losing your virginity is called an impossible in scootering...

me following everystep: my board: ↖️↙️↘️⬅️🔂↙️↪️↙️↙️↘️↙️↪️↩️🔂🔂🔄⬅️↖️↙️⬅️↪️⏫➡️

Giger = Flat ground god

That point about scooping forward and not sideways is life changing

0:11 its vl skate in the background

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.

Love this! I'm sick of seeing 3 shuvs being counted as impossibles

impossibles are my favorite looking trick, there is just something smooth and unique compared to other flip tricks

Finally a channel of a youtube skater that is dedicated to trick tips. I think this is the first of a kind

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.

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!

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

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.

Ich fand den Impossible schon immer einen der geilsten Fliptricks. Tolles Video!

cant tre, 3 shuv, or pressure flip but somehow I can do these (:

Do a front foot impossible tutorial please I can't find one anywhere and your tutorials help me so much

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.

You give the best trick tips man! Thumbs up 👍👍👍👍

Thank you for the tutorial, man! I have to try this! :)

I appreciate the "Howto" videos! They help so much! Thank you (:

I would love to see a hardflip tutorial. Thanks for the video Jonny.

Good looking Impossibles, and good on you for pointing out the difference/traps that cause tre shovs.

Awesome! Straight to the point!

glad you got the wrap most ppl think a 360 shuv is an impossible noobs lol

I like the amount of detail you put into your tips. Maybe an inward heel tip vid next?

Thanks brother, love your trick tips

Such a stylish and beautiful trick. I prefer the front-foot impossible, but a good wrap is beautiful to watch. Nice work Jonny.

great vid! i didn't know the exact motion for the impossible,so that really helped. new trick to try!

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!!

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

Love your channel, Jonny! btw: a "how to: front foot impossible" would be a fine thing!

Very clean impossble flip!🔥🔥

So stinkin clean!

Nice video bro! Continue like this hope u the best

That's an awesome deck!

I learned these before kickflips, surprisingly simple, just stomp and lift up with your back foot.

Dude u rules!!! i love ur videos!!! keep in luck!!! :)

This trick looks so good!!

I'm from chile and i love your videos ❤️

one of my favs

Can’t wait to try it

Aprendi muito assistindo seus vídeos !!!! As explicações são muito boas, muito úteis!!!! Grande proficional !!!!

really glad i got my tips on this from u first trying to get a nice one soon. always seemed so impossible o_^

Such a nice dude good tutorial!

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.

great vid my man - im gonna learn these now! make a video where you do a reverse ghetto bird (inward heelflip + front 180)

Got this sussed but I tend to end up doing 360 shovits on the most times. Thanks bro for the positioning 👍

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.

This was the best impossible tutorial!!

*looks super confident* "that was scary." 😂😂

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!

Thx this helped me a lot

Bro this worked so good for me to learn it

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.

You have the most beautiful impossible. I’m watching over and over in slo mo

Aye shout out johnny for teaching me this ima try them tomorrow😁😁 lets see if i could get em. Btw i actually figured it out with thia video, thank you

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.

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

I LITerally started to practice this trick :)

Never pressure flipped in the 90s but Ed Templeton made impossibles look so dope.

i love it when you scoop it with your hands

I sure as heck will go out and try tomorrow

Thx for this good „how to“ video 👍

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.

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 (:

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.

I have heard that tre flips, impossible and back 3's are all on your back foot scoop

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

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.

Yeah please make a pressure flip video!!

Nice new song in the background :)

what a beautiful trick, honestly.

There's not much front foot impossible how to's on YT, so yeah, that would be cool!

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.

Ca you do A tutorial on hard flips/ ghetto birds what do you do with the front foot?

sick very helpfully

Learnt my first impossible yesterday!

360 flip tut please 🔥😻

Awesome video

You make it look easy

maybe one day I will unlock this trick!

Front foot impossible trick tip... PLS!

Impossible late flip 🙌

Merci für das super Video. Isch i de 90er immer eine vo mine liebschte Tricks gsi, han en aber nie richtig guet herebecho. Jetzt 30 Jahr spöter wotti en mal wieder aagah, natürlich mit dinere Hilf. 😃

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.

Nice type of video

I can barely kickflip but i don’t know why but the motion of the impossible I find it really easy.

Hey Jonny! How about a Varial flip tutorial? Or maybe a BS Bigspin..

i just learned these and its the funnest damn thing on the planet.

richtig gut erklärt👍👍👍👍

watching in 2019 dope

How to nollie inward heel

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

My first few tricks my first year Kickflip pop shuv Casper flip and Casper slides I could never really slide much and was hard to flip out of

i learned this before i learned any type of flip 2 years ago :D

Thank you

siiick!

hardest trick im currently learning at the moment

Thank you,

This my goal trick! That way I have done the impossible 😁👍