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What has improved your skateboarding the most? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/skateboarding@piefed.social

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For me it was doing daily squats so I could do squats without falling over. Incorporating this into bending my knees more and feeling relaxed on the board improved my kickflip consistency and quality a lot.
And lately it's been not skating too much, not succumbing to the urge or almost feeling obligated to skate daily. At my age I felt like I'm hitting the law of diminishing returns. And I was skateboarding too much by default, on autopilot, without intent. It got me to consider quitting because I felt "what's the point anymore. I'm more talented at climbing anyway. And I'm missing out on so much else I would like to do as well." So I didn't skate for two weeks. Then on an arbitrary day, when it just felt nice to skate with a buddy, I did so, and never skated better, feeling as if I was talented as well. As being in a groove, everything just landed almost effortlessly and felt so good.
So, nowadays I deliberately not skate as well. The sweet spot is when you start kind of (day)dreaming about it, how certain movements must feel. Then I know it's time for a next session.

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[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah pushing switch is a tip I pretty much suggest to every beginner nowadays. Only began half-assed practicing that a year ago by trying switch manuals. The past months I've been applying more intention to it and almost got switch pop shuvit consistently. Switch FS 180 I already got, but that's way easier because one's landing in the normal stance. Switch kickflip still melts my mind; my foot just doesn't compute the movement.

How about you, any improvement since your comment?

[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Haven't been out much, weather isn't playing nice.

I don't think I've ever seriously tried switch manuals, I'm going to do that next session.

Switch fs 180 might be the easiest switch trick, even more than switch ollie for me, but that's one I've had for ever.

For switch flips of any kind I've found thinking of it as a nollie flip helps, but you end up with some goofy body and foot positions.

One I really like is switch fs bigspins, doing up a pyramid is a great way to learn them.

I don't think I can do anything switch bs.