I feel like once you get to a certain stage with tricks, you don't lose them as badly. You might be a little rusty when you take time off but they come back quickly. If a trick is still in the learning stage, you will lose it quickly, because you never really had it, so it will be almost like starting from scratch. My recommendation would be something i saw written on reddit, which is what i do now: have a routine that you run through. I only inline so this is from that perspective. When i go to the park my routine is: warm up, work on ONE trick until i feel like i have at least made some progress, finish up just having fun skating around. That's it. Especially if you are doing multiple sports, splitting your time, don't try to learn multiple tricks because it is spreading yourself too thin all over the place. Just have 1 trick goal in mind and work on that until it is at a comfortable place where it's almost second nature and you feel like you won't lose it in a hurry. Then you can move on to another trick and the first trick can become part of the "fun" section, or perhaps even the warm up if it fits.
That's a great idea and pretty much exactly what happens, I am not fully dialed on something and it goes quickly. I have started to really work on skating backwards and now every session, the "Fun" section is a lot of skating backwards. I like the idea of concentrating on a single trick per session and I'll start to incorporate that into my skating. Thanks for that feedback!
@theaverageoldguy no worries. It was a real "ah ha" moment for me when i read it, so now i've been preaching it to anyone who will listen. Hope it helps 🤙
2 things to help: collagen supplementation and you have to have a gym workout routine, I know you may think it doesn’t correlate but it does and it’s the only way your can maintain body strength in order to do the moves you want to do. As a older athlete you have to do more and take much better care of yourself to get the same results as young you
100% agree on both of those. I have been taking collagen for years along with off and on chondroitin/glucosamine/MSM. The problem is I am bone on bone right now on that right knee and supplementation only goes so far with that, but does help. The gym work I am totally in agreement with too. I have a home gym set up in my basement and have lifted weights consistently since I was a teenager. I think lifting weights as you get older is even more important than aerobic fitness, and watching my 88 year old mother really struggle to keep her strength this past year has brought home in a personal way how important it is to stay strong. I would also add healthy eating to that list. You just can't be healthy and eat/drink junk, good food has to be a top priority as well as the exercise.
Hey man, I feel you! During the autumn/winter I’m agr skating less and find it takes me ages to warm up into the tricks I managed in the previous session! And often I can’t repeat the same tricks. I’m working on the backside stall at the moment and have to work my way from the baby slopes to the 3 foot quarter each time. It’s frustrating for sure. However inline skating for me is all about being in the moment and rolling in the flow. After a couple of hours at the park I often feel one with my skates and drop my weight into my edges and trust them to hold me. Like you I use my skating to bond with my son, who’s into BMX and stunt scootering. It’s just wonderful to share a passion with your boy. Next summer we will both rock this in-line thing I’m sure of it!!
Its great to hear someone else skating with their kid, it doesn't happen often enough. The backside stall still freaks me out and I want to start trying to work on that. Now even the frontsides I have to work back into because I haven't really done them in a while and that's what is frustrating, the fear of doing them comes back so quickly! I know I can do them, its just that fear sneaks back in when you haven't done something in a while. I am making progress skating backwards though, so that feels really great and I'm with you on just skating around, I am really enjoying that a lot more lately and just enjoying being with my son. Keep it up!
Thats a great point, it does take longer to recover as I get older and trying to do multiple things means I'm doing something most every day and pretty much never fully recover. I do try to alternate knee pounding stuff (skating and running) with strengthening (weights and bicycle) and that helps some. I can rarely skate 3 days in a row though, by that third day I am completely trashed and would be better off resting than skating.
For me 3 days in a row is max, also it depends on the lenght and the intensity of the sessions. But on the fourth day, my muscles say: "Leave us alone and let us rest" 😁
The good news is that you’re totally normal! I’m 46 and so much of that is relatable for me. If I don’t skate for a week - or even if I only skate on weekends - then my skills atrophy quickly and it feels like I’m rebuilding each time. The weird thing is that my skills are still there but my confidence quickly evaporates. It’s just how it goes as an ”aging skater”. The best antidote for me seems to be more frequent sessions, even if they’re short. Just rolling a little bit to keep my confidence up. As for balancing interests: surfing has always been my main squeeze, but it has taken a back seat to skate for the past year. Sometimes that makes me feel bad that I am ignoring surfing. I even started getting over my surfing FOMO (knowing I’m missing out on good waves) because I’d often rather be skating. My longtime surf buddy and I talked about it and she pointed out that you have to make decisions in life - it’s ok to pick one great activity over another great activity if that’s what you want to do. That helps me reconcile the imbalance. I know I’ll surf again soon enough. Staying active is really the key and doing what I am feeling currently. Hope this helps, keep rolling! 🤙🏻 (Sorry for the novella, I just really relate to this topic.)
This is great, thanks for the response! You are so right, its not the physical skills that go so quickly, though they do go, its the mental confidence that seems to evaporate. I know what you mean about feeling bad when missing one sport. I have only mountain and dirt biked a couple of times in the past year, 2 other things I really love to do, and felt bad about missing them, thus this video. Went mountain biking just yesterday for the first time in a while and it felt great to realize skating has kept me in better shape than I thought. You are spot on that staying active is the key no matter which sport you choose to participate in and ultimately the message of my channel. Thanks for watching!
