BATB X | Chris Joslin vs. Sewa Kroetkov - Championship Battle 

hahaha

LuukHoogstraten Koston did the same shit back in the day

Ryan Marchesano only few would know

what are you talking about man, sewa did 3 double kickflips and chris landed 0 edit: 4 actually

Pressures are dirty, double flips aren't

Sewa is the real winner here!!

Austinkingsk8 nope he's not

German Rudakov He might not won the battle, but he won the respect of everyone. So yeah he is totally a winner.

Austinkingsk8 he's not the "real" winner but he earns the respect

German Rudakov lmao you knew what he meant

Woo

Wood

Werd

I was so happy to see that! I remember skating 20 years ago, Mullen was my hero, while everybody was laughing "it's oldschool" and that. Rodney Mullen is Neil Armstrong of skateboarding, no questions asked.

@@SlipperyPete42069 greatest of all time as fuck sounds terrible

nah, overrated, not the greatest, all the tricks would have been invented either way.

@@tonycruise "overrated" get tf out of here, have you seen the tricks that he did in his prime? People still struggle to do the shit he was doing

@@whicay5460 that type of skating is not for everybody, some people like rails and grinds bro. he not the GOAT Nyjah is.

freelife productions no respect to rodney Mullen

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Yo, your comment would really benefit from a comma!

Rufusdos grammar nazi

Damn right!!

Penulis Alam Maya FOREVER AND ALWAYS NIGGA

add one foot tricks to the list

falou tudo mano

junior beccalli eae br

Sewa actually has solid pressure flips, he just oofed up here

I can fs pressure flip pretty well. It’s a low blow 😂

Howard Li 😂crazy

Yeah probably every time they did anything lol. For real though he would be too humble to even admit it, what a guy haha.

hahaha

He probably would have said that after every trick then. 😂

Honestly, he seems so humble that I find it pretty unlikely

Just to be in the same building as Mullen would an adrenaline rush.

Tj De Guzman joslin said so too on his instagram.

well, the fact is he toe-dragged, as you can see when you watch it back in slowmo, its like only cause the judges didnt see it still means he didnt land that trick correctly. many people when u rewatch it spinned their fingers for a redo because they saw the toe-drag, was judges fault.

this is untrue, joslin would land the frontside double flip and sewa would be found out for cheating in the end and it would dirty his reputation and affect his salary. this is as true a statement as your statement.

..lol.

ne he didn't. try to find the full footage(4h) he tried it twice and dint't landed it. then sewa called the toe drag.

he wins because he made 40% of those tricks

LMAO

@@bigspliffuh8310 100% of them...

dude is a clown

lmao

I'm fucking dead hahaha

@@Mr_Jish he killed you?

@@DomesticBeats hahaha

two years later this shit still so fucking funny

FirstRateSkate lmfao

Lmaooo

Lmao

Mason Garcia thanks for correctly naming that last trick. i didn't catch that it was switch. I'm blown away that the top comments aren't about how wrongly they identified the last trick. most people are commenting on joslin getting two do overs... people commenting are idiots

Nope. I did double take because there was very obviously only a 180 rotation and the late flip was incredibly obvious. They really oughta fix that.

Was wondering also ,

I was going to make the same comment but decided to check to see if someone else posted it first. Can't believe i had to scroll through 12 comments before i found someone who caught that.

They also had Sewa's T wrong, it said Chris...

They were *receiving* those hugs.

PROD: MUTHERF@CKING RODNEY MULLEN😂... CLASSIC RESPECT

nick pekan switch front shuv late flip

nick pekan I was thinking to myself that's 200% a late flip

also when Sewa got T, Joslin's name came up instead lol

Jari van Lennep It WAS a 3 Shove. Sewa just doest he steeziest 3 Shoves, they go kind of vertical, but there's no wrap.

Jari van Lennep they call impossibles 360 shuvs because people get picky about if the board actually wrapped or not. so if you do a 360 shuv, that counts as an impossible. although I've seen 1 batb where they did both in the same round and counted it as two different tricks. but that's not consistent throughout batb

sébastien dyz so shy lol what a guy

not shy just humble

Kevin Schmidt yes both can be considered cheap, but one is more cheap than the other. The main issue comes down to difficulty. Any skater in this tournament could easily have spent a day learning how to do 10 different pressure flip variations consistently and would have been the BATB champ. Most consider them lame though and don't bother learning them. Learning double/triple flip variations consistently is a much more difficult task. In my opinion, if you want to win, just learn how to do pressure flips in case someone decides to do them in a game. If not, don't get surprised when someone is desperate enough to do one. Honestly, I dont think most of them care that much to take this game seriously though.

Also in the previous battle Sewa kept doing hardflip variations to get Shane O'neill out. Strategy is part of the game...

best of the best means u gotta have everything on flat... pressure flips are a flat trick still last time i checked (didnt have to check) .. cant complain about pressure flips.. part of the game boys

zeke k Every sport is played with tactics so you can't give hate on both kind of tricks.

