people so mad andy does tricks his opponent can’t do, that’s literally the point of the competition. andy has all the classics too but isn’t gonna waste time when offense switches off regardless of a make. y’all hate but he’s the one putting in the work to consistently land tricks no one’s ever seen before
The problem is he was doing very similar tricks exposing one weakness ("button masher"-style combos) and then a bunch of weird tricks that were not that difficult. If he did difficult tricks but they all were very different, no one would've minded
@@hardrockertoygraphy it's not just any sporting competition, there is some etiquette to it. Ideally you want to win gracefully, by doing difficult and varied tricks that look good, and not by exploiting the same trick type over and over, esp. if it is a weird looking trick. Although you might not agree with me and think anything goes.
Andy can do all the traditional tricks too. The difference is freestyle. He brings it into all skating including his transition skating. He doesn’t see street, vert, and freestyle separately, and he is constantly creating. He is also by far one of the nicest people I have ever skated with.
Yep.. There's way too much variety on Mini available for only 1 try. And the commentary is annoying WOAAAHHWW an Indy Back D?!?!? 🙄🙄🙄🙄 ,, they can be enthusiastic without pretending everything is the best trick ever. Its disingenuous, along with the constant passive aggressive digs at Andy. this is exactly how he skates, what did they expect??
@@TheJollyAlex to look at these tricks and say they are not silly contrived nonsense tricks is insane man. Old heads out here just dick sucking Andy because of his mid life crisis style grinds he concocts.
I feel like for the next tournament, if a set is done on the extended quarter, the one trying to copy the set should also have to do it in the extended quarter...
No, i think Mullen would have been a better sport, by and large. Most skaters know that they have some weird tricks they can pull out for an easy letter, so a gentleman doesn't do that crap.
@@SeeSawMassacre yeah like one letter trick that you know you got on your opponent not all five letters being, front smith to back smith to front blunt to revert to merlin twist. Still cool stuff tho
@@SeeSawMassacre "would have been a gentleman"? What?? Thankfully there is plenty of video showing Mullen doing exactly that. Do you think when Rodney was doing those tricks in the 80s anyone else could do them? Short answer, no. That's why everyone stopped to watch. Even the ramp skaters.
@@bellofortis2020 That was a different, let alone more serious, kind of competition. It's frowned upon to do really weird tricks in a game of skate because it forces your opponent to try them, and any dope can learn a few weird tricks that they know their opponent won't be able to do. In a run-style contest you can do whatever you want and it doesn't really affect your opponents. It's a lot different.
Gatekeeper skaters in this comment section crying over the tricks. Skating used to be creative and represented counter culture. now its "Be the same and do the same tricks and follow the supreme leader" type cult mentality.
Lotta haters in here but that's how things progress. I remember when the back flip was landed on dirt bikes and a lot of the other guys didn't want it allowed in competition because they couldn't do it, but now moto freestyle is full of people doing back flips. Just gotta flow with the times and except change. Plus dude put up a good fight
Eric Koston was doing semi-goofy multi-trick combo grinds back in the nineties. It's bad form to do really weird stuff you know your opponent has never done (or is too long to even remember) in a game of skate. Then you're forcing them to try it, even though they have no chance. And it's boring to watch.
Honestly moto freestyle is kinda lame to watch now, because every trick is a backflip combo. They need to set limits on the number of backflips you can get points for in a run, it would make it way more fun to watch.
I really really really hope you're not implying that people are being negative towards any in this specific contest because "they couldn't do it". Like I'm honestly really hoping that's not what you genuinely believe.
Lol. Dude nothing && did was progressive at all. The only thing difficult about his coping dancing stuff is remembering an exact order he's been practicing and you haven't. The guys a kook.
i used to see josh at the vans indoor park in orange ca skating the combi bowl everytime i was skating there back in the day.. sick to see him still out there skating
Sad to see so much hate on the kid just for playing his game. Basically everyone says do easier basic tricks so the person they want to win has a chance. Love to see it in the community no room for creativity which is what skateboarding always stood on. Good win Andy
I don't think it is about doing simpler tricks but doing some simon says pattern Andy has worked on for a month and his opponent gets 1 try is silly.I think three letters happened from andy Coping Dancing. More importantly, watching coping dancing is kinda boring. I used to dig andy anderson but lately I get kinda crappy vibe from him and his skating but that might just be me.
Yeah the guy is practically cheating. The stall to stall motions aren't what's difficult but replicating the order when you've only seen the series done once and haven't even had time to memorize the order. In other words && is saying "repeat after me" and then recites a 50 digit number that he's memorized. It's not the numbers that make that difficult but the random unfamiliar order of them. At it's least it's extremely bad sportsmanship.
@@Ateamdeferred all I’m hearing is “it’s too hard to remember what you did” even with him telling them what’s he’s going to do even though they say he doesn’t have to. If it was cheating don’t you think he would’ve been disqualified?
