Well OP Im a huge fan of Jay Adams, but I dont think he single handed-ly gave skateboard all its flow and style and whatnot, if he didnt have his homies to shred with he probably wouldnt have done what he did. Same with skiing, I look up a lot to JP, Pollard, Candide, Tanner Hall, CRJ, Boyd Easly?, and some others I grew up watching matchsticks first few movies of, but I dont think any one of them single handed-ly made skiing what it is today, but they all definitely were a part of it