over 20 stairs is a feat most pro skaters will never attempt due to how risky it is. Doing a 360 kickflip over a set of 20 stairs is beyond what's generally considered necessary or sane. Pros do plenty of tricks over small and medium gaps but they know how to parkour-roll out of unsuccessful attempts so they don't break bones or blow out ligaments. At 20 stairs though, the drop is so big your body is getting pummeled every time you bail out, no matter what. Your attempts are severely limited.
Adding to the legend: He basically did this years ago but broke a truck on the landing and stepped off a little early while rolling away, leading to a minor controversy over whether he really landed it. Most skaters believe it counted, but obviously Chris wasn't fully satisfied with that landing. This year's attempt eliminates all doubt.
A Tre flip is an insanely hard trick on its own. I probably put in 20 hours of work to learn them last October, not including the time it took to learn to ride, Ollie, kick flip, and shove it leading up to a Tre. All in all, it’s easily over a hundred hours of building skills just to land your first Tre flip.
Now I regularly practice them, and it’s been a year since I’ve learned them, and I land 5-20% of them depending on the day. On flat ground at a comfortable speed.
This guy has to do it fast as fuck, and if he doesn’t make it then it hurts like fuck with potential for serious injury.
And add in the fact the faster you go and the more time the board is in the air, the harder it is to control.
made it look easy, insane
For real he made it look like a 5-stair
why is this stair set in particular famous
Because it's been featured in some iconic skateboarding videos over many many years now.
The video doesn't do the height justice. This is as big as anyone would dare drop on a skateboard.
Almost every video spot involving Jaws includes all the bails and near miss attempts. So many people just get absolutely WRECKED before they ever land their trick.
It takes a certain level of crazy just to attempt this set. A lot of injuries have happened here.
Great explanation. I now get it.
Quite a few videos of crazy falls on that thing.
In addition to u/Mulawooshin 's great explanation, I say you should also watch his whole "G-Ma" video part, it's well put together, gives you more context of the difficulties of tricks and size of the stairs, and builds in intensity until this trick hits at the end as a crazy button at the end of a monster video with many famously difficult skate spots
Edit: spellingz and link
I remember when I lost my board 15ft in the air on a 12ft half pipe. For about 7 years after I would get random pieces of the tip of my elbow coming out of my skin. Wear your pads kids. Height is nothing to play with.
Well said. Mecca of meccas.
Unless you're Aaron Jaws Homoki. He'd ollie off the International Space Station if he could.
This reel has a bunch of people landing different tricks. The different angles really show how large and high the drop is on those 20 steps.
I donno it doesn't seem to be among the top 100000 longest stairs in the world
It’s in a way considered the ultimate street spot in skateboarding/BMX culture
Didn’t he land it a couple years ago but broke a truck and came off his board?!
Yeah, some people don't count that one though. This one's undeniable.
Also worth noting is that it was torn down and rebuilt with skate stoppers at the top (basically a bunch of bumps in the concrete). I'm guessing they smoothed a strip, which makes the approach super sketchy if you're off a bit.
Wow yeah it definitely makes it a lot more difficult when you have to pop before raised concrete or stoppers, so CLEAN as well, dude is incredible.
The Dern brothers did a great video on this and what you’d have to do to skate it now. It’s doable but requires a ton of effort
Insane that they rebuilt it and made it more difficult so Chris decided to accept that challenge and still succeed.
It didn’t count. This one sure as hell did.
It did
Chris Joslin himself didn't count it. If the guy who did the trick didn't count it then it didn't count
Then why did he go back to do it again? To stick it that’s why.
Nah just to shut the haters up.
Sure nothing screams make like shouting "Fuck" and going back up to make new attempts.
THIS. At that level of skateboarding, if you truly already did it, you wouldn’t do it again. If that first Tre was a real make, it would’ve went into a video part. It didn’t though, because the industry wouldn’t have counted it and it sets the standard for skateboarding low.
