Behind The Judging: The Criteria for Park Skateboarding

Learn more about how scores are formulated by our judging panels as Head Judge Renton Millar breaks down the Park skateboarding criteria which are applied at all World Skate Park events.
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[@patrickthies8683]

this is all fine and structured BUT we definietly need public acess on how those are weighted in. How much scores Flow over Difficulty? What are the difficult tricks? Is it worth it going bigger and faster or more tec and original? Everyone is on the same page what makes Skateboarding great but not on how is best balanced. Competitive Skateboarding is like a cake competition but not knowing what the actual receipe is exactly. Every major sport can point to not only exact criteria and how those are fufilled but also at the actual numbers. How much is a toe drag? How much is doing something switch over doing something Nollie? Skateboarding still has a long way to go.

[@pushplanks]

the problem with everything you want to know, is that there would no longer be transparency in terms of skaters creativity and judges interpretation. If every little detail was concretely conveyed, then it would be very predictable for which tricks everyone would do or not do for scoring. Sounds lame to me. I always make the comparison that judging for Olympic skateboarding runs on the same basis as Ice Skating or Diving.