Matt tries not to fall over
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2023
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Editor: Elliot Gough
Location producer: Jacob Trueman
Audio mix: Standard Studios
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One day, we're sure Matt will blow the budget on something not-wholesome, but today is not that day.
wait a second this wasnt pinned earlier
Yeeees!!! Great work
impossible. matt is simply too wholesome.
No one believes it, but everyone will be shocked when "Matt Makes A Porno" shows up in their sub box 😂
matt is always wholesome
Matt's little giggles whenever he successfully made a small improvement gives me so much life
This. So much this. Appreciate the small things.
So wholesome!
Yeah, in my mind it’s the sound he makes when he unlocks an achievement
That's what makes him the bounciest man on the internet.
"Eeeheeheehee"
Tom empathising with Matt's fear of going faster is a good callback to him learning how to ride a bike.
not sure I'd call it a "callback" because its not really an intentional reference its just his actual life experience
@@noogidoo2217 I get the feeling Tom intended to directly reference the biking lesson there, but didn't get the chance before the conversation moved on. I'd still call it a callback.
I thought it was a callback to Tom getting over his fear of roller coasters. Looks like I have more watching to do.
@@dominateeye I kinda get what you mean and I think he was referencing the experience, I just mean that calling it a "callback" makes it sound like its an easter egg for the viewer, whereas I think he was just talking about his own experiences for reference. I didn't mean to say that wasn't what he was talking about, just that he's an actual man, not a character, and not everything he says is a scripted reference.
(The original comment was a bit unclear to be fair, and I apologise if any of that came off as harsh, that want the intention)
I thought it was about Tom's jetpack
Amazing how the guys have more genuine fear for Matt’s safety when he’s skateboarding, than when he’s piloting a helicopter
well, with the helicopter shoot, the fact that he showed up should be a good indicator that it went well. with a concussion however sometimes you just can't tell...
5:20 is when we discover Matt's brain is zero-indexed (0, 1, 2, 3) instead of one-indexed (1, 2, 3).
Everything Matt has done thus far, has been a test of his concentration and control of his balance to some degree.
He's really taking advantage to get the experience and take as many lasting lessons from it.
We've got like 3 whole nickels now
@@buggibii "Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened *3 times.* Right?"
What sort of spinny thing will be involved in Matt’s next adventure?
@@ragnkja matt invents the wheel
Hats off to Hector for being an excellent teacher!
I'm so happy Matt's wearing all that gear and looking just a tad bit silly in it, but he owns that, and I love him for it. Be silly and do whatever, live your life like someone in a fabulous shirt.
I first skateboarded, got to the stage Matt is at at 10:00 and fell off onto gravel and ended up with bloody hands and knees, ruined trousers and a painful drive home. Recommend the gear.
When learning a new such sport, protective gear is always recommended.
NB: if you ever actually _use_ your helmet rather than just wear it, get a new one because the one you were wearing is spent. There might not be any visually obvious damage, but it’s no longer as effective protection after it’s been through an impact.
Trans safety gear 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
@@hellbach8879 I noticed that too! It's really cool that Matt can be casually open about being non-binary on this channel.
Protective gears looks silly and quirky until you have your first fall on speed. Never let appearance dictate your safety.
TIL that with everything Tom has done, and everywhere he’s gone, he didn’t know how a skateboard turned. It’s so awesome how someone who has learned and experienced so much, still has seemingly infinitely more to still learn. What a wondrous existence we have!
I like that he immediately wanted to understand the physics involved.
@@grutarg2938 That's very much my thoughts too. And it seems so accurate of Tom to immediately want to know the physics behind the motion thing he just learned existed
Chris's episode: wholesome conversations about drag and gender identity and such
Matt's episode: a minute of ball jokes
This series is taking unpredictable directions. I love it!
this is why i love these people
Yeah and all Tom did was walk around a tacky tourist trap, the worst one by far.
Don't forget that Tom made it to Hell and back.
@@collieman it was cute!
@@colliemangiven that Tom is the one who has been (almost) everywhere and done (almost) everything, I think it's sort of nice that his adventures are just a tiny bit lame compared to the others. Makes him look humble, I guess.