It's bad sportsmanship, and makes for a boring game. There's no way someone's gonna land a 5 trick combo they've never done before on defense, so you'd have to be a bit of a jerk to pull that. He's too competitive to be acting like it's fun and games and creativity; he's got a freaking notepad out. Any decent skater can invent hard-to-replicate, goofy tricks and do them in a game of skate.
merlin twist is sick, but way too low under the coping, for deffense is good but not for offense also josh did it well, his offense tricks weren´t so offensive
@@dudemountain6689 Under coping is equivalent to going stationary or really slow in a flat ground game, yeah it could count just lame and could be better
@@dudemountain6689 for me does a lot, really under the coping like in a bank a very crazy tech trick cmon play hard but play clean....... that was like a non popped trick on a flatground game for deffense its ok but not for offense
Yeah and there is so much tricks in mini like that, even 3 tries would not shock me at all... This poor guys have one try to learn a new trick is not enough
For anyone who says that Andy just does "weird" tricks and couldn't hold a candle to any "real" pro skaters haven't watched enough of his content. Andy chooses to do more creative tricks. He can do tre's, varial heels, switch flips etc. In his Powell video part he back smithed a 20 stair (it might have been more) handrail. It seems that he just enjoys the more creative/freestyle side of skateboarding. As far as this game of skate, I agree that the "coping dancing" was un-gentleman-like. But best believe he's just as good as these other pros. As far as the 5-0 to switch crook? He probably doesn't have that locked in, best believe that if he decided to practice em, he could throw em out every try consistently.
What cracks me up too is none of those tricks were easy in the slightest bit would love to see anyone replicate. That's what happens when you're different you get haters its a toxic thing in the community big time
I thought skating was a counter culture movement but everyone's slating Andy because he's a bit wierd and doesn't do what everyone else thinks he should do. He'll go down in history as one of the best whilst the rest of those posers will be long gone and forgotten.
He's a great skater, of course. I just think he's got bad sportsmanship. There's no way anyone's going to do a five trick combo they've never done before on defense- it makes for an uninteresting game.
@@switchback3638 0 etiquette, just like when he was trying to claim he did the Indy to disaster when he whiffed it, jus all around cheeky and has zero shame.
@@Ateamdeferred I assume you must really like spelling bees. Or is it the opposite, you just don't understand what's going on as both of these things happen?
@@sctim123 not at all. A fs 180 is not a fs grab. Not grabbing compared to grabbing is a straight up different trick, the fact he got a redo on defence when he straight up just didn’t do it is annoying. It’s funny watching josh get upset he’s nothing compared to Andy and he knows it
Oh, you ou put something extra in there compared to you missed doing a thing all together. Also we got the edited version, we don't know what conversation lead to those decisions. Maybe Josh thought that was the trick, while Andy possibly knew the trick and missed.
Sorry to see this Rodney Mullen is an OG and one of the original ghost but Andy Anderson is almost up there for this generation goat in the making he needs to start hitting more televised comps
@@gaspackgary1157 Chill bro this ain't no Olympics, this is a fun tournament, nobody is tryharding like their life depended on it, let them kids have fun
I was on board until the "button masher" shit. I'd personally call that "coping vomit." You can detect there is a slight annoyance with the judges too, which is kind of funny. "Oh you're gonna spin like a drill."
after andy explains the extreme tricks he does as "button masher"- i suddenly realize for 3 years on skater XL the haters were actually complimenting me
i do love Andy, my issue is that, to give you a silly example, he could do a grab as his trick, and mid air, change where he is grabbing the board (grab low, release, grab high), and this would be considered a "trick". some of his "tricks" look like accidents, like Bam will do a rock, then tap here, tap there, tap back here then end. Is that a Rock n Roll to Rock n Roll to Rock n roll? I dunno hey. anyone else think the same? hell the dude can do dark slides and natas spins so again, not hating....
If Andy had the “I’m gonna skunk every one of these guys” attitude he’d walk through everyone. But he’s just out there just having a great time, like the Olympics he very easily could’ve placed but he just went and repped for the love of skating and that’s respect right there
yeah andy is really good for this style of competition, he can lay down combos all day long. gona take someone with a lot of power and big tricks to counter him in this format
I love Andy but he never even had a tiny chance to medal at the Olympics lets be real. Even without his injuries he would've never made it to the finals.
@@kylehardy7519 If he put effort into "competition skating" he definitely would. Dude took like 2 days to learn how to do late kickflips over hips. People that go for the olympics are practicing day in day out to work on their routine and tricks for those types of competitions, meanwhile Andy is doing 80 different youtube collabs with random people having fun and showing what ACTUAL skating is. Andy entertains, the olympians PERFORM.
