I remember back when I was like 12-13 or so in 1991-1992 the impossible was the height of skate trick fashion, just before the pressure flip thing came to the east coast. I think it was related to Ed Templeton and the first New Deal video, but that was a long time ago so I don't remember specifics. The Impossible was the holy grail of tricks during that time. My friend Jerry and I were out skating and somehow that became the day that we learned impossibles or got slightly injured trying. Jerry was a couple years older and had gone to the skatepark the weekend before (all parks in the northeast were private pay-to-play things back then) and learned the "secret" from someone there. He had his front foot all the way up on the nose (the board was transitioning from the old school fish shape into the popsicle stick we're all familiar with today) and told me you had to take your front foot off as you popped the tail and kinda tuck/scrape the tail to get it spinning around your back foot. I'm a small human male, especially so before I hit puberty, so I could only comfortably put my front foot hanging way off the side like when I first learned kickflips, flop it off the board, scoop the tail and learn how the trick is supposed to work. The only "trick tips I'd ever see was a page in the back of Thrasher magazine depicting a photo sequence, and I'd never seen a tutorial for a legendary trick like an impossible. It was all trial and error that we knew was doable because we saw it in videos and magazines, with the idea of a "scoop" being the secret of the trick, whatever that was. I think we started in mid afternoon during the summer under an awning next to the supermarket and it took a while to get the feel for the "scooping" motion and even longer to get the board to wrap my foot. After hundreds of tries and my tail starting to show grim signs of left-footed wear, the sun had already set and the light started to fade. Jerry's mom was on her way to pick us up, so we had scant few tries left to get both feet on the board. Somehow I was much closer to the truth than Jerry, despite my "unorthodox" stance and diminutive size. He basically gave up for the day, but I felt like the trick was gonna happen for me. The wrap was a full rotation with complete foot contact, it was just a matter of figuring out my forward momentum so as not to land in front of the board but on it. I know it would have been so dramatic and monumental to land the trick just as Jerry's mom pulled into her parking space, but the truth is that during the 10 minute drive I dwelled on the trick, said my goodbyes and thank yous, and walked down my own crusty, patchy, salty concrete, steeply inclined patch of pavement that led into a main road and thought I should give it a couple more tries. Maybe it was the fact that you could only skate my 15-20' driveway one way and the steep incline helped, but I took one baby push, positioned my feet, scooped the tail and landed it clean. I called Jerry 20 minutes later when I knew he'd be home and he didn't believe me. We skated together two days later and I was landing them 2/3 of the time. A year later, when pressure flips were the rage, the locals called me the wrapmaster because I had impossibles so dialed I could do them over little trash cans and into lipslides on bars. It took me another two years to unlearn the back foot scoop on an impossible and transition into the sideways pressure flip scoop that the trick fell completely out of favor during the initial "clean" era of street skating that came along with the advent of 411 VM and Jeremy Wray's style of big, simple, clean street skating. I haven't been able to do an impossible since 1994. They just do a sideways 360 shove for me now.
"Clean" street skating. I'm a non-skater, although thinking about picking it up. I'm not sure what clean street skating is. I guess, no freestyle tricks? But, an impossible surely is a trick that can be done in the air onto or off of an obstacle. Anyway, if I get a skateboard, this is going to be the third or fourth trick I learn. I love it.
I been skating for years I recently learned tres. after watching this I did the rotation a couple times than I started trying it and got really close. I landed it in about 5 tries thank you for this video. In all my years of skating I never thought I could do an impossible.
depends on how much you wrap the board around your foot. you can def do it horizontally, but it's going to be more obvious and cleaner vertically. I agree it's way to thin of a line sometimes on what's counted. At the end of the day though if it looks cool who the fuck really cares what the trick is? Just go out and have fun landing sick looking shit. Being pedantic ruins skating.
If you pay attention to Rodney’s impossibles you’ll notice something he does that makes sense and helps a lot. He turns the front foot 90 degrees before popping the tail, that helps to wrap the deck around the back foot. Same with the nose hook half cab impossible.
