Nah, still hatin' on Dumont.
I watched the Empire vid from Keystone before the X-Games in 2008, and it's basically the same (without Dumont looking like a candy cane). His rail skills are getting pretty dang good, but for the love...learn some new spins. I mean, yeah, he spun a right cork 3 and a right cork 7...and yes, he was afterbanging very hard...but there is a certain point where I don't want to see any more frontflips. His zero spin shifty was ridic, so props there.
Bottom line: Simon is played. Everything in that video has been done, and done better by people who don't have half the sponsors Simon does. Is Simon good at selling a product? Most definitely. Is he good for our sport? Why not. Is he fresh and original? Hell no. Emulate Wallisch.
Someone should smack Simon over the head with a newspaper every time he does a frontflip on film.
No! Bad Simon!