actually, it all started (more or less) with neil* and craig
and clearly their riding style was inspired by hermance and the coust
they kind of stole that "long wb pogo stick riding style" and adapted it to uk street riding
(even though, at that time french riding style was so much more than just pogo stick hoppin around)
the funny thing is, years later, I heard gilles coust was inspired by some of the damon skills on side hops and up to fronts to improve his own performance on big moves...
*neil, at first was still bunny hoppin a lot (giant bunny hops) so it was kind of hybrid tgs/trialskings style, and then he jumped on the long wb bandwagon
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