@IusedToSkateMore Hey man, I appreciate the support! I like how you ask if if I can do a variation on coming back in from the tail stall when all my tricks are still a bit terrifying for me! Especially tail stall, which gave me a slam that made my wife ask, “Shouldn’t you replace your helmet after slamming it like that?”
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think thought I know what you mean about the pivot but I just looked it up at skateboardhere.com ( a great resource btw). Can you explain? Is it like pivoting so one back wheel goes above the coping then come back in fakie?
@life is a hell ride Thanks dude! I am actually really good at doing things over, and over, and over again, ad nauseum, trying to get things just so. My feeble stall has improved tremendously since you were here and explained your 5-0 stall/pivot. I am very conscious now of getting just one back wheel to lock in. I still struggle to hold it and balance or control it but I am definitely getting the feelings dialed in.
Overall, I find myself still “heavy” on the board. More just “riding the board” but not quite “skating the board”, if you all know what I mean. Sort of depending on the board to do the right thing, but small additions to my repertoire add a lot, like the rock-n-roll. It requires me to exert more of my will on the board and moves me one step closer toward “skater” and away from “rider”.
As Bob might say in the movie
What about Bob?, “Baby steps to a backside air”. Or maybe in my case, “Old man shuffle to a backside air.”