“Hey, watch your gestures!”
Chen Shu said in Chinese to Jagger Eaton.
“??”
Jagger Eaton shrugged at his teammates behind him.
“What's this kid saying?”
Whoosh!
He suddenly stepped on his skateboard, performing a fakie backwards slide, circling Chen Shu once.
On his face... was a hint of arrogance.
This was a basic skateboard move, and a very provocative one.
Not just competition athletes, even the candidates would learn it after a while of practice.
But the next second, the guy suddenly started sliding, the skateboard soaring under his feet, then flipping.
An on-the-spot 720 flip.
The skateboard completed a 720-degree reverse under his feet, which were in the air.
Then, it landed steadily, Jagger Eaton stood on the skateboard with both feet, not falling, but instead, he smoothly glided forward in a cool way.
“Ahhhh!”
All the skateboarders in the audience were screaming.
720 flip!
This is an extremely difficult skateboard move.
Forget beginners, even professional athletes rarely do it this casually without falling.
The so-called “flip” is a professional term in skateboarding.
The back foot is placed at the tail of the board, the front foot is slightly forward.
The back foot presses down on the tail with force, with a turning action.
The front foot kicks the board like a flip, waiting for the skateboard to rotate 720 degrees between your legs, then jump up and catch the board with your feet, bend your knees to buffer the landing… to stabilize the action.
It’s really difficult.
There are probably not many people in the entire audience who can do this move so smoothly and fluently.
Many professional skaters have completed it in their careers, but their stability is not high.
This Jagger Eaton clearly looks like someone who can play these extreme moves frequently.
Just like Pan Zhan Le casually swimming the 100-meter freestyle in 47 seconds.
This move isn’t as simple as eating and drinking, but showing off and being cocky is easy, you can tell this is one of his strongest and most practiced moves, so he was showing off in front of Chen Shu.
“Woohoo!”
Many foreigners around were cheering in a cooperative way.
Jagger has a high status in the skateboarding circle.
He is a super rookie and king from the United States.
He is hailed as the perfect successor to Nia Houston.
A crowd of people looked at Chen Shu with malicious intentions.
The 14-year-old Chinese boy looks very young, this is clearly bullying.
Women’s skateboarding is a newly emerging sport, and the aggression is not as strong as the men's, so Cui Chen Xi and the others are okay.
But men’s skateboarding, especially in the United States, a lot of street thugs like to play.
So a lot of their athletes have a bit of a hoodlum and rogue personality.
This Jagger looks like a troublemaker.
On his arm and forearm… there are tattoos, he stankily walked up to Chen Shu after doing a 720 flip, and gave him a thumbs-down gesture of contempt.
Chen Shu just pretended not to see, he said lightly, “Fakie backslide + 720 flip?”
He suddenly looked at the group of foreigners surrounding him, smiled.
But his face was a little bit cold.
The three Japanese players stood far away, with a look of indifference.
But... they are completely watching the fun.
The head coaches of each country are also watching here.
They seem to have accepted this provocative behavior.
“Xiao Cai, I don't feel right!”
“This shouldn’t be simply provocative!”
Yu Wen Hao, as the head coach of the Chinese team, is able to see things without being trapped in the skateboarding circle.
After all... he was a boxer at the beginning.
“Could it be because Chen Shu won the qualifying round in April... and created pressure for other countries?”
“Is this to test Chen Shu’s strength?”
“Is this a deliberate provocation, to see the opponent's strength?”
Cai Xiao Lei also realized it.
“It’s possible!”
“Damn, these foreigners like to use underhanded tactics!”
“Yes, look at the other coaches, they seem to have all agreed to it, they are all staring at Chen Shu!”
As soon as Yu Wen Hao said this, Cai Xiao Lei also realized it: “Yes, we can’t let Chen Shu reveal his strength...”
“Chen Shu——”
He quickly shouted, wanting to stop him, but obviously... it was too late!
“A 720 flip and you dare to show off in front of me?”
“Who the hell gave you the courage?”
Chen Shu said this in English.
Before Jagger and some of the foreigners could react, Chen Shu, who had been holding his skateboard with his hand, stepped on it with his foot and immediately stabilized himself on the skateboard.
Bang!
The next second, he burst out with strength, with his back foot at the tail, his foot pressure in the center of the tail, his front foot near the skateboard screw, his whole body flew up into the air.
Wow——
Everyone in the audience shouted.
“…”
The three Japanese players, who were originally relaxed, instantly froze.
The head coaches of all the countries all stood up, Yu Wen Hao widened his eyes: “Jumping so high?”
Fortunately, Chen Shu was wearing wrist and ankle protection.
Otherwise, Yu Wen Hao would clearly be scared to death by Chen Shu’s jump height.
He jumped a meter high, on the spot.
Of course, there is also the skateboard’s assistance in this.
