from GMOS Jenkem Interview:
I know you have strong opinions about skating styles. What makes someone’s style bad, in your opinion?
How they do their tricks. And what they do when they land. Y’know, it’s like a performance. Some people pause, but they do a pose. Those people are presenting skateboarding for other people.
You mean that post-landing fake steeze, right?
Yes! Uh, Dylan Reider.
You don’t like Dylan Rieder’s style!!!?
No, no, I’m just tellin’ you! If you watch his arms when he does that shit. Dude, it was totally fake steez. It was deliberate. It’s cool if that’s what you’re doing, but if you’re trying to act like that’s real style…He was a model before they discovered him. I looked at him as a mannequin in a sense. He was really good, but he wasn’t himself. It’s not to be disrespectful, but he was raised to be a star. I mean, he’s good. He had to develop the talent. But that’s the reason why some people who passed are remembered every year, but there’s so many people that passed that don’t get an industry bow. But he made some notes for a lot of people.
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I kind of agree but at the same time Dylan was doing some pretty insane stuff too and pretty creative approach to spots and stuff. The arms thing you can get past. I can defiintely think of some really late arm jank on some clips though. Id say he still had better style than a lot of guys, like Koston.
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