Mano A Mano 2023 - Round 3 - Men's: Erick Winkowski vs. Heimana Reynolds 

For sure, but Winky did some tricks thats not invert as well to not play dirty all the time, but in the final letter both played dirty for the win LOL

Ya Heimana even lobbed Erick some softballs and still pulled it off. Classy.

@@Nmzc Haha, yep!

why what should he have done?

the flyin' Hawaiian!

He absolutely destroys bowls.

love that too. lemme ask yall a question tho. i dont skate i only watch, so this take might be a "casual" take but is it wrong to say.... ppl who mostly do handplant tricks with very little variety in these comps, kinda boring to watch? Erick and another guy earlier in this comp just kept bangin out hand plant tricks and im just like "we get it bro, lets do something else now". Like i said, this could be a bad take but idk i just kinda get bored of seein it so many times in. In my defense i also hate watching ppl who just do an invert trick or whatever it might be over and over when their opponent is bad at a certain trick (dont get me wrong i get theyre trying to win, but in an enjoyment aspect, seeing the exact same layout of a trick gets boring to me. CHrist this message got long quick lol. anyways ill leave it there, great games, excited for more, but thats just my take on heavily repetitive tricks and wonderin if more experiecned skaters feel the same or not.

@@chrislobo7945 a lot of people were commenting similar opinions the year erick winkowski handplanted his way to the finals, so i think a lot of people will agree! i personally disagree as a fan of handplants/inverts haha they are a bit more rare these days and while some varieties are looking very similar, for those who know the differences the tricks are very different. I do however think it's a shame to do mostly handplant variations in a game against someone who clearly does not skate like that, especially when you have such a deep bag of tricks like some of these dudes. Not just anyone can do inverts, that shit hard af.

@@bladez115z and id say it goes both ways. If someone is a fs flip variation expert and they just do that it is as boring (chris gregson) I believe is his name. He lost to a guy doing 2 inverts, while Chris pretty much came to Mano to do fs flips. And people still complained about the 2 inverts but said nothing about how Chris played..

@@Makabert.Abylon He did that precisely because Andy Anderson skates like a kook. It was glorious seeing Gregson take him out.

Herman’s is not like Erick is you mean,

💯

Didn't or did abuse? It seems like you ment did based off the overall tone of the comment

@@marcusrosales3344 Didn't. Heimana has most of the inverts anyway it seems. And Winkowski did the feeble shove fakie and indie fastplant blunt instead of some other inverts he could have done. No one is doing that stupid hoho shit though...

Hohos are cool but in a game it’s kind of weird. But if you only do one it’s fair. Winkowski played such a good game on defense but I still wanted heimana to win because he has such good style lol. It was cool seeing a game where Heimana couldn’t hand plant to win too. Eric got so many tricks that should’ve been letters which is always awesome to see

Yeah this felt like the cleanest one we’ve seen. Winkowski leans more on the inverts, and Heimana has a much more well-rounded bag of tricks so I wanted to see Heimana win. Can’t say I wasn’t happy to see the fall on the hoho, but on a final trick all is fair in my opinion. Gotta get the W.

Tim is just annoying period

I swear to god

@@grizzle Tim Oconnor is the whole reason I started watching these. He's funny, down-to-earth, and doesn't take things too seriously. Let's see you up there.

@@grizzle Agreed, annoying af. Talks way too much, i dont even understand why he's there? Why do they need 3 judges?

his jokes are worse for you than smoking cigarettes. guaranteed to shorten the human lifespan

Judging is hard, you'll never please everyone.

fr reynolds lucked out on that one but i kinda feel if anyone in this contest could do that invert it'd be heimana

I know, I was rooting for him so bad. He's a legend. But Reynolds was amazing as well. He should have got both those last tries on dudes board lol. Best game I've seen so far

I was soooo happy! Heimanna gave him way to much room to be boring and just do his handplants🥳

I would've hate to see him win like that tbh

This comment is so underrated, winkowski shredded winning in 2018 with eeez, i was so freak happy when Heimana won, i love watching him skate,, it would be dope to see him and jake face off this year,

@@grantwilson6577 yeah. It was a tight game. And Wickowski don't miss. Otherwise it would have been a different outcome

Heimana, Curren Caples, Austyn Gillette, um... and two more, I dunno :P

@@ShinyHubCaps shane heyl ? 🤣

It actually makes the series better. And you'll probably start seeing other SKATE tournaments doing this more.

@@kwes43 Dude, no it doesnt.. People watch this for the game of SKATE, not to see and hear a couple of judges!

@@Jwinniethepooh Well I am a person that watches this, and I like hearing the judges.

Ugliest/dumbest trick in all of skating (well, alongside the effin "dingleberry" or sausage grind/bag lady).

Yep thats what Erick did as he always does🤦🏻

Heimana to win, Vs Yanko, and a team of ninjas, spice things up

Couldn’t agree more! Would have been an awful end to a good game

Back in the day on vert a varial was a shuv with your hand … then once street tricks kicked off varial came to mean a shuv with a flip as in varial flip / varial heel

@@lastingeyedamage Ohhh shit, I got yah. It definitely had me confused for a sec lol