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Title: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Sila on November 30, 2020, 07:56:27 AM
Tonight I had one of those sessions where it felt like I was being mocked by the world for even wanting to step foot on a board. Damn. Even on the way to spot I got semi pitched by cracks and pebbles, which was probably a good sign to go home. Could barely land a backside 180. Botched shuvs got slammed right into my shins. Not a flip trick in sight. I've never been super consistent no matter how much I skate but this session was a new low.

Share your experiences pals
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Skatebeard on November 30, 2020, 09:28:07 AM
For me a bad day is usually signified by flip tricks just not working for me, can still knock out the basic shuv and 180 catalogue on even my sketchiest days, but if i'm not at my best it's always the flips that suffer first...usually i'll have a bad heels day so switch to kickflips, or vice versa, or suck at regular stuff so work on fakie instead.

I'm surprised generally by my consistency now at 35 compared to when I was a teen, bit better body awareness these days I suppose. the flip side to that is i'm much more fragile, missed a heelflip catch with my back foot last week and did the mini splits, i've really done a number on my thigh/groin muscles.

So yeah, bad day is usually flip tricks just not playing, or getting pitched on my ass on basic tricks multiple times... I can also usually tell a bad flip day and that I'm too tired if I primo my flips multiple times in the same session...went through a little phase of that in the summer and messed my back and neck up quite a bit from whipping to the floor.

My outlook these days is that first try is a bonus, but third try is OK. Generally it doesn't have to be a bad day for everything so if a trick I usually have is really obviously just not working I park it and work on other stuff instead.




Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Sluggloaph on November 30, 2020, 09:51:05 AM
When I miss my nollie shit. I mean tbh not a ton there but it is where I'm the most comfortable, do if I miss my nollie shuv, it's a wrap for me. I used to have tantrums or meltdown s about it but now if it ain't working. I just cruise around and powerslide a shitload, no ollie mannys, and basic shit bc it's supposed to be fun.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: silhouette on November 30, 2020, 11:58:14 AM
I cope with mine by having a good day trick bag and a bad day trick bag at hand at all times and going with wearing the appropriate one. Really though, I don't have a lot of bad skate days because from experience I can just feel it's going to be one before I even step on the board that day, so in this case I just don't, usually work or fuck off doing other things, and save my energy for a day when I'll actually be in shape (usually the next). If you just listen to your body before you go skate, it usually tells you what the general mood of the session is going to be. When you think you'll be shit and end up doing good because the vibe at the spot lends itself to it though, that's always kind of cool. Better than showing up for a 'good day' at a park that turns out to be crowded with 30 scooter kids as early as noon.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: TastyBurrito on November 30, 2020, 12:05:08 PM
I suck. So my good days usually look like my bad days and vice versa.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Dr-Feelgood on November 30, 2020, 03:34:54 PM
I cope with mine by having a good day trick bag and a bad day trick bag at hand at all times and going with wearing the appropriate one. Really though, I don't have a lot of bad skate days because from experience I can just feel it's going to be one before I even step on the board that day, so in this case I just don't, usually work or fuck off doing other things, and save my energy for a day when I'll actually be in shape (usually the next). If you just listen to your body before you go skate, it usually tells you what the general mood of the session is going to be. When you think you'll be shit and end up doing good because the vibe at the spot lends itself to it though, that's always kind of cool. Better than showing up for a 'good day' at a park that turns out to be crowded with 30 scooter kids as early as noon.

