I'm kind of surprised with the comments about just leaving the spot alone cause the Gonz ate shit there.
I always thought it was cool to see people doing different shit at the same spot. I mean the spots are so important for us collectively, it makes sense that people are going to want to skate them and do new shit at these spots.
I feel like I'm often a skate tourist as I always want to physically experience the famous spots I've seen in videos and photos my whole life. Shit, not the coolest Vancouver spot/trick, but I skated past the spot where Haslam does the front board to flip out on that up rail. It was cool to see in person.
It seems the don't one up people comments come out when the wrong dudes do new shit on a famous spot (Carlos Ruiz). This kid, despite his no-pop half-cab and the Berrics social media fake back story bullshit, made it into the history books with this trick. It is ugly as all hell and the presentation was disgusting, but he did a trick at an infamously gnarly spot.
Shit, I don't mind the whole make a name for yourself via El Toro/Car Wash thing. It is going to bring up some dudes who just kill it that might not have gotten attention, but the short cut will also be used by some kooky dudes that are just going for broke/internet fame.
A former AZ kid who tried to make a name for himself at El Toro (sadly things didn't go well for Dilbert Robert).