When i was a kid i thought every pro could do every trick ever and that's what made them pro. Boy was i wrong.
I was at the park with my buddy who’s been getting back into skating after a few years not skating and he’s doing really well and it’s honestly making me want to get back to my little kid Skate rat days, but he gets so frustrated with consistency with his flat ground and the and older guy I was talking to at the moment just started cracking up with me.
We had to tell him he’s killing it and that even pros ain’t consistent in their tricks. These Skate rats at the park might seem amazing but you don’t realize they skate the same thing and do the same tricks every day. If you can do a few flip tricks just cruising down the street that’s pretty good.
I feel bad skating with him sometimes as I feel like he gets discouraged by me. I don’t do anything extraordinary but I tend to pick spots more biased to my style of skating and will just do go tos while he struggles with stuff and it’s like I struggled too it was just years ago and now I can just do basic stuff at the spot for fun and at a pace I like. He just feels the need to go super hard and he’s learning and progressing super quick just has to see past the media of skating to just skating for himself to have fun without trying to be on par with some insta kid or the local park killers who are there everyday. I’m trying to get him more on the adventuring , experimental side of street skating where you just skate what you find like I had has a kid instead of this park centric picture perfect idea of skating.
I also thought pros were rich or at least well off enough to be able to have an apartment or home and still travel the majority of the time. Also I used to think teams hung out and were friends and then I asked Justin Eldridge a few questions about Antwan Dixon leaving Es when I met him once and was amazed when he said he’d never really talked to him. Even that nine club recently where Eldridge and webbing talked about pops and he said he didn’t really know the dude exemplified the fact that you can be on a team with someone for years , it doesn’t mean you’ll even really know them or Skate with them regularly.
Topic: Misconception you had of professional skateboarding that was later clarified (Read 14968 times)