There's a theme with everything these guys have been doing so far:
Tom - Pedestrian/Tourist Thoughts
Matt - Actively learning a new abilities he has (mostly) no experience in
Chris - Practice new skills or Trades, either himself or of others
Gary - Visiting People in working machines/jobs of interest while watching them do their thing
May I add for Matt --- spinny things are involved. (clay wheel, helicoper, skateboard)
That does sum them up quite nicely
Except Chris, Chris seems to be impossible to boil down to a single sentence
will Gary be making another bacon sandwich though?
I like how it reflects their public personalities. Matt is excited about everything, Gary creates a bit of chaos, Chris is a huge enigma, and Tom has just done so incredibly many things that his adventures are comparatively mellow.
@@FiXato Next week: Gary visits the bacon sandwich factory
I love matt's shirt haha. honestly, as someone who would find it really tricky to give active stuff like this a go, i'm so impressed. it's so wholesome and wonderful to watch someone learn a new skill :3 and his little giggles 😭
i need me that shirt
Dunno if you'll see this comment, but I was up here thinking something similar two months ago ("oh that's amazing that Matt can do this I didn't expect that of him but still there's literally no way someone like ME could attempt this without breaking EVERY bone").
As of last week I am learning how to skateboard. And as of this afternoon, I can roll down little hills and zigzag a bit and jump on and off fairly confidently. I'm not joking when I say this video literally taught me how to skateboard, it's f*cking amazing
(Caveat that I have no relevant physical disabilities other than a whiny back, obvs there are situations where you literally _cannot_ skateboard and that's a different deal - I just got the vibe from your comment that your situation's kind of like mine and it just _seems_ absolutely inconceivable.)
He became Sir Tony of Hawksville!!
There's something very British in the humour of Tech Diff. Silly, gentle and erudite. Love it.
And also the ball gags
@@Kej1m ha ha, ball gag
It's like they are British or something
We're learning so much about Chris this season. He did Rocky Horror Picture Show, _and_ he's a rad skateboarder.
Man, Tech diff is so absolutely wholesome. Watching these guys 1) learning wholesome things, 2) being very vulnerable to eachother, doing things they will look a bit silly doing etc, and 3) being 100% supportive of eachother… I mean, most of the things I see and read any given day just depletes my faith in humanity, but watching this show recharges it. Like a balm for the soul.
"mid-life crisis" Matt says while not even looking 30
well he is 36, according to himself in the video
He looks early thierties
I was 36 when I bought what I still refer to as my "mid-life crisis" vehicle.
@@CDCHexaku Which would place him within a year of the expected halfway point for males in the UK born then, so pretty much bang on.
Yes but _how wide is the middle_ (looks down at own midsection)
I adore Matt's little giggle.
More so than just it being a fun thing.
Each time Matt takes his 'baby step', and manages to accomplish the task he previously assumed he would be too fearful to do...he giggles.
It's an audible 'tell' that he's not only learning, but that he's proud of himself for doing it at all. Regardless of the scope/scale of the achievement.
It's so endearing!
I love this stuff. Normalize men supporting each other
Opens CZcams for lunch.
Home page.
Matt Skates.
Life's good.
As someone who skateboarded a lot 2 or 3 years ago. I can tell you that being scared of what you're gonna do, but doing it anyway. Is what skating is all about.
I mean just think about it. You stapped some wheels to a wooden board and roll around on it, jump with it and spin it around in all kinds of directions.
Skateboarding is 90% confidence 8% sweat and 2% blood.
And because of that everyone at a skatepark knows what you are going through while starting and are therefore always proud of someone doing something they couldn't before. I would encourage mat to continue skating and learning!
Edit: love the little reel at the end
He really couldn't have picked a better thing to try and get into. No one wants him to succeed more than the other skaters at the park haha. Even something as simple as seeing him step off the board, I was crazy proud.
