Overcoming Fear Of Basic Tricks | Over 40 Skateboarding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Skateboarding at 44 years old... You can't do everything all at once, so I've been fighting to claim back a couple of mini-ramp tricks I haven't practiced in a while.
And then just having fun with powerslides.
#beginners #over40 #skateboarding
I've noticed the thing that has made my axle stalls really easy is learning to drop back in without unhooking the back truck. Taught me to really settle into the axle stall and makes it easier to come in whenever i want.
If this can help: Your head is the guide for the rest of your body. You should try to put your shoulders parallel to the coping and your head facing the transition. Watching it in slo mo, you leave your front arm behind and up, and it makes your head, shoulders and chest looking away from the transition. To me, the best way to warm up for axel is making it in the half way to the coping and going up a little bit until you reach the coping. I'm 54 so you are a kid 🙂
thanks for the tips. this makes a lot of sense. and thanks for watching the video
Next time we skate together we will drill the axel stalls until they are pretty much second nature! you got them though
I revisited this week and it's not just patience, its letting the nose come up more. Landed a couple perfect yesterday. But still up for drilling them!!
Jealous of your powerslides! Will tune in again
Yes mate thank you 🙏🏻 they are fun when you get a nice slidey surface
Bro you look like you're way doing better than me picking up skateboarding as a hobby and I'm even a bit younger. I struggle a lot with even the most basic tricks because I just can't take too many slams. Even stuff like a frontside revert is so hard. Helmet and pads help a lot, but the most important thing for me is to progress reeeeealy slowly and disassemble every trick in a lot of tiny parts and progress through them to the entire trick. Skateboarding is so mental, but with our age it's also more and more physical. Still, it's such an amazing sport and worth every bruise and drop of sweat.
Totally agree. My pads go on when I think a slam is inevitable (like learning a new trick), because I have experience as a youth breaking things. I advocate for taking a 121 lesson now and again, to overcome (or find the secret to) some tricks. Have you tried lessons?
@@Ungracefulmovement Lessons, that is a very good tip. In fact, there are courses for individual skaters as well as groups in my area. I definitely plan to take a course. It's also not too expensive and certainly money well spent. Sometimes, you just can't figure out certain movements or details necessery for a trick on your own, then you just need the help of an experienced skater who can assess you.
Man im beginner also. Sometimes i think practicing trick to the point that it becomes second nature is gonna take eternity. Watching you makes me push even more.
I’m not convinced they become second nature… thanks for watching 🙏🏻 keep pushing!
@@Ungracefulmovement think they might. Had same issue with rolling of a curbe. Now i use them almost for warm up and to break ice lol
Love your video as it mirrors where im at. In my 40’s the rock fakie was my nemesis. Just got back into skating but 60 now…so the brain knows what to do but my body wont commit.
Thanks for watching. It takes me so long to crack these tricks, to then lose them through lack of practice or unwarranted fear is so frustrating.
Dude I’ve only just found your TH-cam. As someone that’s currently getting back into the war that is skating your videos are a big inspiration! Subscribed to watch your journey 🤘🏼
Massively appreciate that 🙏🏻 we’re all out here trying. How are you getting on?
Brilliant bro putting some work in! That little bowl at the beginning should be your mini ramp practice place! Looks so good! You’re doing great with the feebles/axles… same with the rock fakies… no advice really mate. Repetition and pinch of adhd can go a long way 😂 skate skate skate! Top notch vlog as always!
Cheers dude! Thanks as always. Meanwhile gardens is so far from home but a great place to learn. These round up videos should so how I’m skating nearly every bloody day. How’s the nose stall? When do you want your next challengenque?
Putting your front foot on the nose for powerslides is a great idea for helping noseslides. I will defo have to try this one cos noseslides just don't work for me and hopefully this will help.
i've had couple of ns now when the powerslide has helped, but there is a subtle difference. at the very least, you might look at the technique differently
Cool skate spot❤
We have a few close by… quite lucky really
Good stuff man. New sub here! Keep it up.
🙏🏻 thank you. Hope you enjoy the vids!
Looking good. I need to get back on the mini ramp and work on those rock to fakies, it's been a while since I've tried them.
Get at it!!
Bro as a 40+ skater- Rock to fakie is actually easier and less dangerous when your back truck is closer to the coping than your front truck. Get your board up on that coping! You'll have much less chance of hanging up.
I’ve heard this… and my aim was to make that happen, but I don’t get close.
I have the same battle with rock to fakies. Nail them then later in the session lose them then next time I try them again I have to start over. Very annoying. It’s the rolling back fakie that’s scary! Nice video mate keep up the graft you’ll get there 🤓
It took me the best part of 6 months to learn them, then the rock n roll came quickly. I just loved the feeling of RnR so much I forgot to practice both. Thanks for watching 🤙🏻
Was too busy Yday, so im havin a nice video for with my morning coffee now :D
The grafities at the bijou skatepark are such a vibe, the jelly legs are very relatable 😂
Good to know they go well with coffee 🛹☕️ . Graf blends into the background after a while but actually some of it is really well done… always changing at that park.
