Even in his prime when I like 14 I was not a fan of his skating, he was clearly good, but back then I worshiped switch skating abilities, like arto, reynolds all these others...
He was and is def talented no denying that. His parts always left me wanting more.
thinking about how he is good at fakie, I remember thinking its easy to skate fakie when you're first learning to skate, compared to nollie, its only after you've been skating for a while, nollie starts to feel more comfortable than fakie. His sell was he hasn't been skating long when he got big, hence why he did more fakie stuff. Him doing a fakie trick vs like reynolds doing a fakie trick, while the same trick, are mentally reynolds on another level.
this was just a stream of consciousness input, idk what im saying.