So today while I was at work, me and another mechanic were talking about tricks like we normally do. (he rides 20, I ride 26) Then I start talking about how I'd like to start stringing together combos, like tuck to e.t., double tire grap to table. Then he says that I'd have to ask this other 20 rider who does e.t's all the time if I wanted to do them... Which struck me as a bit odd, and at first I thought he was joking, but the look on his face was very serious. He proceeded to tell me that park etiquette demands that if someone else is doing a trick a lot, you should ask them if you can do the trick too. Now I have been riding park for a few years, and I have never heard of this little rule. Now granted I understand other rules of etiquette like no snaking and no loitering on boxes, which he seems to think is the same as asking to do a trick that someone else is doing.
His reason for this is that some riders take offense to you being able to do a trick that they cannot or it may seem as though you are showing off, or even trying to steal their style. Even at this point, I was balancing the idea that this may be a joke.
My argument was that millions of riders have done these tricks before, we are not the first, so there is no stealing tricks or stealing styles. Asking to do a trick would be like asking someone if you can go ride your bike how you want to ride your bike. And that if this was an actual rule, then it was made up by riders who didn't want to have see other riders learn faster than them, or do things better than them.
This idea of having to ask others if you can do a trick seems absolutely retarded.
Rant over. Thoughts?
His reason for this is that some riders take offense to you being able to do a trick that they cannot or it may seem as though you are showing off, or even trying to steal their style. Even at this point, I was balancing the idea that this may be a joke.
My argument was that millions of riders have done these tricks before, we are not the first, so there is no stealing tricks or stealing styles. Asking to do a trick would be like asking someone if you can go ride your bike how you want to ride your bike. And that if this was an actual rule, then it was made up by riders who didn't want to have see other riders learn faster than them, or do things better than them.
This idea of having to ask others if you can do a trick seems absolutely retarded.
Rant over. Thoughts?