Integrity has been compromised.

Your stupid. Mike Mo mucked it up by giving Chris too many chances.

Best ref?? He did such a bad job that Sewa had to call himself out for toe drag!! Horrible ref!

@@TheRickyp83 Obviously I'm late, but you're an idiot. Mo is there to make the call when a skater lands sketch but tries to play it up like it was fine. Sewa is just such a good sport that he redid a trick for toe drag so minor that most people wouldn't count it as such.

He couldve given the 2nd one though

correct and the only losers are the ones in the cancer comments

and mullen won in creativity

1 Garoto 2 Mundos what are you trying to say lmao

Sewa landed it perfect, he redid his trick cause he felt sorry for joslin

Joslin won with that switch fs 360 shuv lmao

And I'm proud of you for saying that you're proud of them.

And I'm proud of you for saying that you're proud of him for saying that he's proud of them

I'm proud of all of you guys for being proud

DaFreakScope fuck you

I tried it didn't work.. any other suggestions?

That's the point!

chill man

Godney Mullen

massimo russo lol Godney

The second attempt didn't have toe drag, it was just sloppy. He starts tictac-ing a tonne after it, which was why it was called.

It is still wrong, no matter how you look at it, for offense to get more tries on one trick than defense. Even if he did almost make it, two rebates when the game is t to t for a championship, is really wrong. Mike Mo $$cked it up.

"Ultimately decided by our referee, Mike Mo Capaldi."

that is for defense

Listen More Carefully. Defensive toe drag has a bigger margin for error but will ultimately be decide by the referee.

1M subs? Who dis guy lol

Top 5s Finest go back to making shit videos you little nerd

wow first we see Rodney...now we see Top 5!? lol crazy

Haze he's making like 6 figures a year prolly a nice house and cars and goes on vacations. how's that nerdy? if I could just bring myself to make one of these "nerdy" channels of like top 5 top 10 bullshit, I totally would. it's easy money you don't even have to film anything lol just take media that's already public Access and compile it. ppl love watching shit like that. like he's got over a million subs haha

Billy C kid shutup I'm not reading that essay go back to 2nd grade where you belong that way you can learn the skills you need to succeed.

the real idiot.. Gave the game away on a perfect trick that didnt need a redo.

he touch with his feet

ADucksOpinion Really? You watching a high speed trick can tell if his toe grazed on the floor better than the guy who felt it? He has no fucking reason to lie about that, it only hurts him.

no he toes did touch

Man, your a real nucklehead, you know that?

did someone switch your ' and . keys?

Fred Rodrigues 😂😂, speak for yourself, Nyjah is actually a cool dude.

i laughed so hard at the last part

@@HxWilliams who destroyed a hotel room for fun, yeah, such a cool guy.

@@SubBubz Ozzy Osbourne and Sabbath with a Mako shark?

@@kurtiswebster8829 I need you to explain. Lol.

He didn't sacrifice shit. He lost.

Switch front shuv-lateflip.

The point is that it wasn’t the trick he was trying to do.

@@dogdirtyskating6990 so that still counts??

@@dogdirtyskating6990 totally he accidently attempted to do the exact same front shove late flip twice ina row

DontCareImaBear 3 times in a row

Dangggg!!!!

I can't like this otherwise there won't be 69 likes sorry dude but I totally agree.

Elephant it's true tho. I love sewa just as much as Chris and I wouldn't have called redo for that tiny toe drag. dude's got size like 14 feet he has to land everything complete bolts

mucica para dormir

joslin insane bag of tricks

J. 4NASH i wouldnt call pressure flips insane tricks lmao..

Technically, he did drag, if you watch it in slow mo (so in the end it was fair according to the rules). But yeah he would’ve gotten it had he not said anything. It didn’t look like they were going to call it.

Jett Chebry Shane would destroy luan i like team battle

Tavin Smith WTF LUAN IS A GOD FUCK SHANE

EdVentures hahahaha drink a malta from malto

EdVentures lol

moldyrefrigerator "But will ultimately be decided by the referee"

DEFENSIVE TOEDRAG...has a bigger margin for error, but will ultimately be decided by the referee. Don't tell me I don't know my shit lol

yeah but the do over was also a toedrag so he gets another do over, i don't see anything wrong about that, and it has always been like that for every batb games

moldyrefrigerator literally was thinking the same thing. Sewa got played. Berra should've overruled lol

I was gonna say the same thing. " offensive toe drag gets 1 do over". But I think he landed it good on the 2nd try. No toe drag he just over shot it. It was like a 200 instead of a 180

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mr subscriber yeah he is from the Netherlands and came to my local skatepark when literally no one was there except me, my friend and sewa and his cameraman. I remember he shot some videos of a line on a box, but they’re not on his RU-vid anymore. This was almost 10 years ago haha

That and his knees are permanent fucked up, but ya know, he is a nice guy.

moldyrefrigerator is it why he quit skating?

