Barce wrote:
^ Your doing okay man really. How long you been skateing for? Seriously, if your enjoying it, keep it up. Its a good hobbie. I've personally tried skating and i sucked at it. I'd never try ollie up a gutter like i think you just tried. Because skating seemed hard for me, i instead took up BMXing, and its pretty much what my life has revolved around for the past 10 + years. I might post up a video later. Don't get too beaten up by your progress though. For the first few years i was dreadful but still made sure i enjoyed myself. With these kind of non-mainstream extreme sports, progress often takes a LONG time to occur, but as soon as you learn how to do one thing, everything else just falls into place. Skating like BMXing is a skill which i believe requires predominantly good technique, much more over strength, endurance, flexibility and what not. The coordination will come. There is no such thing as someone stepping on a board and ripping it. I have yet to see this. The 'ollie' which you were achieving most the time if i saw right, is all a technique your learning through experience. Next thing once you no longer have to think to consciously about it, your sub-conscious will take over and given that you've had greater experience as a result, you will most probably find the only thing that will control your limits is your mind and confidence. This takes time and patience though, but if you really indulge in it obssessively and partake in this leisure religiously many hours a day, it could be just a few years till you will be watching the pro's and ACTUALLY understanding what they are thinking and feelings and HOW they have to go about executing these stunts. Extreme sports are crazy. No one around where i live seems to understand them. Most the time people shrug it off. Anyways above all, make sure your having fun. And if your able to skate alone alot then meg kudo's to you.
thanks man I pretty much nailed ollieing yeah matt taped me he taught me how to skateboard / still skateboards at 29 years old I just got my deck last summer also I bmx as well and I a still decideing whether or not to take up snowboaring. I can ollie gutters and other decks and grind stuff as well i can sometimes kick flip tho not really takes alot of tries I can now shove it/ pop shove it and I can almsot variel kick flip, heelflip and varel 180 what I find imposbile is an imposbile , bigspin , vairel 360 and hardflip plus the grab and manual tricks but I will keep trying man.