Trials like Street????

Please describe what you feel are the differences between new and old
school Street, and the timelines you are referring to. To me, Street is
not old enough to be considered old. How old do people think Street
is?

The difference between Street and Trials is that one is about getting
over obstacles, and the other is about using obstacles as a platform for
doing interesting moves. Trials involves no tricks, or interesting
moves, just making it over the obstacles.

So though much of the riding, and the riding environment, may look
similar, the goal of each event is very different.

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One time, Kris Holm said something like

Trials is getting up and over obstacles in an urban setting, and street
is using those same obstacles to set up freestyle moves.

I'm sure it wasn't that at all, but he said something to the same gist.
someone's prolly gonna come and show me up with the exact quote, but
yeah, that's what I think of trials and street.

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Street & Trials are linked, but only that you need to be able to do some
trials before street becomes a possibility. Trials does not involve
street, but street has to involve trials on some level.

I've always thought of Street as Trials + Freestyle. Its nowhere near as
simple as that, but when someone asks me what the different aspects are,
thats what I say.

Loose.

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Dan H. put it Trial+freestyle= street, and the way James said Kh put it
are both accurate, urban trials can be like street sometimes, but not
allways, i got a better equasion
Urban Rolling trials+freestlye=Street or just if it lloks like the [censored]
there doing on hte bikes and skateboards then its close enough....

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I pretty much agree with what everybody else said.

Trials is, as said, the object of getting up and over/across obstacles,
street is doing tricks over obstacles. *But*, that doesnt neccisarily
mean that the same obstacles are used for both. You cant just take a
trials course and use it for both street and trials, it wont work.
Street is more flowy, with less obstacles and more of drops, gaps, less
-prescision-. In other words, street USUALLY doesnt involve doing tricks
across narrow gapping beams, or posts, or rail riding(although it could
be done and called street). I would say that street has more -blunt-
obstacles.

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Well it seems everyone in here knows what street is, its streetm not
trials not freestlye....its street

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I just think street owns u kno like this : BOOM HEAD SHOT

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Two days ago I rode with a talented street rider (Saban), and call it
what you want but that kid ripped in everthing we did--urban Muni,
street and some trials stuff. From what I've seen, the good street
riders are very adaptable to any and all disciplines.

JL

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Thats why I love street....

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I do street in some of my urban trials lines. I wouldn't consider it
pure street, but trials with a little flair.

For example...roll-hopping onto the skinny edge of a planter box, and
riding across it, and then 180'ing off the end of it. Riding skinnies
isn't pure street. Roll-hopping and 180's (over, on, off, whatever) are
in no way pure trials.

The other somewhat comparable thing between trials and street, that I
can think of (and again, I'm just thinking about things off the top of
my head that I normally do, or try to do), is flow. Yes, I know. I'll
explain. Eliminating as many correctional hops as humanly possible, and
doing fast, quick springing lines is flowy in a progressive way. Not
nearly as fast and flowy as street. But it makes lines look more fluid,
and clean, and accurate when done right. Otherwise trials can look
really choppy--not so much for the big stuff, but the smaller stuff.
When I do a smaller-scale line, I call it small, because it's easy for
me. If it's easy I don't want to be pogoing my uni through it, wasting
energy for when I work my way up to bigger lines and sections later on
in my ride as i get more warmed up to try new things.

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Me too. But everyone else does anyway, so I might as well set them
straight.

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street is trials with style

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street is looking good

trials is gettin somewhere

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