The Helipop is another of those tricks that shows how ahead of his time Rodney was. Before even OLLIES weren't a thing, he already had 360 fs spins on lock.
@@presgeeztv9603 It gets confusing though. They had like four names for the kick flip (Magic flip was one etc.). I like how trick names got standardized and make at least SOME sense. Especially for new combos of tricks, you'll need the fs 360 revert out type names IMHO. And honestly, a lot of 'old' names have been pretty much forgotten about, like Disco flip, Royal flip, Magic flip, Illusion flip etc.
@@PHeMoX Good points. I appreciate standardizing terminology as a method of describing a trick because it make things easier to conceptualize in ones mind, whether one can or cannot do said trick (eg. bigger spin flip = 540 flip + 180 body varial). The creative naming of tricks just adds character.
@@Rebius Agreed. I know its not super retro, but Mullen's freestyle part in Rubbish Heap, still blows my mind today. Check it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YZwrr2vokTc.html
Trouble is, Jonny is a pro, he's been skating 13+ years and it takes him upwards of a thousand tries on some of Rodney's short combos lol. To do a whole Rodney line would be tough, to do a line from one of the later videos would be impossible for anyone else.
In those 80s and early 90s videos Rodney used relatively soft wheels and the ground was usually rough asphalt. Usually you don't see any slide whatsoever at the end of his tricks from that era.
i’m almost a year i to skating myself, and although i’m no where near the kind of tricks you are doing, i love watching your videos because they motivate me to nail every trick i can do flawlessly. watching your vids make me wanna skate all the time! thanks for being you:)
Thumbs up for reviving those old school tricks! They may seem easy for first glance but when you come closer... And if we consider what decks they were landed on in the past.))
@@jodiecoronado6180 That last hill you go over on westbound Hwy 36 right before you get into Boulder is the best. But it looks like Switzerland has us beat.
I got a similar view out of my office...well not right now, foggy, but it's getting clearer...I guess the Matterhorn will be visible in about 40 minutes :p
The thing about spin tricks, just like flip tricks is that they're all in your head. It's a complete departure from what your body is structured to feel is "okay". The confidence required for graceful execution only comes from a lot of repetition of the small successes or from struggling through just throwing yourself all in on it. As always Jonny, you're a beast. Love everything you stand for man.
I don't skate any more too big for it but I really like watching Jonny's videos for everyday inspiration and attitude. Thanks for posting man, good stuff.
You're really making me want to start skating again Jonny. Rodney was my idol since I was about 6 years old. Most people I skated with didn't even know who he was until I'd start talking about him.
One of my favorite tricks do them all the time , fun at parks etc . Flat ground is always much harder to do them on , impressive you made it over those skateboards even with the revert
Danke Jonny für deine Videos, ich kenn nicht viele was so eine Begeisterung an den Tag legen fürs Sk8boarden! Das motiviert mich so sehr dass ich jetzt wieder mehr mit dem Board unterwegs bin! 😏✌
I almost find the nollie back 3 easier than the nollie back 180, just something about being able to wind up and whip around helps to get the pop, and you land going in your normal stance so it’s easy to correct and land when the rotation is not going to be perfect
I feel this. I never could do 360 shuvs, but could fakie 360 bigspin every time consistently. Could fakie bigkickflip easier than 360 flip and heelflip consistently before kickflip. Everyone progresses their own way and some tricks that may seem harder to one person may be way easier for another.
Of course that was around 1998 before you could go on internet and watch step by step tutorials of how to do tricks, just had to watch skate vids and try to imitate what they were doing best you could. Probably why my bros hardflips looked more like Muskas and I couldn't do it at all.
Todo sábado perto das 14 hrs vou andar de sk8, e em todos eles vejo algo legal nos seus vídeos, aprendi muito e anida aprendo !!!! Valew giger vc é o cara !!!!
I Watch yaa Almost everyday to get inspiration from Ese! i lov your style and Your charisma, How bout Some Extra freestyling on ese! xDD Love ya from Mexico My Compadre
Over 40 years after the prime of Rodney it´s still a very big challenge for one of the best flatground skater of today to stand one of his easier tricks! That exactly says everything...!
Johnny seeing you bail on all those frontside 360s made my day. Been watching you/learning to skate for years now, and had a little moment where I thought ‘finally there’s 1 trick I have better than this god- that’s insane!!’ 😭
Your dedication to learning these insane tricks is mindblowing. I watched the premo to premo video and was rooting for you the whole time. Keep up the great content
Kind of late, but changing arm movement will help a lot on this. This trick is about the conservation of angular momentum. Bring your arms in close touching the body and start the spin with the upper body while pushing your arms out. The arm push out will slow the spin down but add extra torque which will carry the trick through. Starting with your arms further out out means working harder to generate enough torque to spin the body and the board around. This is a straight up ballet technique, it's how they load all the twists and spins. It's also how Rodney sets it up as he got older and more practiced. Learning how to do this will help any body rotational trick since both the speed and amount of spin can be controlled with just arm extension. When I see people do tricks like this more often than not they are starting with their elbows out and arm already at about a quarter extension. I'll say this though, it's a shoulder workout getting this right. Starting from close in means more speed on the initial rotation, pushing your arms out slows that rotation and brings the body around by torquing it, but all that extra initial speed converted to torque is directly on the shoulders in a way force normally isn't loaded on shoulders. Getting it down will cause shoulders to ache.
I swear, it barely looks like rodney is moving his foot at all when he's doing flip tricks. His style was so awesome. Also, it looks like rodney is really good at using his upper body to generate rotation before popping the helipop.
This Man needs a Filmer for every Video. Or atleast Jonny deserves one for every Video. Keep it up. Every now and then I stumble accros your Videos and I always enjoy them.
One of my absolute go to tricks - I've gotten so many letters on people in skate with the Helipop. I never do them with any revert action, full rotation only, sometimes to manual. Before I stopped skating for the winter, I had my normal stance, fs 360s going pretty good...got a few fully rotated. The true Helipop is quite tricky, over stuff, especially if you want it to level out and not be like a sharp, upward, arching movement which can cause too much, downward force and not enough forward momentum on impact - causing wheel bite, unintentional powersliding, can jam your back knee if it's still bent on impact, etc.
Hi Jonny, if you ever want to revisit this trick, Rodney seems to be using his front foot to keep the board rotating, it does not leave the board, where you are using your back foot to do that and thus for you it is harder to get that last rotation in, in the air. As you can clearly see in your last comparson. Great great great effort by the way :)
Great style and fast progression to the extent where you were looking solid and unsketchy. Mad props on the overall Mullen steeze rating of 9.759/10 on the official "Rodney Mullen International Helipop Steeze Scoring System" (RMIHSSS).
The skating-part - as always - is spot on! But has anybody looked at that mountain backdrop? Just awesome landscape! Oh wait, itˋs only a 70min ride from where I live😆
ON Video Skateboarding (Rodney Mullen, also Carlsbad gap) was my first ever skateboarding videotape and at the time it was the most legendary footage I've seen as a kid. I remember hyping myself up in front of the tv so hard and going to the streets for the whole day..
Thats just gnarly, i cant even do proper 360 flat and thinking pop over decks makes me go dizzy already and breaking balls everytime if even trying to do that. 😂 Cool!
