What Is The World’s Second Hardest Skateboard Trick?

Almost as son as I finished writing an article attempting to answer the age old question, “What is the world’s hardest skateboard trick?”, I began to hear the question, “OK, what is the second hardest skateboard trick?” Of course, at first I wanted to ignore this question, and I surely didn’t want to find myself one day writing an article about the seventeenth hardest skateboard trick, but as the requests kept coming in, I finally gave in, so here I am, attempting to answer the age old question: What’s the world’s second hardest skateboard trick?

So what’s the answer to this question? What makes answering it so difficult is, to be fair, I don’t think we ever came to a concrete conclusion as to what the #1 hardest trick was. And of course, how do we find out what number two is if we haven’t established the first one? Let’s review. In that article, we brought up the kickflip, and what a difficult and absolutely frustrating experience learning to kickflip can be, and that once the elusive kickflip has been conquered, learning other tricks often seems to feel easier and quicker. But we also said that heelflips are usually considered harder than kickflips, so if heelflips are number one, the kickflip would be a perfect number two.

We also brought up the impossible and the tre-flip, both of which are considered by most to be harder than the kickflip and heelflip, which would push both of those out of the equation, but would that maybe put the impossible at number one and the tre-flip at number two? What about vice versa, perhaps?

We also talked about transition (ramp or vert) tricks, and how some may consider them harder than street tricks. But that begins an entirely new argument. What is the hardest vert trick? And then what is the second hardest vert trick?

In the end, the question about the world’s hardest skateboard trick is just as impossible to answer as the question about the first hardest skateboard trick. So I guess I have no answer. Screw it. The impossible. That’s the answer. Happy?

P.S. Do not send me any questions about the world’s third hardest skateboard trick.

By: Allan Clearpool

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Allan Clearpool is a skateboard blogger and lifelong skateboarder. For more on the world's second hardest skateboard trick, visit TipsForSkateboarding.com