THE FLIP VID (shaun johanesson)

unijesse · February 12, 2006, 2:10pm

hey dan when are we gonna see a vid from you (im too poor to buy defect)

unifreak7 · February 12, 2006, 2:13pm

Thanks Dan (sarcasim). Haha. o0oo oo0o <- (me flipping him off) haha.
I’ll work on my style when you gain weight. haha.

-Shaun Johanneson

trials_uni · February 12, 2006, 2:15pm

hey shaun…what are the specs of the uni your riding in that vid?..not that it matters…i just wanna kno.

forrestunifreak · February 12, 2006, 2:30pm

Yeah, were’s the KH?

TheBadger587 · February 12, 2006, 6:04pm

That video is pure deceit. Every trick in that video was made with photoshop and iMovie. Congrats on your effective use of LIES.

But seriously, sweet video. You’ve inspired me.

andrew_carter · February 13, 2006, 2:52am

Absolutely amazing riding…and finally something to show off when you’re asked to “Do a backflip!”. The unispin to donkey flip was particularly amazing.

I noticed you’re having the same problem as me with your camera. You may find that thread interesting, it seems this is a common problem with some particular CCD’s. I haven’t yet taken it in to be repaired…I’m scared of the cost. One semi-solution you may like to try though is to set your white balance to “Spotlight” or something to that effect. That works best on my Sony DCR TRV22E. My camera used to look like that with the little bit of yellow and the strange vertical streaks…it’s gotten worse, but this “spotlight” white balance setting seems to work reasonably well. I’m filming a trials comp I’m riding in next sunday so I guess we’ll find out then.

Again, outstanding riding!

Andrew

swarbrim · February 13, 2006, 8:48am

uniryder:

Thanks for posting this Shaun.

Flip tricks might not look that great themselves, but they serve a much greater purpose for street riding. These “flip tricks” are core street tricks that will allow riders to do faster and bigger moves down sets and in lines. Without flipping your cranks a lot of street tricks would have to be done static.

About comparing riders:

It seems that the current “best street rider” according to these forums is always the person that posts the newest video. I think there are 5-10 riders that all are pushing street riding with new tricks and ideas and from what i’ve seen I don’t think there is really one rider that is that far in front of any other rider. Xavier Collos’s newest video was a great example of a good mix of stylish and fast street riding (which is my favorite kind of riding), but there wasn’t anything in there that hasn’t been done or couldn’t be done pretty easily by a few riders. I’m not knocking Xavier at all, he’s definitly one of the best riders and comes up with some great looking tricks. His video also didn’t feature his bigger tricks! I will say that Shaun and Xavier are the 2 riders I see with the most potential to become dominant.

Also, the only rider i’ve seen that can really do tricks that aren’t within other peoples abilities (i.e. they couldn’t learn them in 30 minutes or a few days) is Shaun Johanneson, but he’s gotta work on his style

I agree and i know that it would be odd if you included yourself but…

I think you are up there with Xavier and Shaun i mean your defect scenes were amazing your flow was excellent.

Mike

dale_dale · February 13, 2006, 9:52am

urmm just got an idea
i saw the late flip in that video and though if you have time to throw a backwards crankflip in before it you could do a crankflip to crackflip back that would be ace

has any1 done this??

unifreak7 · February 13, 2006, 10:11am

Hey,

No one has done this yet that I know of, but i’m looking into it. Catching cranks then flipping again, or just kicking the cranks backwards right away from a forward crankflip. Expect it in my next vid down something though. On flat this would probably be too hard. I really like where you mind is at, that’s rad. Thanks for the comment.

-Shaun Johanneson

juggle508 · February 13, 2006, 10:19am

Sorry Shaun but im going to be the first to do crankflip to crankflip in the air. Ha probably not but I will compete with you. I am also going to hick a 5 so I can be tied with you. It shall be sweet.

KH.

dale_dale · February 13, 2006, 1:34pm

id try but i cant even 1/2 crank flip

koebwil · February 13, 2006, 2:51pm

I think doing the backflip first would be easier, but what do I know. I think whichever one is easier to catch would be better as the second flip. The name would be better as “Backflip crankflip” though.

dale_dale · February 13, 2006, 2:53pm

i wanna see some1 do it now it would be so cool

unifreak7 · February 13, 2006, 4:57pm

Hey,

Yeah anyone of a flip to flip trick would be awesome. Kelly you get that five set, film it, and send it to me. Haha. I’m excited. Good luck.

-Shaun Johanneson

tomsey · February 13, 2006, 5:03pm

backcrankflip to front crankflip… nuts

i’ll give it a go

irvinegr · February 13, 2006, 5:04pm

i cant even crankflip… are they really easy one u do it like 3 times jsut like 180 uni spin ir 360 uni spin?? cuz once i did my first 360 unispin i could do it easily every time…

litldude2 · February 13, 2006, 5:19pm

It wasn’t like that for me but maybe it is for some other people. Once I landed my first one it took me probably longer than 2 weeks before I could do them semi consistantly.

manu2015 · February 14, 2006, 4:55am

Skateboardly speaking, i think it’s a flip underflip : Rodney does one in this video
http://www.kamazutra.be/rodney_mullen/

Manu

dale_dale · February 14, 2006, 8:57am

i love them moves… nut its not the same more like one of the 1s bob burquest does where he kickflips catched baord with hands and fli[ps it woth his hands back under his feet

forrestunifreak · February 14, 2006, 10:51am

Hey…!

Crankflip wallplant? Maybe?