@@unkokusaiwa Admittedly, I haven't seen this video in two years, but it's still the same one in which Andy goes out of his way to do weird tricks and ends of losing because of it? I'm not saying he is not a good skater, he really good. But it is his brand to do weird, kooky shit. I don't care for that.🤷♂
I feel like andy's bag of tricks is a little unfair in this type of game. Like, he did all of the tricks correctly of course, but it feels way too straight competitive from him instead of actually trying have a fun game. Not a fan.
Not sure bro, I find him kind of cocky... I don't know, a guy like Mullen seems very very chill and his little weirdness make him lovable, but the weirdness of Andy make him, for a lot of people including me, a little cringe...
DrZe Yeah, I don’t think he’s really as cocky as he can come off sometimes. I read it more as being uncomfortable socially, which I can’t really blame him for. The dude is pretty much a skate-hippie
@@drze7910 Cocky indeed. After he was getting some recognition I saw him in tampa. It was a few years ago. Dude was just in the way constantly trying to showboat his weird tricks. It's definitely cocky behavior masked with "look at how much fun I'm having."
@@meowforjasper2838 bro yes this 100% and most of it isn’t fundamentally hard it’s jus basic stuff but made to look harder by being different or something
idk, but it would be way more entertaining if he wouldn't resort to some of those more strange bumpy tricks he's frequently doing, like those stalls? ugly af. looks like they've been thought out by some normiekids from the skatepark.
Andy is an excellent skater, clearly he's able to defend well, but these combos just aren't fair to throw in a contest format like this. The strategy to win this contest is simple. Just perfect 5 tricks no one would ever think to even attempt. And surprise...your competitor won't be able to land any of them because they've never even considered it a trick before (insert shocked pikachu jpeg). I'm not against unique styles of skating. Honestly I like watching people like Andy and Winkowski skate, but in a skate contest like this, their trick selection just doesn't work. It reminds me of the BATB games where Mike V gets to do flat ground tricks. Of course Tyler Peterson can't land a flat ground handstands. So, it ultimately turns into a game of "who won rock paper scissors to decide who goes first?" since neither competitor can land the other competitor's trick. Sorry for griping. These are fun to watch regardless, but I empathize with the skaters that have to face people with a very unique trick selection.
IT became not about the tricks but the order you have to do them win. maybe if they had to be sliding it would work. But too elaborate your example someone could literally not know how to push but work on 5 combos of 50-50- smith - feeble smith-50-50 - then 5-0 then sith, feeble, feeble do that in five different orders and if he didn't get he right order letter and win.
@@6omni6draconian6 so this works for you could literally not know how to push but work on 5 combos of 50-50,smith,feeble, smith, 50-50 - then 5-0 then smith, feeble, feeble do that in five different orders and if he didn't get he right order letter and win. plain and simple
both are really good, josh killed it, but andy is just nuts... Altough, am i the only one noticing that you skipped the last offense of josh borden? afther the smith blunt smith rock revert, it was supposed to be josh's turn in offense.... hello??????
As someone that doesn't understand skate culture, what rules did he break? It seemed like both guys were doing tricks that were combinations of simpler tricks. Is there a limit to how many can be chained together?
@@KeithSchumacherPortfolio its bad etiquette. imagine a game of skate where one player is doing 3 kickflips on flat in a row then insisting the other player has to do the same. skateboarders dont respect that. "just do one real/cool trick instead of chaining small tricks together"
Yea I have to agree atleast with the no comply tailslide revert, Andy got to practice the tailslide and then the tailslide revert just to do the actual trick. 2 warm up tricks for the actual trick is bad etiquette
Andy's board looks like it's some hybrid between his own signature flight deck and a normal popsicle shaped deck. I'm about to buy a flight deck so would like to get some intel on that!
Winkowski won a bag full of games with the handplant variations Half the game and fun is watching Whole hearted attempts Keeps everyone humble , No matter your level of mini ramp prowess
I’ll start by saying I watched this game again and I’ll take back calling Andy’s win cheesy. Although all his tricks were pretty niche, but they at least targeted different skill sets. I would argue the point of this competition is to determine the best overall mini-ramp skater and hopefully have some exciting games in the process. I think targeting one niche skill set, like hand plants or crazy combo grinds, fails to do either of those things. It just shows that they’re competent with one skill set that no one else is practicing. That’s cheezy imo. Most game of skate competitions generally have an unwritten rule that you start the game off with the fundamentals and work your way up to advanced tricks. Imo that’s a decent way of getting an accurate idea of who the better skater is. Landing 5 tricks that you have on lock and are pretty sure that the other guy has never practiced before is not. Not to say the sort of “niche” guys are at fault, it seems to be the status quo to hit the ground running in Mano a Mano. I think it’s stupid though. Btw, I thought it was kind of obvious that the current ruleset/direction of these games are kind of missing the mark in terms of what this contest is supposed to achieve; as tons of other people are making the same complaint. ;)
06:36 yeah def not the same trick, Andy's foot was on top of the tail bearing his weight, not doing whatever the judges let that guy do lol. Without the stall its just not possible to do the same trick.
people so mad andy does tricks his opponent can’t do, that’s literally the point of the competition. andy has all the classics too but isn’t gonna waste time when offense switches off regardless of a make. y’all hate but he’s the one putting in the work to consistently land tricks no one’s ever seen before
The problem is he was doing very similar tricks exposing one weakness ("button masher"-style combos) and then a bunch of weird tricks that were not that difficult.
