Turning 40 in a couple of weeks and just found your channel. All of the micro progressions will add up over time, at least that is what I tell myself! You are the first channel I have found where I feel like I am having a similar journey with the struggle. Everyone else shows it like they are just progressing really fast and I am still stuck with getting my basics right... keep those bits in as it's real and honest. Selfishly it makes me feel better as I know I am not the only one not suddenly destroying a skatepark with loads of tricks after a couple of months! Subscribed so I can try to keep up with your progress in my own skating 😀
Thanks for subbing!! I think you hit the nail on the head for the point of the channel tbh. I progress really slow because I don’t stay focussed; don’t push through my fear of going too fast; and (this is the best reason) I get trapped just having fun with what I CAN do.
your right they will. mine would come quicker if i would stop trying to move up to fast. i keep getting hurt lol this time it was a pulled hamstring and calf muscles
I'm 35 and back at it a few months now. Just now feeling like my back leg is getting a little better at lifting. Every time I see someone older skating it gives me more inspiration and confidence that I can get there. Good stuff 🤙
Loving these videos mate. I’m 45 and getting back into it. Back when I was last On a board, when I was 25 I had no fear but now it’s all different. Learning a lot from your videos.
Pretty sure I've said all this before but your content is something I enjoy watching. You keep it real, it's not all cherry picked from the right clips and angles to make you look better than you are. You struggle and you progress. As someone who's a few (or more) steps behind you in skill and about the same age and nationality, I find all the frustration highly relatable and feel your small victories as I do my own.
If you haven’t said that before … it’s massively appreciated anyway. I hope I’m making good videos about being crap. Grateful for anyone who watches and takes some inspiration 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@Ungracefulmovement I'm in the process of documenting my own progress (as my as my crappy 14 year old old PC lets me edit anyway) so it's nice to see someone else in the same boat! If you're ever in Norwich, gimme a shout, we'll rip it up like total noobs.
Love watching you. Just been away from my board for weeks dealing with some mental health issues at home with my wife. And i miss skating, but you keep my mind on it in a grounded way. Keep at it!
Really liking your channe. as a guy approching 39 and just learning to skate, its good to see how long it does take to progress and its not just me. Also love the warm ups, everyone thinks its stupid until u pull a muscle
Only been at it for a few months and a tiny bit in my teens so I have very basic skate abilities. Just started because my kids started skateboarding and taking them to skateparks and thought why let them have all the fun. Ive watched plenty beginner tutorials but I like how u break it down and show the frustration, commitment issues etc which is all the problems I am facing and shows me to keep going and not give up because i can't do a trick or have a breather and come back to it. keep up the good work mate
Also, something you said early on. Bending your knees. 9/10 times when I'm feeling less than what I'm trying its partly because I wasnt bending my knees enough. I try to focus on never fully extending them even mid ollie and that has been helping A LOT. I still mess it up constantly, but its something I've had trouble in sports in general my whole life. Bend your knees bend your knees lol this video really does make me wanna get out there this morning. Cheers
hah! doing exactly the same thing: learning skating at the age of nearly 40. best decision ever. going ton the local park early in the mornings to avoid the shame though :D subscribed to see your progress mate
That manny pad is a thing of beauty! I know you don't really agree but ollies are looking good, ollies out of the bank are something that scares me at the moment... mad to think pre injury I was making euro gaps but I really feel I am relearning the ollie right now. Great vlog as always, keep it up mate!
Cheers mate. I’m trying fs ollies on mellow banks now too. They don’t make for great videos but I might drop some in a next vid. Your daredevil stuff down sets and whatnot… come on. But at least while that’s scaring you you’ve got all the other tricks to keep you busy.
