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i love when anyone says a mediocre skater sucks and the 1st 14 year old that see's replys with " you must like prod or nuggget lolololol" get the fuck outta here.
A better question might be, who is above mediocre ? If Alex Olson is mediocre that is. I thought that part was rad considering he was Am and it was his first part.
This has nothing to do with anything. I don't care how you feel about Olson, if you're using a shitty qualifier like this, then you're doing it wrong. If you're going to have a part in a video with pro skaters, a skater should and will be judged by the same standards as everyone else in the video, notwithstanding injuries.
It is possible this was a weak argument, the idea that something is good but " he was injured/was just an am/ just got on had 2 weeks to film blah. Blah. Blah" is ridiculous. But by you're admission everyone given a part in a video is open to critique against anyone else in that video. Surely that hypothesis creates null arguments when comparing someone who has skated for 20 years against he who has skated for 5.� In short (and as an example) comparing Yaje Popson against� say Guy Mariano is possible but isn't necessary or going to produce any real topic for discussion.
Let's continue to use Guy Mariano for an example. All of his parts from the beginning have been excellent by anyone's standards. Nobody ever said, "That Guy Mariano kid's really good for his age", or, "That was only Guy Mariano's first part so I understand why it wasn't as good as the other parts in the video". Nobody ever said that (or at least nobody with any sense said that) about Hawk, Way, P-Rod, Nyjah, Sheckler, or a large amount of others and that's the way it should be. This is one of the reason why Flip got so much shit. They put kids on their team that could be good in the future instead of putting kids on the team that were setting standards from the moment they got put on. To be sure, lots of companies have prematurely put kids on their team and banked on them becoming something special before they were anything special. That doesn't mean I should keep that in mind when I'm watching their video parts. Don't get me wrong, if you feel like Alex Olson brought something special to the table then by all means that part was good enough, but the moment you start talking about how it was okay considering it was his first part is the same moment I disregard that opinion. Unless injury or something else that effectively stops a skater from filming, how many video parts, whether he's am or pro, or what he had for breakfast, will not dictate the quality of a part for me.
And yes, I'm going to hold Yaje Popson to a higher standard when he puts out a major video part than when he was just putting out clips with his friends.