Also, the video with him and Luis Mora talking about it further confirms that Joslin didn’t even count the first one so he came back to conquer it
Ok but where are the rumble strips at the bottom? You should be able to hear his wheels skipping across them but you don't it sounds smooth
They bondo’d it.
Chris Joslin himself didn't count that last attempt. If he didn't count it then it didn't count.
2018
I believe in-line and scooters have some tricks down The Two Row as well.
This is my high school growing up. It’s got a huge wide runway up to it and a huge open landing area and a huge simple rail that goes down the middle. I believe it’s 20 steps which is a very challenging height but just in the boundaries of what elite skateboarders could do. It’s located in sunny Southern California (Orange County which has a good skate/surf culture) so it’s available year round. It’s on a high school that’s gated so there’s an extra layer of tomfoolery involved accessing it. Lastly, it’s sort of became viral a long time ago so many iconic skateboarders have visited it.
Growing up it was fun when we’d have some weekend school activity for a club or a sport and we’d catch some famous skateboarder attempting in to get some footage. Saw a lot of boards and bones break.
This was my son’s high school too! I lived in Lake Forest for 44 years before selling my house and leaving the state. Actually, when I first bought that house, the city was still called El Toro and was later renamed Lake Forest. I had to order a new address stamp without ever moving.
Idk, probably an iconic stairset dating back to the 90s or something.
Edit: I googled it cuz I was curious. https://www.artefactmagazine.com/2020/01/28/skateboardings-gnarliest-spot-el-toro/
Basically it was a huge stairset (20stairs) with a railing down the middle of it. Skaters always try to push the envelope, so it gained notoriety. Looks like skaters used to trick off the rail, then someone ollied the entire set, and from there tricks upped the difficulty & ballsiness. Its brutal to just land an Ollie off it, so doing increasingly technical tricks down a huge drop & nailing the landing is a huge mark of skill & bravery
Probably the right size between dangerously stupid to even try but doable enough to still pull it off as a human.
Theres just a few famous spots in skateboarding. In reality you could find another stair set thats just as big, Im sure. But its a big set that got to be known so people kept going to it.
It's the concept of "NBD" (never been done).
If you do a trick on a specific spot that has already been done, nobody cares and you can't even put it in a part. But going back to a known spot and landing a more difficult trick is what it's all about.
Pretty much. This set has only been ollied before
Wrong. Kickflipped too.
Username checks out. Ill accept the facts
Kick flip melon too… but we all sort of file that one in another category…
Didn't Jaws snap his deck on that one?
Finding spots that actually have good run-ins and outs, aren’t cobblestone, and don’t have skate stoppers is actually wayyyy harder than most people imagine. When a spot is really well set up for skating people will keep going back
Because it was once a cover shoot spot on thrasher magazine
An iconic skating image was captured there
The Lyon 25 is also very famous for Skateboarding / BMX / Scooter / Aggressive Inline Skating culture.
It’s widely considered the gold standard for a stair that size. Most skaters when they get sponsored does a part on el toro and was a cool right of passage going pro for decades.
This is not correct. Of all the sponsored pro skateboarders in the world, only a very select handful of them have a trick at El Toro.
Skate magazines since it looked really cool. Was difficult because you needed near max speed to clear it.
California likes xgames
Better question is how the fuck they still get away with skating it, its a friggen school, i remember having to basically break in as a kid to watch ppl skate em….. JFC DUDE theyre gone?!?! They were torn down in 2019 wtf?!
https://youtu.be/lu_ZzPhIPQw?si=sR5Na7XurDUZGI5j&t=187
Here are some clips
Because El Toro 20 is legendary
Imagine watching some guy credit card a hard flip then saying you’re going to be the first to tre flip it. Also I believe this is the stair set with the death crack when you land and the wheels can get stuck. This guy is a legend
I appreciate the use of credit card, I haven't seen the clip but I know exactly what you're describing. Ouch.
Most famous stairset in the world when it comes to skateboarding
I went to school here it's an incredibly big staircase and very steep for a 20 stair.
