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What is it that I say that compels you to call for my censorship and expulsion? Does the thought of a superhuman skater amongst us bring out some deep-seated ill feelings towards your own mortality? Does he appear as some all-powerful Zeus before you? When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
The name skategoat, as outrageous as it may be, is actually a bit of a misnomer. To be the G.O.A.T. you have to exist within the framework of "time". The gods are able to see through the illusion of time and Leandre may well have this capability. Is your mind so small that you have to fall in with the pack wherever they run? Open your eyes, just realize that he is the one.
Please don't do Black Sabbath that dirty if you have to steal their lyrics to express your standpoint.
Leandre is good at skating switch and regular, that's it.
Superhuman is more a expression you can use to describe Bob Burnquist for example.
I cited Geezer directly previously. I'll include a long list of footnotes if that is required. I believe they apply to this scenario.
Leandre has two natural stances.
Bob is a super talented vert PIONEER with one natural stance.
I would think Leandre has a natural stance and he just got insanely good at skating basic transition switch to the point it feels normal. It's not like skating transition is fundamentally all that different to skating street when it comes to a certain tricks, e.g. grinding a smith or doing a tailslide in a quarter feels almost identical to doing it on a ledge and vice versa, difference being is getting in/out.
If he ever were to hit a megaramp and made it look natural AF, then I would concede he may really be stanceless, but until then I'm not entirely convinced.
This is the typical layman's assessment. No offense, but if you are not on the level to perceive his dual-naturality, I can not have a serious conversation with you. He is not stanceless. He has two natural stances. I am hereby labeling anyone that does not recognize Leandre has two natural stances as anti-science.
Lol you some sort of sport's scientist or just a run of the mill poe?
Since you fancy science so much though, what exactly is it about skating transition that makes it fundamentally different to street that he must switch stances to do it comfortably?
On top of that, can it be ruled out entirely that he didn't just get comfortable skating transition switch to the point it became normal to him?
These are just some questions actual researchers would ask regarding this, with the latter question being indicative of whether it was an acquired or inherit skill.