Try rock to fakie then fakie rock, just go back and forth until you can look at your phone and do it. If you ever come up to Scotland, hit me up, and I'll show you livi skate park 😉
Thanks for the offer 🙏🏻 . See at that first park, I’m desperate to get a fakie rock, but I’m scared of lack of speed.
HAWAII
"Turn! Turn!" Litterally me trying to learn to carve flat ground!
Looser trucks? Or turn shoulders first..
@@Ungracefulmovement nope. Just me yelling at myself lol
The CSL should be a thing! I like your grip design too - looks a bit surf-y
yeah I think CSL should be a real thing!!
Gripping is probably my favourite part of skating (because the rest is really difiicult).
hell yea man
Hey bro. Where are you filming yourself talking? By the way, your channel is bang on. Im 49 and more or less just starting out!
Glad you’re into the channel 🙏🏻 That park is in central London, near London Bridge. In a railway arch, but if it’s rained a lot it gets really wet.
I wasn't expected the triple drop attempt man fair play for even having a go! Axel stalls are just not there for me, you are way ahead. I don't have the confidence or speed to get my back truck close to the coping which is why I rely heavily on R to Fs, FTTs and R 'n Rs 😁
thinking back, I worked on kick turns for so long: pushing myself to do them higher and higher and more chill everytime. a major landmark was being able turn with front trucks higher than the coping, then slashing. then Andy said one day, the height of my kickturn, I may as well be going for axles.
I know you took a confidence knock on that drop-in bail but you can easily get them.
@@Ungracefulmovement yeah once I got the basic kickturn I thought I had completed it so tried to move on to tricks but I have started trying to get up for that slash grind recently. Watch this space 😁
that skatepark looks awsome
Oh yeah. Which one?
the one at the beginning of the video all covered in graffiti
@@viktormustapic oh yeah. WHite Grounds in Central London. A well hidden gem, and actually right next to a bar with it's own indoor skatepark.
Another fab edit! Some good shuvits going down, how’s the rolling shuvs going?
The Rock fakies on the bank/ quarter looked good too and pretty steep.
Recon you’ve got the 3 block drop offs, I’m backing you…
My axle stalls were a game changer once I went ever so slightly faster and then throw my weight into the back foot whilst turning like the BS power slides. May not help but that’s what I did, Rad post as always 🤘🏻
Cheers mate. Been dipping in and out of rolling shuvs, lacking the confidence that i'll ever actually get them.
Oh, and axles, yeah, I worked out what was broke this week... not speed, just letting the nose lift more for time to turn
Just one more thing!!!
I have a trick challenge for you: saw blokes doing this the other day: nose stall the step / ledge, then grab to get over it (maybe it's a nosepick?)
@@Ungracefulmovement , fair do’s. What are your nose shuvs like? Might find rolling nose Shuvs easier as they are a nose pivot rather than a pop or scoop and help build your confidence whilst pressing pause on pop shuvs for a bit 🤔
@@Ungracefulmovement 👊🏻
Mid day tuesday rock to fakie! Let's go!
The perfect time for rock to fakie in my opinion.
Loving these vlogs man! quick question, what wheels are you skating at the moment?
thank you!!
current setup is with Spitfire Formula Four Conical Full 99a 53mm. They are so good!
Getting some Jurgen Klopp vibes 🔥
I’m gonna level with you… I have no football frame of reference 🤷🏻♂️
Ok… well… you look like a 50 year old German in this 😆
@@Ungracefulmovement it was a compliment haha everyone loves jurgen…he’s a brilliant man! Ignore the 50 bit… you just need a shave 🤣
Meanwhile is where I grew up I’ve seen it take on it’s 4th design. Must say this is probably the worst? But after watching you I’m going to go back a have another go. What’s your set up?
Cool! I've been watching a bunch of vids about the original community garden and the BMXers using it. It's clearly changed a lot and I never knew it in any other iteration, but it's good to skate right now especially if you want a mellow mini ramp.
I'm riding an 8.5 egg shape from Heroin Skateboards, with Royal Hollows; Reds and Spitfire conical fulls
Yeah BMXing was massive there in the 80s. I’ve got a few set ups. Gone from 8.5 to 8. Went down a Rodney Mutt rabbit hole and even got a 7.75. Spitfire and dragons ace and indies. Tried out a couple pair of thunders, on my heroin boards. Great to connect with you dude. Hopefully see you on the circuit. ✌🏼
Your going into feeble not axle do a little did with the back wheel and u got the axle