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The only way to actually settle this is to watch parts and list tricks. If you wanna do that, go for it. I’ll be over here in idiot land as the only person in skating that found it predictable that Reynolds stuck to mostly 10 tricks in his parts (and liked that).
Do you really think anyone was caught off guard when The Boss’ first actual trick in Stay Gold was a fakie frontside flip? That’s one of my favorite parts of all time and the pole jam back 3 is the only thing that caught me off guard. If Cyrus showed some progression and perfection of his bag Id be less inclined to label him limited, but even now I’d rather watch a limited selection than NBD pretz shit.
Fine, let's do Baker 3:
Switch shuvs both ways down notable spots
Switch tre
Ollie over to fs wallride
Nollie 180 switch 5-0 (and one with a revert)
Nollie flip Hollywood
Nollie inward heel nosemanny
Back heel
SWITCH back heel
Back 3
Switch frontside flip
Switch nosegrind revert on a hubba
and that's just off the top of my head, in arguably one of his least varied parts. Just because you only remember the tricks he's best known for doesn't mean that's all he does.
Jesus Fucking Christ dude- I'm literally saying that he is known for a specific set of tricks not that I don't remember other shit. Yes, maybe 90% was hyperbolic. They are both skaters who have a pretty standard bag of staples that we expect and appreciate. Better?
Of that list you gave I would say nollie flip, back heel, switch back heel, switch frontside flip are also in the first 2 minutes of his Stay Gold part. He's done a decent amount of nollie 180 switch 5-0's too. I can make a similar list about Cyrus's Stussy part. I think people are suffering from recency bias and comparing a few parts that came out in rapid fire and I wouldn't really consider the tricks he shares with Max a full part. If you took the same chunk of time from the same period in Reynolds' early career you could say the same shit potentially, which was my point, not that I think either are truly limited because they often film the same tricks.
Staples:
Back tail backside flip out, backside flip, front 180 fakie manny (with a fakie front shuv out), back 180 fakie manny (half cab out over spikes and a big drop), back smith (quite a few, one has a shuvit out), a bunch of fast 50-50s on sketchy rails
Others:
boardslide to back feeble transfer, nose manual to a large drop off on an angled metal shed thing, front smith a rail, back 180 switch 5-0 off a bump to windowsill, heelflip over a shopping cart.
Reynolds Stay Gold, not really fair since this was fairly late in his career vs Cyrus' Stussy part
Staples:
fakie frontside flip (Carlsbad gap, he skates it in almost every part), following up a trick with something done the other stance (switch heel back tail then regular version), nollie 180 switch crook, nose slide front shuv out (done on an iconic ledge), half cab heel, nollie front heel, switch flip, switch back heel, etc.
Others:
switch heel back tail, fakie tre (he did others later in his career but this is the first I can remember in a major part), switch front 180 nose manny nollie 180 out although he's skated the same spot in a bunch of videos, cab grab on a mini ramp,