ben degros is the only reliable source for skate product reviews

@tracemoore3712

2 жыл бұрын

Christian Flores too

@piggytrombone

2 жыл бұрын

skate better too!

@kharyan2

2 жыл бұрын

@@piggytrombone underrated channel. More people should know about him

@NosnebHaon

2 жыл бұрын

@@tracemoore3712 no

@twofatbitchesandabagofweed

2 жыл бұрын

@@tracemoore3712 you are buggin

He's back and he's getting more controversial

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"

@jonathanrice8950

2 жыл бұрын

Ssbsts

@KindFart

2 жыл бұрын

Made this same joke in my head last time I skated 😂

@J0sh351

2 жыл бұрын

when you see the grip tape catch it on the bolts and roll away and then you can take it down your local handrail or street ledge

@natefeldhaus2126

2 жыл бұрын

Was literally thinking that’s probably exactly what Janoski’s was like

@RachelSaks

2 жыл бұрын

Now we have tik tok tutorials that do the same thing but with a aesthetic cute white boy

He's so gifted at hating

@Damoforce

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

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

@yungvamp6439

2 жыл бұрын

Fax!

@umzz17

2 жыл бұрын

most slept on channel

@ixw820

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao was sort of worried that this would get totally clowned on

@lukemate2783

2 жыл бұрын

Plant rider 🙌🏻

@timmorris6456

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, agreed. His trick tips actually sound like his original thoughts and takes on the tricks.

You can’t go wrong with a Ben Degros review

@KevinNiceTry

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah fax. He's the reason I started making videos.

@benjaminlathrop4245

2 жыл бұрын

Except his cariuma review :(

@piggytrombone

2 жыл бұрын

@@KevinNiceTry you too kevin! i really dig your videos!

@KevinNiceTry

2 жыл бұрын

@@piggytrombone Thank you.

@user-hj8yf3hr4i

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminlathrop4245 he did 2 cariuma reviews. One sponsored, and one not sponsored where he speaks honestly and explains why he did a sponsored "review"

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

@didcay2344

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, goes in depth and most of the video is footy, unlike other vlog shit

@Damoforce

2 жыл бұрын

👋😘 hehe

now we need YOUR treflip tutorial, we DEMAND it.

@_.momjeans_9219

2 жыл бұрын

Did he ever post it

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

@leo8049

2 жыл бұрын

Skateboardings god. A true legend who decides what's good and what's terrible.

@kevinalamo4250

2 жыл бұрын

@@leo8049 Isn't that subjective? I think you should be the one deciding what's good and what's terrible for you

@muffin7345

2 жыл бұрын

@@leo8049 kevin has a point man, youtubers aren't your friends at the end of the day you are your own person.

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.

@garrickslings6113

2 жыл бұрын

I agree strongly. That’s why I think so many Ollie tutorials on KZread are so bad, the people teaching them have all the muscle memory on lock. They don’t even think about the little things that beginners will struggle with.

@chance_hollow

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but on the other hand. Someone who can articulate the nuances of a trick better mostly comes from years of experience

@collincophone

2 жыл бұрын

This is actually true in a lot of cases outside skateboarding, one of the first jobs people who get their pilots license get using their license is being a flight instructor. Because they're in a spot where they understand the learning part of getting a pilots license. I think people who just learned something teaching that thing is cool, they can explain the process of learning it better than someone who's just been doing the trick off muscle memory for their entire life.

@flyingvneck

2 жыл бұрын

@@collincophone This is a fact but it does not grant beginners the right to make tutorials for the world. If it's on youtube it should be someone like Stefan. That Stefan clip is from Tranworld's "Show Me the Way" trick tips if anyone is interested

@collincophone

2 жыл бұрын

@@flyingvneck you're right just because they recently learned it doesn't grant them the right to make tutorials, but I'm pretty sure the youtube TOS does.

* sips Starbucks savagely *

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

@jamiepippin3892

2 жыл бұрын

The vlog format is so amateurish but that's what people have come to expect and love. It trips me out how people can making a living from making videos and don't even have to know anything about video cameras or editing.

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

@iamchrisalton

2 жыл бұрын

Really rate Chad

@bobburbanks7718

2 жыл бұрын

Chad's channel is awesome.

@matth22

2 жыл бұрын

also seems like a really good dude

@paulie555

2 жыл бұрын

Im surprised nobody else has mentioned Chad in the comments..I prefer him over Ben degros tbh

@chyeaOGKush

2 жыл бұрын

chad caruso , skate hacks, and coyote rob shreds got the best tuts

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 .

@thegheymerz6353

11 ай бұрын

People who deliberately mislead their audience deserve to "get bummed"

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.

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

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

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

@noobg6908

2 жыл бұрын

local joe do a lots of clickbaiting tbh

@stevesteele8836

2 жыл бұрын

@@noobg6908 maybe. I guess its just that he spits the same shit that I'm thinking, a lot of the time. I guess I'm a confirmation bias D like errbody else in the world!🤣

@6mmshoota

2 жыл бұрын

Skate or die is rad

@kharyan2

2 жыл бұрын

Skate hacks is the goat. Skate sage is also rad.

@joshua0333

2 жыл бұрын

@@noobg6908 probably cuz hes starting out that's the fastest way to grow

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.🗣💯

are skaters wrong about skateboarding youtubers ?!?!

