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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July 31, 2019 10:46 am
That was amazing. Reynolds next! I wanna see his FS Flip probability.
July 31, 2019 12:33 pm
Exactly what I thought! Need to see the greats (Reynolds, Gall, Koston). I bet jerry hsu skates a lot more switch over time.
July 31, 2019 1:15 pm
Sick analysis
July 31, 2019 1:48 pm
This is some crazy data! Would love to see more skate data graphs and learn about what we are doing
July 31, 2019 1:54 pm
“Fakie FS flip.” Fucking hell.