Ok so, after reading your word lame, I kinda thought about it differently. I imagined someone telling me that they had skated with so many pros, has been to every skatepark and bragged about it heaps. Then when we eventually went skating together, he was absolutely shithouse and it was evident that he had never met someone who was on flow with a company, let alone pro.
So I guess the same principle. These "imposters", if you may, are pretty much trying to prove their worth, trying to prove that they're sicker than the average toribashian.
Agreed, lame.