I just made a comment as a skater and the atmosphere in a skatepark and welcoming community, and it's just so reaffirming to see us all present here in the comments stating as such! Ride or die brother x
I love this! Am in my thirties and just learning how to skate, and as I was rolling/wobbling along carefully at the local skate/BMX park (we're a small town lol, gotta multitask) the other day I got in the way of this young kid doing tricks with his bike. Felt like a right idiot and apologised profusely but he just shrugged and was like "Nah, I've been new too" and it was the most wholesome thing. Such a great kid and friendly hobby (hobbies).
GASP... TOM! 22:05 "you have more mass than he does, that means you're going to descend faster than he does" -- gravity is a constant and it doesn't matter how much mass you have! I think you need to see the hammer & feather experiment on the moon again!
More mass also means more inertia, so it exactly cancels out.
Yes, that is correct. The extra mass/inertia however will make him roll out further on the flat after the ramp, because he won't slow down as much.
@@jaapsch2 yeah. It takes more energy to give him the momentum needed to reach enough speed to roll up to the ramp, which you see in a longer distance to slow down afterwards.
But both are full grown adults, unless matt is twice as heavy (which I doubt) it won't be very noticeable.
@@jaapsch2 The only force that would slow him down is friction - his mass doesn't enter into it. Imagine the same scenario out in space - (ball bearing vs bowling ball, perhaps) any mass wants to go forever if it can.
@@DigitalArchmage The friction does not depend (much) on mass, so a heavier person will decelerate less from the friction than a light person if they start off at the same speed.
This reminded me of a conversation about dads throwing their kids into the air, children jumping on trampolines and bouncy castles etc, which helps the child get used to their vestibular sense, the sense of where your body is and how fast it's moving. Even after childhood, when our vestibular system should be well acclimatised and used to interpreting the feeling of new movements, it's still really fun and stimulating to experience novel forms of movement. Learning to skate, a new style of dancing, a new sport, going on a new rollercoaster etc, are all really good ways to have fun and understand your body more.
My partner teaches people of all ages how to ride bicycles. Kids who run around a lot before learning to ride already have a sense of the relative position of your feet or contact points and your centre of mass while cornering. You position your feet while running relative to your centre of mass and the difference between your inertial vector and where you want to go, and it becomes mostly unconscious, and a transferrable skill.
Is Matt capable of being unwholesome? No, probably not. What a lovely person.
Genuinely obsessed with Matt's colour coordinated t shirt and protective gear
Not only does Matt make sure to wear blue every time, he wears blue in style.
Wearing it with pride 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
It is such a LOOK 💕
Just loving the fact that tiny boys and girls are shooting past Matt while he's trying just to stand on the board!
If someone asked me to teach them how to skate, I'd skip quite a few steps and have the person feeling deflated and inadequate. This guy is an excellent teacher, knows exactly how to tackle those baby steps from the very beginning that a lot of us would likely gloss over, unaware that when people say they can't skate, they really can't skate.
I'm no skater but I can longboard around the place when I don't feel like walking and find my bike to be an inconvenience.
This and the Tom Scott plus episode where Tom learns how to ride a bike gives me hope that its not too late for me to learn a new skill...
As long as you’re alive, it is never too late to learn something new.
The rollercoaster video where he overcomes his fears and the plus video where he learns to like coffee are similarly insipiring.
It's not too late to learn a new skill.
yep, so long as your brain is functional enough for you to be talking here you can learn new skills
@@telotawa
Or actively communicating in any way, really. Mouth-speaking is not required.
Fantastic shirt choice, Matt. Only thing better would be a Ralph Wiggum "I'm in Danger" shirt
I love how genuine Matt is. His joy shines through ❤
I love that Matt is so invested in nurturing his inner child and nerdy self. It brings my heart joy.
Also, there's a physical therapy "toy" called a balance board I think... that kinda looks like a really skinny skateboard that widens out on the ends except it has gyroscopic pegs instead of wheels. It's designed to build core strength, leg strength, and hip flexibility all at the same time and it is ALL I could think about watching Matt do the pivot turns on the skateboard. When I was a teen/early 20something I would walk all over the PT clinic on that thing for like an hour past my appointment, just because it was fun.
The hand holding reminds me of being a swimming instructor. Just the comfort of knowing somebody is there to catch you helps so much in building confidence.
