On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:52:43 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Also, the article promoting "new" technique always spent half their
time with self-promotion: how innovative and brave they were being by
striking into new territory. Now that a few years have passed, has
this innovation translated into results?

This looks like "new skate" to me (minimal rotation, short crisp
movemens), and this guy got some results
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duA2q2s2-38