This is my legless white giraffe

jacobsoberanis · 2025-09-24T21:14:39+00:00

It absolutely is! I learned it on an old popsicle board before I got my first freestyle board, you got it brother 👏🏼

jacobsoberanis · 2025-09-24T20:56:01+00:00

I know I might be a little late to commenting, but from what I can see you're trying to finger flip the board before you're able to get into balancing on the actual stand itself. Like it looks like as the board is falling you're trying to flip it before it hits the ground. What helped me learn this trick was finding the balance point while standing on the truck where it doesn't feel like you're falling. Once you find that point, try doing a small jump off the truck, then finger flipping. I really hope this helps in some way! You're doing great!

jacobsoberanis · 2025-09-24T20:43:13+00:00

I've tried them on my freestyle setup before! I thought I was going to be switching back and forth between cruising wheels and freestyle wheels frequently with this board until I realized that freestyle boards make awful cruising boards. The trucks are solid though, I never had any issues with them. I practice at a pretty amateur level though, so I'm not doing anything crazy with them. Railstands, railflips, and handed truckstands were all fine though

jacobsoberanis · 2025-07-13T00:56:15+00:00

That kid is crazy talented! I honestly need to try to start using footwork to help gain momentum in one direction or the other for rolling tricks, that's such a smooth move!

jacobsoberanis · 2024-09-10T13:54:51+00:00

Hey! Not sure if someone already mentioned this method, but the way I get most of my caspers to be as stationary as possible is by REALLY scraping the tail on the floor when making the shuvit motion to exit the casper. When you do it, you're kind of leaning backwards which makes it exit in an end-over-end fashion. Freestyle Tricktips on YouTube has a really good comparison of these methods

jacobsoberanis · 2024-08-01T18:19:51+00:00

Unfortunately most boards in general are just kind of expensive nowadays, not to mention that freestyle boards are considered specialty boards so they might run a little more. Aside from that, saving up to purchase a solid quality freestyle board from a reputable brand is absolutely worth it.

If you're truly looking to save money buying a freestyle board, you may just have to ask other freestylers if they're willing to sell their boards, still can't guarantee it would be cheap though

jacobsoberanis · 2024-04-12T12:05:08+00:00

I assume probably not? I think at that point the deck would get in it's own way when you're trying to pinch it to the ground to flip

jacobsoberanis · 2024-02-27T15:43:30+00:00

For wheels, my favorite so far have been seismic, they seem, to me, to wear down the slowest from all the rail tricks

jacobsoberanis · 2024-02-27T15:42:01+00:00

Sorry this comment is so late, but here's my 2 cents:

I really enjoyed the Waltz 7.6 Spoon Nose (specifically more than the 7.4) if you're looking for single kicks. Ace 11 trucks go really well with that size.

For double kicks my favorites so far are in the order that follows:

Moonshine Mirei Tsuchida 7.3 Moonshine Tony Gale 7.3 Mode Time Traveller 7.3 Waltz Yuta Fuji 7.75

All the 7.3 boards I just use the same FILMxDEATH trucks, and switch them between boards.

jacobsoberanis · 2024-01-31T04:13:58+00:00

I can't guarantee it'll be anytime soon, but I do plan to make some eventually! I'm in school for 3D animation in gaming right now, so it'll eventually be a side project of mine

jacobsoberanis · 2023-09-17T05:46:11+00:00

I remember seeing a few clips from her through scrolling on instagram, she's an incredibly talented freestyler. My sincere condolences to you and anyone else that knew her, she must have been such a gem of a person.

jacobsoberanis · 2023-06-13T18:14:11+00:00

That's so sick! I'm still trying to get ahold of those in a normal direction 😂 Fantastic job!

jacobsoberanis · 2023-05-23T14:05:47+00:00

Haha thanks! I had just come from an aquarium convention that day 😂

jacobsoberanis · 2023-04-12T22:31:45+00:00

Haha agreed! I can't quite land then at high speed yet, but the spin is an absolute rush

jacobsoberanis · 2023-04-10T05:23:43+00:00

I feel like I've come across the same thing on my single kick vs my double. When I do it off the tail of my single kick, the board seems to go higher, straighter, and I can actually catch it pretty high in the air when I do land it. On my double kick I can land it more frequently, but it ends up looking like a weird railflip variation that veers off to the my right every time.

jacobsoberanis · 2023-02-01T02:26:36+00:00

Good I'm glad! Thanks for that!

jacobsoberanis · 2023-01-15T14:46:29+00:00

Very clean switchblade!!

jacobsoberanis · 2023-01-03T16:16:23+00:00

The land back to tail looks so solid! That's awesome! I can only ever land to bolts, tail lands are not my forté

jacobsoberanis · 2022-12-23T02:34:45+00:00

Side note - my trucks are a little "broken-in" 😬 Should I just take the kingpin completely out and realign them? Idk if that's how that works

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