The "kids are doing things that used to be advanced in a few weeks" point cannot be understated for a lot of more "Modern" sports.
The veterans of a scene like this learned by experimenting or by meeting someone who knew. And in their late teens or early 20s they would have already built a sense of self preservation so the "just try" mentality that is really important for something like this is hard to build.
But kids don't have those hang ups, and kids can go and watch a youtube video a 20 times and just try it.
Kids can get crazy good, crazy fast, if they are supported to learn and develop.
It's the same thing if you think back to, like, hunting and gathering a few thousand years ago. Someone who wasn't raised in that environment would have a tough time but if you learn those skills growing up you can get really good at it.
Which is true for everything in life, and imho the core meaning of "standing on the shoulders of giants" - whereas I don't think that these giants even have to be the top tier in their fields. It's just that things that have been learned, done and taught before, enable young people to fast-track a lot of the try and error, and build up from a much higher baseline way earlier than those that created that baseline. This, combined with the ever easier to access sources to learn something, is how humans are progressing so insanely fast.
@@fonkbadonk5370 yes although it's less explosive when you look at a long extant field of learning or technology or sport where so much has already been done.
With a field that's new though, those that stand on the shoulders can easily (compared to doing it in chemistry or physics or football or engineering) become a giant themselves
so what your saying is the best way to learn is lack common sense XD
@@chintex_ there's no such thing as common sense.
I really wish Matt had ended the video with a clip of a body double (wearing his shirt and gear) just casually doing a McTwist or summat.
Or just the instructor in his outfit and gear doing tricks, filmed from behind
Matt- "Oh yeah, that was me."
If Matt is silent then don't disturb him he is concentrating ...
If Matt is Giggling then he's fine and has just achieved something he didn't think he could do this morning ...
If you look up "you are never too old to learn" .. this comes up ...
...it's somewhere after the 80 year old climbing Everest, and the 100 year old Marathon runner .. but it's there ...
So stoked for Matt to be this happy learning. Skating is hard and it does a lot of damage to your body as you age if you're not careful and fall in weird ways. I wasn't careful now I feel like im in my 50s... I turned 33, 2 days ago.
Happy late birthday, stranger!
@@nox6914 hey thanks!
Mood, 29 with knees like I'm 45.
I hear you, I skated for twenty years and now I AM in my fifties, so I feel like I'm in my eighties! 😂😉
Happy belated x9x9x9!!!
Discovered you guys the day after Tom's trip to hell was posted , went through the backlog since and can honestly say that I have been more excited for a new episode than any other show I've got going
Welcome, from a long time fan. Everything they've done is hilarious, and I'd recommend everything, if you have time.
Try out Two Of These People Are Lying and Citation Needed!
The reverse trivia podcast is very good as well
If you want more like the digression featured here, you may enjoy their reverse trivia podcast (one episode also features a discussion of the term “tank slapper”).
@@matthewgriffiths5005 I couldn't find it on spotify. Is it there, or just on friggin apple?
Matt's laughter is the high point of this for me... pure joy. I do love the quote "As long as you do everything right... you'll be fine." -Hector
I heard that and immediately thought, "Well, THANK you, it's a good thing 'doing it wrong' isn't EXACTLY the thing to be scared of!" 😅
Hector was good teacher and props to Matt having sense to get decent gear. early 2000 people skated with narrow boards and i feel like 7.5 inch deck might had been too small for matt. 9-9.5 inch one was good find.
Matt's pink-blue-and-white gears 😭😭😭🏳️⚧️ protect him at all cost
based 🏳️⚧️
well he is non-binary :D
I am so gleefully Delighted to discover matt is nonbinary! As another enby this makes me happy
@@SarahIsWeird What ? I've been following all these years and I didn't even know, where did you access this elusive knowledge ?
I mean, Matt also has Blåhaj on his/their(?) Shelves. (Not too sure about Matt's preferred pronouns)
Also if anyone couldn't point me to where i could buy that protective gear... That would be blessed
that end screen scene was brilliant
I'm so glad they found a Matt-sized instructor. I've felt those same feels Matt.
