Bulletpup wrote:
There is a reason you see pros doing them and almost nobody else...lol
they are hard and a high-risk trick.
I don't think I have ever seen someone land a tailwhip in person. Barspins, yes but even those are pretty rare to see in person.
That seems a bit too exaggerated though.
I personally know multiple people, including myself, that can tailwhip at least on a flyout, and some pretty much everywhere (including air whips - I don’t do them just yet but I’ve tried and I’m getting close). A few of those guys are good enough to be sponsored by some brands, but most are like me, just random riders not even close to being pro.
I live in a decent size city but nothing crazy huge, and I’m not in a country like Australia or the UK with amazing indoor/full of resi skateparks everywhere and lots of riders.
Flyout tailwhips are hard to learn but they’re really not that risky (assuming you wear pads obviously)
I think the main reason why few people, statistically, can do them, is because they don’t actually try them for long enough. The first few sessions of trying them, they’re gonna feel impossible, but if you keep trying you gradually feel that it’s perfectly doable.
So if you’re reading this (you included, Bulletpup!
): try them. Just try them 10 times every session on a flyout, and you’ll eventually feel like it’s within your reach. Took me 6 months that way, and another year to get them fairly clean.
Also to Bulletpup: ride more skatepark and less street, you’re always in the streets in your videos
: . Learning tailwhips on street spots is pretty much impossible unless you have the talent of Garret Reynolds (and even so, I’m pretty sure he learned them in a skatepark). This is true for most tricks anyways (learning to grind rails in a skatepark is less gnarly but it’s way easier and safer to get the proper technique)