Would you consider this a Mobe??? pic attached

(aneal000) · (aneal000) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 08-18-2003, 10:42 AM

Pretty cool picture... a 360 and he gets inverted... looks like a mobe to me!

mobe

(bruce) · (bruce) **Join Date: Feb 2002** 08-18-2003, 10:44 AM

Looks like a miracle he didn't die to me.

(rock_n_boardin)

And he threw it twice, pulled it clean the second time!!!! CRAZY

(timmy) · (timmy) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 08-18-2003, 11:31 AM

looks more like an off axis 3 to me.

(blabel) · (blabel) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 08-18-2003, 1:25 PM

I agree with Tim. There is no spin at all. It apears to be a half flip/half spin rotation.

But I will say that is one of the craziest things I've ever seen.

(timmy) · (timmy) **Join Date: Jul 2001** 08-18-2003, 1:44 PM

i will agree. those guys are absolutely nutz

(nautiair) · (nautiair) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 08-19-2003, 8:22 AM

looks kind of like a back roll to me

(kristian) · (kristian) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 08-19-2003, 8:30 AM

It looks kinda barrel roll like. I wouldn't call it a mobe, but its definetly sick.

isaac_d_funk 08-19-2003, 10:17 AM

They call it an inverted flat spin!!!

(salmon_tacos) · (salmon_tacos) **Join Date: Jan 2003** 08-19-2003, 1:31 PM

Off-axis 3 or off-axis back flip? Interesting...they're the same thing.

You can try this: Cut out a little motorcycle, stick a coffee stirrer through it, and twist the stirrer 360 degrees.

If it's perpendicular to the paper (90 degress from vertical), you get a flip.

If you tape it to the side (vertical), you get a 360.

Stick it in 45 degrees from vertical and you get this thing.

I would argue that since the axis in this case is greater than 45 degrees from vertical, this would be an off-axis back flip.

zanek 08-19-2003, 1:44 PM

ahh! who cares what it is! that was the bomb ass thing that night! ( yes i was there! ha kiss my ass !) but ya, dude...watching 2 people throw it was soo cool...and 1 dude the 2nd time getting it perfict, that was GNARLY!

(thane_dogg) · (thane_dogg) **Join Date: Jun 2002** 08-19-2003, 6:32 PM

a mobe? no. I'd say an off-axis 360. He just whips it out and keeps whippin' it. It's a 360.

(dave) · (dave) **Join Date: Apr 2002** 08-19-2003, 10:04 PM

my wife saw this and tried to explain it to me. seeinf=g the pics in this post ...it looks like an inverted 160-180 adn that is all...but it is incredible even if that is all it is. very stlyish...don't worry about seeing that from me anytime soon!

(goinbigg17) · (goinbigg17) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 08-20-2003, 12:48 AM

anyone see the big air comp?? deegan's "360 backflip", i don't think im buying it. i personally think it looked like he just couldn't mak eup his mind on what to do.

(sdboardr99) · (sdboardr99) **Join Date: Aug 2001** 08-20-2003, 2:25 AM

Yeah, I agree with you Nick. In the big air comp he did a plain backflip that was a little off axis, nothing more.

Did you see the 13 year old kid that one the street skateboarding? Pretty impressive run for someone so young and he has to be stoked with the money - the X Games pays really well!

(goinbigg17) · (goinbigg17) **Join Date: Jul 2002** 08-20-2003, 9:16 AM

yea that little kid was dope. i was amazed with what i saw of him. i wish i was 13 and doing that well in a sport. preferabally would be wakeboarding.