no kidding, ive ignored that feeling before and ended up fucking up on ollies, getting pissed off and sitting down
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: ok boomer on November 30, 2020, 07:05:52 PM
My worst day was 1/4/01. It was like 4 degrees Fahrenheit but I wanted to skate real bad. Had on some baggy jeans, Shorty's hoodie and a Flip board. Warming up at my 4 stair spot - casual ollie and got pitched at the bottom. Scuffed up the S on my S-horty--S hoodie and was pissed. I was dumbfounded and so I searched for the pebble that hot me but none was to be found. I decided this spot was jinxed for the day and drove to my low-ledge-down-3-stair-spot. I suck at naming spots. Anyway I promptly got out of the car and went for a kickflip - back foot landed half on, half off. Foot was a wobbly mess. Car was a stick nut i couldn't push the clutch in good so I cruised in 2nd gear and ran every stop sign home (it was 2 am). Torn tendons and ligaments- crutches for 2 or 3 months. I go down in flames on my bad days
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Urtripping on November 30, 2020, 07:26:13 PM
Mine sound a lot like yours... you know when every damn ass rock between you and the spot is conspiring against you, it might be time to move on with your day.

Bout two weeks ago I set out on a blustery Saturday morning to do a line at my favorite ledge spot. I wanted to do a half cab flip (one of my favorites when I'm on) to start the line, but was trying them going into the frigid breeze. For almost two hours I tossed nonstop attempts to the wind, literally. The spot is next to my local post office and more than a few passers-by on their way to ship packages saw my board flopping around and heard me muttering to myself, no doubt looking like a crazy bastard. I feel like when I stop caring about talking to myself in public, I'm struggling.


Having a go-to fun trick bag is a good move. A few 180 no complys or wallride nollie-outs and I can usually get out of my funk and enjoy myself. Sometimes they can even turn things totally around.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Lloyd Braun on November 30, 2020, 07:39:41 PM
Been skating really bad recently, wheel bite on shuv its, not bringing my board up to the ledge on BS Crooks/nose slides and eating shit and just being too tight or weak to do anything but a 50-50 on a ledge. I got pretty sore from a really mellow session yesterday, basically just slappy crooks on a curb and 50-50's on some benches for 2 hours.

I contribute this 100% to:
1. Gaining 50lbs in 9 months
2. Not skating enough
3. Not stretching
4. Lost strength, not exercising at all.

At the beginning of the year I was hitting the gym, exercising eating well, skating felt good didn't get sore really unless it was a full day street skating. Idk why I let myself turn into such a pile, but getting back into the healthy life style and going to feel good on and off my board again.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Gray Imp Sausage Metal on December 01, 2020, 04:48:46 AM
If I’m having one of those days (and let’s be honest, even my good days aren’t great), I just work on my style and/ or powerslide stuff. Just haul arse and do big long manuals and slide variations. That’s what’s great about getting old I guess, just be stoked to be out there rolling
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Teddy2Belts on December 01, 2020, 11:02:37 AM
I feel like when I stop caring about talking to myself in public, I'm struggling.

This is totally the sign for me.

Or when no one's around and I start telling myself aloud to stop talking to myself. Full-on arguments with myself never lead to anything good.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: FrozenIndustries on December 01, 2020, 11:09:03 AM
Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Ilya Oblomov on December 02, 2020, 07:10:41 AM
I've tried to reply to this a dozen times and realized that I don't have bad days anymore. I've definitely had bad days - no motivation, get hurt, no pop, the normal stuff that gets people bummed - but after 35 years I can read myself pretty well and know when to stay in, get after it, or just keep it mellow.

I'm 45 and still love skating. To me that is a good day every day.

Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: formula420 on December 02, 2020, 11:19:01 AM
Any day skating is a good day, but some days my body doesn't cooperate as much. Those days I don't bother with flip tricks and just 5050 the ledge and manny the pad.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Glurmpz on December 02, 2020, 04:57:50 PM
Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.

Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Brguy on December 02, 2020, 09:29:09 PM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.
Trying too much to skate like Antwuan. Some people are simply made to hurt their boards, delicacy doesn't always work.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: FrozenIndustries on December 03, 2020, 06:48:01 AM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.

