I don’t know about mathematical, but I’ve always thought of it as a vertical vs horizontal motion with the front foot used as as kind of rotation axis for an impossible…
Yeah for sure, the way the foot wraps with the board is the visual cue. It has led me and friends to some fun debates in a game of skate i.e. "that wasn't an impossible", so I was hoping to be able to point to some ridiculous mathematical definition the next time it comes up.
I was curious about this as well and gave modeling the Impossible a try... the foot drag seemed to be best mimicked by a half-kickflip, followed by a 360 shuvit, then a half-heelflip.
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I was hoping they would come up with a mathematical way to distinguish an impossible from a 360 shuv :)
I don’t know about mathematical, but I’ve always thought of it as a vertical vs horizontal motion with the front foot used as as kind of rotation axis for an impossible…
“I know it when I see it” (maybe)
Yeah for sure, the way the foot wraps with the board is the visual cue. It has led me and friends to some fun debates in a game of skate i.e. "that wasn't an impossible", so I was hoping to be able to point to some ridiculous mathematical definition the next time it comes up.
Somewhere out there Rodney Mullen smiles quietly :)
I wonder if they have somehow mathematically proven that they are the same trick?
In which case I reject mathematics.
I was curious about this as well and gave modeling the Impossible a try... the foot drag seemed to be best mimicked by a half-kickflip, followed by a 360 shuvit, then a half-heelflip.