No one ever quits skating

TOP FIVE true, my board is arriving tomorrow, I'm about to resume after a 6-7 year break , I'm 25, now.

What the fuck are you talking about, he'd get wrecked so quick in here, I don't even think he skates switch minus a few basic tricks..

Juan Cid de la Paz good eye

and "chris" on sewa's letter

Muhammad Nor Shafiq chris is the underdog champ. respect him

shut yo ass boi commenting on everybodys shiz

fuck the people...sewa aint getting no cash....haaa

He's already won a BATB you donut

Why did you capitalize everything except for "champ"?

Rodney wins

Rodney in his prime would beat everyone

i thought everyone started with bigspins

Ghetto Bird shane and chris yeah haha

Overrated trick

Overrated? chill it's a game of skate, not a street part...

"Offensive toe drag gets one do-over" First try had toe drag, second try was only sketchy so Mike Mo called a redo to clean it up

yeah the trick should not have counted because he toe dragged twice

Pabgar still only one do over, if it's sketchy on the do over then it's up to the judge to make the call especially on offense. Personally I think the 1st re do was fine

Rules don't say that, they say that toedrag gets 1 redo, nothing about sketchy tricks. To me the call was the right one, winning the trophy on a sketchy trick is lame, but the trick was a make, so the best call is a redo.

unun septium there is only one redo for offensive toe drag, but what was unfair is the redo, his heel touched the ground helping him land the trick so right there would have caused him to lose his turn.

if pressure flips are so simple, sewa should be able to do them in his sleep...or they should be banned. QUAD FLIPS OR GTFO! jk

Obviously. Too many pussies got "participation trophies"

because they look like shit even when people do them "well" so no self-respecting pro who didn't live through the tiny-wheeled early 90s wastes time on them

Larry Goulade you can deff call redo on yourself mate.

Larry Goulade I agree. It was weird. I feel like they should leave it to the refs, let them do their jobs so everything is fair. You have to give him credit though for being a cool guy. But it was the wrong choice in the end. The weirdest part was that, live, Joslin actually tried the trick and missed it badly. That made it really weird.

for real.. it was not his call.. that 180 2x flip was perfect and he should have won..

RobSchneiderIsAStapler redoing your own trick doesnt violate the rules. it doesnt even give you an advantage, if anything you could miss the trick.

ADucksOpinion im pretty sure you've played skate before, have you never called redo on yourself?? cause i have

Later*

If you look up honesty in the dictionary, you find the written definition for the word honesty, because in most modern dictionaries, there are no pictures.

Don't know that for sure, because Chris could've matched it.

Jonathan Faulhaber he won using 2 pressure flips, its safe to say he ran out of tricks

Heart XO don’t forget that nauseating switch shuv late flip.

Oh shit

Closet Nerd Gaming missed a front 180

I think it was switch, and I'm sure it was all the nerves in the opening of the game because he started stomping tricks left and right after thaat....

it was a one foot front, watch closely

Rick Taylor you are the only thing wrong with skating... Why not support your fellow skater, instead of talking shit to the younger generation. And I've been skating for about 18 years off and on.... Besides, you have no room to talk. I'm sure you've never even come close to landing that trick. All I'm saying is that I rewatched the trick on stream and I couldn't see the toe drag.

Closet Nerd Gaming he admitted it, I'm sure nothing you would do. I know you don't see the point I'm trying to make, which is fine, but you keep seem to be saying that he should of shut his mouth and just won, even though he KNEW he dragged. That is once again the difference between you and a true skater. A lot of respect from me to Sewa for calling his own drag, when if he kept his mouth shut and then won it would of been obvious and people like you still wouldn't care. Just saying man I've been skating off and on for almost 18 years and I fuckin hate people with the " awww c'mon! he was close! count it!!" mentality. Either way it is what it is and keep skating dude, shit gets harder and harder the older you get.

the best champion

He has'nt more syle

thanks for ruining it for the people who read the comments first

looool why the fuck would you read the comments first

FUCK YEAH !

Vinícius Barcelos both won you hippss

jzx 100 hell no lol. In a legit game no toe or heel drag counts. Next guys turn. There should never be redo's on offense. Joslin should have played the game more straight up, especially after Sewa asked to play a clean game. smh. Joslin played dirty toe and heel dragging all over the place. lol. That game was gifted.

not only that but he landed that x2 fickflip 180. i dont care what he said.. it was damn good.

Tyler Fox he did the refo and screwed it up.

jzx 100 defensive will be ultimately decided by the referee

Chris Joslins last trick they gave him 2 re-dos. rules say for offense you only get one do-over. either way the game was epic and I'm happy for how both of them played.

Tyrone Cabas it definitely wasnt 😂 it was switch front shuv late flip

Nah, it was a switch shuv late flip.

Conner of Mcmullin Creek I mean he did switch fs shuvit late flip but the name of the trick is switch fs 360 shuvit wtf?

Tyrone Cabas someone fucked up in the editing department

On the final trick too, amateur hour.