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What's up with the Method?

 
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2003 10:54 am    Post subject: What's up with the Method? Reply with quote

Why does everyone call it a method grab when they do a melan grab with a spin or invert? It's not method, it's melan. A method is when you tweak out a melan grab showing the bottom of the board to the boat. So it's not a method backroll(method roll), it's a melan backroll(melan roll). Just a question. Later...
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2003 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could be wrong but i always thought that a method grab was like a melan grab but more towards the nose of ur board correct me if im wrong
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PostPosted: Jan 17, 2003 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A method is grabbed near the nose of the board, on the heel side. Usually It is tweaked to show the bottom, but its not nessesary. A Melan (or melancholy, my personal favourite grab, it grabbed as far towards the tail of the board as possible. You have to bring your legs right up nearly horizontal to do them correctly, and they look SWEET.

Melan is harder than Method, IMO.

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PostPosted: Jan 18, 2003 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh so thats what you were tweaking out last time we rode crim or was that a tindy to face plant! Laughing Laughing Laughing

J/k man! Twisted Evil

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PostPosted: Jan 18, 2003 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The tourist's will love it! Lets just hope I don't bust the zip on my shorts and flash everyone at the lodge like in '99!! Embarassed

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PostPosted: Jan 24, 2003 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was always under the impression that a method had to be tweaked.
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PostPosted: Jan 24, 2003 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with blabel on this one, if it's not tweaked it's melon
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PostPosted: Jan 24, 2003 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now that I really think about it for skateboarding on vert if you do a fronside air and grab on the heelside of the board it is a melan. If you go over a hip and grab the same part of the board and tweak it, it's a method.

Either way, in my opinion the method (Done right) is the hardest grab in wakeboarding.
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PostPosted: Jan 24, 2003 11:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

blabel, your right, what criminal is talking about sounds like a nelan(nose melan). A melan grab is between the legs on the heel side edge, usually poked forward. If you take the same grab and bend your knees it's method, in snowboarding if you turn the board towards the direction your going it's called a grasser or palmer, it's still a method in wakeboarding. anyone see the method that chad sharp's been doing lately, that's a true, layed out method.
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PostPosted: Jan 25, 2003 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good point. His method is sweet. That should have deserved a cover shot. But no... we got that stupid one of Emily Copeland.
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PostPosted: Jan 27, 2003 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally, someone agrees with me. I knew I wasn't the only one who felt like that. It just bothers me when everyone is saying stuff like Method Crow Mobe 5 or Method Roll to Blind. It's Melan. It would be pretty hard to tweak out your method grab in the middle of Crow Mobe 5.

BTW, Chad's method is HUGE. Wicked Style.
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PostPosted: Jan 27, 2003 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One more thing while we're at it. People throw the term indy around too often. Not just any frontside grab with you're rear hand gets the tag Indy. I was always under the assumption that indy implied backside rotation, like when you're sk8ing vert. Everything else is just a frontside grab. Grassers are the best looking grab in the game.
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PostPosted: Jan 28, 2003 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you're right about skating vert, but i think in snow & wake it's just indy. you bring up a very good point, I've never heard this discussed about wakeboarding.
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PostPosted: Jan 29, 2003 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

grab names are based strictly on the hand placement on the board and with what hand you grab with.... the tweaked out method is just a riders style....

So a TINDY is called a tindy cuz it's NOT a real grab.... it's either tail or Indy.. that location behind the back foot but not on the tail is not a place you should be grabbing....

It's like the G spot--- you can stumble around for ever thinking you have it but their is really only one G spot. When you hit it, you know...

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PostPosted: Jan 29, 2003 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats funny. I thought I could grab with my front hand on the backside of the board in between my feet and pull off a couple things depending on how I tweak it(Melon, method, crooked cop). That is also my problem with frontside grabs being called indy sometimes. I do both and they look nothing alike.
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PostPosted: Feb 02, 2003 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nelan... that's a good one... never heard of that before but I assume it's like a tindy... just a lame grab... and blabel... if you think that a method is the hardest grab, just try and do a nuclear...
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