Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
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Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
Back when the trick was in its infancy Teach and I were working on a similar way to end fast circles. Teach went his way and I went mine. The “Pirouette” is what we called it. Why? Because it's safe and ballet like homo good times.
Thomas is to much of a homophobe to say Pirouette on a mic because he thinks he'll lose 10 gangster points each time he says it. And well, Thomas is OG and all, so he decided that.... “Curly Fries” sounded better, real gangster there... Just because he's always thinking about food is no reason to give a trick a retarded food name. That **** died in early 90's when snowboarding was using stupid food names for tricks.
One day he blurted out “death spin”. OK, so us as the Death Squad, Death Spin, I see where he was going with this. But this trick has NO danger to anything but the bike. How the **** is the word death associated with a hyper stall? It's not, it's not dangerous, it's not scary, it's just a very easy thing to toss in a circle set for fun. And it was really meant as a way to transition from fast wide circles to technical ones without just slowing down. Anyway, Death Spin is gay, I'm a homophobe too. I have a real hard time accepting names that make our potentially overly safe sport make us look like pussies.
It needs a new name, if everyone can't call it a pirouette like the two people who started doing it first coined it as, what then? Just not death spin, that ***** embarrassing.
Thomas is to much of a homophobe to say Pirouette on a mic because he thinks he'll lose 10 gangster points each time he says it. And well, Thomas is OG and all, so he decided that.... “Curly Fries” sounded better, real gangster there... Just because he's always thinking about food is no reason to give a trick a retarded food name. That **** died in early 90's when snowboarding was using stupid food names for tricks.
One day he blurted out “death spin”. OK, so us as the Death Squad, Death Spin, I see where he was going with this. But this trick has NO danger to anything but the bike. How the **** is the word death associated with a hyper stall? It's not, it's not dangerous, it's not scary, it's just a very easy thing to toss in a circle set for fun. And it was really meant as a way to transition from fast wide circles to technical ones without just slowing down. Anyway, Death Spin is gay, I'm a homophobe too. I have a real hard time accepting names that make our potentially overly safe sport make us look like pussies.
It needs a new name, if everyone can't call it a pirouette like the two people who started doing it first coined it as, what then? Just not death spin, that ***** embarrassing.
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Re: Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
i agree but unfortunately i have nothing to offer on names. i remember seeing tony d long time ago doing that in sitdown circles and i always just thought of it as an axis spin....
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Re: Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
I actively refuse to call it a Death Spin, it's good to hear you hate it as well
Pirouette, it's a common term in multiple sports, so let's extend it to ours. We already have can cans
Pirouette, it's a common term in multiple sports, so let's extend it to ours. We already have can cans
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Re: Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
the problem with pirouette, is that I dont think anybody knows how to pronounce it."Stationary spin" would be a logical name,but that sounds pretty gay too. mabey "top spin" ? "twister" sounds good.
Last edited by *Tanus*; 01-09-2009 at 06:45 PM.
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Re: Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
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Re: Pirouette, Death Spin... this need to be de-homo'd
I think it's too late to change the name.. But a new one would be sweet lol