Saints Row 2 - Skateboarding mod

[gabrielrock19]

Idol Ninja's Gentlemen of the Row mod includes skating animations for the player under the optional files tab. This however has two very annoying issues that haven't been fixed:

1. Skating replaces the walking/sprinting animation completely, which means you can no longer run ingame.

2. The animation replacement is global, and half of the NPCs of the game become skaters like you.

So this request would include an improved version of the original, by either adding an equippable skate to your inventory like this guy suggested or replacing skating with an emote action (like they discussed here; however it seems there is a problem with the skating emote as it doesn't let you skate properly while also causing a sound loop glitch).

The ideal request implementation would either fix the Skating Emote mod by F13 or add all the features suggested by Jikm30.