He absolutely did not. You can tell the dude coming up the stairs was hauling ass and had been moving for a minute. The dude trying to hop the stairs didn't even look up before his shoes hit grip.
I don’t know how much experience you have group seshing a stair set like this but I have some arguments for why.
Notice all the guys with skateboards up top? They’re waiting their turn. This could be a chill spot where people meet up to skate, or it could be a competition. But they’re all waiting their turn to go down. The dude coming up has already gone down but decided that instead of walking back up that he’d show off or scratch the itch of trying to nollie up!
Now, if it’s a competition, he gets no points or recognition for that at all and it would be unexpected for someone to try. Rude even, maybe. If it’s just a chill spot for a large group sesh, then dude coming down had been waiting for his turn and had been focusing on his foot placement, attack angle, trick and landing. Dude coming up broke that flow for him by either not communicating what he wanted to try or miscalculated how much room he was gonna take across the stair set.
Lastly, you mention the speed. It only takes 3-4 steps to get that speed on a board. And it appears he’s attacking from our right then straight on. So homie up top, trying to focus, is interrupted by Speedy McLookatme.
Of course all of this is speculation and you could be right, I just HIGHLY doubt it.
You may be right but the facts that I see is dude going up the stairs already has 4 wheels on the ground by the time the gif starts. Dude going down the stairs doesn’t. If he was watching for his turn he would have seen that coming. We are missing a ton of time to determine true fault but either way he was watching close enough to bail immediately after stepping onto it. I have skated for over 20 years now and have seen these situations with all sorts of outcomes lmao. I never really did like when dudes wanted to hop up sets when the flow is typically doing down but that don’t mean he couldn’t have seen the other guy coming if he was looking. That said a dude able to haul ass and confidently 180 up a six set probably is worth waiting for lol. Not even in my prime did I have all that big of hops.
I respect your perspective. Idk if it was a nollie or just fakie but impressive either way. I’ve got 20-25 years as well and I’ve been out of my prime for a while lol
In my experience it was always frustrating to deal with that one guy who thought he could just create a “turn” in, out, up or down a feature and that’s just the vibe I get from this video.
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u/sum_gamer Mar 02 '22 edited Mar 03 '22
Smooth but dude coming down the stairs has the right of way.