If you like Gou Miyagi's style, check out Kilian Martin!

http://videosift.com/video/Kilian-Martin-Altered-Route-Freestyle-skateboarding

Pogos, random darksiding, multiple board use, hand stands, etc. Good to see this in the Top 15 but I would kill to see Kilian AND Miyagi there together.

And if you want more skateboard originality check out:

* Omar Salazar
* Willy Santos
* Sergio Yuppie
* Rodney Mullen (Of course!)
* And bonus half pipe creativity from Daewon Song & Chris Haslam

Also, JFYI, we may look weak but don't f with us (we're like zerg): http://videosift.com/video/Guy-with-Gun-Confronts-Skateboarder-Street-Justice-Ensues

>> ^gnargnar:

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.
Sorry.


I will post your video if you put it on youtube. I'd have to see your credentials in order for me to qualify this statement. A lot of people can talk the talk...

>> ^gnargnar:

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.
Sorry.


If that's the case I won't bother correcting his name from the title - the video says Kilian.

As a skater, I have to rain on the parade. These are all joke tricks for your standard pro skater, and most aren't even executed exceptionally well. Touching your front wheels in a manual? Putting your foot down? That's basic no-no stuff.
Chris Haslam blows all of this out of the water when he's playing around. Richie Jackson. There's lots of "circus skaters" out there that destroy this dude.
And as someone that's not much of a Mullen fan- Rodney Mullen is roughly 829% better than this guy.

Sorry.

Very Rodney Mullen. It's like he's taken Rodney's stuff and thought "how can I do this using fewer feet?"

I think he is in the same league as Rodney Mullen or even a step above!

Rodney Mullen is/was a genius or whatever the sports equivalent of uniquely fantastic is.

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>> ^LordOderus:
Yeah It's always a big plus when you see people trying new and inventive stuff. They're needs to be more people like him and Rodney Mullen


Indeed. My first thought was: "There was Rodney Mullen. Then there was William Spencer."

Yeah It's always a big plus when you see people trying new and inventive stuff. They're needs to be more people like him and Rodney Mullen

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>> ^bamdrew:
Rodney was cool... then came pool and vert skating, which was pretty rad,... then street skating took to the air... handrails and tricks over gaps... combining technical skating with huge-balls, giving us the glory that was Jamie Thomas in 'Welcome to Hell'...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5fAx_F8qc
Not that its fair to compare guys from different times, and its also kind of like comparing breakdancing to parkour, very different things. If Mullen's invented it on the flatland, Jamie did it while flying at 20mph down a set of 15 stairs... I know which one I think is cooler.


What clinches best of all time for me has to be darkslides, Mullen's talent is just unreal.

Rodney Mullen has, in my opinion, held the title of most unique and best flat land trick specialist. I love how all of his tricks are a fusion of old skool and new.