I feel like once you get to a certain stage with tricks, you don't lose them as badly. You might be a little rusty when you take time off but they come back quickly. If a trick is still in the learning stage, you will lose it quickly, because you never really had it, so it will be almost like starting from scratch. My recommendation would be something i saw written on reddit, which is what i do now: have a routine that you run through. I only inline so this is from that perspective. When i go to the park my routine is: warm up, work on ONE trick until i feel like i have at least made some progress, finish up just having fun skating around. That's it. Especially if you are doing multiple sports, splitting your time, don't try to learn multiple tricks because it is spreading yourself too thin all over the place. Just have 1 trick goal in mind and work on that until it is at a comfortable place where it's almost second nature and you feel like you won't lose it in a hurry. Then you can move on to another trick and the first trick can become part of the "fun" section, or perhaps even the warm up if it fits.
That's a great idea and pretty much exactly what happens, I am not fully dialed on something and it goes quickly. I have started to really work on skating backwards and now every session, the "Fun" section is a lot of skating backwards. I like the idea of concentrating on a single trick per session and I'll start to incorporate that into my skating. Thanks for that feedback!
@theaverageoldguy no worries. It was a real "ah ha" moment for me when i read it, so now i've been preaching it to anyone who will listen. Hope it helps 🤙
2 things to help: collagen supplementation and you have to have a gym workout routine, I know you may think it doesn’t correlate but it does and it’s the only way your can maintain body strength in order to do the moves you want to do. As a older athlete you have to do more and take much better care of yourself to get the same results as young you
100% agree on both of those. I have been taking collagen for years along with off and on chondroitin/glucosamine/MSM. The problem is I am bone on bone right now on that right knee and supplementation only goes so far with that, but does help. The gym work I am totally in agreement with too. I have a home gym set up in my basement and have lifted weights consistently since I was a teenager. I think lifting weights as you get older is even more important than aerobic fitness, and watching my 88 year old mother really struggle to keep her strength this past year has brought home in a personal way how important it is to stay strong. I would also add healthy eating to that list. You just can't be healthy and eat/drink junk, good food has to be a top priority as well as the exercise.
Hey man, I feel you! During the autumn/winter I’m agr skating less and find it takes me ages to warm up into the tricks I managed in the previous session! And often I can’t repeat the same tricks.
I’m working on the backside stall at the moment and have to work my way from the baby slopes to the 3 foot quarter each time. It’s frustrating for sure. However inline skating for me is all about being in the moment and rolling in the flow. After a couple of hours at the park I often feel one with my skates and drop my weight into my edges and trust them to hold me. Like you I use my skating to bond with my son, who’s into BMX and stunt scootering.
It’s just wonderful to share a passion with your boy.
Next summer we will both rock this in-line thing I’m sure of it!!
Its great to hear someone else skating with their kid, it doesn't happen often enough. The backside stall still freaks me out and I want to start trying to work on that. Now even the frontsides I have to work back into because I haven't really done them in a while and that's what is frustrating, the fear of doing them comes back so quickly! I know I can do them, its just that fear sneaks back in when you haven't done something in a while. I am making progress skating backwards though, so that feels really great and I'm with you on just skating around, I am really enjoying that a lot more lately and just enjoying being with my son. Keep it up!
Yeah, I kind of agree with you. I also find I need longer recovery periods between sessions, which doesn't help either 😅.
Thats a great point, it does take longer to recover as I get older and trying to do multiple things means I'm doing something most every day and pretty much never fully recover. I do try to alternate knee pounding stuff (skating and running) with strengthening (weights and bicycle) and that helps some. I can rarely skate 3 days in a row though, by that third day I am completely trashed and would be better off resting than skating.
For me 3 days in a row is max, also it depends on the lenght and the intensity of the sessions. But on the fourth day, my muscles say: "Leave us alone and let us rest" 😁
@@TheMalni Same for me, by that third day or if I try to go more, I get really sloppy and start falling more and that definitely doesn't help!
The good news is that you’re totally normal! I’m 46 and so much of that is relatable for me. If I don’t skate for a week - or even if I only skate on weekends - then my skills atrophy quickly and it feels like I’m rebuilding each time. The weird thing is that my skills are still there but my confidence quickly evaporates. It’s just how it goes as an ”aging skater”. The best antidote for me seems to be more frequent sessions, even if they’re short. Just rolling a little bit to keep my confidence up. As for balancing interests: surfing has always been my main squeeze, but it has taken a back seat to skate for the past year. Sometimes that makes me feel bad that I am ignoring surfing. I even started getting over my surfing FOMO (knowing I’m missing out on good waves) because I’d often rather be skating. My longtime surf buddy and I talked about it and she pointed out that you have to make decisions in life - it’s ok to pick one great activity over another great activity if that’s what you want to do. That helps me reconcile the imbalance. I know I’ll surf again soon enough. Staying active is really the key and doing what I am feeling currently. Hope this helps, keep rolling! 🤙🏻 (Sorry for the novella, I just really relate to this topic.)
This is great, thanks for the response! You are so right, its not the physical skills that go so quickly, though they do go, its the mental confidence that seems to evaporate. I know what you mean about feeling bad when missing one sport. I have only mountain and dirt biked a couple of times in the past year, 2 other things I really love to do, and felt bad about missing them, thus this video. Went mountain biking just yesterday for the first time in a while and it felt great to realize skating has kept me in better shape than I thought. You are spot on that staying active is the key no matter which sport you choose to participate in and ultimately the message of my channel. Thanks for watching!