Complete mystery. For me, it almost always happens on really easy tricks that should require zero effort. It adds a special feeling of humiliation to the session that, were I not on the receiving end, would seem almost comical.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Dwyck on December 03, 2020, 01:45:10 PM
On bad days i get scared to skate through traffic
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Glurmpz on December 03, 2020, 02:21:32 PM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.
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Complete mystery. For me, it almost always happens on really easy tricks that should require zero effort. It adds a special feeling of humiliation to the session that, were I not on the receiving end, would seem almost comical.

Personally, I think I just need to skate flat more - been lagging on it this year. Mostly stuck with underground sessions now that it's winter, should give me lots of time to work on sucking less.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: j....soy..... on December 03, 2020, 11:40:48 PM
5 switch heels took me half an hour last night.....that's pretty average....a bad day would be the same but I'd be limping afterwards....

I gotta say one of the best parts of being poor to middlin is that variance between a good day...and a bad day.....isn't that much....
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: rocklobster on December 04, 2020, 12:38:39 AM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.
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Complete mystery. For me, it almost always happens on really easy tricks that should require zero effort. It adds a special feeling of humiliation to the session that, were I not on the receiving end, would seem almost comical.
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Personally, I think I just need to skate flat more - been lagging on it this year. Mostly stuck with underground sessions now that it's winter, should give me lots of time to work on sucking less.

My flatground game has gone to shit since the weather got better, finally had 360 flips, BS big spin and BS kickflips somewhat consistent. But the ledges at the park are too appealing to give it a miss.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: FrozenIndustries on December 04, 2020, 06:54:24 AM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.
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Complete mystery. For me, it almost always happens on really easy tricks that should require zero effort. It adds a special feeling of humiliation to the session that, were I not on the receiving end, would seem almost comical.
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Personally, I think I just need to skate flat more - been lagging on it this year. Mostly stuck with underground sessions now that it's winter, should give me lots of time to work on sucking less.
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My flatground game has gone to shit since the weather got better, finally had 360 flips, BS big spin and BS kickflips somewhat consistent. But the ledges at the park are too appealing to give it a miss.

I definitely went all in on slappies this year and my flat ground game has for sure suffered (I say that like it ever existed).
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Glurmpz on December 04, 2020, 03:27:02 PM
Well today I lucked out and got a flip to slide trick in a reasonable amount of time that I haven't done in years, so I'm happier now. Hopefully that broke me out of the bad day funk.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Dudecahedron on December 05, 2020, 02:47:42 PM
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Today was one for sure, and it is always ghost pop, non-stop.
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Damn, I had the same thing yesterday. Could not get my tail to hit the ground on half cab flips, even though I landed a bunch that were otherwise ok. Drove me nuts. Where does ghost pop come from? I had a brand new board, so it wasn't some soggy old piece of junk. Tail isn't particularly short. Annoying little mystery.

Almost always related to timing and/or balance. If you airball hitting the tail on a trick you landed you know your flick is strong, at least, but you are doing slightly it too soon. Choking up on the tail (putting your foot closer to the fulcrum) gives a quicker pop because it’s less distance travelled to the ground. The trade off is reduced leverage so you have to generate more of your own power for pop. Literally the same physics/idea as choking up on a bat, come to think of it. I do this on a lot of fakie and nollie tricks, especially on steep banks, cuz it’s so much harder to  control the trick.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Kookology666 on December 06, 2020, 03:17:07 PM
On my bad days at my local park I take something like 5-10 tries to do tricks I usually do for warmup even after trying. Usually it's when I'm too hyped to skate in a way, and once I bail the first try it kind of gets to my head and then it's a weird time trying to 'get back' to how I normally skate. I can still usually land tricks but without pop and rocket as hell (especially backside flips on the small hip) I always don't pop and land back on it holding on for dear life. I landed primo on a pop shuv it once on the same hip and slammed super hard on a bad way which was hilarious. For me it just feels I guess like my board is just not having it and doesn't want to do as it's told.