So many bad trick tip videos out there. Thank you for making a really detailed insightful trick tip. I really like how you pointed out that your front foot goes way up to get out of the way. I never noticed that but now it's super obvious!
This was my Summer '91 OBSESSION, I never mastered it but all my friends did and I've always regretted it, I'm 41 now and arthritic so... it will never happen. Yeah, I always pressure scooped it sideways and it looked more like a frontside 360 shovit (they were later named "pop" shovits. We held outer front foot almost off the side of the board, so we could slide it off immediately. We were popping the tail and popping them higher because of the New Deal video -Templeton was doing Impossibles on benches and over huge gaps and down stairs, and the lower pressure-style variants was only good for flat ground. Anyway, love you Giger!!
You make a very difficult trick look very easy - they are called impossibles for a reason! Especially when you do them the proper way with the board wrapping almost vertically around the back foot.
Hey dude, I just wanna say these videos are awesome. I like your fairly high-standard approach to technique and style, and you've helped me do a lot of 'cleaning up' tricks, which I've been wanting to do for a long time. You're almost oddly well-spoken, explaining the fine detail in movement and foot positioning and the effects they have, and when you once spoke about the tension you're supposed to feel doing a flip trick (I believe it was the 360 flip video) something immediately clicked in my brain, and I'm suddenly way more consistent at them. Anyway, thanks a lot, and keep doing what you're doing mate.
I keep seeing these arguments. It makes sense. Impossibles feel like they stick to your foot, so you "feel" it the whole way through. Im 31 now, can impossible, can Casper 360 flip. Can't fuckin kickflip.
I started skating by pushing mongo regular and thus helped me be very comfortable with my right foot. Impossible came natural to me for that reason. I recommend getting used to pushing mongo and it will be an easy trick to do
Dude, I can do a kickflip. I learned how in 7th grade. Then I never landed anything better than a few Tre-flips. I like that you break down the tricks in a way that is easy to understand. keep it up man. looks good.
Being a soccer player when I was 15 I started skating for fitness reasons, I was able to do an impossible before I was even able to kick flip. I love the way how this trick can look if done correctly.
Can you teach varial heelflips? My buddy tried teaching me them a few years ago and tragically he got paralyzed in a car accident a few days after and I never really have gotten them since, I've only done a few nollie. I think he would be stoked if you were the one to teach me this trick because he watches your channel as well. I could inward heelflip in every stance and your inward heelflip trick tip video still helped me get them better you are excellent at teaching.
Johnny, I think you are doing good with the tutorials. I was hoping that you could add most common mistakes people do when performing the tricks. It could help with the seeing what might go wrong. For instance, when people pop to slide there foot under, they are unable to control the board to do a full rotation or they hit there knee.
It would be cool if you do a trick tip video for fingerflips! I tried to boneless fingerflip few months ago but didn't really get into it...and I didn't find any good video to learn how to do it. I'm sure you'll explain well (:
I tried this at a session for the first time and Im not a great skater I can't kick flip. But if you know the movement it's surprisingly easy. I almost landed it but i also sprained my ankle landing on the side of the board.
haha I just recently learned them :D although I still haven't really figured out the catch/landing somehow, I just land like one out of three by chance.
i've been skating for 8 months I'm smart and i use my knowledge on Skating. I have a Problem on my impossibles Once i try it, its just a 360 shove. But if i just pop it then after 0.47 milliseconds i tried to scoop it like an impossible, it spins straight in the "Intermediate Axis" and i always land on the nose i want the Impossibles like yours cause i have a Big Impossible Dream
fantastic! your tutorials are so well explained. could you do one on the hardflip pls? I saw your vid on whether the hardflip is hard. well, it is if you can't find a good tutorial!
I'd argue that this is actually one of the easiest tricks too. I've only been skating for a few months and I can barely ollie and don't know any other flatground tricks and I'm able to impossible near flawlessly.
