Any serious skate fanatic has wondered at least once in their life what it would be like to break down skate videos by numbers. Pull out a pen and notepad, cue up a video, and start scribbling down as many data points as you can count.
The process is a serious grind, but luckily we have guest contributors, and one of them spent dozens of hours coming up with a pretty thorough skate video data analysis.
Jared decided to analyze some skateboarder’s entire careers through their video parts, appreciating them in a new way, starting with Jim Greco’s 25+ year prolific career.
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August 5, 2019 10:32 pm
Astonishing Fake FS flip.
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August 6, 2019 7:13 am
I’d love to see the stats of Koston. Wathing his parts, it’s rather hard to figure out what his “favorite” trick is – what the bs bigspin is for Ellington, or the fs flip for Raynolds – does Koston have any? IMHO, he has done pretty much every trick in the book, but very seldom do you see him do any tricks twice.
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August 19, 2019 3:08 am
Yessir. Prod and Shane O’Neil too
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August 6, 2019 4:36 pm
Seeing this for an entire video would be sick. Who has the ‘best’ part? Most unique trick selection?
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January 19, 2020 5:26 am
Are there more?
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