Usually when that happens I take a breather, get something nice to drink and just chill at the side for a while and try to skate a bit. More often than not I skate a little better after the break but sometimes I'm just crap the whole day and just take it as 'one of those days' that all skaters experience. But some people at the park never seem to have a bad day, it's ridiculous and makes me a bit jealous haha.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Uncle Flea on December 06, 2020, 04:43:34 PM
I'm 42 and I got like half my bag still. Everyday I get to roll in a gift.

I should be frickin dead by now
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Alex on December 07, 2020, 09:02:01 AM
Bad days are the practice and good days are the payoff. If it takes me 20 tries to land everything on a bad day, that's a lot more muscle memory training than the days when I land everything first try and move on. At least that's what I tell myself when I'm struggling with the basics
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: j....soy..... on December 07, 2020, 10:51:47 PM
I always try and have some easy tricks on hand.....or something a bit different to take the edge off those shit days....

That's the sick thing about skating to me...there's always something on the table...you just have to find it.  Despite not having what you used to have....it gives you tons of opportunity to do something new. 

I've never fakie shuv'd up a curb....right there....just did it.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Skatebeard on December 21, 2020, 01:05:10 AM
Pretty bad yesterday... spent 20 minutes sweeping up the spot on the first dry day in two weeks.

Decided to session cab 1s to warm up, third one in and I rolled my ankle (same one I did pretty badly about 4 months back).

Never in a million years would I have expected to injure myself doing that trick!

That's two ankle rolls on this deck...time to retire it? Cursed maybe!
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Prostate Exam on December 21, 2020, 03:23:39 AM
Eversince I stopped drinking about a year ago I never really experienced a "Bad Day" like I used to.
I used to go skate on the weekends completely hungover and slammed on the easiest maneuvers and most of the times I had to sweat out all the bad stuff from the night before to get my abilities back.
Now I have to warm up for about 5-10 minutes and I am all set.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Glurmpz on December 21, 2020, 04:20:08 PM
Pretty bad yesterday... spent 20 minutes sweeping up the spot on the first dry day in two weeks.

Decided to session cab 1s to warm up, third one in and I rolled my ankle (same one I did pretty badly about 4 months back).

Never in a million years would I have expected to injure myself doing that trick!

That's two ankle rolls on this deck...time to retire it? Cursed maybe!

What’s a cab 1?
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: matty_c on December 21, 2020, 05:47:43 PM
I always try and have some easy tricks on hand.....or something a bit different to take the edge off those shit days....

That's the sick thing about skating to me...there's always something on the table...you just have to find it.  Despite not having what you used to have....it gives you tons of opportunity to do something new. 

I've never fakie shuv'd up a curb....right there....just did it.

Take it to fakie nose manual, they’re actually fair easy to catch and put down that way and then you’ve got got shove fakie nose grinds, too
Not even kidding go try it mate

Edit cause I said fakie manual not nose manual
Just got up. I can’t do anything to fakie manual
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Uncle Flea on December 21, 2020, 08:00:41 PM
My day was going badly.

I had the drags. I don't know how to explain it well.

Think of slow spots in you perception that  caused by no sleep mixed with horrendous audio of past violence.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: LordManHammer on December 23, 2020, 10:06:59 AM
I don't skate whenever I'm in a bad mood, I've learned that having a good positive attitude goes a long way especially if you're kinda sucking at basic stuff. 

If you're having a good day but your skills are not behaving well stick to what you have blindfolded and can do anytime.

 For me 180's both ways fs shuvs and bs shuvs tailslides and kickflips on lock but anything extra I might get one or two things kinda sketchy but I chalk it up to having a good attitude 

if you're not there in the moment and your mind's somewhere else such as old lady's pissing you off or something that's stressing you out[ you're going to slam/i]
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Peepeeboy69 on December 23, 2020, 11:09:01 AM
i feel like the more i skate the more i suck

i keep losing tricks and losing tricks and now i cant even pop my board straight always so fucking toeside all my boards end up razortailing diagonal and i fucking hate it i hate feeling the ollie turn halfway because i'm too regular to pop it right

i lost kickflips totally couple months ago I was learning to kf into stuff, kf into manual, kf into fs5050, kf crooks, and now i literally can't do one on flat even if you give me fucking 20 tries, and the ones I do land are so regular my front arm whips all the way backwards across my back so far sometimes i touch my fucking back elbow i hate it

