Got weirdly and unexpectedly emotional watching this. Everything about it is alot... Skating Hollywood 16 in front of like 32 random hangers-on, not being able to sit on a curb in your hometown without some clout chasers asking for a photo, your local park becoming unskateable, Taking high school classes remotely in Shane O'Neills guest house, being an expat with English as your second language in the USA. It's a fucked lifestyle for anyone.
And then to realize she is 15 years old and takes everything in stride, smiling and joking the whole time, better than I would handle it now in my early 30s. It's insane.
It's so exciting because she is going to be one of the best skaters in the world but it makes me nervous because nobody deserves for their teenage years to be a pressure cooker like that. And How does a family handle the finances? How do they decide what she does and how much to push her and how much to travel in a year? It's a minefield dude. I hope the adults in her life allow her some space to be a teenager and not a just a billboard and moneymaker.
But then setting all that aside you see her skate the April park, and as others have said in this thread it is some of the smoothest most natural skating imagineable-- just clearly a generational talent/style. Puts a smile on your face.
Shoutout to Bublitz, he crushed this one