Alright this is a rant, so be warned.
I have a problem with the cardistry community nowadays. I feel like there is a heavy "eliteist" mindset with everyone today. By this I mean, there are certain guys that have established tehmselves as the "best in the business" and no one will challenge them or call them on mistakes.
Lets say some guy makes a cardistry video. He has been flourishing for a year and its his first video. Everything is nice and smooth, nothing bad. But, there is very little original material in the video. People will call him out saying "You need to create your own stuff, 3/5 for lack of originality". When in reality, the flourishing was worthy of 5 stars.
On the flipside, Jordan Lapping could make a video of him doing Pandora, Eko, Molecule 4 and Under Pressure for 5 mins and people would give him 6 stars and tell him he is the greatest flourisher they have ever seen. I mean dont get me wrong, J has amazing skills, but it gets pretty boring after about 1 minute.
Or, say a guy like Jordan made a video with some obvious mistakes that was say... a 3 star video. People would still give him 5 stars and give the other guy 3, just because Jordan has been around and is considered a top dog. I mean sure Cardistry isnt all based on video ratings, but you get my point. Some of the better flourishers get tuned out just because the are "New Guys".
So my point is, I don't like how someone is considered better than another person because he is more well known than someone else. I mean just look at Jonathan (from "wecallitshockeffect"). No one (or VERY few people) have ever heard of him but yet he is one of the best flourishers of 2009, or atleast CCC 2009.
I think we need to drop this attitude ASAP so the flourishing community can continue to make progress.
That was my rant and my opinion. Now let us hear yours.
-Dan
I have a problem with the cardistry community nowadays. I feel like there is a heavy "eliteist" mindset with everyone today. By this I mean, there are certain guys that have established tehmselves as the "best in the business" and no one will challenge them or call them on mistakes.
Lets say some guy makes a cardistry video. He has been flourishing for a year and its his first video. Everything is nice and smooth, nothing bad. But, there is very little original material in the video. People will call him out saying "You need to create your own stuff, 3/5 for lack of originality". When in reality, the flourishing was worthy of 5 stars.
On the flipside, Jordan Lapping could make a video of him doing Pandora, Eko, Molecule 4 and Under Pressure for 5 mins and people would give him 6 stars and tell him he is the greatest flourisher they have ever seen. I mean dont get me wrong, J has amazing skills, but it gets pretty boring after about 1 minute.
Or, say a guy like Jordan made a video with some obvious mistakes that was say... a 3 star video. People would still give him 5 stars and give the other guy 3, just because Jordan has been around and is considered a top dog. I mean sure Cardistry isnt all based on video ratings, but you get my point. Some of the better flourishers get tuned out just because the are "New Guys".
So my point is, I don't like how someone is considered better than another person because he is more well known than someone else. I mean just look at Jonathan (from "wecallitshockeffect"). No one (or VERY few people) have ever heard of him but yet he is one of the best flourishers of 2009, or atleast CCC 2009.
I think we need to drop this attitude ASAP so the flourishing community can continue to make progress.
That was my rant and my opinion. Now let us hear yours.
-Dan