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Successful Matador

Successful Matador

Barcelona, Challenge Session: Complete all challenges without bailing

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How to unlock the Successful Matador achievement in Tony Hawk: Ride - Definitive Guide

Most of the challenges are easy.

1 is a simple 5-0 grind (hold the tail on the board down), grab, then grind-manual-grind link. Nothing too hard.

2 requires an advanced (do a grab while covering the bottom sensor) grab, followed by THREE unique grinds on three benches. Do a nose grind, 5-0 grind, and another for simplicity.

3 is a simple jump to manual, then an advanced flip trick. You won't be able to pull off the flip trick if you hold the manual, so get out of the manual as soon as you land it from the ollie.

4 is an advanced flip trick, grind transfer, then a spine transfer with a flip trick. Again, nothing too difficult. For the spine, tilt the front of the board down and tilt it slightly for the flip.

5. Fuck challenge 5. You have to do a spine transfer, nose grind to nollie, and an invert to top it off. The first half of that is easy. Doing a nollie OFF into the pool area barely works. I found that if you tilt slightly to the right when you do it, you're more likely to get it.

The invert is what messes most people up. The ramp is just too small. And simply put, it just doesn't register like it should. You'll either do a grab or just miss it completely.

Firstly, I'd say calibrate your board for this. It DOES make a difference.

Second, if you're playing with your hands rather than your feet, DONT. Play it legit, trust me. And lastly, once you come up to the revert, DONT cover the top sensor completely, hold your hand out from it a foot or so. I tried this and got it fairly easily. This is why it's imperative to do this standing up.

Oh, and you can't fall off the board at all. You can go out of bounds or fail a challenge, but you can't bail.
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Thanks for the help Doominatorx6. I finally managed to do it.

One thing you might want to add to your description is that if you bail, you have to exit the session, you can't just redo the challenges. You have to hit Start / Exit Session, and open the session again, or the achievement won't pop.
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By FFugue on 16 Mar 2012 00:14
Any tips on flick tricks? (I know this is an old game)
I have only managed flick tricks in the training, after that never again. Before that I couldn't do them at all and found weird discussions online about how the flick tricks don't work for a lot of people. Then they suddenly worked for me (I started the game without updating but I don't think that was the cause) and I could easily pull them off. Now that I'm left with this achievement I can't do flick tricks again (just like in the whole thing after the training). Any idea what's going on? laugh
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By Evenger Ostro on 08 Oct 2014 18:49
If you bail just once, you gotta back out of the challenge and do it all over again.
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By on 14 Mar 2012 01:47
If we bail can we simply redo the challenge we failed a second time without bailing or is bailing not permitted even once?
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By FFugue on 14 Mar 2012 01:44
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1st, as said in other solutions don't use your hands, if you have trouble use a small stool/chair and sit next to your board. (I used my extra drum stool and that worked great.)
Second, inverts are BAD. I did the Todd twist instead of said invert many times and was very frustrated. I also did the challenges without bailing and doing that pause method, which didn't work. DO NOT keep trying them over if you bail as you won't obtain the achievement. If you bail exit session back out and try again! Good luck fellow Shredders! (Pun Intended*)
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29 Mar 2012 07:43

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The pause method does work dude, people didnt just make it up to piss people off.
You just have to be quick with it.
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By Italicpigeon on 29 Mar 2012 19:57
Well I did this 5 or 6 times and it didn't work so I'm going to say it doesn't work very well.
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By FEAR PointMan24 on 29 Mar 2012 20:17
If you notice that you're going to fail or if you already did in the middle of a challenge just press start on your controller. That's why you should always have you controller in your hand. Then just press choose challenge and just do it again. If you don't press start fast enough and it says to bad or something, you fail. Then you have to start from square one.

Message me on Xbox360 LIVE for help or more information.
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This does work as long as you pause before you fall. I hit pause several times on the challenges when I was on railings and could tell by the way I was going to land. Stupidest achievement in the game!
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By jordaOwO on 23 Jun 2014 07:46
*IN THIS UPDATE* 5/19/18 - 11:12 am: It still works because my achievement pop for 90G. 12 days later. Now, I did make them in order: 1, 2, 5, 4, & 3. I did pause. Then use pick a challenge and do again without bailing. Finally, it works (flick flip tricks). I did this one too. Then, finally I got unlocked is Successful Matador Achievement. (Finally I got my 1,000 Gamerscore)
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25 May 2018 00:57

theres no real easy way to do this one however here are some tips:
1. set the difficulty to casual
2. practice them all first
3. if u cant do them on your feet then use your hands(sounds dumb but it works)
4. do them in this order...2,5,4,1,3
if u need any more help message me
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24 Nov 2009 02:10

This is the hardest trophy in the game. It always gives me a lot of headaches and as soon as this trophy is done, you will probably have no more problems achieving the platinum. You need to beat all 5 challenges without bailing once; as soon as you bail you have to quit the challenge and restart it from the menu. I really recommend that you do this on Casual, as I'd say it's nearly impossible to be done on Hardcore.

The hardest challenges in my opinion are number 2 and 5. Practice all of them until you can do them pretty well, then try to start with the challenge that is the hardest for you.

If you are close to bailing, but haven't bailed yet, you can quickly pause the game and reselect the challenge. So the bail does not count and you dont have to do everything all over.

Do all the 5 challenges in any order you want and you will unlock this bitch of a trophy.

TIP: If you can't do a certain challenge with your feet, play with your hands. This helps for sure, to be honest I used my hands for this trophy as well.

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