The level to which skateboarding rose in the past decades is mind boggling to me. Used to skate when I was young and it's incomprehensible to me how many consistently insane tricks they can pull off at the olympics. True art.
My friends and I would get so hyped when we would Ollie down a 3 stair, or a gap that was the length of the boards on a side walk.
One of our friends could kickflip and heel flip and he was a god amongst us.
Nowadays these kids are on some video game type shit and it blows my mind. I’m so proud of the sport and where it is, I just want to know where they got their Michael’s secret stuff from
Yeah I was sponsored in the mid to late 90s and I was nowhere near this level.
I posted in a friend chat that I never thought I'd see a skateboard video that made me cut onions, but this one did when his kids ran up to him.
That's another change in skateboarding. It used to be so rough and dirty, it still has parts of that but it's accessible now.
Crazy to see how this culture and sport grew. I used to get arrested for skating lol
The rebellious nature of 00s skateboarding culture was peak though with viva la bam, tony hawk's games etc. Good times.
I was rewatching Plan B Questionable and had this exact thought. Crazy thing is it's not just "last ten years"
I started skating in 03 and at my peak (~2009) I could do basically everything that pros were doing in that video from 1992. And I was barely sponsored by a local shop.
I think it must have something to do with the fact that so much of skateboarding just comes down to having the chutzpah to try something.
Wow, insane skills mann
This has got to win trick of the year
It represents a battle we're all fighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WuUUIM5IA
Watching that hurt my knees and back.
Reading your comment made my hip pop.
hip pop anonymous
Damn you!
I read the title and had a quadruple hip replacement
He’ll be paying for that in a few short years. Compressed disks are no joke. Dad here.
He's 29 and father of two, still looks pretty fit, and landed on bolts. The tricks tend to get more technical and lower to the ground for all the older skaters so hopefully he follows suit too. Big props to him finally making this and hopefully he ventures into more joint safety skateboarding.
Everybody gets a bad back as they get older. Better from doing something you love rather than being an immobile useless fuck.
Marine and lifelong surfer. Just had to have back surgery. I asked if it was from all the carrying shit and being dropped on my head. Doc said, “Probably genetic.” So live your life.
BTW the surgery worked great and I’m surfing again.
Interesting, because I’ve heard that genetics line too, ‘genetics is the biggest predictor of health’ etc But just yesterday I was reading this article about Parkinson’s. Fascinating. Seems the realization maybe that genetics doesn’t play as big a role as was thought in many cases.
Go ahead scare me. What are the predictors?
The article sort of centers around a former naval officer and her time spent at lejeune and the issues there with TCE contamination. Seems like that’s a big one for Parkinson’s. Basically though it sounds like there is a changing mentality in some areas of the research wherein they are now looking more at exposure to various environmental factors for Parkinson’s (and other diseases) and what role those might play in conjunction with genetics. The article is a bit of a long read but I found it interesting.
Is that from the poisoned water at Lejeune? I was at Camp Geiger in 85 so I know I drank gallons of that shit.
I opened up a case but I never followed all the way through because I did not have any of the cancers.
Sounds like youre out of shape.
Herniated discs can happen to anyone
Leave them alone Johnnie
The immediate disbelief of his own accomplishment and realization is so golden here. What a legend.
Just wanna add some context to his reaction because it's not disbelief you're seeing.
So a couple years back he went to try this and this happened. (Tldw he landed it rolled away then fell off). His truck was broken on that attempt so he didn't send anymore down it.
So for two years we in the skating community have been debating whether or not anyone had tre flipped el toro. A lot of people think (rightfully) that that attempt didn't count because he didn't roll away clean.
So what you're hearing is less disbelief and more "no one can fucking deny now that I Tre flipped el toro"
Funny thing is this was announced idk 3-4 months ago but how GMA part just dropped. So we all knew he had done it but now we can see it.
I was about to ask. I thought this was on thrasher already. Why’d it take so long to drop?
