sir ROWDY said...
I'm not gonna argue it out haha, but technically Steve if you had a long enough chicken line or you had an aaron hadlow handlepass ring you could do it all wakestyle hooked in. You can do everything hooked in if you want. The only reason people say it's "gay" hooked in is because finally the sport in those disciplines has progressed beyond that.
Yeah lets not argue I always win LOL's, and you will just make fun of me!!
Long centre line - do anything - yeah I'd like to see that.
Handle pass rings, hmmm, that caused Aaron a lot of grief and for good reason and strangely we have never seen them again.
sir ROWDY said...
Yeah perhaps there isn't anyone with really any better footage unhooked yet... But it was the same with wakeskating behind the kite, everyone just rode hooked in at first because they thought unhooked was to hard.
Times will change the sport will progress. I've seen Mitu and Keahi do this kinda stuff all unhooked, so it's not like it isn't possible and it definitely looks a whole lot better than whipping that 2m chicken line around everywhere.
It's just the logical step. Do you think people would have thought street skateboarding would have been the biggest part of skateboarding in years to come? lots of things don't seem obvious in the beginning. Give it time and talent.
Agree riders like Keahi and Mitu and many others rip, and they do it all unhooked, so thats just my argument, somewhere in between is where the sport will go in an organic way.
When people say they are doing stuff that will "progress the sport" the old BS detector is on full noise.
I actually did think that street skating would be the future right from the beginning when we were making our own board from roller skates haha.
Just because something is "harder" to do does not make it the future or coooooooler. 
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