I'm not going to get into a huge debate with you... you obviously have your opinion, and i doubt anything i say will change the way you think.
Thanks for that..
Creative freestylers shouldn't even be considered as top athletes in freestyle. So you can think alternatively, why should that put you ahead of freestylers that bust their asses off in training sessions.
but "thinking alternatively" isn't all there is to creative freestyle... there is a difference between THINKING of a new kind of trick or combo, and then DOING a new kind of trick or combo... most freestylers can think of a new kind of trick or combo, but you still have to go out and bust your ass training it to get good and consistent at it.
Of course it all depends on what kind of creative freestyle we are talking about, yes, some "creative tricks" may be easier than others... but also some are not... same with lowers and sits and uppers... every trick has different difficulties. So you cant just generalise "creative freestyle" as something that is easier and doesn't require the same amount of "ass busting" training as other kinds of freestyle.
Seeing as we are talking about top freestylers and not most unique, cool, stylish, creative, admirable etc, I think it's safe to say that Mirkos, Lukis, Azuns, Linders level surpasses Seans, JK etc.(In their categories of course)
I understand that Sean can't be placed into the lower/upper/sits category but he does fall under the all-round category. Right?
The way I see it is that, for example, let's compare Sean to Azun.
Whose uppers are better? Azun
Whose lowers are better? Azun
Whose sits are better? (I don't know much about sits, but I think it's Azun but we'll go with Sean incase I'm incorrect)
So the votes are two to one. Therefore Azun is a better all-round freestyler.(sorry if I offended either Sean and Azun, I just used you guys as an example)
I know you can't really measure the difficulty of a backflip, freezes, 2 consecutive bandana slips in upper in sits and lower..but this is what the majority of freestyle is made up off. If you aren't good at those, then you don't deserve to be in the top all-round category imo.