Cause he filmed it for a video part and the video hadn't come out yet.
Got it now thanks!
I don’t understand, wasn’t that landed at 7:37 of the video?
Most people would say no because he didn't roll away clean
7:37 definitely looked like a clean roll away, not the on before it where he jumped off the board
lol that's AI boss.
Say fucking whaaat?
If you're wondering why this spot is so insane. The Dern Brothers have done a history of the spot video and it's so so interesting (if you're into skating). They discuss every single trick ever done down it too and now a tre down it is just so fucking nuts.
Shed a tear watching him celebrate with his kids. What a moment to have together!
This is nuts. If you’re wondering why, visit the set and you’ll know. Fucking sick
Why’s he so hyped, acting like he just tre flipped El Toro? Just grow up. 🙄
/s (in case it’s not obvious)
This video does not do the el toro 20 justice.
Insanity how clean and easy it looked .
Even jumping and landing that height is impressive.
You can't without rolling forward
Beyond gnarly…..Holy shit!
I blew out both kneecaps watching this. Then it replayed so fast my ankles and hips got destroyed too
Are those stairs really famous?
Suuuuuuper famous. This is a mini doc from the Dern Bros that explains some of the lore. I’d argue this is the “900” for street skating. Chris Joslin is a fucking legend.
I grew up watching skaters taking runs at El Toro. Pro skaters and amateurs alike. Truly famous set of concrete right thurr.
El Toro
~* hooray *~
Is this more famous than the leap of faith?
Imagine if 8 years after the leap of faith, Jamie Thomas went back and landed it. This is the equivalent of that.
Who else had the Transworld with Heath Kirchart doing a board slide down this set?
Lipslide
Was it a lipslide? I can't remember exactly, but I remember the cover of that magazine
Yeah it was a front lip, it was also in the Birdhouse video The End
Holy shit yeah! With his button up shirt looking like Morrisey.
Real "Who do you think you are? I am!" vibes.
Is this what Ryan lied about
Wow, I still counted the first one with the broken trucks a make. This is incredible
Insane! Let’s go!
HELL YEAH!!!!! LETS FUCKING GO
My neck and my back
First time my truck was cracked
Never in my life land that
Jaws ollied that shit butt ass naked
He Melon grabbed it iirc
Rather OG skateboarder Joslin…
Go chargers class of 2010
Wait you went to El Toro High?
Yeeeaaaaa
My knees
This exactly what David said after killing Goliath
Epic tre flip
My knees hurt watching this
At least you gave it the correct name in the subject. Nice work. :)
Bolts.
my knees hurt
Yoooooooooo!!!!! That’s so sick… big props. Never could have imagined.
FUCK that was clean - I want the slo mo
Giving Pete Webber “I am” vibes
Stomped it.
Can someone explain why it took this long for anyone to pull this off successfully?
how bad does it hurt to land from that height?
"I fucking drank with that ho"
Thats the stairs from jackass! Cool
I know nothing about skateboarding. But why no helmet or other protection? There are 20 stairs in that staircase. That’s a crazy high drop to do even fully geared up, much less unprotected.
Kinda wish they got the top-down angle that they sometimes use like for the bachinsky kickflip. It would really show you just how fuckin huge this thing really is.
Skater of the year
That has got to be murder on his knees.
me sitting at home, that doesn't look impressive, I could do that if I trained and practiced a little bit
Interesting, I’m not a skater but spent many a days on campus at El Toro and did not know these stairs were world famous….
What’s really interesting is how they censored the text of the swears but did not bleep the audio lol
He went back 3x’s for this 360 flip and he landed with so much control. Most people would be scared to look or walk down this mf. I skated down 8 stairs and that was difficult. I could not process doing an Ollie on this and we’re the same age. Chris Joslin is an absolute unit man!
