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Fat bills little quips to a couple of the security guards made me cringe.
I'm surprised people aren't all up in arms about tyshawn shooting his board into that security guard, pushing another person, and even the fireworks.
Does he get special treatment for being a prior SOTY or something?
Firework stuff is wack, but nothing outrageous. People do that stuff all the time. I don't like it and I think it's corny to put it in a video, but that doesn't change how I view his skating one bit.
I generally highly dislike it if an editor includes clips of boards hitting bystanders or collisions between skaters and pedestrians. That stuff is inevitable if you skate in busy areas, but there's no need to include it in a video. Makes the skater look like an idiot in every single case, especially if it's only a 2 second clip without any context. This isn't any different, but it's also not especially bad compared to many other instances like this. For example, Nick Boserio literally tried to ride over a security guard in in the Polar vid and nobody really cared that much, so I wouldn't say TJ gets special treatment. Overall it's a regrettable remnant from the times when it was deemed 'cool' and 'tough' to act like dickheads. I hate it every time, but I blame the editor for including such wack footage much more than the skater who had a bad reaction in a stressful moment.
I had only seen people making comments about ben shooting his board in the direction of someone like 20ft away from him, but not anything about TJ actually getting physical with two people. That's why i made that comment. But i didnt read the whole thread either so i could totally be wrong.
I remember Boserio ollieing next to a guard but i didnt think that was bad at all.
00:25, Nick basically plays a game of chicken with the guard, makes contact and then gets mad at him for not moving out of the way. The whole prolonged scene is cringeworthy, but imo it's even worse that Pontus decided to open the video with it. I do have some amount of understanding for skaters who act out in these situations because of the adrenaline rush they experience in the moment. But the editor watches that shit a hundred times and makes a calculated decision to include it in the video. There's just no excuse for that.
I personally find this instance much more egregious than the clip of TJ and the pedestrian bumping into each other, which to me looks just like two people trying and failing to avoid each other. You can argue that he shouldn't try it when there's people walking there, but it's a sidewalk in Manhattan, there's always people. That's probably the main allure of city lines too, all the life around the skater. So he gets a pass from me on this one. No need to put it on the video, but that's on Bill.
I'd say the clip where the guy gets hit with the board is on the same level as Nick running into the guard, completely avoidable if you just don't go for it when someone is blocking the spot. Once he committed, however, there's not really anything he can do except kick the board away. I wouldn't insinuate that he actively tried to assault the dude with his board, that's a weighty accusation I'm not comfortable to make based on a 2 second clip without any further context. And, beating a dead horse here, don't put it in the fucking video.
Again, wack behavior, I'm not making excuses. It's just not that big of deal to me to cry wolf.
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