Just started skating again - grüzi btw - and i was pretty good at preassure flips. Just tried to impossible and idk but works great! So preassure flip for me is the secret
i wan't learn varial&tre flip. i can't do varial kickflip, because i can't land it. My back foot goes sideway, idk why, but that could help me if you do some video about varial/tre flips. A great video
Jonny Giger, you are a Relic In Time. Just to think, learning tricks from someone that had to learn another language. You are fucking awesome Jonny and I love your moles.... BTW, in America, that means you have Indian Decent!
Hey I have watched so many of your videos and I love you as a skater man. I'm having a really rough time perfecting the pullback on the scoop. Get back to me
I don't understand why you are not killing it on subs. As far as technicality and skill on flat ground, you are the standard size board equivalent of Rodney Mullen. Jonny Giger A.K.A. "Flat Ground Killa"
losing your virginity is called an impossible in scootering...
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Lmao
BURRRRN!!
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Giger = Flat ground god
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lance=skate god
Jacob Veilleux you said flat ground god, not skate god
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That point about scooping forward and not sideways is life changing
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Yo how does that work
I remember back when I was like 12-13 or so in 1991-1992 the impossible was the height of skate trick fashion, just before the pressure flip thing came to the east coast. I think it was related to Ed Templeton and the first New Deal video, but that was a long time ago so I don't remember specifics. The Impossible was the holy grail of tricks during that time. My friend Jerry and I were out skating and somehow that became the day that we learned impossibles or got slightly injured trying. Jerry was a couple years older and had gone to the skatepark the weekend before (all parks in the northeast were private pay-to-play things back then) and learned the "secret" from someone there. He had his front foot all the way up on the nose (the board was transitioning from the old school fish shape into the popsicle stick we're all familiar with today) and told me you had to take your front foot off as you popped the tail and kinda tuck/scrape the tail to get it spinning around your back foot. I'm a small human male, especially so before I hit puberty, so I could only comfortably put my front foot hanging way off the side like when I first learned kickflips, flop it off the board, scoop the tail and learn how the trick is supposed to work. The only "trick tips I'd ever see was a page in the back of Thrasher magazine depicting a photo sequence, and I'd never seen a tutorial for a legendary trick like an impossible. It was all trial and error that we knew was doable because we saw it in videos and magazines, with the idea of a "scoop" being the secret of the trick, whatever that was. I think we started in mid afternoon during the summer under an awning next to the supermarket and it took a while to get the feel for the "scooping" motion and even longer to get the board to wrap my foot. After hundreds of tries and my tail starting to show grim signs of left-footed wear, the sun had already set and the light started to fade. Jerry's mom was on her way to pick us up, so we had scant few tries left to get both feet on the board. Somehow I was much closer to the truth than Jerry, despite my "unorthodox" stance and diminutive size. He basically gave up for the day, but I felt like the trick was gonna happen for me. The wrap was a full rotation with complete foot contact, it was just a matter of figuring out my forward momentum so as not to land in front of the board but on it. I know it would have been so dramatic and monumental to land the trick just as Jerry's mom pulled into her parking space, but the truth is that during the 10 minute drive I dwelled on the trick, said my goodbyes and thank yous, and walked down my own crusty, patchy, salty concrete, steeply inclined patch of pavement that led into a main road and thought I should give it a couple more tries. Maybe it was the fact that you could only skate my 15-20' driveway one way and the steep incline helped, but I took one baby push, positioned my feet, scooped the tail and landed it clean. I called Jerry 20 minutes later when I knew he'd be home and he didn't believe me. We skated together two days later and I was landing them 2/3 of the time. A year later, when pressure flips were the rage, the locals called me the wrapmaster because I had impossibles so dialed I could do them over little trash cans and into lipslides on bars. It took me another two years to unlearn the back foot scoop on an impossible and transition into the sideways pressure flip scoop that the trick fell completely out of favor during the initial "clean" era of street skating that came along with the advent of 411 VM and Jeremy Wray's style of big, simple, clean street skating. I haven't been able to do an impossible since 1994. They just do a sideways 360 shove for me now.
M Ouija Damn you should write a book man.
The diary of a street skateboarder. Vol. 1: The eros of the impossible.
Maybe someday. I was never that great of a skater. Middling at best.
