Thanks. I never saw shuffling as anything positive, it’s just stinking. The way MJ does that foot placement thing is the zenith of board control and style in my eyes.
I don’t know what happened to him. For a while after that adidas thing I was like you can’t separate the art from the artist and thought he was an imbecile but I recently started watching his old parts again and holy shit, what a fantastic skateboarder. Definitely one of the most inspiring of our generation, in my book at least. His Man Down section is probably in my top 10 of all time, with Gonz in Video Days and stuff like that.
as much as i love to see pro’s move their feet as little as possible i cannot do any trick without extensive shuffle. skating is a mind game and the foot shuffle is a big part of it for me. i’m way past caring what anything looks like
Oh man, I’m more than happy to see you shuffling like you’re having a seizure, it only bothers me when it’s done by people on Thrasher for example, people who should be doing shit like MJ but don’t, and we’re all exposed to a lot of horrible footage with Instagram these days, plus sometimes it almost seems like not being stylish is the new being stylish. Weird era. I’ll stick to MJ in Man Down and Gonz in Video Days I suppose.
Fuck yeah. Whilst I watch quite a lot of skating it mostly falls into two categories - old skate videos that I love and mate’s Instagram clips. The IG stuff stokes me out loads because it’s normal people being messy and having fun. The old skate videos are what I grew up with. I don’t really have time or inclination to watch much else really