i think we sould have a diabolo.ca poll to rename all the offending tricks!!! no joke
Your like diabolo news reporter Niclas, always bringing out the updates fast. Nice work.
diaboloing is already so unpopular. u start giving offending names and people'll think diaboling is some dark art or criminal/ terrorist sporti think we sould have a diabolo.ca poll to rename all the offending tricks!!! no joke
I'm sure most people here understand if I use the word suicide in a diabolo context that I'm actually not talking about the real deal.
I'm not saying it is inheritently good because it has been around for ten years. I'm saying that the etymology of the cide named tricks is a sound one full of puns and references. Taken in isolation or if an issue is made of it you could garner a more emotional response than I have came across.Does it hurt our sport/art/thing? Not necessarily.Could it hurt our sport/art/thing? It could if the issue is forced.On the Skateboarding/bmx front, I've been out of the scene for a while but I do recall these examplesSkateboarding-Sex change: A kickflip with a body varial. Bastard Plant: A backside boneless to fakie. -we just didnt mention these to our parentsChrist Air: Bs air, nose grab both feet of and extended in the shape of a crucifix, some trouble with the religious types at one point, neatly finessed by the alternative explanation that its Inventor was Christ-ian HosoiGay Twist: fakie 360 with a mute grab, gay because it wasnt the full 540 twist, not my favourite name but I lived with it ( I seem to recall at least thelast two and maybe the first being used by comentators on the Xgames (espn/expn)Sean Penn: the backside (much more difficult) version of a Maddonna (frontside air, nose grap, foot off, slapping the tail on re-entry) the name derives from Penns spousal abuse of Madonna (beats a maddona) again I was not comfortable with this name for especially as unlike the genocide, this name was chosen with malice.SkateboardersNatas KaupasI recall a drive to boycott Trasher magazine in the late eighties/early nineties(?) because it continued to champion a skateboarder who blatently used an anagram of satan as his nickname (religious types again). They backed down upon learning that Natas had been named by his eastern european parents who had been expecing a girl that they had planned to name Natasha, used to the name by the birth they shortened it to Natas.BMXa series of faltalnd tricks from the US with 'spastic' in the name. No fuss in the magazines (us based) I had this explained to me that it was a more acceptable word in the US (I dont know the truth of this). I know that in the UK it is not considered a word to be used in polite society. No backlashA disaster (intentional bike hangup on vert) variation where the front peg was on the coping. It was called the Lockerbie after the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. Again a name chosen with malice and one that did not stick for long.
Whenever I just mess around, in front of strangers or whatever, I try to explain what I'm going to do so that they can understand it better, and thus, appreciate it more, because I'm not performing, I'm just doing it. So I tell them well I'm going to do a suicide, then I explain which kind and what classifies it etc. and nobody so far has even given the slightest offense when I use any tricks with "questionable" names. I figure they don't care as long as it's used as a noun and not a verb, they just don't realize it.