@@mouija1450 you don't have to be the greatest to be entertaining. That was a solid story
"Clean" street skating. I'm a non-skater, although thinking about picking it up. I'm not sure what clean street skating is. I guess, no freestyle tricks? But, an impossible surely is a trick that can be done in the air onto or off of an obstacle. Anyway, if I get a skateboard, this is going to be the third or fourth trick I learn. I love it.
impossibles are my favorite looking trick, there is just something smooth and unique compared to other flip tricks
0:11 its vl skate in the background
Bulgarian Skateboarding bruh he is damn
Vatos locos?
vãi lồn skate
Wow
I saw that and thought the same thing
me following everystep:
my board: ↖️↙️↘️⬅️🔂↙️↪️↙️↙️↘️↙️↪️↩️🔂🔂🔄⬅️↖️↙️⬅️↪️⏫➡️
Did you end up learning them?
I been skating for years I recently learned tres. after watching this I did the rotation a couple times than I started trying it and got really close. I landed it in about 5 tries thank you for this video. In all my years of skating I never thought I could do an impossible.
Finally a channel of a youtube skater that is dedicated to trick tips. I think this is the first of a kind
Love this! I'm sick of seeing 3 shuvs being counted as impossibles
depends on how much you wrap the board around your foot. you can def do it horizontally, but it's going to be more obvious and cleaner vertically. I agree it's way to thin of a line sometimes on what's counted. At the end of the day though if it looks cool who the fuck really cares what the trick is? Just go out and have fun landing sick looking shit. Being pedantic ruins skating.
impossible was one of the first tricks I ever learned, I really struggled with most basic tricks but for some reason this one always clicked with me
If you pay attention to Rodney’s impossibles you’ll notice something he does that makes sense and helps a lot. He turns the front foot 90 degrees before popping the tail, that helps to wrap the deck around the back foot. Same with the nose hook half cab impossible.
What do you mean by turning 90s degrees before popping? Can you elaborate more??
@@jimmyberry4451 I actually messed the description LOL Rodney kneels the back leg over the board before popping the tail.
So many bad trick tip videos out there. Thank you for making a really detailed insightful trick tip. I really like how you pointed out that your front foot goes way up to get out of the way. I never noticed that but now it's super obvious!
Glad I watched, finally got em, just needed to clear my front foot a bit, and like u said I was scooping a bit sidways.
Do a front foot impossible tutorial please I can't find one anywhere and your tutorials help me so much
This was my Summer '91 OBSESSION, I never mastered it but all my friends did and I've always regretted it, I'm 41 now and arthritic so... it will never happen. Yeah, I always pressure scooped it sideways and it looked more like a frontside 360 shovit (they were later named "pop" shovits. We held outer front foot almost off the side of the board, so we could slide it off immediately. We were popping the tail and popping them higher because of the New Deal video -Templeton was doing Impossibles on benches and over huge gaps and down stairs, and the lower pressure-style variants was only good for flat ground. Anyway, love you Giger!!
You make a very difficult trick look very easy - they are called impossibles for a reason! Especially when you do them the proper way with the board wrapping almost vertically around the back foot.
Ich fand den Impossible schon immer einen der geilsten Fliptricks. Tolles Video!
glad you got the wrap most ppl think a 360 shuv is an impossible noobs lol
coishman26 they don’t even look alike lol
@@cam105 they can def look alike on some people
I like the amount of detail you put into your tips. Maybe an inward heel tip vid next?
Good looking Impossibles, and good on you for pointing out the difference/traps that cause tre shovs.
I would love to see a hardflip tutorial. Thanks for the video Jonny.
Hey dude, I just wanna say these videos are awesome.
I like your fairly high-standard approach to technique and style, and you've helped me do a lot of 'cleaning up' tricks, which I've been wanting to do for a long time. You're almost oddly well-spoken, explaining the fine detail in movement and foot positioning and the effects they have, and when you once spoke about the tension you're supposed to feel doing a flip trick (I believe it was the 360 flip video) something immediately clicked in my brain, and I'm suddenly way more consistent at them.
