Yea, seems like his riding could be so much easier to watch if he just took out those 2-3 extra hops. Its not like the lines he was doing were anything special where it would have taken loads and loads of go's.
Liked the chilled tune but there was too much filler in there. No need for all the pedalling towards stuff. The "looks like he's wanking" clip wasn't funny the first time someone used it, back in nam.
The up to front was nice, I agree. Much prefer that style to say, up to front and using the front wheel to hop round to back like I see a lot of riders do, as it often forces them off balance making them use another correction hop.