what are you even talking about. he shows a lot of "flow and creativity" in the way he puts rails into his lines and how he attacks them . the dude says pretty bluntly that he enjoys skating rails a lot, it's just another kind of skating that, for some reason, you have no appreciation for. that's cool, like you said everyone's standards for skating are different, but don't call the skating jockish. what even qualifies leos rail skating jockish ? he looks for rails and skates them ?
Gnarles is jockish for demanding that I name ten skaters better than Leo Romero using his specific qualifications.
And I am sorry, NO, he doesn't show creativity at all by putting rails into lines. That's just him finding another way to skate nothing but one obstacle.
Leo is jockish because all he really does is the same things over and over, just adding a stair or something. Its not really an exploration of skateboarding, or using a skateboard to transform the world around him. Its just this very mathematical progression. Its predictable and one-dimensional. It reminds me of a pitcher learning how to throw a ball faster and faster, or a golfer or baseball player working on his swing. As athletically impressive as it is, it has no soul.
As for not liking rail skaters, its not even really the obstacle as much as it is the fact that anybody who skates only one object, no matter what it is, is boring and dull to me. He's like a vert skater or something that just skates a fucking halfpipe in his part. I don't give a fuck how good he is at that one thing. Honestly, I like it when dudes who don't skate rails usually skate some gnarly one, the same way if a street dude got on a vert ramp and did a mctwist I'd be impressed. The dudes who do it every day can do the most advanced flippy 720 stalefish shit though, and I barely even notice.