Anyway, thanks a lot, and keep doing what you're doing mate.
I learned these before kickflips, surprisingly simple, just stomp and lift up with your back foot.
Wtf
Jefferson Esteves lmao this kid
They easy af
I keep seeing these arguments. It makes sense. Impossibles feel like they stick to your foot, so you "feel" it the whole way through. Im 31 now, can impossible, can Casper 360 flip. Can't fuckin kickflip.
@@joshclingermayer6091 wtf hahaha
I started skating by pushing mongo regular and thus helped me be very comfortable with my right foot. Impossible came natural to me for that reason. I recommend getting used to pushing mongo and it will be an easy trick to do
Rudy Salas never push mongo in any circumstances, if you want to be comfortable with your other foot skate switch for a while. never skate mongo
Tree Fart mongo helped me skate goofey with ease. Regardless i can push any way
Love your channel, Jonny!
btw: a "how to: front foot impossible" would be a fine thing!
Such a stylish and beautiful trick. I prefer the front-foot impossible, but a good wrap is beautiful to watch. Nice work Jonny.
Dude, I can do a kickflip. I learned how in 7th grade. Then I never landed anything better than a few Tre-flips. I like that you break down the tricks in a way that is easy to understand. keep it up man. looks good.
Being a soccer player when I was 15 I started skating for fitness reasons, I was able to do an impossible before I was even able to kick flip.
I love the way how this trick can look if done correctly.
You give the best trick tips man! Thumbs up 👍👍👍👍
didnt even finish the video yet, just 16 seconds in but I must say that I like those impossibles. Wrap around your foot like I expect to see
I appreciate the "Howto" videos! They help so much! Thank you (:
I can barely kickflip but i don’t know why but the motion of the impossible I find it really easy.
Thank you for the tutorial, man! I have to try this! :)
This vid life saver , that motion is so much more natural for me than Ollie especially with karate background. First trick I land moving will be this
Anthony Straughter if you can t ollie moving you will never land this 😄
cant tre, 3 shuv, or pressure flip but somehow I can do these (:
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@@James-ip5gz I accidently learned hospitals flips when I was trying to learn kickflips. Sometimes, you just get a trick
i cannot do any flip tricks but i just got this down today
@@James-ip5gz I can impossible but can't tre flip it's just a matter of practice
Same bro
I have heard that tre flips, impossible and back 3's are all on your back foot scoop
Very clean impossble flip!🔥🔥
Can you teach varial heelflips? My buddy tried teaching me them a few years ago and tragically he got paralyzed in a car accident a few days after and I never really have gotten them since, I've only done a few nollie. I think he would be stoked if you were the one to teach me this trick because he watches your channel as well. I could inward heelflip in every stance and your inward heelflip trick tip video still helped me get them better you are excellent at teaching.
Ca you do A tutorial on hard flips/ ghetto birds what do you do with the front foot?
User Name I'm hoping he does this, I can flip the board I just have no idea how to land
Ive been close to landing them for a couple day and honestly all your front foot does is go straight to the side to get out of the way
Johnny, I think you are doing good with the tutorials. I was hoping that you could add most common mistakes people do when performing the tricks. It could help with the seeing what might go wrong. For instance, when people pop to slide there foot under, they are unable to control the board to do a full rotation or they hit there knee.
I sure as heck will go out and try tomorrow
It would be cool if you do a trick tip video for fingerflips! I tried to boneless fingerflip few months ago but didn't really get into it...and I didn't find any good video to learn how to do it. I'm sure you'll explain well (:
So stinkin clean!
Never pressure flipped in the 90s but Ed Templeton made impossibles look so dope.
Jonny, you should do a 'Ho to pressure flip', I just dont know how to elevate my feet doing tricks like pressure flip or the vertical impossible.
Impossibles look impossible at first but it also looks like the easiest trick for people that know how to do it.
This trick looks so good!!
This was the best impossible tutorial!!
what a beautiful trick, honestly.
Can’t wait to try it
Thx this helped me a lot
great vid! i didn't know the exact motion for the impossible,so that really helped. new trick to try!
