Paul Rodriguez

Yeah.

Right?

So you might see a guy do a technical trick, say, on a ledge, right, which doesn't look dangerous, but it's probably a lot more difficult to do consistently than it might be to see a guy jump off a big set of stairs.

Yeah.

But the big set of stairs are more flashy and potentially more dangerous because you could fall harder and get hurt.

So that might be the thing that draws you.

But if you're a real skateboarder, you might be like, well, this guy's trick was probably a lot harder than that guy's.

So that, I think, the code hasn't been cracked.

But I actually think it's about to be cracked.

A good friend of mine is starting a new skateboard league called the PSL.

And he's kind of basing it off the format like...

Almost like baseball doing innings mmm where it's like it's just one obstacle one guy has to do a trick and then the guy on the other team has to do that exact same trick that the guy did so even if you don't know what the trick is or why it's difficult you do know as a viewer like well this guy landed it so this guy has to do that same thing and land it again and if he misses it's called it's like a strike three strikes over to the next people kind of like horse and kind of like like has innings and

So, like, after three mess-ups, switches over to the other team to start it.

And then after, like, three or four rounds, then you find out who gets the most points.

There is some subjectiveness to it because, like –

two guys could do the same very hard trick but one guy might just make it look a little more graceful right and like if you're a judge and you know what you're watching you'll be like well they both did do the same trick but this guy did it with more finesse and made it look more masterful so you got to factor that in so um yeah it's subjective though are you a fan of that style like that finesse style like do you think that should impact the score at all i think so yeah because i think for me personally i think

I think the best people in any field are the people who can make something very difficult look easy.

So I've always been a fan of somebody.

Because to me that shows they've really reached a level of mastery.

Now somebody else might be able to do that same feat, but it looks like they struggled more to do it.