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"The scoring is authentic," Blackwood explains. "We focus on lines, style and measurements -- things that make up a great video part as opposed to an emphasis on stringing together impossible combos and frantically button mashing as many tricks together as you can." If you've ever watched skaters in action, lines aren't some insane series of gravity- and physics-defying moves strung together over a two-minute period. It's more about using the environment to gain speed, stringing together a couple of tricks, taking a breath, gathering more speed, and doing it all again. "