![]() “In surfing, you are going in one direction, forehand or backhand. While there’s no doubting that the moves appear almost identical from a rotations perspective, they’re failing to note how monumentally different the two platforms – ocean and land – are. Todd Richards and the rest’s argument is based on the way that both skateboarders and snowboarders define their tricks arguing the fact that both snowboarders and skateboarders landed these moves well before any surfer means surfers should maintain the same name in their sport. Wikberg returned fire: “Kelly Slater is the most famous surfer in the world, and for him to be pushing the ‘wrong’ names for tricks deserves to be called out.” He’s facing the wave,” Kelly said in response to snowboarding filmmaker, Pierre Wikberg on Instagram. “It’s frontside no matter how you make it. ![]() Thankfully, the GOAT, Kelly Slater stepped in with a surf purist’s voice of reason. Unsurprisingly, McGill also referred to the rotation as being “backside”, deeming all alley-oops in surfing as being backside. #OLLIE OOP SKATING PROFESSIONAL#To further support his redefining of frontside and backside airs in surfing, Todd Richards called upon Mike McGill, a former professional skateboarder, to voice his opinions on the issue. “That’s right when I started skating, so I knew exactly, like, who created the alley-oop and where they did it, and I remember the sequence, you know, like it’s seared into my memory,” Tony recalled to the Times. And that’s not where surfing’s dues other sport’s innovation ends just about every aerial landed in surfing owes its inspiration to something already achieved in either skating or snowboarding. So how can the two analogous airs be called two different things? Todd Richards argues they shouldn’t be.Ĭhris Strople, a skateboarder, landed the first alley-oop on either water or land back in ’79, as Tony Hawk pointed out. I’m no skateboarder, and therefore won’t argue with their geometric understanding, but just like Albee, Hawk rotates 360 degrees and lands back on the ramp facing the same direction. You see, Tony Hawk did this exact air on quarter pipe back in ’92, which was labelled a ‘backside alley-oop 540’ by Hawk himself at the time. Not only does Todd not believe the rotation is a 360, he believes that it’s backside rotation.Ĭalling a frontside air ‘backside’ is one thing, saving Tony Hawk’s name in your phone as just ‘Tony’ is another. ![]() That was until Todd Richards, an ex-professional snowboarder, hopped in on the issue, as the New York Timesreported. Albee’s a natural footer, and when natural footers go right, they’re surfing frontside – as any surfer who’s capable of putting their fins in correctly knows. ![]() There was never a final decision reached, but it was never as contentious as Chris Cote calling an air-reverse a 540, and even he agreed Albee’s air was an ‘alley-oop 360’.ĭegrees of rotation aside, the last thing any surfer was concerned about was whether Albee’s air should be labelled frontside or backside. Albee then reverts out in the same direction and continues on his merry way to claim while facing the shore. The arguments mostly revolved around the number of degrees of rotation and therefore what to call the maneuver.Ī double-oop? An Albee-oop? An alley-oop 360? And mathematics notwithstanding, an alley-oop 540?Īs you can see above, Albee hits the lip, spins 180 degrees for a standard ‘oop and then continues another half rotation to face the same direction in which he left the wave face – a 360 degree rotation. ![]() Remember the controversy which surrounded Albee Layer’s additional-oop back in May? ![]()
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