Personally, I feel that, back in the day, Brian's style came under criticism for being 'too clean', 'too polished', 'too perfect' and for lacking the imperfections that gave the way other people skated 'character'. But revisiting these videos after over a decade, you can see that Brian's character is laid bare in his striving for perfection. To me, his style is more synonymous with what I might expect from an olympic athlete - A style meticulously crafted over tens of thousands of hours of self criticism and ambition; perfection, or at least, the closest he could come to it with the time he had.

Thanks for your kind words Mike! Glad you enjoyed it!