The best part of learning to skateboard, ski, etc. is always the little kids all around you doing 10 times better than you!
The skate punk rock video at the end was top notch.
This is just perfectly adorable, and as a very amateur rollerskater I'm in awe of Matt's quality but also cute-as-hell protective gear and how well it goes with his shirt 💕
I initially read the title as "Man tries not to fall over", which I guess was technically also correct.
Matt’s first adventure in this series was called “Surprisingly wholesome.” Now it’s still wholesome, just not surprising
Tom: oh this sounds familiar😅
We remember how nervous he was learning to ride a bike.
I think it's super awesome that you guys do stuff like this to push your comfort zone and stuff.
It genuinely makes me smile
And yet again, Matt's adventure is the most wholesome and full of joy! Great video, loved the ending montage
Yet again an episode where I went "looks like nothing special" and you folks managed to make me tear up with laughter! this series is amazing, please never stop!
Matt's giggles are what life is about. To me, it's the feeling when you know what you're doing is silly or not technically refined, but you don't care because you're having fun: the ability to embrace the joy little things spark without shame.
next episode gary does parkour
hector is doing a brilliant job walking matt through this, i had no such mentor when i was growing up learning how to do a lot of this
i want the shirt matt is wearing on his adventure
UK size 14 shoes are EU size 49. Holy crap, Matt has enormous feet!
As a fellow sufferer, I can say... it's Hell trying to find normal shoes.
@@PhoenixPlaneswalker
Having the opposite problem, I get you. At least I can look in the children’s section as well when looking for new shoes…
For those of us in the US, that's a size 15 (men's).
He has complained many times before about not fitting in things designed for the average human. He's a giant.
I have UK13/EU48 feet and my non-internet shoe shopping strategy is to walk straight up to an employee and say "what have you got in a 13?". Once they came back with two different pairs of skate shoes, and after trying them, I purchased both. Now I always wear flat-pedal mountainbike shoes to my office job.
A good reminder that teaching is a skill. That man could teach anything well, a truly excellent teacher.
A skateboard for each foot? Wow, then he could walk around like some kind of reverse Michael Jackson!
I'm reminded of a unique set of what's essentially two shoe-less roller blades that act, well, exactly like twin skateboards, one for each foot.
Tough as all hell to ride with (I never really learned how to) but when they get going they're funky.
Matt Gray just reverse Michael Jackson'd into town!
I feel like "some kind of reverse Michael Jackson" is a TechDif reference, but I can't recall to which of their works...
@@dominateeye Podcast Ep.4 "The Badly Phrased Answer Special".
The news I got out of this video was less that Matt learned to skateboard, and more that Tom never knew how a skateboard turns! wow.
So Tom has done Parkour and Matt's tried skateboarding... Who wants to see Brannan on ice skates? 😂
Everybody’s favorite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan…ON ICE!
@@justmerc1642 Then Chris can do beekeeping so that he can be COVERED WITH BEES!
Every time we watch Matt try and learn something it's always so wholesome! I think it inspires me to get rid of any anxiety of looking silly when trying to learn something and admit that baby steps are scary. Matt is always so determined and ready to push past that and it's so nice to see everyone else hyping him up. Always have to respect a person who can laugh at themselves too.
I really love Matt's "full of anxiety" t-shirt
Skaters have long been on my list of most underappreciated people on earth. Whenever I feel that I reach my physical limit and start feeling demotivated I watch a video series called "My War" from Thrasher. It really gives me a push and I don't even skate.
Yeah, especially Sammy Baca's one!
"you do posses more mass, so you will descend faster", I can't believe none of them roasted Tom on his lack of physics understanding.
i adore watching Matt just happily giggle away learning its so sweet
matt, seeing you tackle your fear in this video got me to leave the house and go to the post office today. which doesn't seem like a big deal but i haven't left the house since the beginning of april, and my hands were shaking so bad because of my anxiety. so thank you for that!
18:04
I'm in my 40's. I don't drive so I walk everywhere and honestly, this task isn't terribly scary for me.
But as a human in my 40's, if I had even slightly less comfort with my physicality, I can see how terrifying this ask is.