I totally lost my heelflips, can't even get remotely close anymore

my 180s are all underrotated and shitty

I tried to just skate switch/nollie to get my mind off of things and I was making some pretty good progress and now I just fucking dig the nose into the ground for a second instead of popping anything i hate it

I'm not even old I'm fucking 20 years old it's not like I'm losing joint mobility or anything

Every day I work all i want to do is fucking skate and then I get out there fucking suck so much I go home before i start acting like a person and then wake up the next day do it all over again. Now I dread getting off because I know I'm gonna go skate and suck ass and get mad again. I don't understand why this happens isn't practice supposed to help? I have not changed my setup at all, the spots are all the same, but i am inexplicably 20x shitter than I was a couple months ago.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Sila on December 23, 2020, 11:50:14 AM
^^
You sound extremely fatigued. Even if you're young you need time off the board and a good recovery period to get you sorted.
Also it's a good idea to have a physical outlet that isn't skating.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Uncle Flea on December 25, 2020, 06:49:00 AM
I think about how much longer I got to live.

Will I make it back to California? Will I ever get to japan? Should I just skip to the end and hang myself in the woods now.

https://auralbutcheryers.bandcamp.com/album/more-horrendous-noise-punk-for-you-to-ignore-split
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Sila on December 25, 2020, 07:43:42 AM
I think about how much longer I got to live.

Will I make it back to California? Will I ever get to japan? Should I just skip to the end and hang myself in the woods now.

https://auralbutcheryers.bandcamp.com/album/more-horrendous-noise-punk-for-you-to-ignore-split

Yoo stay with us. I think about this shit all the time too, even tonight, then I got a text from a good pal I havn't seen in forever and we were crackin' jokes like old times. I didn't realise how much I missed certain people. It made my night , I was on zero right before it. Moral of the story, cool things happen even if you're at your worst. Or hit someone up and make their day.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Maccat on December 25, 2020, 09:55:50 AM
Skating is mercurial for me.

If I slam hard quick, I’ll call it or grab the cruiser and leave the slaps and pops behind. 
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: codelanguage on January 06, 2021, 07:35:38 AM
Most of the time I skate are bad days. I rarely have good days. But on bad dad I try to learn something new. Like the last time I had a really bad day I learned 5-0s. Today I couldn’t do shit and slammed really hard ollying over some traffic cones, so I learned backside 50-50s after only like four tries and then had them kind of locked in.

I know these are super basic to most of you but, these are tricks I would try a few times and give up on. Since I skated so inconsistently over the past 25+ years I just didn’t learn a lot. So I’m pretty psyched that I can still learn them and know what they feel like, even if they’re on super low ledges.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: dallou on January 06, 2021, 11:12:29 AM
Barely slept last night, so I went to the spot to do something and not fall asleep during the day. That was a baaad session but I stopped quick and just chilled and filmed.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Space Cowboy on January 07, 2021, 11:52:09 AM
My "Bad Days" are usually after skating excessively, just super fucking heavy-footed, my flick feels like lifting a cinderblock that then hits the nose of my board
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: fuhkin_powahfood_kid on January 07, 2021, 03:16:43 PM
I'm pretty fresh back at skating after a long hiatus, so I'm not having too many bad days right now, but my bad skating days are generally due to being too deep in my head, being unable to focus, and getting angry. I might even be landing stuff but my heads just not in it. It's not really happening much lately, but when it does I just try to bounce outta the spot because I'm really trying to not get hurt due to a lack of focus. Really, I'm just happy to be skating with ease because 12 months ago I didn't think I'd ever be skating again, period. gotta keep that PMA
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: gaunting on January 22, 2021, 10:27:24 PM
there has literally been times where I’ll drive 20 miles to my local park. Try warm up kick flips, miss 5 in a row and leave after being there 10 mins. I find it’s best to just call it a day with sessions like that.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: lazer69 on January 23, 2021, 10:51:52 AM
slammed ollieing the euro gap.

