Video summary
The video documents a skateboarder's determined yet frustrating attempt to master the "blunt to fakie" trick on his local mini ramp after returning from a trip to the south. Having not skated for a couple of weeks, he feels physically congested and slightly dizzy, which complicates his efforts to regain form. His primary goal is to execute a clean pop off the coping and land smoothly back in the transition without hitting the front trucks, a maneuver he has attempted multiple times over the last few years but consistently forgets or fails to commit to. He notes that while he can comfortably perform precursor tricks like deck-to-fakie or ollie-to-fakie, the specific timing required to pop out and immediately return is where his execution breaks down, often resulting in him bailing early or losing balance due to hesitation.
Throughout the session, the skater struggles with mental barriers and environmental distractions that prevent him from committing fully to the trick. He identifies a lack of commitment as a major issue, feeling that he hesitates on the coping before popping back in, which causes the board to spin sideways in the air. The presence of many children and their parents at the park further disrupts his flow; he worries about safety if his board were to fly out and hit someone, so he eventually stops trying while the kids are around. He contrasts his own inability to push through fear with a young boy on a BMX bike who overcame terror to successfully roll down the ramp, leading the skater to reflect on how adults often forget to approach challenges with the playful bravery of a child.
After failing repeatedly and feeling like a "chopped unk," he decides to stop trying for the day and returns home to eat lunch and film a promotional segment for his brand's new hats. Despite the commercial break, the core narrative remains focused on his personal struggle with the trick and the psychological aspect of fear versus commitment. He acknowledges that his ADHD brain tends to check out once he gets into a stall, making it difficult to maintain focus long enough to land the move cleanly. Ultimately, the video serves as both a tutorial on the mechanics of the blunt to fakie and a candid reflection on the importance of overcoming hesitation and treating life's challenges with a sense of playfulness rather than self-imposed pressure.
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What's up, guys? I just put up to the
local right now on the shaped board
again. I got some tricks I'm trying to
learn today in the mini. I haven't
skated in a couple of weeks, probably,
since we took that trip to the south. I
sound a bit congested. I'm not sick. I
just I'm congested right now.
But, yeah, no one's on the mini, so I'm
super keen to get warmed up and then go
for some of these tricks. Uh what I
really want to learn is blunt to fakie,
but
we'll see how the day goes.
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>> There's like no way for me to really
ease into this trick. There's no easing
into it. I seen a video of a guy doing
it and how he popped like there's a
certain amount of pop for this trick and
I've seen people literally pop 2 in and
then just manual fakie the rest of the
way to avoid the front truck hitting the
coping.
I don't have that board kind of
dexterity yet. Um I've seen people pop
literally from the coping pop into the
transition at the bottom to like really
clear it. I want one of those in
between. I want to be able to pop and
then just land here and come back, but
I'm stuck for a few reasons.
Um
and bear in mind I've done this trick in
the past. Like Dan told me this trick
probably like 2-3 years ago and I've
learned it twice since then. Always
forget it. But I feel like just having
that trick is so steezy and it's
something I want to add to my mini ramp
bag. So I'm just trying to get this
blunt fakie, but I've done the pre-da
precursor pre- whatever it's called the
tricks you do beforehand. I can deck or
rock to fakie and then I can do the old
like you know when you lift your front
trucks over the coping like this and you
just come back down fakie. I've done
that and I can ollie to fakie and those
feel really comfy, but something about
being up on that coping and then popping
back in
um I've kind of bailed this so many
times I'm used to putting my back foot
down or taking my back foot off and
that's causing the board to go sideways
in the air.
I'll show you guys what I mean right
now.
I pretty much bailed like straight away.
As soon as I got to here I bailed. I
just want to get this.
That's all I want. Just little pop and
come back in, but
yeah, I'm not going to blame it on not
skating or not doing cardio cuz like
when you don't do any when you don't
skate for a bit
you kind of get dizzy from A holding
your breath and B just the motion of
skating back and forth especially on a
mini ramp or going in circles you get a
bit dizzy, but
I keep forgetting to breathe. I need to
like
cool cool it and just breathe, but this
is yeah, like I really want to get this.
Ah.
See how I kind of I fumble getting into
this?
Like I just want to get in clean. I like
when people get in quick and come
straight back out. So steezy, but I feel
like I'm sitting there like gathering my
thoughts for a second. I just need to
pop it back in. It probably looks so
chill like on the camera like I'm
probably like really almost doing this
but I'm just not committing. I feel like
that's probably the [crying] problem.
But it's scary to commit, you know?
And like
your instinct would tell you to try this
on like a little 3-ft quarter pipe but
it's actually harder cuz you don't have
that that like distance and leverage to
like pop back in.
This kid's mom is forcing him to ride
down the rolling right now.
Kind of sketchy cuz I don't think he
should do it. All right, what I got to
do is blunt to fakie, right? That's all
I got to do. Someone argue to try to do
blunt to rock but I feel like that's
going backwards in a way.