If he did difficult tricks but they all were very different, no one would've minded
@@Stem667 That's just his strategies to win this round. So, it's fine he did that.
@@hardrockertoygraphy it's not just any sporting competition, there is some etiquette to it.
Ideally you want to win gracefully, by doing difficult and varied tricks that look good, and not by exploiting the same trick type over and over, esp. if it is a weird looking trick.
Although you might not agree with me and think anything goes.
@@Stem667I mean bottom line you play to win the game.
Andy can do all the traditional tricks too. The difference is freestyle. He brings it into all skating including his transition skating. He doesn’t see street, vert, and freestyle separately, and he is constantly creating. He is also by far one of the nicest people I have ever skated with.
two tries on defense would improve this contest immensely.
Yep.. There's way too much variety on Mini available for only 1 try. And the commentary is annoying
WOAAAHHWW an Indy Back D?!?!? 🙄🙄🙄🙄
,, they can be enthusiastic without pretending everything is the best trick ever. Its disingenuous, along with the constant passive aggressive digs at Andy. this is exactly how he skates, what did they expect??
Commentary was pretty much all about Andy. Bordon crushes it as well.
yeah but they were funny, a little of bit of salt for the weirdness of Andy... I couldn't agree more btw
Josh Borden main business is in the big bowl. 👍
Messi Ronald Andy
We got a hater
Big difference between skating for the freedom and skating competition bud
Andy knows so many tricks he has to write them down.
he really doesnt have to do this- it was for a single contest- he just 4 generations of flow everywhere else
There, fixed, thanks.@@rbeforme
He has to write it down because he does silly shit that is made up combinations of other tricks
@@Cameldactyl No need to hate, literally every trick is made up of another trick, we'd literally have 4 flip tricks if variations etc weren't a thing
@@TheJollyAlex to look at these tricks and say they are not silly contrived nonsense tricks is insane man. Old heads out here just dick sucking Andy because of his mid life crisis style grinds he concocts.
I feel like for the next tournament, if a set is done on the extended quarter, the one trying to copy the set should also have to do it in the extended quarter...
Probably about how a game of skate against Rodney Mullen in the 90s went lol.
No, i think Mullen would have been a better sport, by and large. Most skaters know that they have some weird tricks they can pull out for an easy letter, so a gentleman doesn't do that crap.
@@SeeSawMassacre Agreed. Mullen is 🔥
@@SeeSawMassacre yeah like one letter trick that you know you got on your opponent not all five letters being, front smith to back smith to front blunt to revert to merlin twist. Still cool stuff tho
@@SeeSawMassacre "would have been a gentleman"?
What?? Thankfully there is plenty of video showing Mullen doing exactly that. Do you think when Rodney was doing those tricks in the 80s anyone else could do them? Short answer, no. That's why everyone stopped to watch. Even the ramp skaters.
@@bellofortis2020 That was a different, let alone more serious, kind of competition. It's frowned upon to do really weird tricks in a game of skate because it forces your opponent to try them, and any dope can learn a few weird tricks that they know their opponent won't be able to do. In a run-style contest you can do whatever you want and it doesn't really affect your opponents. It's a lot different.
Gatekeeper skaters in this comment section crying over the tricks. Skating used to be creative and represented counter culture. now its "Be the same and do the same tricks and follow the supreme leader" type cult mentality.
skateboarding has always been gate kept by the cool people.
SO much fun watching.
Lotta haters in here but that's how things progress. I remember when the back flip was landed on dirt bikes and a lot of the other guys didn't want it allowed in competition because they couldn't do it, but now moto freestyle is full of people doing back flips. Just gotta flow with the times and except change. Plus dude put up a good fight
Right. Tons of dudes stopped skating vert after McGill started doing mctwists for the same reason.
Eric Koston was doing semi-goofy multi-trick combo grinds back in the nineties. It's bad form to do really weird stuff you know your opponent has never done (or is too long to even remember) in a game of skate. Then you're forcing them to try it, even though they have no chance. And it's boring to watch.
Honestly moto freestyle is kinda lame to watch now, because every trick is a backflip combo. They need to set limits on the number of backflips you can get points for in a run, it would make it way more fun to watch.
I really really really hope you're not implying that people are being negative towards any in this specific contest because "they couldn't do it". Like I'm honestly really hoping that's not what you genuinely believe.
