I live the Philly and the skate culture here is so awesome and extremely intimidating. I’m not a new skater, but for the past year I’ve only done longboarding. I’ve recently started going back to skateparks and watching everyone easily hit insane grinds and gaps while I can barely Ollie is super frustrating. I know you shouldn’t compare yourself, and that’s not what this is. I feel like im getting in everyone’s way by not being good enough
i’m overcoming the fear of skating after my knee condition took over my mind for many years, and yea it is making my progression slower but that’s okay i’m not in the same body i was in 5 years ago. and that’s okay
I think you should re-edit this with riverdance for the 3rd exercise. Your content is always appreciated, I watch your stuff every day. Some I am afraid to do due to getting back on board and having weird unpredictable foot issues.
Bad ankle sprain here too, was super tired, didn't even need to skate anymore, was tired and done. But, then on the way home I saw another spot I usually skate so I was like eh okay fine I'll do some 180s off the 3-stair to keep practicing. I can get it almost everytime, but I want it to be effortless so I did a few of those. Then I'm looking at the 3-stair and I'm like okay, maybe I could land a FS pop shuv-it off it. Earlier in the day I was skating a curb-2 stair practicing pop-shuv its off it and doing a pop shuv it up the curb. I kept hitting this problem of over rotating the board even off a curb. I was landing maybe 1/10 tries on the curb, never should have tried that off a 3-stair or a 2-stair until I had it 9/10 times off the curb and especially not after a hard multi hour session.. but I did and literally no energy left, I went for it a couple times. Last one I over rotated my momentum was forward aggressively.. I landed off the nose and my front ankle, my right as I'm goofy, rolled over hard. I swear I heard a crunch over my music. I immediately stopped, jumped to the stairs, pulled off the shoe/sock and the whole thing was swelling.. by the peak it was 1:1 with yours a bit less bruising though I think. I ended up going to the hospital and they took x-rays, luckily it was only a bad sprain and I had messed up some ligaments. They casted me and I've been slowly recovering over the past 5-days. I feel I could likely take the cast off now and limp, but they told me 2-weeks to be safe. I haven't really had an injury like this before skating and I've been skating for a decade now, off and on, now more intensely. Thank you for making this series as I love skateboarding, but damn this has sucked for a 29 year old with a job, dog, etc.
I'm a new skater (2 weeks in) and I've been practicing ollies non stop as high as a can. Just as my ollie was looking pretty legit, I strained my left hip flexor (I ride regular) from pulling my knee super high TONS of times. Not sure if I was too stiff or over compensating, but now I gotta let my hip flexor heal lol
Love your video , it settles alot of things I've been thinking, I'm a recovering addict I'm starting from over so I believe that once I have a board again that would help me a lot please sponsor me bro
Thank you so much! I'm 35 and been skating for 21 years. This week the physiotherapist told me that my quads are as hard as rocks. She has recommended these types of exercises.
This video is brilliant, as an aging skater, hobbyist, not even amateur, I'm findng my heel and Achilles in my push foot is starting not to hurt, but feel really off and it's a great reminder of how impermanent health really is, I can see you in a year or two this becoming a major issue and I'm starting to think about things like balance in health. Thanks.
I took a pause for a while and i felt like i learned a lot more, felt like i wasnt using my brain when learning tricks, you can speed up learning a trick if you know your problems and how to fix them, fakie big flips took me 10 minutes to land, trying to land them consistently now but im having trouble on backside flips
A balance cushion or a balance plate\wobble board thing (looks like a plate with half of a ball underneath and it cost 15bucks and you have it for life) or just balancing with one leg on the couch\mattres and rotating the ankle, helped me so much, also calf raises and the opposite ones, when your heel stays down on the ground and you lift the front of your foot at different angles. This all strengthens the ankle. Specially the wobble board and doing rotations on that a couple of minutes a day, (don't forget the other foot cos of imbalances) worth the 15bucks. The ligaments in the ankle will get super strong, you will have titanium ankles and the šhit that would usually be a severe sprain will just be a brush off.
Too true. This is actually why I stopped skating...I stopped battling. That was 30 years ago. I started skating again a few years ago and I've been learning new tricks because I'm battling which actually makes skating fun again.
Another understated thing I've learned in my 15 years of skating is progressing your consistency. I've always had the battle mindset, but I'd always curb all my other tricks in the process. I eventually started losing a lot of tricks I've learned in the past. So now as an older dude (29), I try to structure my sessions where I try to get all my tricks in lines and work my way up to battling something new. The more you learn, the longer the sessions. Hope this helps even one person out there.
The biggest distractions are going to unfamiliar parks or getting caught up playing game after game of skate. It's one thing to build confidence with a trick you've dialed or to warm up. But if you've set out to learn a new trick or however many, do that and stick to it. That's the only discipline that comes with skateboarding. Have that discipline to know when you are at a plateau and to learn something new.
I felt called out lol. This video right tho. I stopped putting in my time and had the same bag of tricks for a LONG time. Wasn’t until 2 weeks ago I put the grind and progressed now to bs flip and fs flip.
I find visualization to help the learning process. the more you can visualize yourself doing a trick in a first person perspective the easier it will become. Also sometimes you just need to watch yourself on video or get a tip from someone who knows more.. II think telling people "just practice more" isn't always helpful and can just be discouraging to people. Skating is very much a mental sport tho and if you can understand the physics of a trick and also visualize yourself doing that trick you will be able to learn that trick.
i knew the reason before i clicked the video, but it sure as hell didn't hurt having told this to me by another person. thanks, i`ll try to better myself
Lol, front feeble on a rail would actually be a good one, I‘ve done them on a square rail looooong ago, but it wasn‘t dipped proper and not tweaked proper. Another problem I have is I haven‘t grinded a rail in over a decade, I can only do boardslides and fakie/nollie lip. I also never learned proper tre flips, I only did them as 360 shove kf, barely popped and without scoop. Perhaps I should battle those, but I will have to work on improving my kickflips as well as relearning fs 5050, back feeble on rail first 😂 Tailslides would be another trick on the list.
Smart way to think of it, never thought to look at it as battles still even though we've progress to where were at. Definitely a a great way to change your midset.
