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Dude promised treflip while holding the weights and he never did it
Skateboarding is such an interesting sport to understand from a body perspective. It's very much like basketball where different builds have different strengths. I think a lot of skateboarders don't realize that and train like absolute garbage because of it. I also think it inhibits peoples growth and development quite drastically if not properly dealt with. Think of it like this, when u watch pro basketball players shoot they have two primary "shooting profiles", one that is a one step motion and one that is a two step motion. their are people who spend their entire lives understanding the physics of this and getting paid thousands by NBA players to improve their games. traditionally bigger guys have a two step motion profile like LeBron, where as shorter guards like curry have a one motion shot. Even though you are optimizing the problem of shooting, their appear to be two forms that give roughly the same and highest level of efficiencies under different conditions, another name for this is shaping. Most skateboarders do not understand that fundamentally there are multiple ways to "solve" most tricks, and that how you should "solve" in a large part is based on physique. Most people are not trying to be the best skater they can be, just trying to have fun and see how it goes, even at the pro level for the most part. Like if you look historically in skateboarding two base body archetypes have seen to be relatively consistent, highly athletic stockier guys between 5'6" and 5'9", and long legged, skinny dudes at about 6'0" to 6'3". If you asked me to tell you the prototypical skateboarder it would be those 2 types. I think from a skateboarding perspective being compact in limbs allows for better rotation in the air(ie tom schaar at 10), and a lower center of gravity allows higher levels of impact easier, and increases balance. Now the reason you see the shorter guys tend to have more muscle is because muscle does not hurt them like it would the other prototypical build since the dude is naturally more compact, and therefore that athleticism helps them. skinny somewhat tall skaters with long legs, they get hurt by the fact their center of gravity is higher, but their long legs and height generally means they can achieve high ollies, especially with low weight, on top of that taller skinny guys with style look naturally better usually since it's like the long limbs you would see on a model or something, and really skateboarding is just looking at how good another dude looks doing a random activity.
Weck is not a bad skater regardless of all the weirdness involved, and honestly you can see how his frame lets him control those manuals real well(manuals are all non fast twitch muscles so no shit he be good).
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