Lol. Dude nothing && did was progressive at all. The only thing difficult about his coping dancing stuff is remembering an exact order he's been practicing and you haven't. The guys a kook.
i used to see josh at the vans indoor park in orange ca skating the combi bowl everytime i was skating there back in the day.. sick to see him still out there skating
I don't want this to end, amazing game!
Both of them are absolute legends
Never heard of Josh and been skating since 07
@@mathewherrera5984 never heard of him either 🤷♂everyone's watching Andy still to this day tho
Josh Borden was not enjoying this lmaoo
wouldn't of blamed him if he dropped in skated off the mini and right out the door shaking his head
This series is incredible
Sad to see so much hate on the kid just for playing his game. Basically everyone says do easier basic tricks so the person they want to win has a chance. Love to see it in the community no room for creativity which is what skateboarding always stood on. Good win Andy
I don't think it is about doing simpler tricks but doing some simon says pattern Andy has worked on for a month and his opponent gets 1 try is silly.I think three letters happened from andy Coping Dancing. More importantly, watching coping dancing is kinda boring. I used to dig andy anderson but lately I get kinda crappy vibe from him and his skating but that might just be me.
Yeah the guy is practically cheating. The stall to stall motions aren't what's difficult but replicating the order when you've only seen the series done once and haven't even had time to memorize the order. In other words && is saying "repeat after me" and then recites a 50 digit number that he's memorized. It's not the numbers that make that difficult but the random unfamiliar order of them. At it's least it's extremely bad sportsmanship.
@@Ateamdeferred all I’m hearing is “it’s too hard to remember what you did” even with him telling them what’s he’s going to do even though they say he doesn’t have to. If it was cheating don’t you think he would’ve been disqualified?
@@seltic13 I respect that.
It's bad sportsmanship, and makes for a boring game. There's no way someone's gonna land a 5 trick combo they've never done before on defense, so you'd have to be a bit of a jerk to pull that. He's too competitive to be acting like it's fun and games and creativity; he's got a freaking notepad out. Any decent skater can invent hard-to-replicate, goofy tricks and do them in a game of skate.
Josh was killing it, we all know Andy was gonna be more creative and do tricks only he thinks of/can do
/thinks are cool/wants to see in reality
merlin twist is sick, but way too low under the coping, for deffense is good but not for offense
also josh did it well, his offense tricks weren´t so offensive
it doesn’t matter where you do the trick on the ramp as long as you land it
they messed up the last turn. it was josh bordens offense turn.
@@dudemountain6689 Under coping is equivalent to going stationary or really slow in a flat ground game, yeah it could count just lame and could be better
@@dudemountain6689 Yep, all these silly qualifiers, smh
@@dudemountain6689 for me does a lot, really under the coping like in a bank a very crazy tech trick
cmon play hard but play clean....... that was like a non popped trick on a flatground game for deffense its ok but not for offense
for me, 2 tries for defense (like at sldes&grinds) would be much nicer here!! but still like it tho..
Yeah and there is so much tricks in mini like that, even 3 tries would not shock me at all... This poor guys have one try to learn a new trick is not enough
Word, Slides and Grinds rules!!
and it says in the rules- last letter gets two attempts- wth
so glad this mini ramp comp exists... it s nice.. can push it how u wish
hahaha, for mi thats a big ramp :(
For anyone who says that Andy just does "weird" tricks and couldn't hold a candle to any "real" pro skaters haven't watched enough of his content.
Andy chooses to do more creative tricks. He can do tre's, varial heels, switch flips etc. In his Powell video part he back smithed a 20 stair (it might have been more) handrail.
It seems that he just enjoys the more creative/freestyle side of skateboarding.
As far as this game of skate, I agree that the "coping dancing" was un-gentleman-like. But best believe he's just as good as these other pros.
As far as the 5-0 to switch crook? He probably doesn't have that locked in, best believe that if he decided to practice em, he could throw em out every try consistently.
What cracks me up too is none of those tricks were easy in the slightest bit would love to see anyone replicate. That's what happens when you're different you get haters its a toxic thing in the community big time
People tend to hate on people they can't be compared to.. Andy is one of the most entertaining skaters alive. PERIOD.
"the button masher" is such an appropriate for a literal 4 trick transition combo, that shits straight out of thps lol
Button masher has never been a compliment buddy lol
@@rustyshackleford649 Oh okay buddy. thought Andy was the once who said it tho. So I don't think you're making any kind of a point.
*button smasher
I thought skating was a counter culture movement but everyone's slating Andy because he's a bit wierd and doesn't do what everyone else thinks he should do.
He'll go down in history as one of the best whilst the rest of those posers will be long gone and forgotten.
🧢
Lol best what?
