What's the deal with foot-down tricks?

[Alex.Awaida]

I've been seeing a lot of videos lately with people doing flairs and stuff putting their foot down before they do the trick. I'm not saying that it doesn't take skill. But it seems a bit sketchy and doesn't look as good. It makes sense if you do like a street frontflip. But otherwise it seems like you could have just done the trick anyway without your foot down. Any opinions?

 

[alexscooter]

as we both have the same name, im going to have to disagree with you sadly one foot is way harder that you might think it is and making it harder it looks much better and dope

 

[Vlad]

fast plants are getting to be overused now

 

[issac p]

ive been doing fast plant frontside 3's forever and they're still one of my favorite tricks. to me, they're a little harder than normal frontside 3's, especially down sets.

 

[Lohens91]

fast plants are fun and when used right look nice. like i enjoy doing fast plants on the top of quarters/sub boxes. and watch jon knudtson he kills any caveman/foot down tricks.

 

[Rob.]

It depends on the trick, but fastplant flairs are hard.

 

[tyler_magro]

idk i saw my friend do a fastplant disaster today and it looked really dope

 

[Steezeman]

It's just a new fad. Footplant frontflips were all the rage at West this year. Fastplants can be cool on occasion though.

 

[Sockz]

Fastplants are the new thing i guess, if you do them the right way it can look pretty cool actually

 

[Aaron]

Someone do a footplant freewind.

 

[Arnor Smari]

Tyler Bonner used them way to much and it just got boring to see.

 

[.Gerrit]

Now they're played out, like bartwists were and like kickless rewinds will be in a few months.

 

[alfie wisker]

Now they're played out, like bartwists were and like kickless rewinds will be in a few months.

In Perth all everyone does it kickless rewinds its stupid

 

[Travis House]

not diggin' them unless they are used creatively.

the front flip thingies are silly looking.

 

[ConnorD]

fastplant air variations look sick as hell imo. But if all you do is no comply tricks like that one guy everyone made fun of, just stop

 

[RiccardoM]

I love fastplants but no one seems that bothered about them round me. Footless rewinds are the craze in England though.

 

[Michael Hohmann]

i love them, and they add to creativity so it works for me.. you can get very unique with them.

 

[Juan.]

Really? They used to be really popular but they died down.. Are they coming black? YEAH I SAID IT! BLACK!

 

[Jamie Gantz]

fastplant to lookbacks and can-cans are really fun to do, and some other are really difficult in fastplants

 

[CallumR]

fastplant to canplants are fun