Thats a tough call. You gotta also consider Nick Davies, Tom Fooshee and Kieth Lidberg. The 4 of them are probably the best all round shredders in the world.
my list would be
1. Parks Bonifay
2. Nick Davies
3. Aaron Rathy
All with very different styles and though they are very well talented all around. They still have their strengths with different aspects of the sport. Not to take anything away from Rathy because the guys is a truly insane rider in all aspects. Sick video!!!
Then you consider Rathy's skills on the wakeskate and his case for all around best ripper gets pretty strong, the man is not terrible at this waterdancing thing...
Sick video. He is riding out of his mind lately. Boat riding I think him or Harley is the best right now, hes a monster on the rails, got real good cable skills, good wakeskater...all around hoss. Id give him best all around rider RIGHT NOW, not sure about ever...you got Kenney, Fooshee, Parks, Byerly, Davies, Harf, etc.
IMO, no one will ever reach Parks' level/status, so it's never really a question for best ever, I always go with it referring to right now, and Rathy seems to be taking it at the moment
Davies has already reached Parks status for cable I feel personally. The guy does things no one else can do and has superhuman consistency. Still I would love to see him concentrate more on boat.
Rathy/Clifford on top of boat now for sure, although I personally prefer Rathy's style. Rathy is good on cable, but probably needs a bit more riding time on the cable to challenge the big guns at cable riding. Whereas Davies has won a couple world series stops behind boat.
Considering that I say Davies is the best all around rider in terms of Cable/Boat.Rails right now. Fooshee not far behind.
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i'd say he's easily the best rider of everyone who posted on this thread myself included. lets not judge lets just enjoy an artist at work.he's a top shelf rider.
I cannot believe nobody has thrown out Adkinson. Have you seen him ride cable? He is always at the top of the list in consistancy on boat boat and cable and has been for years, not just the last two. Not much film of him riding cable out there but he definately is better than Rathy at cable air tricks.