I thoroughly agree with Gary. Tim is making flatland look like a massive gimmick. a one trick pony. As soon as the novelty wears off to the masses, we'll be left back where we were, with nothing. same as Matt Wilhelm and his Murica's got talent sh*t, having to wear a suit, making us look slightly cool to the dumb masses, but in reality when regular plebs try it for an hour, and realise how hard it is, they go back to their razor scooters and wood pushing. I'm sorry but there's too much pussy footing and ego padding going on in this community, and as a veteran it makes me f*cking sick to my stomach. 1. Tim. you can ride, but ultimately you're making us look like a bunch of circus freaks.2. there's nothing original or merit worthy in the video. all of the flip tricks can be done by anyone who can do a frontflip, which let's face it aren't hard. and the non flip tricks are circa 1980's plywood hoods material, and quite frankly are now borderline gay tricks. We've got to stop making a f*cking mockery of our sport for the sake of consumerism. we're not f*cking prostitutes, we're supposted to be sportsmen, apparently. you don't see f*cking Tiger woods doing trick shots on the putting green wearing disco pants doing throwbacks to f*cking Happy Gilmore do you? no. stop f*cking debasing the community to the lowest denominator to f*cking serve your own means.
Freddie, I don't see how anything we're doing currently doesn't already make us look like circus freaks.Spinning in circles on a tiny child's bicycle on one wheel? Jumping around the the same tiny bike in incredibly technical links? Balancing in weird an unusual positions? Spending thousands of hours learning links that 99% of people don't even understand? It only doesn't seem circusy to us because we see those things all the time. To the rest of the world, it's an incredibly weird activity that can only be appreciated for a few minutes before everything looks the same. Truth be told, many people think that spending thousands of hours at the cost of every other aspect of one's life in order to master an activity that gets little to no rewards is more in line with severe mental illness. Unfortunately some of our best riders most absolutely show symptoms of severe bipolar and obsessive compulsive disorder. Anyway, I don't see how what Tim is doing is making a mockery of flatland just for doing something that people find entertaining. Just because it doesn't fit your definition of what riding should be doesn't mean it isn't any good. How is he debasing the community? You make it sound like he stole something from you.
Yo Blind, you any good at graffiti yet? or still painting your walls in your house because you suck?
work? looking like you?...jobless bum
Circus acts are much more presentation based and rarely delve into the technical aspects so youre not entirely accurate.f*ck the rest of the world thats exactly the point we shouldn't be doing this to get claps from crowds who dont give a sh*t in the first place but just want 10 minutes entertainment how dare anybody be prepared to piss on the integrity of flatland to be nothing more than a crowd pleaser (like a clown) Its all in the presentation and riders control that and frankly its riders choosing to sell themselves short.People dont understand much tbh shall we all stop bothering to progress and stick to simple tricks for the thick f*cks? Conquest and intellectual pursuits must seem alien to you in this finite extremly short life if you cant grasp the logic in the prioritised urgency and dedication top guys put in to chasing fulfilment and answer the question of potential of which you only have one f*cking chance to discover btw then its you who has the problem.By whose standard are you making judgements anyway? society will have you believe anyone who is not "balanced" ie obedient worker , relationship,hobby 2 nights a week aiming for the same western ideological goals is mentally ill its frankly a f*cking joke.How dare you question the purity that is a pioneering riders conquest not polluted by the abstract pursuit of petit wealth gain.