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I could never force myself to watch Koston parts because his style is so bad i understand he's a legend and all ability wise but i could just never care
Edit: i forced myself to watch a jagger eaton part to compare their styles but i ended up enjoying a lot of the tricks because i watched it on mute and ignored the garbage broll, the ender for his berrics part is absolutely nuts i hate that i enjoyed as many of the tricks as i did
Did he have really good style relative to others early on in his career? Carroll still looked great relative to his peers for an insane amount of time i tried to watch kostons yeah right part and it looked like shit i had to turn it off like two minutes in, just a human bussup machine he's a hammer machine but who likes watching his shit, honestly arguably like one tier above jagger eaton in style
Edit 2: jesus the way he sets up his nollie tricks makes me feel a way i never want to feel again, feet like two inches apart which should be cool and very fresh but he makes every nollie trick look like a looney tunes character jumping on a chair to get away from a mouse
He had acceptable style. I can’t remember anyone saying it was great or complaining about it. I love his part in H Street Next Generation and his Mouse part was pretty good.
I agree Koston's style is acceptable, especially when factored into his era and what he was doing relative to his peers. Girl/Chocolate though was always loaded with skaters with great style such as Carroll, Gino, Guy, Scott Johnston, MJ, Kenny Anderson, BA, Rick Howard, Keenan, etc. So Koston's was always a bit rough around the edges compared to those guys, but he was also pushing skating on a technical level on ledges, rails, and big gaps that no one else really was and did so for like 15 years. While I'm rarely a tech over style guy, I think Koston finds a good medium. Not everyone can be Lucas Puig or MJ where they make even insanely technical tricks look amazing (which is a rare feat in general). Koston's stuff was generally popped and caught clean, which is more than you can say about a decent amount of guys who came out of the small wheels era doing insanely tech tricks.