![]() The next day he took a sequence of it with a single shot camera for the Bones Brigade Intelligence Report, and made me do it 27 times in the same spot. Lance proceeded to grab his skate stuff and did a full body jar with his body over the coping trying it. ![]() Before long everybody showed up, saying, “Okay, let’s see it.” So I did, but it wasn’t half-way up the wall as they all suspected it was about four-feet out, which was actually easier for me to see what I was doing. ![]() “Okay,” I thought, “if I could just get past the 400-degree mark I could bail out to my knees and not land on my head.” After a couple dozen tries it happened and I landed one with speed, just like that. McGill recounted his experience in Sweden in a 2004 Thrasher article: McGill was inspired by Fred Blood, who had performed a 540 on roller skates, and only a small number of professionals could successfully complete the trick at the time of its invention-Lester Kasai was the second skateboarder to successfully land the McTwist after McGill. McGill first performed the manoeuvre on a wooden half-pipe in Rättvik, Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch's concrete bowl, called The Keyhole, when he returned to the United States (U.S.). Professional skateboarding McTwist Ī McTwist is a transitional trick that was invented by McGill and consists of a front flip combined with a 540-degree rotation. Mike McGill (born 1964) is an American skateboarder who is best known for inventing the trick entitled the " McTwist", an inverted 540 degree mute grab aerial.
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