ben degros is the only reliable source for skate product reviews

not to pick on this guy, single him out, call a witch hunt. i wouldnt want this guy to feel bad i wouldnt want him to think his video is bad. id hate to just berate this gentleman, tell him his lifes work is bullshit. im not saying hes a bad guy. im not trying to say i hate this guy. i wouldnt wanna imply anything negative

tutorials from back in the day: "alright guys so today we're gonna be learning how to kickflip nosegrind" "so what you're gonna want to do is ride up to the obstacle then kickflip nosegrind.... then roll away clean"

He's back and he's getting more controversial

I like SKATE HACKS. dude caters to more advanced skateboarders and has a super deep bag of tricks, along with a great way of explaining said tricks

He's so gifted at hating

You can’t go wrong with a Ben Degros review

ben degros is the only man on yt i trust with my skate product reviews

now we need YOUR treflip tutorial, we DEMAND it.

Gifted Hater is the veteran skater friend who teaches me the ropes that I never had

I don’t completely agree with the idea that the person giving the trick tip has to be experienced. There are times when someone has a trick on lock to the point where they can’t explain it well because they don’t remember areas in which they had struggled. If someone had just recently dealt with some of these struggles, they might be able to explain mistakes that they learned to avoid. They can be good or ass on either end of this spectrum.

I think this video was much needed , hope those dudes don’t get bummed, I feel like you did a good job about not attacking them personally and sticking to the point you wanted to address and hopefully they see the bigger picture that you’re talking about .

The blind leading the blind is the standard on youtube right now

chad Caruso makes great tutorials although they are for transition/ramp tricks; I've learned a shit ton of tricks because of him though.

I just wanted to say thankyou! I feel we are the same generation of skateboarders and you are doing a wonderful job of critiquing the current times of skateboarding. So much has changed over the years. Thankyou for your hard work and honesty.

Thanks for blessing us with this upload skatethany. Day 2 of asking for the John Hill sesh video.

Your algebra analogy had me in stitches. New to your content; been devouring it. Great stuff.

its like how Dan Corrigan and buddies all released videos about how amazing Tensor Mag Lights are, how they are a game changer but watch their videos and they are back on indies.

I'm glad i found your channel. You're speaking str8 facts, i don't really watch reviews cause of the exact points you stated.🗣💯

I remember building my board for the first time and watching Braille’s tutorial on how to setup a skateboard. When they screwed on the trucks to the bottom of the board he said “Generally you want to do it as tight as you can.” So I did. I ended up screwing them on so tight the screws on the top side started sinking into the wood of my board. After I asked a experienced skater why my screws sunk into my board and he said “Never do that. If you screw them TOO tight it can split the wood on your board.” Thanks to Braille for almost making me destroy my board by watching their misinformed setup video.

* sips Starbucks savagely *

mostly this video just reminded me that Ben is awesome. love his (and your) content!!

when i was learning treflips I could never make them flip properly bc i though "your front foot doesn't do anything" but the day I actually tried flicking I landed my first tre. The youtube tutorials nevery come across the right way

Ben degros is the man! He puts in the work.

"that's a 360 shuv-it" Had me laughing out loud. thanks for that one

are skaters wrong about skateboarding youtubers ?!?!

i'm literally on youtube, watching a skate youtuber, making content about other skate youtubers content, with an audience of people who shit on skate youtubers. "i'm a part of this skate youtuber community, and we can do better" i don't know man, i think with your content, skate youtube has officially peaked.

Ben Degros is rad. Ashton Kelly is rad. Local Joe is rad. Skate Better homie is rad.

We need you Gifted. Thank you for preaching and emphasizing the truth.

There are like 8 wheel companies. Dividing every pro skater in to 8 teams is going to make any wheel company look like it has a good team.

