Dude seems like he could turn pro but his gimmick is super lame with the both stances and swag kit/shitty rap vibe...There are lots of examples of pro street skaters doing switch and nollie tricks where they don't look switch...i.e. Wade Desarmo and Erik Ellington...There are also lots of examples of pro's who predominately skate street switch because it's more fun and then we debate is it really switch for Guy or really switch for Baptista?
This Venice loc has good style, good bag of tricks, and all terrain but he has a gimmick....he should drop the gimmick and admit he's goofy. I have nothing wrong with switch flip fs lip slides that don't look switch...same with switch flip fs crooks...nothing wrong with doing tricks so well or learning how to do switch tricks where they don't look switch.
But what is really fucking annoying is claiming you skate different stances for different obstacles....it makes the footage nausiating to think about. It's not that intriguing to think so deeply about his stance to be honest. I think it's almost entering fuccboi territory for real...like he's playing us...so he should drop the gimmick, imo.
nah. sammy might be better at skating street goofy, but he's not killing tranny in regular. and not one of those other dudes you mentioned--or anyone else, ever--is better in switch on a different type of terrain than they are regular. dudes you mentioned are ambidextrous, maybe. not this dude though--he has
two stances. can't skate either terrain equally in each stance like those dudes can.
he doesn't give an exact timeline in his interview, but he says he grew up skating hawthorne park in regular stance with theotis, louie, and antwuan (witnesses?). he then moved to venice with his homie
fouryears ago and started skating tranny in goofy stance. so giving him the
smallest benefit of the doubt, he was probably skating regular for at least one year before he started skating tranny in goofy stance. that would give him five years to learn kickflip lipslides on rails from scratch, which seems kinda fast to me but idk. unless you're saying you think he's literally lying about starting out regular, that he actually started skating as a goofy skater?