difference between moonkick and slant gainer?

[ninjitsian]

Forgive the idiocracy or maybe I'm ignorant or haven't seen enough tutorials on these two tricks but can someony please clarify the confusion? At first I heard that with a moon kick you throw a hook(sessh's tutorial) as you land but according to (in respects to) cicero's moon kick tutorial it looks exactly like a slant gainer imo.

Are they the same or is there some sort of difference? Please liberate me from this dilemma.

(Yaay right forum!)

[breykdown]

a moonkick has a hook, i dont know why in that tutorial he says there isnt. thats what separates a moonkick from a slant gainer

[Augenatic]

Moon kick = slant gainer flash hook/gainer flash hook
Slant gainer = slanted gainer

[JiayoJames]

pen doo lum

[Scooba Dave]

i dont blame circero, there is a lot of confusion between the two moves!

but yes as already stated above are the differences :D

[DarkXacreD]

It's a difference in semantics. A while ago moonkick and slant gainer (also cheat gainer) were used interchangeably. But now it seems we've agreed on the differences between a moonkick and a slant gainer.

Hell if you go back far enough you'll find people calling backflips aerials and double legs were barrel rolls.

[Cicero]

I made that tutorial back in 2006, and I didn't know the proper terminology back then, but yeah Sessh is right.

[Surge!]

I wanna make a tutorial!

[Maha]

lol Moonkick randomly was given a hook sometime between then and now.

Watch the 540 tricktionary vid of a moonkick. No hook. Slant gainer used to just be the technical term for the tricking term "moonkick" but now it's apparently not a moonkick without A hook now.

Meh, sounds good to me

[Scooba Dave]

okay here's my moonkick, from today.

i did better ones, but i need to save for samplox.

http://i28.tinypic.com/2h3odg4.gif

as you can see theres a very subtle kick (in my case)

my target was literally, the moon, hence the name:
Moon-Kick (or kick the moon)

[Maha]

When I do Moonkick hooks or whatever, I barely try to get inverted hAhAHa lame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVnZg14fdKIp

[Jon P]

Back in the day moonkick and slant gainer were the same thing.
People started using the term moonkick after Dean Alexandrou's first sampler (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_a5ozspQ5uo).
It was what everyone called his gainers...but somewhere in the past few years Sessh came along and said moonkicks = slant gainer with hookkick.
haha Which is fine because we don't need two names for the same move.

[Nathan.P.]

I just noticed that Skilzat kinda has a similar style to Dean.