You answered your own question. Anyone will ride slightly better at shorter lengths to a point, but have less hang time. At longer lengths every thing needs to be done with greater intensity, aka, hard cuts, popping with more speed, greater line tension, harder landings, more float, etc. Every thing is increased and you have to hone your skills on the little stuff to be able to handle it at greater intensities. Hope it makes sense, but yea it's easier, and the answer is because you have to do everything harder(harder cutting) and more precise at longer lengths. But the additional hang time and float are well worth it.
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