What I’m bummed about is to play Horse, you can practice for a few days, then play. With Skate, you need a big bag of tricks that can take years to perfect Also, it’s cool to see this park. I drove by it for 7yrs going to work. Always thought about checking it out (even though I didn’t skate at the time)
Fun watch! Can't deny it's fun to see a pro (as far as the audience is concerned you are one) play against really good local skaters. Always fun to see differences in risk assessment, having options and surviving on weaker tricks just a bit better. I nowadays teach some conservatory students in private as a drums teacher (cause their current drums staff is relatively weak and word spread that I'm interesting yay) and it's really fun to see the exact similarities separating the enthusiast/aspirant compared to a professional level drummer in other disciplines spelled out like this! Of course there's also the type of "pro" that is just marketable and paradoxically, has a very narrow but fashionable skillset. Let's say there's two types of pro's and that I'm talking about one of them.
I think the mix of having sessions with friends and trying crazy stuff but also having solo sessions like this where you’re kinda in your own zone and feeling stuff out having fun with it is sick!
This video is great motivation for me. I’ve been working on learning new manual variations lately. I feel like it’s repetitive and boring for other people to see (when I do it). But manuals are so fun I just can’t stop. Thanks for showing the process.
Obviously you wanted to avoid riding over the metal panels, but to me at least, it'd be way cooler if you pushed a trick through the textured panels. It sounds cool and the added difficulty of adjusting to the friction of balancing through the texture changes is the sort of little detail that takes a tech trick to the next level imo.
