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Flat 5 vs Rodeo 5

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Ehball
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Hey guys, so lately i have been doing what I thought were rodeo 5s, but when i asked some kid that can throw dub flats, he told me that they were flat 5s actually. They look so similar!

What i was wondering is if anyone has any advice as to what I should do differently in order to throw rodeo 5s. I really want to get them. Thanks.
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K-Thomas
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go upside down.
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B-WASS
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literally. the. same. thing.

trying to differentiate between them seems to me the most pointless thing ever
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-emile-
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Not really a flat 5 you do not go inverted at all , a rodeo 5 your feet are pver your head. The difference is slight though kinda like a dspin7 and a cork7.
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Ehball
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I guess so, but i feel like i go more inverted then if i were to do a rodeo.. they are different though, hence why they have different names.
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-emile-
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That means that thw kid who can do a dub "flat" does a dub whackflip and got you to think your rodeos or whatever you do where you go inverted are really flat spins , they aren't.
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B-WASS
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posting merely for arguments sake. its fair to say that it is fair to say there isn't such thing as a rodeo 3 but wouldn't you say most flat threes today are kids doing an off axis backflip with a japan grab?
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90053
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ahahahahahahaha...these threads [facepalm]
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SEEL
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Everybody has differant ideas on rodeo 5 and flat 5, it is what ever you want it to be.
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Ehball
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O.o ok so that means I am doing a rodeo?! haha okay. Friday when i go out ill flim it. Cuz i have yet to see what it looks like haha. My friends just say it looks sick lmao.
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skifoo
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the difference is like between day and night
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Darth.Maul
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There are flat 5's where your skis are out to the side of you and your back is flat to the ground and there are rodeo's where you skis go over your head. Then there's this gray area between the 2 that people always proceed to bitch about and get in pissing matches on youtube as to whether the tricks was a flat 5 or a rodeo 5 when in reality, they're very similar tricks and sometimes hard to differentiate.
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Ehball
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OK! well ill get it on film and try to differentiate. But thanks for clearing it up. I don't want people to get into pissy fights over this. I was just curious.
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Lemuel
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Flatspins are called that because the rotation is as if you were laying flat on your back and spinning.

Rodeos are inverted, your feet go out to the side and up over your head.

The "flat" 3's that everyone does is a rodeo 3, or a wackflip. It is impossible to do a true flatspin with only 360 degrees.

Kang's are double rodeos, not double flats.
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M.M
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exactly a real flat three should be like a flat 5 but only 3
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Wolfgang.
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I find differentiating them really depends on how and when you open your shoulders during the trick. And ive noticed that sometimes if you over rotate you can either land nose heavy or even tail heavy depending on how you set it and how you come out of it. So they must be different, just not well defined yet.
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Randy_Quench
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this this this
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270on420out
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Flat 5 your head is twisted so u never go inverted. Rodeo you go inverted
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Tikayt
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This thread again... Ok, this time my answer is, as long as you don't know physically how pop and to stomp these tricks, I'd say it's hard to make a straight difference between the two.
Having said that, the difference is pretty huge.
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-emile-
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well yeh , that's the point.
It isn't a flatspin
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