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if you start the "what if" thinking, then no one would do anything. Pros shouldn't have to do anything other than make good videos, the whole reason they ride is that it's fun and there are no rules, it's freedom in the truest form. Once people like you want them to have to do stuff then then are no longer free. If people want to wear helmets they will, if they don't they wont. Stop worrying for them it will make you age faster. "that's the money shot!"
"one more time"
"can you backflip off that tree?" true story because he didn't hurt himself enough to? MTB dirt jumping......it always seems to be a wooden kicker to mellow landing, repeat. Always seems to be the same tricks too or who can do the most whips. Need someone to make a video on some BMX style trails with some BMX style flow. Quality of tricks over quantity any day.......Rant over. nice double negative :P That still doesn't make sense. For reference, I built up two wheels, one had alloy nipples one had brass. I like really tight spokes and the most I could get on the brass nipples was 23 on the Park tension meter. I then built the alloy nippled wheel and got it up to 27 on the meter. Both wheels are still going strong, neither had eyelets.
Eyelets in theory should give you the ability to get higher tension, but in reality it's not always true (the design of the rim does play a part for sure though). I couldn't have gotten the spokes any tighter on the alloy nippled wheel even if it had eyelets. I would never base my purchase of a rim on weather it had eyelets or not. that doesn't actually make any sense first think that makes me think is that the spokes were slightly too short. the lack of eyeletts doesn't round nipples, bad spoke keys and user error does. I am using Subrosas on my 24" and Spikes on my 26", the Spikes are a little wider so can handle off camber pretty well, but if you run hard enough pressure then Subrosas are fine (I had a pair all of last year). I have to disagree with Brit-100. I build up to 10 wheels a day for a bike brand with un-eyeletted rims and I really don't see it as a problem. I am a street trials rider and I swear by Spank rims, they are the stiffest strongest rims for their weight I have ever used and I would say the type of riding I do is pretty harsh on rims. There are pretty much no Trials specific rims that use eyelets, they just are not that important and you can still get very tight spokes.
I also swear by alloy nipples, they are a no brainer for me, any wheel I build if I have the option I'll always use alloy nipples. If you are stripping them then get a better spoke key, lube them and they won't corrode and I find you can actually get a higher spoke tension using them as the alloy has a little "give" when twisting around a harder (and rougher) steel spoke. A brass nipple is like rubbing two hard objects together, at higher tension, they get harder to turn because neither give way to each other.
That is my experience anyway. 
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