For the last three years, The Berrics has hosted a 60 second contest: Run + Gun. Each skater gets the park for 24 hours to come up with the best 60 secnd run. At the end of the competition, the public chooses the winner. I saw this as a good opportunity to digest skateboarding data in a competitive format without the time crunch of logging this information during a live event. Aside from games of SKATE, competitive skateboarding is very much subjective. Style has a huge influence on a skaters popularity and it shall always be a prominent factor in scoring. I wanted to try and remove the subjectivity and see what we could derive from this competition by recording the data for each trick.
By logging the timestamp, stance, and trick we can derive some interesting metrics exclusive to skateboarding:
I will admit that this does not paint a full picture since the obstacle the trick was done on varies greatly in difficulty throughout the park. However, it is interesting to be able to compare lines / tricks / combos in a visual way. When looking at the number of tricks a skater did, I filtered out what I would consider "filler tricks" (e.g. axel stall, rock - fakie, fakie disaster). At the level these guys are skating, these tricks are nothing more break between tricks / obstacles. Looking at the 2016 data, Cody McEntire landed 10 consecutive flip tricks throughout his run. I personally think he should have won because of this feat, yet Paul Rodriguez took the cake again this year with another remarkable run. Both Paul Rodriguez + Tiago Lemos did not attempt a single regular stance trick in their runs.