there is no better or worse every thing youll do with your bike will be personal preference/modification.
kevin jones said: the new schol riders or new riders tend to go brakeless or go with no brakes in the back. that is fine up to a point as you can learn some tricks brakelessand no back brakes but the basics and tricks you need tolinkt other tricks together..you need to have both brakesto feather etc...... brakeless riders and riders with no back brake but just front brakes tend to get to a point and thencant progress any further. this is why you see the same trick over and over again in videos or same type of linktsbeing done over and over again. the only rider who really can go brakeless is chase gouin and he can continue to progress ta breaking speed.i think myself that kev is right in this and flatland has gotten pretty stupid with this brakeless thing and no back brakesand i have gone back to a full on brake thing to progress.