Style Vs. Difficulty

[grandmaster_owl]

I saw this a few times in the posts, so I thought I'd adress it:

What's more important to you? Being able to "land" a trick, like technically ("My feet were on the board!""More like your front foot heel and your back foot toe, bro...") or make it smooth ("Like butta!")? For example, which is better, a landed trick that's way complicated like a TreFlip landed "Technically," or just a straight-up ollie done nice, evened out, and landed with no kickturning at the end or straighting?

[blind ruler]

dont care

[Snaker]

I love stylish ollies.

[NIGhtMAre]

its a mix of both

[DarkHawk2-2]

definitely a mix. like a stylish tre flip. which u would see from moi in the near future in the FTS video. but from a super hard trick versus a stylish one... hmm... id enjoy watching the stylish one but then again, a super hard trick going down is sumthin too... id prefer the stylish unless the hard thing is like kickflip the leap of faith.

[oldscoolelement]

yeah a mix, but id rather see the perfect ollie trhen a shabby tre flip. if u can make a trick look good, youre good.

[NIGhtMAre]

i disagree.

If you can ollie and inch off the ground but make it look good. That doesn't make you good. Makes you good at one trick.

[grandmaster_owl]

I was just using the ollie as an example. It's more like would you be able to land every set but only land it half-assed, or land like three sets but be able to make it look pimp. Basically would you learn your tricks well or would you just learn every trick really fast? Do you practice your tricks or do you just zip through them all once you've landed one like twice?

[oldscoolelement]

i work and tweak my tricks until they put don juan dela-nooch (jay and silent bob, yeah, good movie)) to shame in the pimpness of em. and i constantly pracitce em, even if i have em dialed.

[iamflameboy]

i would perefere a mixture....if its a hard trick then i reckon you are 'allowed' to land it because its a hard trick, so it still looks pretty good. However, if you landed a easy trick (say 180) and you messed it up then it would look very bad, but if you landed smoothly, then it looks pretty good

[Zac--]

Style is everything

[Freaky Styley]

Zac is right. Techincal is good and I think a must. but even a difficult trick can look boring under the wrong feet. Ive seen in many of my competitions when a guy who is not strong technically get a high place cuz he can carve up the park with alot of energy and expression. big stylish airs but ending on a failed frontside flip on the pyrimid. Thats how guys like Andy mac can get 7th at the world championship...his street in my eyes is a joke but he looks good doing what he does. I appauld is efforts but His placing in comps is BS.

[AIRZ1]

Originally posted by Zac--
Style is everything

Couldnt have said it better Zac

[NIGhtMAre]

...hmmm...Not sure about that one.

[BakerStencil]

Its a mix you can't have one without the other it all comes with practice.

[sugar muppet]

i style everything, i'm never happy with landing a good trick, if it ain't styled, i'm not happy, even my switch flips are gettin styled now. hell, my ollies are getting tweaked further and further now

[T O O L]

Style. I don't know if you guys know but when you start seeing a lot of good skaters you'll see that they can pretty much do all the same shit but it's their style that seperates them from the rest of the crowd.

[WesternWaster]

Man style is by far more important, everybody is so good at skating now that it has went to the point that style is the only thing that matters, and style is something that comes with time or you were just born with it, unfornately i have no style but i am hoping it will come later.

[R-dude]

i don't give a **** about style really, i'm happy if I learn the kickflip and it looks like i'mm about to fall, I like landing tricks thats it.

[Skate or Try]

Wasn't it Dan Cates That Said:

'If you ain't got no style, you ain't got no future'

You want style? See Wainwrights ollie

[muzz16]

Style is definately everything, all the pros can do pretty much the same stuff it's just their style and how clean they get it that makes the difference.

[Zac--]

If you want style check out Mark Appleyard's.

[T O O L]

If you want style check out PJ Ladd. You know you got style when you do tricks in a row that good skaters wouldn't dream of doing once and make it look easy.

[tryhard_skater]

well if u just land a tre flip and do a good ollie i still think the tre flip is way betta but yah style is important. I had shithouse kickflips so before learnin any new tricks i just practiced to get them down stylish. But I dont consider style just landing properly like its the way you do a trick. If you do a tre flip kickin ur leg beautifully and spinning it really well and high and then land with ur front foot heel and ur back foot toe id say it was still pretty stylish... know wat i mean anyone?

[jambi]

Style is the same as landing it, watch a person land a 6-set, then someone else do the same thing. There is style in both, but, one seems smoother, that's practice. Skate until your tricks flow, enjoy your style, your style only changes in time.--peace--

[oldscoolelement]

yeah.,.and.i.think.the.nicest.tricks.,if.done.good .,are.the.tre.fl;ip.,180.flip,big.spin.,and.a.180+ 180flip.,whatever.thats.called./

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