I'm imagining what this thread would be like in the 70s/80s.
"Popping tricks in pools is cheating! You're using a cheating gimmick to get more height and it doesn't count!"
Some of y'all are getting in your own way of enjoying skateboarding. Skateboarding is art and it's all subjective, but it's also supposed to be fun and social. If your friend does a kickflip bs noseslide do you walk up to them and hand them a slip of paper that says "kook'd for bs noseslide, that's a banned trick"?
Lol nah. Don't take these clowns seriously. It may appear as gatekeeping but ppl tend not to speak in nuance here.
What they deep down meant is they're hard to make look good, giving their starter pack status.
It's not what you do, it's how you do it
In that new Chase Walker vid some fool does noseslide on a regular ledge followed by back blunt @ 1:29:
https://youtu.be/Okidk7y7HtE?t=89Nose slide is kinda whatever on it's own but the proximity to the mini hubba blunt makes the noselslide tight
There's another clip of a nosegrind on a 2-star and he shuv-firecrackers out n he toe drags upon landing.
Type A or salty skaters would think it was wack, but someone reading between the lines would see that the toe drag helped him swerve around the car. Also he was doing it in black air forces, this clip was very much "black air force activities" if u think about it which is fire