Kent Kreitler also does 540s. Maybe we should stop doing them. The funny thing about this whole thing is you can do a flare that doesn't look ugly. Fuck, you can do a flare that looks fucking awesome. Just because a lot of people do ugly-looking flares doesn't mean that it's a bad trick. It's also an inverted trick, which is something that a lot of people do an entire pipe run without.
I like how this kid seems to think that doing a trick that people were doing in the late 90's is "unstylie" or "uprogressive." Good thing people didn't do straight spins or cork 7's or 9's in the late 90's. Because then spinning would be "easy" and "uncool." While you're talking about how flips are easier than "newschool" tricks, think about this: if you overrotate a spin, you can just revert another 180; you can't, however, just add another half of a flip. Why do you think that every fucking kid at the US Open can do a switch 10 both ways, yet most of them are afraid to do a straight backflip?
So faux, I know you can probably do a shitty-looking flare a couple of feet out of a little halfpipe. And I know that Josh Loubeck and Kent Kreitler and Brad Holmes did some shrimped out flares in little halfpipes back in the day. That does not make the flare a gay trick. Nor does it make the flare an easy trick. The flares I do don't look anything like the flares that Kreitler did in the 90's, so step the fuck off, faux_real. If you want to ban "easy" tricks from pipe contests, how about you ban cork 9's? Cork 9's are way easier than flares.
PS, people don't do old tricks in slopestyles? People don't even fucking CORK anymore. It's practically just straight up spinning these days. Maybe people didn't do straight up spins in the 90's.