He's a great skater, of course. I just think he's got bad sportsmanship. There's no way anyone's going to do a five trick combo they've never done before on defense- it makes for an uninteresting game.
its his etiquette, not his tricks
@@switchback3638 0 etiquette, just like when he was trying to claim he did the Indy to disaster when he whiffed it, jus all around cheeky and has zero shame.
Getting matched with Andy for round one will ruin anyone’s day.
Andy might lead to something like no "Malto manual shit" connected to his name sooner or later in this competition...
Just saying.
Much love to Andy.
haha that'd be nice!
The new rule will be no more than five front smiths per trick.
"No more Andy wiggle shit?" 🤣
no more andy grinds
lmao is just matter of time
I don't know why but you really got me with, "Can you use that in a sentence?" Bahaha 🤣
Did feel like a spelling bee when Andy skated, and was about as watchable.
@@Ateamdeferred I assume you must really like spelling bees. Or is it the opposite, you just don't understand what's going on as both of these things happen?
josh is so bummed, andy was playing ridiculous
He did a grab when Andy didn’t do a grab and got a redo .. when andy didn’t grab he got a letter
josh was getting creamed let him have it
Completely different scenario
@@sctim123 not at all. A fs 180 is not a fs grab. Not grabbing compared to grabbing is a straight up different trick, the fact he got a redo on defence when he straight up just didn’t do it is annoying. It’s funny watching josh get upset he’s nothing compared to Andy and he knows it
@@Atsah exactly! straight up different trick!
Oh, you ou put something extra in there compared to you missed doing a thing all together.
Also we got the edited version, we don't know what conversation lead to those decisions. Maybe Josh thought that was the trick, while Andy possibly knew the trick and missed.
Sorry to see this Rodney Mullen is an OG and one of the original ghost but Andy Anderson is almost up there for this generation goat in the making he needs to start hitting more televised comps
Only the people who are old enough will know the comment "That's not made for that.".🤣
andys so sick love watching him play skate
hes so humble
its great
josh borden has great attitude
Totally not what was going on, but it was fun to watch :)
Lmao literally the opposite, Andy isn’t humble at allllll and josh has a notoriously bad attitude
Nice game! 1 foot fakie disaster is a Todd Falcon signature move 🦅💥 He was doing them at Lake Owen Woodward in 2002
You know Matt Ramiller??
Nunca vi o Andy Anderson perde um gamer, absurdo esse homen!
This is the most letters I've seen andy get yet well played 🔥
in the last letter it was josh's turn for offense not andys'.. nobody noticed that???
Not sure how this is Hand-to-Hand? I find it amazing you couldn't find a single person to inform you of this.
the dude with the gray hair and glasses on the side of the judges panel got a kick out of the button smasher
The most smile inducing skate viedo possibly ever. Still can't wipe it off 😁
Shouldn't have counted. Andy set 2 tricks in a row. It's supposed to alternate regardless
"The Thinker" lmao
That's not supposed to be skated. Says the guy keeping all the fun out off the game. We need rad guys commenting, not my grandfather...
yes Andy !
Winkowski vs Anderson would be sick
Y’all mad cuz Andy is better then pretty much everyone commenting on the video, when you are on another level you can do what you want.
I hope it doesn't take a death for this be fully appreciated
Wat
that was pure insanity WOW Anderson in out of this world with style and combos
That's kind of the definition of ugly.
The picture and words at 8:47 and 8:49 say it all (Pause it)🤣🤣
Andy killed it. It's no different than mikemo doing impossible late flips for the 1st time or koston doing pressure heelflips. He played the game.
Really? The thinker!? That’s such a reach calling that a trick
@@gaspackgary1157 try it.
@@gaspackgary1157 Chill bro this ain't no Olympics, this is a fun tournament, nobody is tryharding like their life depended on it, let them kids have fun
I was on board until the "button masher" shit. I'd personally call that "coping vomit." You can detect there is a slight annoyance with the judges too, which is kind of funny. "Oh you're gonna spin like a drill."
@@ernestopanza4194 I like it, but 'coping vomit' is definitely a funny way to describe it. Makes me think. What would what coping diarrhoea be?
after andy explains the extreme tricks he does as "button masher"- i suddenly realize for 3 years on skater XL the haters were actually complimenting me
Not the same energy as BATB but I’m happy to see more games of skate on my timeline
i do love Andy, my issue is that, to give you a silly example, he could do a grab as his trick, and mid air, change where he is grabbing the board (grab low, release, grab high), and this would be considered a "trick". some of his "tricks" look like accidents, like Bam will do a rock, then tap here, tap there, tap back here then end. Is that a Rock n Roll to Rock n Roll to Rock n roll? I dunno hey. anyone else think the same? hell the dude can do dark slides and natas spins so again, not hating....
killer battle, killer commentary, killer format.. just killer!