@paganpapa4498

2 жыл бұрын

😸

@sgodraw

2 жыл бұрын

@@paganpapa4498 IS THIS BAE?

@paganpapa4498

2 жыл бұрын

@@sgodraw Ya already know!!

@sgodraw

2 жыл бұрын

@@paganpapa4498 text me!!

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

@Drunkdad699

2 жыл бұрын

Worst teeth in the game

@giftedhater3087

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drunkdad699 british lineage

@Drunkdad699

2 жыл бұрын

@@giftedhater3087 💕😬💕

@bruc850

2 жыл бұрын

@@giftedhater3087 rather shtewpid innit

@bobburbanks7718

2 жыл бұрын

@@giftedhater3087 strong work ethic from the Korean side, fucked teeth from the Brit side.

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.

@bellabear653

9 ай бұрын

That is exactly the bs that needs to stop, selling out your community for a few extra bucks and then thinking that community is stupid enough not to notice you changing back is why most of these dudes can't be trusted.

@chrisschneider850

4 ай бұрын

hes dodgy. cant pinpoint it. but very bright man. but also strangely gatekeeperish and so anti hipster hes the ultimate one. hes like andy warhol "15 mins of fame": he will use or like a person to skate with. get content and move on.

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

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

@Damoforce

2 жыл бұрын

He sure does, he taught me alot about decks

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.

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.

@kevo3985

2 жыл бұрын

Lol back in my time we kids knew how pressure worked, Transworld show me the way came out id been skating 1 year or so I watched it so many times never helped really tho, nothing beats just trying and battling a trick I remember learning trellis the next day on the bus I told my best friend to look out the window when he passed my house again i landed and shot out and ate shit haha good times, fuck I miss being able to skate all day everyday, now when I'm home alone I clear my living room put and skate flat ground haha, was just joking about the pressure comment wish ya well man best to ya

@joedent3323

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevo3985 you need full. Stops.

@kevo3985

2 жыл бұрын

@@joedent3323 I'll add it to the list

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_ .

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 😭😭😭

@18JR78

2 жыл бұрын

So common. I see them at the park all the time.

@SuperBlingCowboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@18JR78 can you check mine out?:)

@Raynoodle

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperBlingCowboy yours is valid

@SuperBlingCowboy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Raynoodle thanks 😊

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.

@beckettwatson6014

2 жыл бұрын

tru, he's bringing us pinnacle of content right here

@antihero898

2 жыл бұрын

But what has your experience with dating skaters been like?

@lukemate2783

2 жыл бұрын

He’s rightfully calling out people who fill there videos with garbage that you have to skip through to get to the part that the title actually describes

@foundmp3689

2 жыл бұрын

love the fact that john watches this channel

@Andynonymous_music

2 жыл бұрын

He’s the breadtube of skateboarding

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 KZread skateboarding content is really refreshing 👍

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

@thebayharborbutcher9115

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly I thought this same thing

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

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

Rad Rat and Ben Degros are my boys. Grosso's Love Letters are the greatest skateboarding KZread 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.

Do a skate tier list of shoes you’ve skated

@pandaballz69420

2 жыл бұрын

He has

@alexclayton1886

2 жыл бұрын

@@pandaballz69420 no he’s done a skate shoe tier list

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..

@NoydusThings

2 жыл бұрын

he was wiping the wheel down to see if the graphic was still on the tread, still a shitty vid tho

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

Keep the vids comin homie fire content

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

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

That foot is doing more than dangling. 😂

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.

@pulsierenderspeer2956

2 жыл бұрын

try slap, the pals are always friendly

@ssjAnnaPaquin

2 жыл бұрын

Thats every subreddit lol

@chrisschneider850

4 ай бұрын

reddit sucks unless you are looking for a fact on something. now with chatgpt getting "questions" correct. you dont need the drama and fake karma of reddit.

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

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

You and degro are all I need

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

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

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

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

KEEP PUTTING OUT CONTENT DONT STOP

Truly one of the better thumbnails

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

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.

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.

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

i needed this. thanks for the juice lol

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

The pause after he says very hard lmao

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best skateboarding related youtube channel ✅

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

I love this thumbnail

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

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

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

This is pretty hilarious 😆

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

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

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

Gifted make a skate city tier list

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

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

The amount of jumpcuts In the first guys clip is wild

Dan has the best tutorials

he's only getting spicier i love it

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

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

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.

@DOODOOBUTT_

2 жыл бұрын

97A Formula 4s have been a game changer for me. 56 mm too so I roll over everything but small enough to still street skate

Watching ppl do the trick is the best tutorial

yes that is the only tre tutorial you need from jebronski

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

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.

doing the lord's work here

My man spitting truth bombs!

tom asta slander outta pocket

@cjhaas5990

2 жыл бұрын

that’s what i’m saying!!

I literally just watched that ricta wheels vid and was like wtf?!?!

Ben Degros, the absolute GOAT.

Lmaoooo the impossible

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

I'm just editing a product review video (Ricta 92a's and Mini logo 95a's), there's some good reviewers out there, but it's surprisingly difficult to find many decent, unbiased, reviews. I thought youtube would be swimming in them.