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Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby JJay » Sat Nov 13, 2010 12:58 am

This video has generated over 100 posts on other forums. The strapless riding is good, but there is controversy about whether the rider can tail ride a board - strapless. It has been a heated debate with people claiming it is simple to others (like a Cabrinha pro rider giving away equipment to the first person to do it), to others claiming camera trickery and Velcro.
Scene in question is at 3:48 in the video.
Here's the video and two forum urls -

http://bit.ly/bg5Zpz
http://www.wakeskating.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=539839

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby ronnie » Sat Nov 13, 2010 1:16 am

It was already posted here and I asked the same question and gave my opinion on how he did it.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2366673&p=669546&hi ... nd#p669546

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby OzBungy » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:40 am

The simplest solution is usually the correct one. Chances are he just did a strapless tip slide and it worked. It would be much harder to fake it convincingly.

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby edt » Sat Nov 13, 2010 4:49 am

JJay wrote:whether the rider can tail ride a board - strapless.
i think he's doing it. the optical illusion is that you are tricked into believing he is putting pressure down on the board which is impossible, it would fall down . . . all the pressure on the shoes is directed laterally, in the direction the board is going, and all his weight is being held up by the kite.

You still have to be wearing sticky shoes to do this, I think it's impossible to do barefoot strapless, not enough lateral traction

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby tautologies » Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:47 am

screw all that...where is it?

I think the vid looks awesome. Someone pushing boundaries.

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby grantman54 » Sat Nov 13, 2010 9:21 am

Well that was my friend and he said it was 100% legit. It was filmed on the CA central coast

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby mattdez » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:07 pm

a friend tried it after watching this and was halfway there. could get it into the slide but seemed hard to keep it going, so its definately doable

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby twah » Sat Nov 13, 2010 3:39 pm

grantman54 wrote:Well that was my friend
that explains it then! it must have absolutely happened because he is a real credible person, in fact i'd hazard to say he's an epic person!


get some better video on a few different angles and prove it is possible, but i'm calling BS or camera angle trickery.

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby grantman54 » Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:10 pm

twah have you heard of kitescoop.com? You might fit in better over there. This guy has no reason to fake it. He butterslides better than anyone I've ever seem.

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Re: Cool strapless riding, but Controversial

Postby twah » Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:45 pm

haha you would get ripped into so hard at K I T E S C O O P . C O M grantman54 first off cause you're a tool, and secondly cause you fly "epic" kites (like a tool).

if this guy butterslides so well go take your cute little gopro or other camera and film him doing it multiple times with multiple angles and prove everyone wrong.

otherwise it didn't happen.


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