If Andy had the “I’m gonna skunk every one of these guys” attitude he’d walk through everyone. But he’s just out there just having a great time, like the Olympics he very easily could’ve placed but he just went and repped for the love of skating and that’s respect right there
yeah andy is really good for this style of competition, he can lay down combos all day long. gona take someone with a lot of power and big tricks to counter him in this format
Oh yeah, it super casual. I'm being sarcastic; he had a notebook.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
I love Andy but he never even had a tiny chance to medal at the Olympics lets be real. Even without his injuries he would've never made it to the finals.
@@kylehardy7519 If he put effort into "competition skating" he definitely would. Dude took like 2 days to learn how to do late kickflips over hips. People that go for the olympics are practicing day in day out to work on their routine and tricks for those types of competitions, meanwhile Andy is doing 80 different youtube collabs with random people having fun and showing what ACTUAL skating is. Andy entertains, the olympians PERFORM.
Andy Anderson def wins the game of KOOK.
Aw, baby needs his bottle?
@@unkokusaiwa Admittedly, I haven't seen this video in two years, but it's still the same one in which Andy goes out of his way to do weird tricks and ends of losing because of it? I'm not saying he is not a good skater, he really good. But it is his brand to do weird, kooky shit. I don't care for that.🤷♂
Borden does his tricks proper I don’t care what anyone says. Looks 1000 times better than anything Andy did
Such a sick game
I feel like andy's bag of tricks is a little unfair in this type of game. Like, he did all of the tricks correctly of course, but it feels way too straight competitive from him instead of actually trying have a fun game. Not a fan.
Ya he could do some tricks that are actually possible for the other dude to do
i'd pay a large sum of money to never see any anderson again
lmfaoooooo shit I thought I disliked his personality
Andy vs Jake is gonna be a good one
Barnum and Bailey called, they want their Andy back.
Andy for the win!
Lowkey mad at the combos a little but way to hyped for him and wooten to care
What's the name of the trick at 6:14?
This was so crazy best Mano to Mano I’ve seen yet I think
Everyone loves Andy until they play this game against him.
Not sure bro, I find him kind of cocky... I don't know, a guy like Mullen seems very very chill and his little weirdness make him lovable, but the weirdness of Andy make him, for a lot of people including me, a little cringe...
DrZe Yeah, I don’t think he’s really as cocky as he can come off sometimes. I read it more as being uncomfortable socially, which I can’t really blame him for. The dude is pretty much a skate-hippie
@@drze7910 Cocky indeed. After he was getting some recognition I saw him in tampa. It was a few years ago. Dude was just in the way constantly trying to showboat his weird tricks. It's definitely cocky behavior masked with "look at how much fun I'm having."
@@meowforjasper2838 bro yes this 100% and most of it isn’t fundamentally hard it’s jus basic stuff but made to look harder by being different or something
Great to have Andy at the contest, it will be funnier even if he leaves his opponents overwhelmed XD
Andy Anderson is the greatest of all time!
idk, but it would be way more entertaining if he wouldn't resort to some of those more strange bumpy tricks he's frequently doing, like those stalls? ugly af. looks like they've been thought out by some normiekids from the skatepark.
Want to see Andy vs Jamie Griffin
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Esse cara não ficou nem um pouco contente com essas tricks do Andy.
As tricks são tão louca que precisa anotar
Ai sim! hahahaha
What’s up with the x patterns in the coping? Is it supposed to help you grind better?
Every trick that Andy did would be a special
A special, what?
"Is there really a winner though?" - Andy
Is there really a winner though?
Yeah, you. You're the winner.
😆 😂 😆
Andy is an excellent skater, clearly he's able to defend well, but these combos just aren't fair to throw in a contest format like this. The strategy to win this contest is simple. Just perfect 5 tricks no one would ever think to even attempt. And surprise...your competitor won't be able to land any of them because they've never even considered it a trick before (insert shocked pikachu jpeg). I'm not against unique styles of skating. Honestly I like watching people like Andy and Winkowski skate, but in a skate contest like this, their trick selection just doesn't work. It reminds me of the BATB games where Mike V gets to do flat ground tricks. Of course Tyler Peterson can't land a flat ground handstands. So, it ultimately turns into a game of "who won rock paper scissors to decide who goes first?" since neither competitor can land the other competitor's trick.
Sorry for griping. These are fun to watch regardless, but I empathize with the skaters that have to face people with a very unique trick selection.
There were no rules, so he abused it. Man's was competing to win. Plain and simple
Do you know what a contest is 😂
IT became not about the tricks but the order you have to do them win. maybe if they had to be sliding it would work. But too elaborate your example someone could literally not know how to push but work on 5 combos of 50-50- smith - feeble smith-50-50 - then 5-0 then sith, feeble, feeble
do that in five different orders and if he didn't get he right order letter and win.