Awesome! Straight to the point!
I tried this at a session for the first time and Im not a great skater I can't kick flip. But if you know the movement it's surprisingly easy. I almost landed it but i also sprained my ankle landing on the side of the board.
Got this sussed but I tend to end up doing 360 shovits on the most times. Thanks bro for the positioning 👍
Thanks brother, love your trick tips
i love it when you scoop it with your hands
Hey Jonny! How about a Varial flip tutorial? Or maybe a BS Bigspin..
Impossible late flip 🙌
Bro this worked so good for me to learn it
Nice video bro! Continue like this hope u the best
360 flip tut please 🔥😻
haha I just recently learned them :D although I still haven't really figured out the catch/landing somehow, I just land like one out of three by chance.
I'm from chile and i love your videos ❤️
Dude u rules!!! i love ur videos!!! keep in luck!!! :)
That's an awesome deck!
Little too late on the recommendation but can u do a bull flip tutorial?
i've been skating for 8 months
I'm smart and i use my knowledge
on Skating.
I have a Problem on my impossibles
Once i try it, its just a 360 shove.
But if i just pop it then after 0.47 milliseconds
i tried to scoop it like an impossible, it spins straight in the
"Intermediate Axis" and i always land on the nose
i want the Impossibles like yours
cause i have a Big Impossible Dream
fantastic! your tutorials are so well explained. could you do one on the hardflip pls? I saw your vid on whether the hardflip is hard. well, it is if you can't find a good tutorial!
its probably the best impossible i have ever seen
*looks super confident* "that was scary." 😂😂
Learnt my first impossible yesterday!
one of my favs
I'd argue that this is actually one of the easiest tricks too. I've only been skating for a few months and I can barely ollie and don't know any other flatground tricks and I'm able to impossible near flawlessly.
Just started skating again - grüzi btw - and i was pretty good at preassure flips. Just tried to impossible and idk but works great! So preassure flip for me is the secret
Aprendi muito assistindo seus vídeos !!!! As explicações são muito boas, muito úteis!!!! Grande proficional !!!!
i wan't learn varial&tre flip. i can't do varial kickflip, because i can't land it. My back foot goes sideway, idk why, but that could help me if you do some video about varial/tre flips. A great video
Jonny Giger, you are a Relic In Time. Just to think, learning tricks from someone that had to learn another language. You are fucking awesome Jonny and I love your moles.... BTW, in America, that means you have Indian Decent!
could you do a crooked grind trick tip? pls
great vid my man - im gonna learn these now! make a video where you do a reverse ghetto bird (inward heelflip + front 180)
You have the most beautiful impossible. I’m watching over and over in slo mo
Front foot impossible trick tip... PLS!
maybe one day I will unlock this trick!
There's not much front foot impossible how to's on YT, so yeah, that would be cool!
jonny any news on whether or not Ur doing another BATB? Ur a legend at flatground! I know u can not only beat P Rod but u cud Win!
Pressure flip would be nice
just visit "Rad Rat - how to pressure flip"
uploaded some days ago
Hey I have watched so many of your videos and I love you as a skater man. I'm having a really rough time perfecting the pullback on the scoop. Get back to me
Just curious what you mean by the pull back. I'm trying to learn these too
really glad i got my tips on this from u first trying to get a nice one soon. always seemed so impossible o_^
i learned this before i learned any type of flip 2 years ago :D
hardest trick im currently learning at the moment
How to nollie inward heel
Thc Luky yes please do it
Such a nice dude good tutorial!
this trick looks so hard to commit to. I can barely to the motion not 100% of the times, but can't even do a no comply impossible
I don't understand why you are not killing it on subs. As far as technicality and skill on flat ground, you are the standard size board equivalent of Rodney Mullen. Jonny Giger A.K.A. "Flat Ground Killa"
i just learned these and its the funnest damn thing on the planet.
You should try to get as high as you can on the wall with the feather on it
I nearly lost my babies doing this
I LITerally started to practice this trick :)
Yeah please make a pressure flip video!!