At the risk of offering un solicitated man splaning advice... I've taught skate lessons for the last 10 years to groms and middle aged learners so I feel like your "issue" is one I've seen and corrected a lot. Stand with your feet off the board and just pop it up into your hand the way you normally would. You can stand behind the tail as normal, no need to replicate the ollie stance. Do it a bunch, just pop the boards tail off the ground into your hand. Start to focus on your foot and how you are managing to pop the board up off the ground. Youll start to notice that if you do it with the flat of your sole, it doesnt work as well as if you are doing it with just your toes. The reason for this is because if youre trying to pop the tail with your whole sole flat, you have to straiten your leg, making your foot travel towards the ground, pinching the boards tail between your foot and the concrete. Watch your footage from this video back. Your foot is flat, your back foot is moving down as you try to make your body go up (jumping). Now stand on the board in the ollie position. Lift your heel on your back foot, like your back foot is on tip toes. Move the ball of your foot more to the center of the tail. Your whole body needs to move up (jumping) except for your back foots toes. Your toes are moving down to flick (not stomp) the tail into the ground while your foot and body are moving upwards. Have a look at some slow motion ollie videos and watch their back foot. Then look at your footage and watch your back foot. Thats my un solicited advice for today. Keep at um! 🤙
Thanks. It’s well received. Especially as it’s something I would tell anyone else trying to learn (pooping off the ball of foot / not flat off the ground) but to realise I’m not actually doing it myself is a big deal. I’ll definitely try to apply some of this next time out!!
@@Ungracefulmovement Story of my life man! Spend 4 hours doing a bunch of sessions with newbies, telling them ''try this'', ''try that'' only to ignore my own advice when I skate with the buddies and have them point out the exact things I've been telling others about 😂
I’m 53 and trying really hard to get my Ollie past six inches. Unfortunately age is a major factor in this. It’s why so many old guys are into slappys. Doing squats and toe lifts helps a bunch. The most important thing to do is have fun and enjoy what you can do.
good content! 😎 i take a long time to learn too - i have a wee old-man ollie like you too. (i'm 48) recently have started carving and it's a really good way to loosen up and take some headspace from all street stuff - esp fun on banks with some manual practice and alleyoop slides
Thanks so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻 That alleyoop slide thing I’d love to be able to do. Best I have is a little powerslide / kickturn out on a slidey mellow bank. I’m close to just realising I’ll never Ollie that high.
I know your struggle when it comes to progress. I feel I have not progressed forward for ages now, if anything I have gone backwards in some parts. I try to not worry about it too much though and just enjoy the skating I can do. Hopefully the progress with just happen all at once.
Skateiq just put a good ollie video for beginners with practice steps that helped me to learn. I'm ur age in started bout 6 months ago my ollies are getting better now.
oh that video is good. but i find it hard to put those things into practice (most of all doing massive hippie jumps... that is a scary challenge for me in the first place). What kind of things have you been learning so far?
If you can, go faster on the Ollie out of the ramp, you will get that feeling you are seeking of the satisfying air/pop :D For the Noseslides come at it more straight then turn into it, preferably pop the ollie into it (feels way better, though scarier when learning!)
Faster for everything is really what I need to work on. At least for the Noseslide, I’m (slowly) working towards that parallel approach. Thanks for the support 🙏🏻
@@Ungracefulmovement yeh it can be scary doing some tricks fast! np. I am mentally having a battle right now. I haven't skated in a while and everytime this happens I can't even get myself to go out lol. I get odd feelings and find it so hard to get back out there if its been a while. I know I just need to force myself when this happens but that forcing is the hardest part! I always love it when I do get out so I have to remember that! It's a weird feeling skateboarding when older though most people seem to be ok with it!
@@keblin86 sorry you’re having that struggle. Hopefully you get through that mental block and get out. Like you said it’s always better doing it than not.
