Recently had a very fun and nerdy conversation with Tom Knox talking about a discipline he's mastered more than most: line skating.
Tom picked out a selection of his favourite/personally influential lines then I flipped it around and grilled him on a few of his own from 'Eleventh Hour', 'Vase' and 'Atlantic Drift'.
"Once you get into a bad rhythm with a flatland trick it’s so upsetting. I see lines as a percentage game. You can land all these tricks, say, 80% of the time but once you put them together maybe you can land the line about 4% of the time. So you’ve got to try for hours upon hours to link all these things which [separately] you can do consistently." - Tom on lines in general.
"I’m not good enough so I just take what I can get. That’s what makes me skate the way I do. It’s not that I’m ‘choosing’ but because it’s like, “This is all I’ve got.” With him, it’s all there just fucking waiting." - Tom on Mark Suciu.
https://blog.slamcity.com/lineage-tom-knox-interview/Enjoy.