Torque-styled tricks

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 18 Oct 2004 02:06

I really like all torque-styled tricks. I've been wondering how much of variations there can be? Torque ending to Dyno, to Blender, to Flapper... Miraging Gyro Toe...
Let's hear all the torque-styled tricks you guys know. And just the odd ones, we all know Mobius and Marius.

Hit one new (for me) today: Torque style Blazing Osis.

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 18 Oct 2004 08:29

Stepping and torque can go together better than one would think, before or after. Grave digger is quite an intense trick, and landing a torque and going straight into a stepping set can look so good if you add some flow.
But tricks during a torque....?
How about an illusioning torque
Clip>op out>osis
instead of clip>op in>osis
What the heck is that called?

max · Post by **max** » 18 Oct 2004 08:44

How about an illusioning torque
Clip>op out>osis
instead of clip>op in>osis
What the heck is that called?

that's called a flux, or bubba flux, or pdx flux or other names no doubt depending on how you do it, where you set it from etc..

I'd just call it a flux

as for torque variations.. I don't know of many.

Maybe a torque ending in frigid osis instead of osis.. or has anyone toyed with doin a double dexed torque a bit like what dadacurve is to drifter?

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 18 Oct 2004 08:50

Reverse Miraging Osis = Flux

Slowsis · Post by **Slowsis** » 18 Oct 2004 09:03

How about a torque which you catch in heel and carry around like an osis?
I've done it myself but it is more like a miraging heel stall to heel wrap around than one fluid trick.
But yeah.. torques are the s**t.

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 18 Oct 2004 10:12

After hitting Whirling Osis I tried also Reverse Whirling Osis today - that would be a badass, but it doesn't look very cool though

Has anyone hit Double Flux? That would also be sick!

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 18 Oct 2004 10:15

I jokingly called a frigid torque a toque.

to get that you have to be canadian I think. toque is like.. a beanie.. a winter hat.. a toque! and so a FRIGID torque makes sense as a toque.

I'd like to see a traditional torque ending with a rev swirl.

sampotter · Post by **sampotter** » 18 Oct 2004 14:46

Jackhammer (miraging dyno)
Voodoo Torque
Big Apple Sauce, Chili Phili Sauce, Anonymous (whatever the distinction is :-p )

Also, isn't it reverse torque, not flux? I was under the impression flux was -atomic- osis. My guess is that's what it originally was, and then since flux is a great name and very suitable, it probably took its place. Am I right?

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 18 Oct 2004 15:47

Sweet... Pdx Miraging Symp Torque! That sounds so sweet!

Outsider · Post by **Outsider** » 18 Oct 2004 19:08

Also, isn't it reverse torque, not flux? I was under the impression flux was -atomic- osis. My guess is that's what it originally was, and then since flux is a great name and very suitable, it probably took its place. Am I right?

Sorry Sam, but Flux has been around since well before anything was being called "Atomic" with the possible exception of Atom Smasher. Atom Smasher not withstanding, nothing else had yet been described as "Atomic" when Reverse Torque was officially Flux. In fact (and I may be mistaken on this bit) I believe that way back, the name of reverse torque was actually "Influx" and over the years the "In" got dropped because people tended to simply abbreviate the name of the trick. And its a good thing, too, since Flux is an "Out" dex. It would just be confusing if the name of torque with an Out dex were labled with that "In" prefix. If I've got any of this wrong, someone please correct me (Executioner?)

If you think about it, Torque is a pretty old move, as advance freestyle moves go (it goes back to like, the late 1980's or so), and doing it with a reverse dex probably didn't take long for somebody to come up with. "Atomic" as a set, on the other hand, is well under ten years old. I think it was pioneered by some shredders from Texas in the late 1990's, most notably Mr. Piltz. I remember in 1998 I thought that Legbeater was one of the hardest moves I could think of, and then I went down to Southern Regionals in Dallas that year and Eli and Eric and Kyle were doing it paradox. Whoa!

sampotter · Post by **sampotter** » 18 Oct 2004 19:50

Ahh, cool, thanks for the information, Jon. Always good to have something like that cleared up by some one who knew what was going on from experience.