@@Ungracefulmovement yeh! I got to do it as I want to see what I am capable of now I am older. I feel like my brain understands more how things work now lol
I’ve never not watched any of your vids to the end… you must take a compliment as your skating is very worthy, plus I like it when you occasionally repay the same back 😉😆 I will be trying grabs once again but Sunday killed my back. Did you like the no comply 360/ impossible thingy learn? It made up for my lack of grab lift 😞
@@simonvidetta1976 I think I saw it on your shirt first (or my brain’s broken). While I still haven’t landed a 180nc that 360 thing was insane. Then my mate showed me nc bonk up a curb which I can’t f//king do either
@@Ungracefulmovement i’d love to do a NC up something, over the little wooden block was siimilar but actually up a curb sounds so cool! You’ll get them so please keep on with them and that’s rad if watching someone’s edit can help. Thanks for the compliment though dude, really appreciate it. I feel we’re making some progress…. I’m getting some weird comments on my shorts btw by some younger skaters saying I look like other people. I’ve recently been called Triple H and some other bald bearded dude too called VSauce who I didn’t know of 🤪 Ffs, slightly missing the point of a skate edit 😆
@@simonvidetta1976 lolz (that’s what they say?) I binned off shorts. I’m just not doing anything valuable in 30s vs rambling monologues and minimal skating over 10mins
your selling your family short my man. i felt the same way when i first came back now im bummed out if the locals arent there. there is different groups of skaters at various parks here all cool . that city couldnt be a more rude place than Philadelphia. just say whats up to the other skaters when you show up , someone will talk to you bro. just be your self
Agreed, good session. Only thing limiting the height on the ollies is the amount of crouch. Need to crouch down a lot more (like twice as much) then the power into the pop will come. That box needed a wee bit of wax on top and on the side, then you'd be cookin'.
@@Ungracefulmovement they will with time. it's all mind games. I can do em on bank, flat, while roll, but also have problem of A bank. Tho somehow i think will master ollie on curb and off many pad. Those banks can mess up with perception also.
@@Sure2Skate I recently got them off the curb but then into a bank was impossible. I had a big thing about not being able to clearly see the exact point to be ollying.
Just be confident in your abilities dude don't question it approach stuff with speed and confidence and your on a winner knowing you can do it if you picture it in your brain it's always possible 👊 ever in Cardiff hit me up for a sesh dude 👊🏴🛹
@@Ungracefulmovement ye there's Cardiff bay plaza the maltings new park is great to there even a Great indoor skatepark called spit and sawdust they have bar beer garden a very ramp there's alot of street spots to in Cardiff there's. Good amount of concrete and a mixture of skate lite parks to buy there's a great scene down here got Newport as well no comply skatepark in the shopping centre it's great big happy scene Cardiff skateboard club shop does a lot with spit and sawdust to do get down some time dude skate in it
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Keep it up, just turned 40 myself this year and getting back into skating. As long as you’re having fun that’s all that matters!!!!
Turning 40 in a couple of weeks and just found your channel. All of the micro progressions will add up over time, at least that is what I tell myself! You are the first channel I have found where I feel like I am having a similar journey with the struggle. Everyone else shows it like they are just progressing really fast and I am still stuck with getting my basics right... keep those bits in as it's real and honest. Selfishly it makes me feel better as I know I am not the only one not suddenly destroying a skatepark with loads of tricks after a couple of months!
Subscribed so I can try to keep up with your progress in my own skating 😀
Thanks for subbing!! I think you hit the nail on the head for the point of the channel tbh. I progress really slow because I don’t stay focussed; don’t push through my fear of going too fast; and (this is the best reason) I get trapped just having fun with what I CAN do.
Great comment Brett! I'm in that struggle at 37.
your right they will. mine would come quicker if i would stop trying to move up to fast. i keep getting hurt lol this time it was a pulled hamstring and calf muscles
I'm 35 and back at it a few months now. Just now feeling like my back leg is getting a little better at lifting. Every time I see someone older skating it gives me more inspiration and confidence that I can get there. Good stuff 🤙
Hopefully what I lack in skill I'm making up for with inspiring others to be better!!
Loving these videos mate. I’m 45 and getting back into it. Back when I was last On a board, when I was 25 I had no fear but now it’s all different. Learning a lot from your videos.
Thanks man 👍🏻 glad you’re getting something from them, glad they’re resonating somewhere!
