I've never really been too good at nose manuals ever. Hell, I can hold fakie manuals/switch nose manuals longer and with more ease than I can with nose manuals; I'm just bad at them. I love regular manuals though. OllIe to manual is one of my favorite tricks of all time. One of the funnest things in skating in my opinion is finding some weird manual pad and seeing if you can manual the whole thing. Really long pads, ones that zig zag or curve, uphill/downhill pads, you name it, it's all fun to me.