And people are losing their conceptions of the borders of possibility in the process! And not just regarding whether you can backflip to manual. From the Skateboarding Day .org:
On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding! (emph added)
Never mind whether skateboarding, relative to other activities, is "influential" (it is near-superlative in all respects). The real question is whether a habitual activity can be influential. Like you can build a fire and it won't be influential. You can play guitar and it won't be influential.
Maybe if everyone went out and did a 1080 that would be influential. Or started doing cannonballs out of pole jams.
So, in honor of National Come Skateboarding day, a vid of the Ghost of Skateboard Future doing a pole jam to cannonball. You can only do this trick on Tony Hawk Pro Skater or if your name is Chris Haslam (the comments say it isn't but screw that Haslam can do this trick so it is him):
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