Big up the tenacity on your vids man, also a 40 year old skater here battling through the pain and frustration of getting back into it.
Pretty sure I've said all this before but your content is something I enjoy watching. You keep it real, it's not all cherry picked from the right clips and angles to make you look better than you are. You struggle and you progress. As someone who's a few (or more) steps behind you in skill and about the same age and nationality, I find all the frustration highly relatable and feel your small victories as I do my own.
If you haven’t said that before … it’s massively appreciated anyway. I hope I’m making good videos about being crap. Grateful for anyone who watches and takes some inspiration 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@Ungracefulmovement I'm in the process of documenting my own progress (as my as my crappy 14 year old old PC lets me edit anyway) so it's nice to see someone else in the same boat! If you're ever in Norwich, gimme a shout, we'll rip it up like total noobs.
Love watching you. Just been away from my board for weeks dealing with some mental health issues at home with my wife.
And i miss skating, but you keep my mind on it in a grounded way.
Keep at it!
🙏🏻🙏🏻
Keep trying, you will feel great when you achieve your goals. I’d like to see more 👍
Watching you ollie the line is not boring content.
haha. appreciated...
Really liking your channe. as a guy approching 39 and just learning to skate, its good to see how long it does take to progress and its not just me. Also love the warm ups, everyone thinks its stupid until u pull a muscle
Thanks man!! I’m definitely a slow progression so I expect you’ll be doing alright. How long have you been learning?
Only been at it for a few months and a tiny bit in my teens so I have very basic skate abilities. Just started because my kids started skateboarding and taking them to skateparks and thought why let them have all the fun. Ive watched plenty beginner tutorials but I like how u break it down and show the frustration, commitment issues etc which is all the problems I am facing and shows me to keep going and not give up because i can't do a trick or have a breather and come back to it. keep up the good work mate
@matt9959 keep rolling bro!
Also, something you said early on. Bending your knees. 9/10 times when I'm feeling less than what I'm trying its partly because I wasnt bending my knees enough. I try to focus on never fully extending them even mid ollie and that has been helping A LOT. I still mess it up constantly, but its something I've had trouble in sports in general my whole life. Bend your knees bend your knees lol this video really does make me wanna get out there this morning. Cheers
hah! doing exactly the same thing: learning skating at the age of nearly 40. best decision ever. going ton the local park early in the mornings to avoid the shame though :D
subscribed to see your progress mate
You’ll regret it, then love it, then regret it, then… you get the picture. Thanks for tuning in!!!
That manny pad is a thing of beauty! I know you don't really agree but ollies are looking good, ollies out of the bank are something that scares me at the moment... mad to think pre injury I was making euro gaps but I really feel I am relearning the ollie right now. Great vlog as always, keep it up mate!
Cheers mate. I’m trying fs ollies on mellow banks now too. They don’t make for great videos but I might drop some in a next vid.
Your daredevil stuff down sets and whatnot… come on. But at least while that’s scaring you you’ve got all the other tricks to keep you busy.
@@Ungracefulmovement haha so true! I'm filling in a lot of skill gaps at the moment. Looking forward to seeing the FS ollies!
Thanks you that bugger was hard to build, skatelite does not want to be tacked white the glue goes off
…and I enjoyed it, nice ollies out of the bank 👊🏻
At the risk of offering un solicitated man splaning advice... I've taught skate lessons for the last 10 years to groms and middle aged learners so I feel like your "issue" is one I've seen and corrected a lot.
Stand with your feet off the board and just pop it up into your hand the way you normally would. You can stand behind the tail as normal, no need to replicate the ollie stance. Do it a bunch, just pop the boards tail off the ground into your hand. Start to focus on your foot and how you are managing to pop the board up off the ground.
Youll start to notice that if you do it with the flat of your sole, it doesnt work as well as if you are doing it with just your toes.
The reason for this is because if youre trying to pop the tail with your whole sole flat, you have to straiten your leg, making your foot travel towards the ground, pinching the boards tail between your foot and the concrete.
