Nice dodge. So you’ve never heard of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Wayne Gretzky, Andrei Agassi, Usain Bolt, or Michael Phelps? Do you live under a rock?
I’d say that probably every NBA player, most non-lineman in the NFL, pro tennis players, most Olympians, and most pro soccer players in Europe and South America would be considered more athletic than most probably every pro skateboarder.
In general skateboarders appear to be obsessed with not trying to do anything other than wear lots of black, train themselves to be oblivious idiots, and smoke a lot, so not sure about it, but if elite skateboarders actually had leagues and travel teams and private coaching like many elite competitors in other sports?
Tom Brady and Wayne Gretzky are GOATs in their sports, but not what I would consider particularly athletic.
Gretzky was the reference implementation of 4D Chess. Every rink in Russia has 10 year old girls who could outskate Gretzky while playing pokemon go and livestreaming it. Probably cross check his ass too, and their diet is probably water, a ground multi vitamin pill, and a teaspoon of sawdust before bedtime every other day.
The whole point of Gretzky was he knew where AND WHEN everyone else was going to be after they got where they were currently going. The most butteriest of passes was going to be 1.2 hockey stick blades off the ground over the defenseman's sticks, then land, turbo buttery, in the appropriate place for the recipient, who probably had no idea he was about to get the puck when Gretzky already knew whether it was going to be wrist or slap, stop-n-shot or one-timer, before the guy even decided where to go next.
Tom Brady is like the NFL equivalent of the guy who won't play the British Open when it's on certain courses because he can't use a golf cart.
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I bet if that flatland skateboarder savant guy grew up around soccer he would have been pretty good.
I'm not sure I buy that NO skateboarder is more athletic than ANY NFL lineman completely across the board. The bust the Giants got in the first round a few years back, Ereck Flowers, his footwork makes Stephen Hawking look like Lionel Messi. Once he stopped simply out-muscling the trash cans he played against in the ACC Coastal Division he got exposed.
Granted none of the skateboarders are 6'6"/270 and running 4.6 40s but if they put down the cigs and spent their adolescence the way talent in recruiting pipelines does I bet you'd see lots of the same gifts in terms of hip movement, footwork, speed, vision, anticipation etc. that make someone a good cornerback.