People don't have much call for balance in their daily lives. Outside of standing up and a little walking, a person doesn't really need it to survive.
Time to unpause and see what happens.
matt is probably my favorite host so watching them giggle made me very happy
Just been catching up on these, and it's incredible how this format has just become something extremely wholesome and heartwarming. This is a fantastic format, and it should keep going as long as you all have fun doing it, watching the utter joy of you trying new things is great.
You know what, I have wanted to try skateboarding for years and I’m just going to do it now after this. Thanks Matt.
Did you do it? I'm here rooting for you now, stranger on the internet!
(I did it, I started skating for the first time in my life because of this video!)
As someone who has been learning to skate as an adult for a couple of years, absolutely massive respect to both Matt and Hector for doing so well. Skating is one of those things which is sooo much more difficult than it looks and I was really impressed Matt improved so fast. I took weeks just to be able to roll with the board and I still can't do that much else! Also, it was nice to see that Hector was so thoughtful in different scenarions where Matt didn't feel comfortable at first, skating is very much a mental process too.
Matt's absolute giggling joy was perfect. And his shirt choice was 100% perfect too.
as someone who is similar to Matt in many ways, including the desire to learn how to skateboard past my teens, this video makes me want to dig up the skateboard I used like once and give the learning another go!
Do it!
It'll teach and give you much more than you'll ever know my friend!
Pob lwc gyda'ch taith! Good luck with your journey!
Did you do it? We need to know if you did it!
(I've never tried skating before, save for touching a board once as a kid and getting scared, but thanks to this video I'm learning to skateboard now. I can stand with both feet on the board and roll down little slopes and everything!)
Well done! That’s great progress in one lesson if you’ve never stepped on a board before 👏🏼 I’m a 44 year old born again skater and BaySixty6 local regular and wholeheartedly encourage anyone of any age to give it a try it’s honestly one of the most liberating, character building and addictive things you can possibly do the small wins in progress from every session get you going back for more so keep it up ! 👊🏼
Gary learning to play drums sounds like something!
As someone who is currently wearing strapping on both knees because of years of skating without pads, all of those pads are very needed.
Better to wear protective gear and never need it than to not be wearing it the one time you need it, _especially_ when you’re learning something new.
I was watching this while eating my dinner, and nearly choked with laughter when the kid came flying by at 8:36, not a care in the world, lookin like he owned the place.
Really cool to see this, and really cool to see how chill the other folks there were. You were so obviously in the way at times, yet they were still generally smiling and having a good time in the background in spite of it.
Those little giggles are so heartwarming. Bottle that for a fiver
jacob trueman was an unexpected but welcome surprise! it's wild to see who knows who in the british youtube world
My impression is that you can connect most CZcamsrs in the UK through at most three or four links, and the London-based ones seem to mostly be one or two degrees apart.
I'm really slow to learn physical skills and totally agree with what Matt said about baby steps. It's amazing what you discover you can do even though you're terrified by working up to it in tiny increments! A good teacher who knows how to break down movements, can suggest different progressions and who is constantly encouraging - like Hector - really helps.
as someone who skated for 2 years now, this was so wholesome and brought back some good memories of when I started
I skated a bit when I was 10 - mostly just doing ollies and riding it around. I never really thought of how difficult it is to learn as an adult if you have no experience at all. 5 years ago I went snowboarding with no teacher or knowledge on how to do it. It was a crashfest, but after 3 days I was riding solid without issues. I never really considered just how much of an advantage it must have been for my balance to have skated a bit as a kid.
It's a group of dads watching their kids grow, but the kid is Matt and they'll do at least 1 testicle joke per episode
Matt is so delightfully charming during the lesson, just an absolute ray of sunshine and his shirt is the icing on the cake haha
As a skater these lessons were insightful. I have never thought of a kickturn as stepping forwaard (or backward, try it!) and these lessons will be extra fun when you go through them again but with your right foot forward instead of your left. Skaters tend to either be right or left foot forward, not both. The skater who learns both stances (regular and switch) early has a huge advantage later on down the line.
