Outsider wrote:
reverse swirling reverse swirl: revstein invented by M. Brocka
Or so he says... I hit this and named this move back in 1998 or 1999. And for the record, it was initially done from a dragon. The combo I was going for, and managed to hit a few times Cool , was dragonstein to revstein.
I remember seeing Mr. Brocka posting vids of his very impressive revsteins from clipper a couple years ago, and not meaning any offense to him, I was a little perplexed when he wrote something like "I think I named that move..."
[edit] felt like offering up a little more back-story on the whole reverse ripstein thing, so... When I first hit the move, I asked Rippin' if he'd ever heard of such a thing, a double reverse swirl ('cause he was the original master of the regular double swirl, hence the name Wink ). He told me that somebody he knew used to do them. Unfortunately I have virtually no recollection of the name he told me, but I was thinking of somebody when I thought up the name revstein. Somebody that Rippin' used to talk about as being a very promising hotshot shredder the likes of Kenny and himself was a guy named Dave Yevin. "Revvin' Yevin". I never met him, but always liked his nick-name. Revvin' actually competed together with Rippin' AND Kenny back when TEAM FREESTYLE wasn't limited to two people. See, there didn't used to be Singles AND Doubles categories, there was Singles and Team, and in the Team Freestyle event, teams could be either two or three people. In fact, if I understand correctly, in even earlier years, they didn't even distinguish between singles and team, there was just one freestyle event that either one person, two people, or three people could enter together. Anyway, Kenny, Rippin', and Revvin' formed a team and called themselves "The Black Hole of Hein." At some point somebody, probably Rick, showed me a video of them competing. I was actually a little disappointed: lots of drops Sad . Anyway, I couldn't remember who Rick said was the guy who hit Reverse Ripstein, and for all I know it was Dave Yevin (though I kind of doubt it) but I just liked that name, Revvin' Yevin, so I kind of named the trick after him. Of course, the fact that it was a REVerse double swirl had just as much to do with it. In any case, I suppose its perfectly obvious that neither Brocka nor I were the first to actually hit the move, but to my knowledge I'm the first to refer to it as Revstein. Anyway, thats the story. I suppose Mr. Brocka might have come up with the same name independantly. [/edit]
