I don't know how else to explain my self. But because I like you, I will repeat what I said and answer you as well.
I'll put in it order of your post.
1. It's not meant to be an attack on you, only your values on how you see freestyle and where/how it should grow and all that. Just because I like some things about you doesn't mean I can't talk about my values and how they're completely opposite to yours and why I think my way is the best way.
2. The problem was the division. What's better, 1 forum with 50 posts a day or two with 25 posts a day? Anyone who comes to a forum and sees the latter will feel that there's no one around and then they drop off causing the number to drop.
I don't mind freestyle growing, I just don't want to see freestyle as a whole cater to non-freestyles first just because they're the lowest common denominator. I also don't want freestylers to be associated with casuals, which is what your videos are actually catered too, not people who actually want to learn, it's just the flava of the month to them. If I recall correctly you listen to rap music, right? What if you said I like rap music and the first thing to jump into my head was 'Oh, he's into guys like lil Wayne'. He caters to the lowest common denominator too and for that most people may think lil Wayne when you think rap. Same with freestyle and how skill will be seen. I don't think I worded that last part correctly but I think my message still comes across.
I am just trying to bridge the gap between 'us and them', times are changing and I don't see why you wouldn't want new people to discover freestyle. Even if they get bored of it after 2 weeks.
3. I had to quote this part as this is my biggest problem. The gap between us and them should always be there. To be associated with the people who don't have any form of will power and dedicated to what they love yet they get to call themselves freestylers? I don't understand how any freestyler could be happy with this. Times only changing because it's being fueled to change.
As I mentioned in the beginning of this post, it's not meant to be personal attack. Surely you've had people disagree with your opinion/values etc before? This is just an extreme case.
I just finished watching the second video that you claim is for both freestylers and non freestylers. Bullshit. Not saying I didn't enjoy it, but that's definitely not catering to freestylers just because you showed the difficult or best parts of a battle. Eurobac battles, Skora's poorly edited videos, 20 second videos involving 1 move with super slow mo, Come my lady, come come, my lady..those are videos for freestylers by freestylers without even giving a shit about non-freestylers. To say this is a hybrid complete crap. Short cut offs are for those that don't have the attention span to watch a 20 second clip without being distracted or bored, and I'm pretty sure there weren't any 20+ second clips, because that would make people bored. A FREESTYLE clip for 30 seconds is too boring for people.
You didn't even consider putting the final video in, right? That would've made the casuals bored and freestylers know where to find the vids if they wanted.