Watch your footage from this video back. Your foot is flat, your back foot is moving down as you try to make your body go up (jumping).
Now stand on the board in the ollie position. Lift your heel on your back foot, like your back foot is on tip toes. Move the ball of your foot more to the center of the tail. Your whole body needs to move up (jumping) except for your back foots toes. Your toes are moving down to flick (not stomp) the tail into the ground while your foot and body are moving upwards.
Have a look at some slow motion ollie videos and watch their back foot. Then look at your footage and watch your back foot.
Thats my un solicited advice for today. Keep at um! 🤙
Great advice. I also tell people to practice popping the board into their hand.
Thanks. It’s well received. Especially as it’s something I would tell anyone else trying to learn (pooping off the ball of foot / not flat off the ground) but to realise I’m not actually doing it myself is a big deal. I’ll definitely try to apply some of this next time out!!
@@Ungracefulmovement Story of my life man! Spend 4 hours doing a bunch of sessions with newbies, telling them ''try this'', ''try that'' only to ignore my own advice when I skate with the buddies and have them point out the exact things I've been telling others about 😂
@@smallkinedings we all need that friend.
I’m 53 and trying really hard to get my Ollie past six inches.
Unfortunately age is a major factor in this. It’s why so many old guys are into slappys. Doing squats and toe lifts helps a bunch. The most important thing to do is have fun and enjoy what you can do.
good content! 😎 i take a long time to learn too - i have a wee old-man ollie like you too. (i'm 48) recently have started carving and it's a really good way to loosen up and take some headspace from all street stuff - esp fun on banks with some manual practice and alleyoop slides
Thanks so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻
That alleyoop slide thing I’d love to be able to do. Best I have is a little powerslide / kickturn out on a slidey mellow bank.
I’m close to just realising I’ll never Ollie that high.
I know your struggle when it comes to progress. I feel I have not progressed forward for ages now, if anything I have gone backwards in some parts. I try to not worry about it too much though and just enjoy the skating I can do. Hopefully the progress with just happen all at once.
Keep plugging away mate, you’re making good progress. Just believe in yourself a little more, skatings hard.
That’s the kind of advice I need in my life.
Skateiq just put a good ollie video for beginners with practice steps that helped me to learn. I'm ur age in started bout 6 months ago my ollies are getting better now.
oh that video is good. but i find it hard to put those things into practice (most of all doing massive hippie jumps... that is a scary challenge for me in the first place).
What kind of things have you been learning so far?
Not mad! parquet skatelite goes ‘dakdakdak’ and looks comically british- you should see the new glitter curb we dropped
Obviously I meant ‘mad’ in a good way. Like a mad scientist.
I’ve played on the glitter curb, that is lovely too. What happened to the red curb?
@@Ungracefulmovement sadly red’s ded, bad mix, but uber curb is en route
@@Deptforddeathkult red’s dead baby. Red’s dead. Sessioned the glittery one last week. Very nice indeed.
though i'm realising a little too late that in fact Zed is dead.
None of this is boring (to me) im on the exact same journey
Haha. Well I’m trying to keep it interesting somehow . Thanks for watching
If you can, go faster on the Ollie out of the ramp, you will get that feeling you are seeking of the satisfying air/pop :D
For the Noseslides come at it more straight then turn into it, preferably pop the ollie into it (feels way better, though scarier when learning!)
Faster for everything is really what I need to work on.
At least for the Noseslide, I’m (slowly) working towards that parallel approach.
Thanks for the support 🙏🏻
@@Ungracefulmovement yeh it can be scary doing some tricks fast! np. I am mentally having a battle right now. I haven't skated in a while and everytime this happens I can't even get myself to go out lol. I get odd feelings and find it so hard to get back out there if its been a while.
I know I just need to force myself when this happens but that forcing is the hardest part! I always love it when I do get out so I have to remember that! It's a weird feeling skateboarding when older though most people seem to be ok with it!