Oh, one kicky.
Oh, okay.
I kind of that time I kind of popped and
like looked back over my back shoulder.
Kind of made me feel way more comfy.
Oh, I let it I kind of was like this.
I need to remember base plate is the
spot you want to be in.
Feel like I'm getting comfier with it
but it's just
just that.
Just a little baby pop.
I'm kind of not even like worrying about
my front trucks right now. What I'm
worrying about is like
keeping solid on my back foot and giving
it a good pop and just cuz once you get
to here it's literally all ollie to
fakie. That's all it is.
I'm trying to coach myself right now to
do this.
Oh, okay.
That's I did the
front foot off front foot on back foot
off one.
I feel like I landed like pretty smooth.
I just took my back foot off.
Oh, oh Oh, almost ow.
I hurt my kidneys.
That almost feels scarier than just
committing.
Honestly,
that right there, like having to like
Oh.
Kind of knocked the wind out of myself,
honestly.
Coming back in like that, I like landed
really hard and like I felt the shock
wave go up into my kidneys.
I've got to commit to this cuz this is
like it's giving me a headache landing
like this.
Oh, that was a good pop, I felt like.
Come on, dude. Seriously, I'm going to
put a timer on my phone for the next 15
minutes. If I don't commit to one, I'm
I'm barring it, honestly.
Ah.
Each time I bail, I'm like
smashing my board into my left ankle.
I don't want to pause. I'm like pausing
too long on the coping.
I'm about to pass out right now.
Can't do it right now. I've got all
these kids screaming and carrying on and
being loud and
it's putting me out of my flow.
I don't know what's up with today, but
it's just like all the moms and kids are
at the park, which is fine. It's a
beautiful day out here. This isn't a
private park. Like I'm happy for kids to
be able to go outside and play in the
sunshine, but I wasn't going to push it,
you know? They have every right to be
there as much as I do. I'm not going to
be a big baby about it.
Despite the circumstances, but the main
kid that was like super scared to do the
roll-in on his BMX bike, he's probably
like 4 or 5 years old. He ended up doing
it and he ended up doing it by himself
and he went from like literally being in
tears, trembling voice, scared to like
banging on the other kids and being like
"Get out of the way, I'm coming through,
Mr. Turbo." Woo, and like he was like
just g'd up and yeah, like I said, he
was able to face his fear today, but I
wasn't. And that's uh bit of an ego bash
there for myself. I feel like the key in
life is to treat life as playful as a
child, like this kid has.
And uh that's what a lot of people
forget, including myself, but
hopefully I can apply that to more areas
of my life. I'm just I'm just babbling
right now because I couldn't get this
blunt to fakie. Low-key, I'm kind of
like semi-waiting for the all the moms
and kids to roll out so I can go back in
there and just try to commit to one, but
Murphy's Law, as soon as you leave, they
start to leave, too. So, we'll see if
they come back in the park or not. I
think the main thing for me for like
trying to get this trick in this park
right now is like all the children
around and like they were standing there
at the mini ramp watching me skate and
like if my board comes out of one of
these blunt to fakies and goes flying,
it's going to nail one of them in the
head. I want to try to avoid that whole
kind of drama, so I just canned it for
now, but let's wait and see, the day is
still young. Come on, Mitchy, teach me
how to blunt fakie.
All right, so all the children have left
with their parents or their moms, I
should say.
They're out of here. This is my time to
just lock in and
this is my time to shine right now.
Hopefully, is that recording? Yes, it
is. Come on. Come on. Come on. Show me
the money. Show me the money.
COME ON.
OH, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN IT.
WHY DOES IT KEEP FLIPPING?
SERIOUSLY.
All right. I'm starting to lose it.
All right. I'm like I'm checking out
like
my ADHD brain is like checking out. Like
once I get into the one stall, I'm
already like checked out. So
I need to stop before I
hurt myself.
This might be it. I might be a chopped
unk right now. That's how I'm feeling.
I'm feeling like a chopped unk at the
moment.
So I'm back home right now. Had some
lunch. It was actually a kind of nasty
lunch. I have these smart dogs. They're
like vegan hot dogs.
I put two of them with some bread and
some tomato sauce and mustard.
And it was nasty. It wasn't good, but
I've got something to share with you
guys. So basically, I'm looking at
myself in the reflection of the car. Um
I've had these hats for like a season
now or two seasons maybe. Some Evening
hats. They're the ones with the stars on
the front.
And I have a handful of the
red snapback Pitbull
um
hats, too.
So
I'm trying to clear up some space
because And then this is the last truck
of the Pitbull, too. Trying to clear up
some space because there's some new
stuff that I've been wanting to do for
this summer season for Evening. Head on
over to eveningmob.com.
Grab one of these. You'll get some um
free stickers and stuff.
So yeah.
That's pretty much it.
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