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It's been touched on before but I'd love to hear more about the process for filming for Mosaic. That "Ghetto Park" spot has to have some stories about it.
Pulling that off was quite a feat if the stories about him just doing drugs all the time and only skating in binge-mode are true. There is an awesome Meza Skateboarder interview around the time where Aaron asks "how do you, of all people, have a part in the new Habitat/Workshop video?" which is just hilarious.
He did a bunch of meth and made up for his lack of footage by including poorly thought out "lines" that included him stopping, picking his board up, and turning around for no good reason other than taking up time in his part. He basically turned his part into a Nyjah Huston contest run and made it so people focused on that rather than his skating, which, at best, had plateaued as he offered nothing new skill or trick wise. It was the ultimate gimmicky bullshit part
So style doesn't matter and only technical advances are relevant?
Off the top of my head he had some great looking stuff in there - backsmith the curved rail, huge backside nollie heel over table, frontboard truckbash, fakie heel- fakie f/s shuv, etc... The Parallel lines weren't exactly elementary either.
I get your basic point but comparing it to a Nyjah contest run is just ludicrous.
Style matters, his style just isn't anything special. Its not terrible, but its not enough to justify that part. The guy isn't Kenny Reed or Mike Carroll. And no, none of those lines were anything special at all, aside from the obnoxious pretentiousness of his getting off the board and still calling it a line.
And you are right my comparison to a Nyjah contest run isn't fair. Nyjah actually puts a TON of effort into his skating and progression, rather than putting most of his effort into looking cool while rehashing the same shit for decades.