17:52 whoever his friends are... ... are not his friends if they keep letting him think that’s an “impossible” and haven’t said one word about it 😭😭😭

By the way, I understand what you mean with the whole 'beginner/intermediate skateboarder learns a trick and turns bad teacher' argument, HOWEVER I have noticed a lot of pro skaters really can not explain how to do tricks well at all. They mostly do not even know what their muscle memory is programmed to do and as it has been forever since they learned the trick themselves, they just don't remember the struggle or problems they ran into. Someone _just_ having learned the trick would definitely understand what to emphasis. To me a literal skateboarder pro describing the flick in a kickflip as 'just flick the board with your front foot' in a 2 minute video is just a total waste of my time. Stefan Janoski definitely was told to make the video and it's not even a good tutorial at all. There's a lot of 'and now you flip' stuff in those minimalistic videos that's just not helpful at all. I _do_ agree all tre flips have plenty of front foot action going on. People are nuts to suggest there is nothing the front foot does. In fact, I'd say it's at least 25% of a flick and 75% of a back foot scoop. Maybe even more of a front foot flick. Also, for what it is worth, a 360 pressure flip is done very differently. Can't be done with the regular tre flip foot position. And believe it or not, the front foot _does do stuff_ .

You're like the Anthony Fantano of skateboarding culture lol love it

Hey man not gonna meme with this comment, just want to let you know your videos are really good and your take on KZfaq skateboarding content is really refreshing 👍

you were the subject of discussion for a second in the nineclub discord this morning lol. Keep up the videos!

Rad Rat and Ben Degros are my boys. Grosso's Love Letters are the greatest skateboarding KZfaq videos ever made. You're quickly growing on me, though. I'm liking this trend in skateboarding lately where literacy is encouraged and ignorance is addressed directly.

lowkey understand the argument of wanting someone who recently learned a trick to teach them. once you get a trick dialed, you don’t think of the minute details and steps that go into the trick as much as you probably did when you were first figuring them out. a lot of times when people go up to me for advice on tricks that i find second nature to me, i find it hard to give them actual proper advice. however, you don’t want a total noob teaching you either, so i get your point. idk, just a thought.

i audibly laughed when i saw them wiping the wheels down (gotta make them look pre$entable) lol youtube videos are quickly becoming school class project videos. telling their audience what they think they want to hear with all filler..

Do a skate tier list of shoes you’ve skated

lol that ricta one showed up for me too and I clicked it and was disappointed as well. great timing.

Around 6 years ago one of my homies introduced me to reddit. Finding community around similar interests sounded cool so I checked out the skateboarding subreddit and was immediately put off. I don't understand why online skate communities are so wack a majority of the time and I couldn't agree more with your last point. We all deserve better than this.

I always wondered why Ben's videos seemed like a breathe of fresh air. Now I know why

Just found your KZfaq videos today I like the content you post keep it up!

Keep the vids comin homie fire content

Honestly I think it is better when skaters make a trick tip right after learning a trick, because I feel that when you first learn a trick / are learning a trick you do it completely differently than once you've done it for years, people who just learned it have more helpful tips imo. At that point there are so many things that are just muscle memory that experienced folks don't consciously think about that their trick tips will be useless. I agree that there are too many of these though.

I enjoy some of Local Joe's vids where he shares a key element from a good trick tip which helped him.

I love Progress Daily cause it’s a local-ish page which is cool for me, but I got FIRED UP when you mentioned Ben DeGros cause that’s the G

OMG THANK YOU! I despise the 10% review and 90% vlogging or skating. If you, are illustrating a point fine but I clicked on it to receive information about the product primarily. If I wanna watch someone skate I will, watch a skate video or something on a review video, I'm there for the review.

A lot of teachers are just very vague but they think they're being specific. There's the "front foot doesn't do anything at all" bad tip about treflips, a similar "you don't really do anything with your front foot" tip for pop shove-its, "pop straight down" tip for 360 shove-its (wait, no scoop?), and the "delay the flick" tip for just about everything (delay how? sure, don't flick immediately, but isn't the flick the end point of a continued motion?). I like Tom's Tutorials bc he doesn't take any of these things for granted and communicates more specific details

"Guys, that's gonna wrap it up for me" He says while the landing of an unwrapped "impossible" is on screen

I think this video is a great lesson on the importance of having a natural scepticism of things you encounter in your daily life. In my opinion a good thing to analyse when someone is presenting you with something is their motivation behind it. Do these dudes want to give an honest review of the wheels for you, or do they want to get that time metric to over 10 minutes to bump up the revenue

That foot is doing more than dangling. 😂

That’s the exact same vid I watched constantly, what a nostalgia trip (The janoski tre how to)

we really need more wheels in the mid 90 durometers. love the oj 95a nomad formula right now better than any 99a durometer wheels. they are hard enough for speed and to slide but allow a little bit of give to keep your speed when hitting pebbles and changes in banks.