This proves me right about the first one when his truck broke, he jumped off and everyone said he landed it. If he went back and did it again, he knows in his heart the first one wasn’t a real land. What a big dawg for going back and actually getting it. Fucjing legendary 💪
Skateboarding is in the Olympics. I've got some YouTube videos to look up
This is Tony hawk landing the first 900 type stuff. Equal achievement in my eyes. Incredible.
Awesome trick.
His attitude though is quite jarring, as someone who grew up in the 80s/90s. Not used to seeing the whole "I am him" big ego thing in skateboarding. Really hope that isn't how the sports going
i think he was just genuinely surprised he fuckin’ tre-flipped el toro
He fucking tre flipped El Toro, he gets a minute to boost himself
If you knew the history and knew Joslin, I don’t think you’d be making this conclusion. But hey, I could be wrong too
Bro battled this trick for a decade, shut the hell up
Joslin has the right, he is truly incredible!
You grew up in the 80s/90s and never saw a skateboarder with an ego? What about Hosoi? Tony Alva? That shit has been around since the beginning.
I didn't say if never seen one. I said I'm not used to it. And those guys had egoes but never the whole "I am the big dog" alpha male thing.
He literally made skateboarding history and has been battling this spot/trick for a decade, let the guy be excited
Who said he shouldn't be excited? Try reading again
He’s not like that. It’s just an insane accomplishment that any skater would be pumped on landing
yeah that hit me pretty weird too
If I didn’t know El Torro and I didn’t know Chris Joslin, I might formulate a similar opinion.. but nah. This is arguably one of the most iconic and hardest sets of stairs in skateboarding and this is easily the sickest trick ever landed down them.. by far. Joslin stomped a tre flip 8 years ago but his truck literally broke and he didn’t completely roll away. It was super controversial. He had a fucked up life. He beat all odds. He got sober and returned to the spot for a redemption sesh after they skate stopped the fuck out of it. He also returned with his kids which made it more epic. Joslin is modest af, but he has every right to say it out loud. He fucking tre flipped El Torro. He deserves all the love and all the glory.
When we were six years old we used to say" I was the first to do that".
And you probably never have, or will ever be the first to actually do anything impressive.
Thanks man
Hooray
Ok
Anyone with knowledge able to explain what makes this so hard?
Landing a basic ollie over 20 stairs is a feat most pro skaters will never attempt due to how risky it is. Doing a 360 kickflip over a set of 20 stairs is beyond what's generally considered necessary or sane. Pros do plenty of tricks over small and medium gaps but they know how to parkour-roll out of unsuccessful attempts so they don't break bones or blow out ligaments. At 20 stairs though, the drop is so big your body is getting pummeled every time you bail out, no matter what. Your attempts are severely limited.
Adding to the legend: He basically did this years ago but broke a truck on the landing and stepped off a little early while rolling away, leading to a minor controversy over whether he really landed it. Most skaters believe it counted, but obviously Chris wasn't fully satisfied with that landing. This year's attempt eliminates all doubt.
Are you joking? Just fucking look at it
A Tre flip is an insanely hard trick on its own. I probably put in 20 hours of work to learn them last October, not including the time it took to learn to ride, Ollie, kick flip, and shove it leading up to a Tre. All in all, it’s easily over a hundred hours of building skills just to land your first Tre flip.
Now I regularly practice them, and it’s been a year since I’ve learned them, and I land 5-20% of them depending on the day. On flat ground at a comfortable speed.
This guy has to do it fast as fuck, and if he doesn’t make it then it hurts like fuck with potential for serious injury.
And add in the fact the faster you go and the more time the board is in the air, the harder it is to control.
13' high and 18' long. Imagine jumping that distance on your feet. Then imagine sticking a tre flip.
It’s a hard truck down a giant set of stairs
Vanilla Ice still got it !
Went to that high school it is big stairs… curious how he got on campus when it’s usually barred up 🤷🏼♂️ but good for him
Hopping fences to get to good spots is an integral part of street skating culture
Go chargers
Look guys I’m not a skater, I don’t know why I’m getting down voted
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