@@keblin86 sorry you’re having that struggle. Hopefully you get through that mental block and get out. Like you said it’s always better doing it than not.
@@Ungracefulmovement yeh! I got to do it as I want to see what I am capable of now I am older. I feel like my brain understands more how things work now lol
I know you don’t do compliments so I’ll just say that I it was watched in full….😉
Cheers man. Thats sort of sneaking a compliment in though isn’t it? But seriously appreciate if you can make it through a full vid 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤙🏻
I’ve never not watched any of your vids to the end… you must take a compliment as your skating is very worthy,
plus I like it when you occasionally repay the same back 😉😆
I will be trying grabs once again but Sunday killed my back.
Did you like the no comply 360/ impossible thingy learn? It made up for my lack of grab lift 😞
@@simonvidetta1976 I think I saw it on your shirt first (or my brain’s broken). While I still haven’t landed a 180nc that 360 thing was insane.
Then my mate showed me nc bonk up a curb which I can’t f//king do either
@@Ungracefulmovement i’d love to do a NC up something, over the little wooden block was siimilar but actually up a curb sounds so cool!
You’ll get them so please keep on with them and that’s rad if watching someone’s edit can help.
Thanks for the compliment though dude, really appreciate it.
I feel we’re making some progress….
I’m getting some weird comments on my shorts btw by some younger skaters saying I look like other people.
I’ve recently been called Triple H and some other bald bearded dude too called VSauce who I didn’t know of 🤪
Ffs, slightly missing the point of a skate edit 😆
@@simonvidetta1976 lolz (that’s what they say?) I binned off shorts. I’m just not doing anything valuable in 30s vs rambling monologues and minimal skating over 10mins
your selling your family short my man. i felt the same way when i first came back now im bummed out if the locals arent there. there is different groups of skaters at various parks here all cool . that city couldnt be a more rude place than Philadelphia. just say whats up to the other skaters when you show up , someone will talk to you bro. just be your self
Good advice tbf. Thanks for commenting!!
Had some nice Ollies on that bank 👍
Appreciate that. Definitely felt more significant than they look in the video. I don’t find it natural in the slightest (ollies out of a bank).
Agreed, good session. Only thing limiting the height on the ollies is the amount of crouch. Need to crouch down a lot more (like twice as much) then the power into the pop will come.
That box needed a wee bit of wax on top and on the side, then you'd be cookin'.
@@user-hl7ho8qi6v Thanks for watching! I'll get the wax out next time I'm down there.
@@Ungracefulmovement they will with time. it's all mind games. I can do em on bank, flat, while roll, but also have problem of A bank. Tho somehow i think will master ollie on curb and off many pad. Those banks can mess up with perception also.
@@Sure2Skate I recently got them off the curb but then into a bank was impossible. I had a big thing about not being able to clearly see the exact point to be ollying.
Must be nice to have normal weather instead of 35+c for a week and a half.
I know you’re getting it rough with the heat. We’ve had more rain this “summer” than sun.
Just be confident in your abilities dude don't question it approach stuff with speed and confidence and your on a winner knowing you can do it if you picture it in your brain it's always possible 👊 ever in Cardiff hit me up for a sesh dude 👊🏴🛹
Thank you man!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 the theme of today seems to be about belief!
Have you got some nice spots down there?
@@Ungracefulmovement ye there's Cardiff bay plaza the maltings new park is great to there even a Great indoor skatepark called spit and sawdust they have bar beer garden a very ramp there's alot of street spots to in Cardiff there's. Good amount of concrete and a mixture of skate lite parks to buy there's a great scene down here got Newport as well no comply skatepark in the shopping centre it's great big happy scene Cardiff skateboard club shop does a lot with spit and sawdust to do get down some time dude skate in it
@@tonywolfwilliams road trip!
@@Ungracefulmovementsee you soon dude keep it rad 😉🤜
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Love this!!!
Keep trying, you will feel great when you achieve your goals. I’d like to see more 👍
That's the plan! 👍🏻 thanks for watching videos