to the average skier:
a straight slide is just a straight slide. 150 points in sammy carlsons pro skier. no point multiplier because the only thing taken into account was the degree of rotation and grind.
to mikee:
there are a lot of things that play a huge role into simple things like straight slides that people don't realize. first of all, the average skier will strattle the rail with their legs on either side of it and do a two footed jump on to maintain perfect center of gravity for their megaburst super hop switchups.
there are a lot of options to make it flow more and add your own flavour to it, including a proper ollie or nollie from the side, carving onto it, body positions, etc...the average skier doesn't put those things into account because they don't seem important. it's more about what trick you throw like said above instead of keeping "simple" things fresh and tech.
either way, it doesn't actually matter what you believe in as far as tricks go. if you think of skiing like it's a tony hawk game and shoot for the high score that is fine. i'm sure ken gus's score would be !over9000! at a competition because he skis like a xxx-mega-gundam nasatron warrior and he's obviously quite talented at throwing stock rail tricks like you'd see them in a "SLOPESTYLE FOR KIDZ" book. i'm not insulting him, but that's how he skis, you can't say he's the next picasso of skiing.
so please folks...realize where mikee is coming from. he's talking about style here, personality, the artistic form of skiing, and there is slim to none (personality factor) in gus's skiing which is what he's pointing out.
what it all comes down to:
the tricks that look the hardest (DOES NOT EQUAL SIGN) the tricks that are the hardest. judges take notes!