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 1, 2019 11:37 am
Greco rides goofy, dummy.
August 1, 2019 12:25 pm
Greco is definitely regular.
August 1, 2019 3:31 pm
Man, Jenkem, pay this dude to do more of these.
August 1, 2019 5:22 pm
Do Fred Gall
August 1, 2019 5:50 pm
Danny way. So many phases