I assume it helps if your dominant foot isn’t too strongly dominant.
Don't you mean, Goofy and Switch? ["NO, YOU'RE SWITCH!" hahaha]. I love how we're so united as a community that the only thing we can be rivals about is stance - where each of us are jealous of the likes of P-Rod and those we can ride both Regular and Goofy as their "natural stance" - and we all judge Mongo pushers [though, I admit I ride switch mongo for it feels comfier to ride as such]. Cariad fawr o Gymru - Much love from Cymru [Wales] x
P.s. To the uninitated -
"What stance am I?":
In an open area, run in a straight line then slide along the floor [like in Footloose]... which foot did you put infront of you?
Left foot = Regular [Left foot in middle, Right foot on tail], Right foot = Goofy [ Right foot in middle, Left foot on tail].
Mongo pushing = Instead of using the "Tail" foot to push, using the "Middle" foot to push [Regular Mongo = Left foot pushing, Goofy Mongo = Right foot pushing].
Switch = Doing the opposite stance [if you have one that is!]
Great video, guys. One correction - when in a tank slapper on a motorbike, it's your hands/the handlebars "slap the tank". It's a very frightening experience and can build up like an oscillation without any conscious input from the rider as I found out when accelerating very hard on a straight but bumpy road. Worth looking up further, it's quite interesting.
The Tech Diff boys are always such a joy to watch. Thanks for putting yourselves out there!
Hector was so patient and understanding of the influence of fear, yet willing to do the hand holding while encouraging to succeed.
This series and Tom's second channel have both given me one clear joy, and that is seeing people trying completely new things, things that scare them, or make them self-conscious, or that they have no knowledge and just want to learn. It is incredibly inspiring and so lovely to see, and helps instill the mindset i want as i continue ageing
Whenever I go bouldering at a gym there is almost always a kid with a parent doing wildly difficult problems, while Im struggling with easy to moderates. Kids brains and muscles learn so quickly (also lower center of gravity and lighter)
Love the epic skate montage at the end!
15:37 Matt went ballroom dancing 😅
I am not a skateboarder. I've never even tried it. I did inline skating for a couple of years in a past life. And the thing I remember about it is whether you're getting on it for the first time and just trying to learn to roll and stop OR you're trying to pull off some massive gap jump or crazy spin trick, the anxiety is always the same. That fear of falling that he felt just trying to kick turn is the same fear someone feels when learning big tricks. It never got any less anxious for me when trying a new trick. You just have to go for it. Then the initial fear is a little less because you realize it's not as bad as you imagined. And then it's just a matter of perfecting it until you land it. And that feeling of nailing a new trick for the first time, it's always the same, too, whether that's kick turns or kick flips or something bigger.
I wonder what would be more difficult for me, learning how to skate or to hover a helicopter.
Split the difference and learn to hover a skateboard
Happy Matt: "I'm skateboarding!! 😃"
Tom: *gets flashbacks to learning to ride a bike*
maybe it's a little parasocial, but I hope tom has kept cycling since that video, london is a great place for it
@@ink7761 Whenever season 2 of Tom Scott Plus comes out, I hope to see some kind of return of the bicycle.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Lord of the Rings: Return of the Bicycle
Really cool of Matt to be trying something new! Skateboarding looks so easy but it can be extremely difficult!
20:10 lovely to see Jacob Trueman rocking his DIY Dead Kennedys shirt! Can't believe that things stayed wearable for what almost 5 years now?
I refuse to get rid of it. It's crusty and hole-y, like all good punk tees
Matt learning things is always a delight. Having learned all this stuff the hard way back in the 90s, to the great amusement of the older skaters around, I'm pleased to see that the culture around skating has become a bit kinder and gentler. I still vividly remember the 30+ falls it took me to learn to keep my weight forward while dropping in. If only I had Hector!
They could at least have shouted some helpful tips to you instead of laughing at your pain.
It's interesting to see Matt learn the basics and being reminded that I might be very comfortable on a longboard, but I have no experience at all on a skateboard.
Hahaha that zoom in to the tiny slope in the final shots 😂
I love how they bounce of eachother