But even so... Cai Xiao Lei and Yu Wen Hao both had tense faces.
Whoa—
The skateboard under Chen Shu’s feet was flipping endlessly.
One turn, two turns... three turns!
Yes... it did three full circles.
360 degrees, 360 degrees, plus another 360 degrees.
A full 1080-degree spin.
But Chen Shu’s body had only just started to come down at this point.
Watching as the skateboard was about to hit the ground, Chen Shu bent his knees and firmly landed on the skateboard that had flipped 1080 degrees——
Thud!
He landed on the skateboard and rushed forward.
Tap, tap, tap!
The group of foreigners who had been surrounding Chen Shu couldn't help but step back.
Chen Shu’s move was simply too domineering, many people were intimidated by his momentum.
They were originally in a circle.
But with this jump and landing, they naturally backed away.
At this time, Chen Shu’s feet were already on the skateboard, he was bent over, and he smoothly slid through the gap that Jagger Eaton and Nia Houston had left when they retreated.
Just when everyone thought Chen Shu’s showmanship was over, he suddenly turned around with his back foot.
He slid towards Jagger at high speed, in front of Jagger’s wide eyes.
The speed of this sprint caused Jagger to involuntarily turn sideways to avoid it.
But he forgot, he was on a skateboard.
Thump!
He sat down on the ground with a thud, and his skateboard bounced out violently.
Time stood still!
Whoosh——
The same fakie backslide, Chen Shu, just as he was about to hit Jagger, suddenly moved the skateboard with his toes, the skateboard was like glue to his feet, it abruptly followed his jump and flew up into the air with him.
Whoa—
The skateboard spun wildly above Jagger’s head.
“…”
Jagger looked up and numbly watched the skateboard spinning non-stop above his head.
So clear, so fast, but the visual impact was extremely strong.
Chen Shu jumped over his head, along with the beautiful arc of the skateboard in the air.
Thud!
Another 1080 degrees.
1080 flip!
“…”
Stunned.
Everyone was dumbfounded as they watched Chen Shu land on the skateboard that had flipped 1080 degrees, they had already forgotten where they were.
A 1080-degree flip!!!
The skateboard spinning three full circles while falling.
The key is that it was damn completed!
He completed a 1080 flip!
What does this mean? !
Chen Shu replicated Jagger’s provocation, completing the same fakie backslide + flip.
Only Jagger did the extreme 720-degree flip.
And Chen Shu... did a full 360 degrees more!
It was a 1080 flip!!!
This is not just 1 + 1 = 2, it’s not just a simple increase in difficulty.
In skateboarding, the skateboard spins one more circle, it can be something that a skateboarder chases for a lifetime, a transcendence.
Just one turn!
Just 360 degrees more, the difficulty increases exponentially.
Maybe the difficulty increases by ten times or more.
If the difficulty coefficient of the 720 flip is 6.5 at the top level in street skateboarding.
Then the 1080 flip is... 10!
The highest... of the highest difficulty.
The world’s best skateboarders might not even complete a few of these super extreme moves in their entire lifetime!
Do they not want to?
No, they can’t.
Jagger has only completed it twice in his life.
The rest of the time, he was bruised and battered.
This is a matter of luck, it proves that he didn’t master it.
But Chen Shu, he looks so relaxed, it’s clear he is confident in completing this move... He completed it calmly and confidently in this situation.
He seems incredibly confident.
This means that... he has definitely completed this move many times in private.
What makes everyone feel terrified, is that Chen Shu is not just replicating Jagger’s provocative move to slap him in the face, to jump over him and humiliate him.
Chen Shu’s initial on-the-spot kickflip 1080, that was even more difficult.
Incredibly difficult.
That is his trump card.
The 1080 flip has the support of speed.
Both Chen Shu and Jagger, they both fakie backslid with acceleration.
But Chen Shu’s first kickflip 1080, that scattered the crowd, didn’t have this kind of speed support.
It was truly just his on-the-spot jump, plus the strength of his feet, driving the skateboard’s rotation.
And that inhuman height of air time, only then could he complete this move which is even more difficult than the 1080 flip.
Swoosh!
Chen Shu gracefully turned around, back foot pressed on the board, and stopped in front of the still dumbfounded Jagger.
This guy still hadn’t gotten up, his brain was still in the shock Chen Shu gave him, he hadn’t recovered.
“…”
Chen Shu looked down at him, he just looked at him expressionlessly, without saying a word!
The entire skateboard stadium was silent.
You could hear a pin drop.
It was as if the entire stadium was welcoming a new king.
Whatever super rookie in the skateboarding world, whatever demon king, legend, from today on, in this arena, there is only one title.
The God of Skateboarding, the God who completed two 1080s!
His name, from this moment on, is destined to echo throughout the skateboarding world.
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PS: Thanks to Mint Boy Boss for the tip, thank you for your support!