I got some ricta clouds and they're dope, didn't know they were affecting my "street cred"

The Janoski trick tip comes from Transworld's 'Show Me the Way' video, from 2004.

That opening "Hey everybody" is probably the deepest I've heard Joa's balls go.

Lol that Tre flip Video. Tbh the skate video games taught me how to Ollie. Then after that it was just practice

oh man the scoooooooop and flick stefan video is what i watched to try and learn tres back in the day

You and degro are all I need

I really like watching progress daily but they don’t have to convince me to watch them I’m already on board to watch them dink around

Truly one of the better thumbnails

KEEP PUTTING OUT CONTENT DONT STOP

I grew up watching the same Stefan Tre flip tutorial lol! good ol days

they need to test them in the streets! and they havent even broken them in yet. love ben degros

chad caruso , skate hacks , and coyoterobshreds got the best tuts

THANK YOU. 360 flips use the front foot. I have even heard Ellis Frost call what i would call a 360 pressure flip, a tre-flip. He even describes it as using the back foot, and scooping and not even using the front foot. It actually looks like a lot of people are actually doing it that way too, judging from foot action witnessed. Maybe that's just me, coming from a time before it was called a "tre-flip".

tom asta slander outta pocket

The janoski tre video was one I'd always watch as a kid trying to learn them 😂

“This tradition of useless trick tip videos” is so fucking on point 🔥

Thank you for calling out youtube skaters on their bullshit. would love to see a force wheels review from u

I feel like watching some tre tutorials now because the only thing this taught me is how to cleanly scoop tre shuvs.

Best skateboarding related youtube channel ✅

I remember that video of Stefan , then I started seeing his shoe everywhere 5-6 years later and was confused because I knew not everyone knew who he was

That was the least impossible "impossible" that I have ever seen.

THANK YOU.. I too am so sick of hearing "your front foot does nothing" on these tre videos.. It's total BS.. I'd like to see one of these guys do a one legged tre flip to prove it. I dunno. my tres are heavily dependent on my front foot annnnnnd I won't feel shame for that fact anymore 😭😭😭 *Also, Ben D's the man.

The local joe video's where he tries trick tip tutorials are pretty helpful

Old 411s would make fun of trick tips and the skater would say some ridiculous shit. Now that shit was good content 👌

i needed this. thanks for the juice lol

I got the same hat you’re wearing. We’re like twins but in different spots in the country.

lol i can’t believe i sat through that review vid the other day

he's only getting spicier i love it

I actually had an idea to teach people how to do their tricks cleaner. I've been skating a long time and most of my tricks look perfect/effortless. Every time I do a 360 flip at the skate park people ask me how I do it so smooth.

The only tre flip tutorial is the Stefan Janoski one! Classic.

Dan has the best tutorials

Ben Degros support squad ❤️❤️🫂🫂

The pause after he says very hard lmao

Ben Degros, the absolute GOAT.

Gifted make a skate city tier list

Tony Hawk and Koston had the 3 flip covered 2 decades ago lol

ben degros and prof schmitt need to have a podcast together!

yes that is the only tre tutorial you need from jebronski

I'm not so harsh on the skate teachers, but this is mostly right. It is amazing how many of them are saying the same thing without really thinking about it or being very articulate about it. But you watch a bunch of them and you'll usually get the general idea of how to do a trick. Right now I like Tom Rohrer's tips the best. They are way more detailed, way more attentive to physics and balance, they thoughtfully contradict a lot of other ppl, and he provides a set of variables to troubleshoot as personally necessary.

it wasn´t just habitat beeing we need content. it was a dvd from transworld called "show me the way" for example reynolds also taught how to frontside flip. it´s a great dvd with good trick tips. much love and positivity

Watching ppl do the trick is the best tutorial

Bruce Lee clip got me man! :''''D

Did you notice the first dude named all Santa Cruz/NHS Pros when talking about Rictas

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Hey man! Love your points and such. I was the one that filmed the tre flip trick tip! The point of my tutorials and the way I film them is by demonstrating tips that I’ve learned throughout my process of getting them on lock. I would never film a trick tip on a trick that I wouldn’t have 4 out of 5 times. Skating is hard, there’s people out there that need guidance. Trick tips are very repetitive but I like to throw in things people rarely talk about which is why my trick tips kinda get a good amount of traction to my channel.

John hill seems to hate the skate community and is constantly talking down to it