@@6omni6draconian6 so this works for you could literally not know how to push but work on 5 combos of 50-50,smith,feeble, smith, 50-50 - then 5-0 then smith, feeble, feeble
do that in five different orders and if he didn't get he right order letter and win. plain and simple
@@seltic13 it would be on me if I didn't know to to do those tricks and lost? What was your point haha
Andy is so good,his board control and balance is unreal
both are really good, josh killed it, but andy is just nuts... Altough, am i the only one noticing that you skipped the last offense of josh borden? afther the smith blunt smith rock revert, it was supposed to be josh's turn in offense.... hello??????
I've neve seen skate where they switch offense even after landed tricks but I dig the ability for both skaters to be aggressive
Yeah it's more like how games of bike are played. I liked it. Sometimes in BATB someone will go on like a 20+ trick offense run lol
Andy's tricks (in this contest) break a few unspoken rules.
As someone that doesn't understand skate culture, what rules did he break? It seemed like both guys were doing tricks that were combinations of simpler tricks. Is there a limit to how many can be chained together?
@@KeithSchumacherPortfolio its bad etiquette. imagine a game of skate where one player is doing 3 kickflips on flat in a row then insisting the other player has to do the same. skateboarders dont respect that. "just do one real/cool trick instead of chaining small tricks together"
@@vgrepairs bro its vert skating you can get away with a lot more than just doing one simple trick
Yea I have to agree atleast with the no comply tailslide revert, Andy got to practice the tailslide and then the tailslide revert just to do the actual trick. 2 warm up tricks for the actual trick is bad etiquette
Andy's trick are absolutely blowing my mind. What a show! :D
seriously ? you like the thinker? c'mon
@@mattfontana well, Josh couldn't do it. That was a total gift from the judges. Forget the corny pose, Josh didn't hit the stall at all.
Borden has a dart board with Andy’s face on it now.
poor josh had to go up against the guy using cheat codes in round 1
He looks pissed
Andy's board looks like it's some hybrid between his own signature flight deck and a normal popsicle shaped deck. I'm about to buy a flight deck so would like to get some intel on that!
He's messing with a new deck shape
Me too about to buy his flight deck
This competition seems to kind of get cheezed by the guys who have niche skills. Last time I watched this it was Heimana with his hand plants.
theyre supposed to do tricks the opponent cant, that how it goes dude, i thought that was obvious
Winkowski won a bag full of games with the handplant variations
Half the game and fun is watching
Whole hearted attempts
Keeps everyone humble , No matter your level of mini ramp prowess
I’ll start by saying I watched this game again and I’ll take back calling Andy’s win cheesy. Although all his tricks were pretty niche, but they at least targeted different skill sets.
I would argue the point of this competition is to determine the best overall mini-ramp skater and hopefully have some exciting games in the process. I think targeting one niche skill set, like hand plants or crazy combo grinds, fails to do either of those things. It just shows that they’re competent with one skill set that no one else is practicing. That’s cheezy imo.
Most game of skate competitions generally have an unwritten rule that you start the game off with the fundamentals and work your way up to advanced tricks. Imo that’s a decent way of getting an accurate idea of who the better skater is. Landing 5 tricks that you have on lock and are pretty sure that the other guy has never practiced before is not. Not to say the sort of “niche” guys are at fault, it seems to be the status quo to hit the ground running in Mano a Mano. I think it’s stupid though.
Btw, I thought it was kind of obvious that the current ruleset/direction of these games are kind of missing the mark in terms of what this contest is supposed to achieve; as tons of other people are making the same complaint. ;)
loved this game !
7:53 you can see josh in disbelief when andy says front foot impossible
the simping for josh 7:12 trick is NOWHERE even near what they called legit!@
okay so, Andy is my new favorite weirdo; I love that he has a trick book
this series is tight.
Everyone secretly wanted Andy to lose
Not so secretly, they were throwing shade the whole time.
THIS WHY ANDY MY FAVORITE SKATER FR
How's Andy getting practice slides?
That type of shit is happening in every game, they seem to just be cool with it.
This is what being born is supposed to feel like. Not giving a flying you know what what anyone thinks of you.
Andy “this one is called “I’m the best there ever was”
Mullen, Rowley, Hawk, Hosoi, Penny, Burnquist, Daewon, Gonz, Haslam, MULLEN!
06:36 yeah def not the same trick, Andy's foot was on top of the tail bearing his weight, not doing whatever the judges let that guy do lol. Without the stall its just not possible to do the same trick.
‘just go up and turn into Wonder Woman’ 🤣🤣
These commentators jokes would be funny if i was 13😂
It's really hard to compete with Andy. Like who does a Merlin twist on mini ramp?!?
The skill between them two doesn’t match up, but it was a great game to watch.
Let’s go Andy
You can tell Borden was not happy about the combo tricks.
Yeah he looked annoyed 😑
Wait after T it should’ve been Josh’s turn