Chris Joslin vs El Toro | Skateboarding's Greatest Redemption Story

In "Chris Joslin vs El Toro | Skateboarding's Greatest Redemption Story", we revisit a tale we told a couple of years back — surrounding potentially the most controversial trick ever done in skateboarding history: the Chris Joslin 360 flip down El Toro's 20-stair. Was the first one he did 8 years ago a make? Was it not? Either way, in 2025, Chris got his redemption and went back to conquer the beast. And now, it is the most famous 360 flip ever done.

El Toro: Skateboarding's Most Infamous Stairset

If you know skateboarding, you know El Toro. The 20-stair handrail in Lake Forest, California has been the proving ground for some of the most consequential tricks in street skating history. It's not just a stairset — it's a statement. To skate El Toro is to put yourself in conversation with the heaviest moments the sport has ever produced. And to 360 flip it? That's a different category entirely.

The gap is massive. The speed required is terrifying. The margin for error is essentially zero. Which is exactly why what Chris Joslin did there — twice, years apart, under completely different circumstances — is the stuff of skateboarding legend.

The First Attempt: Make or No Make?

Eight years ago, Chris Joslin rolled up to El Toro and threw down a 360 flip that split the skate world in two. The footage existed. The trick was on film. But the debate that followed was immediate and fierce: was it a make? The board, the feet, the landing — every frame was analyzed, argued over, and relitigated across forums, comment sections, and skate shop conversations for years.

In skateboarding, a make is everything. It's the difference between a trick that counts and one that doesn't — and the Chris Joslin El Toro 360 flip became the most contested call in modern skate history. Some said yes. Some said no. Nobody could agree. And that ambiguity followed Joslin for nearly a decade.

2025: The Redemption

In 2025, Chris Joslin ended the debate the only way a skater can — by going back and doing it again, undeniably, on camera, for the world to see. No controversy. No room for argument. Just one of the most technically demanding tricks in street skating, executed down one of the most intimidating spots on the planet, by a skater who had been carrying the weight of that unresolved moment for years.

The redemption 360 flip at El Toro is now the most famous 360 flip ever done. Not just because of the spot, not just because of the trick — but because of the story behind it. The years of doubt, the pressure, the decision to go back. That's what makes it historic.

Chris Joslin: Built for Moments Like This

Chris Joslin has always been one of the most powerful and technically gifted street skaters of his generation. His skating is defined by commitment — the kind of all-or-nothing approach to heavy spots that separates the skaters who talk about tricks from the ones who actually do them. His video parts have consistently ranked among the best of their era, and his willingness to take on the biggest, most consequential spots in skateboarding has earned him a reputation as one of the sport's true heavyweights.

But this moment — the return to El Toro, the redemption 360 flip — is the defining chapter of his career. It's the kind of story that skateboarding was built to tell.

The Most Controversial Trick in Skateboarding History

Skateboarding has had its share of disputed moments. But few have generated the sustained debate, the passionate arguments, and the genuine cultural weight of the Chris Joslin El Toro 360 flip. It became a Rorschach test for how the skate community thinks about makes, about standards, about what counts and what doesn't. And in resolving it — definitively, publicly, on his own terms — Joslin didn't just land a trick. He closed a chapter that the entire skate world had been waiting to see finished.

Watch the Full Story

Hit play above to watch Chris Joslin vs El Toro: Skateboarding's Greatest Redemption Story — the full Storied documentary covering one of the most compelling narratives in modern skateboarding. From the original controversy to the 2025 redemption, this is the complete story.