And pretty sure lizard king witnessed.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: drewSTEADMAN on February 03, 2021, 10:38:11 AM
Not bad at all.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Frank on February 17, 2021, 01:14:42 AM
terrible, like barely able to ollie straight until i loosened up. because i pretty much can't skate due to the weather half the year, i come in every spring atrophied as fuck. even if the muscle memory is still right, the power output is way too low. i'm sure my next session is gonna be terrible, but still i can't wait until the weather gets better again.

on my good days it's the total opposite, in as i do most tricks i can do in principal first try no problem.

these days what helps prevent a bad session is riding my bike to the spot instead of skating there or taking the bus or whatever. feels like a better warm up. my city is rather rough and skating anywhere can get exhausting to the point you have to catch a break when you get to the spot.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: loftie.1 on May 13, 2021, 05:11:19 PM
Bad days I always have some kind of wack social anxiety, I can't focus, I'm actually focused on my neighbors watching me, not sure if they think I'm some hoodlum. It's a nightmare.

I skate slower, I never reach a high momentum which means I don't try something new. I just fumble my board around on curbs thinking about how stupid I am. It's all mental. It's so annoying. Other days I feel free.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: TurdyBird on May 16, 2021, 09:33:42 PM
Bad days mean I either roll my ankle on a kickflip/fs half cab or I slip out nearly every boardslide. Usually it's I can't even kickflip or 180 because I'm too hung over(old problem), I took my meds at an irregular time(new problem), or it's cold it takes all my endurance to just get mildly warmed up (age problem).
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: rawbertson. on May 18, 2021, 08:51:11 AM
i just do shoveit and fs 5050 the absolute safest go-tos for me and work my way up. usually it doesnt end up too bad by the end.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Urtripping on May 28, 2021, 06:18:38 PM
Kickflips felt awful today, so bad that I spent a good hour juts trying them until I did one that I was happy with (it never happened). I know it had something to do with skating some high tops after months of kickflipping with full ankle mobility.

How do mfs kickflip in high tops, or even mids? My ankles don't play that way.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: carlosthelizard on May 29, 2021, 01:49:24 AM
^^
You sound extremely fatigued. Even if you're young you need time off the board and a good recovery period to get you sorted.
Also it's a good idea to have a physical outlet that isn't skating.


wise words, and took me a long time to realize this. 
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Easy Slider on May 29, 2021, 02:10:34 AM
Kickflips felt awful today, so bad that I spent a good hour juts trying them until I did one that I was happy with (it never happened). I know it had something to do with skating some high tops after months of kickflipping with full ankle mobility.

How do mfs kickflip in high tops, or even mids? My ankles don't play that way.

Are you me? I spent the most part of two sessions this week trying to do a decent kickflip in my new Tyshawns... I had the Puigs before them. I‘ll give it some more tries hoping I will adapt eventually. I want to like these shoes, I got the beige ones, they look dope and I feel like Penny wearing Timberlands  ;D
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Mantracker on June 01, 2021, 04:19:55 PM
A bad day is when I cant tre flip or lock into 50-50's. Like if my first few 50-50's fuck up I cannot get over that

Slamming badly on your first few grinds can really fuck your day up
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: CorneliusCardew on June 01, 2021, 07:51:38 PM
The worst thing I do on my bad days is fixate on the tricks that don't come immediately. On my good days I just brush it off and try something else that's easier.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Andmoreagain on June 02, 2021, 06:25:27 AM
Really bad on bad days. I try to anticipate them and do something else instead.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Urtripping on June 13, 2021, 10:01:36 AM
Was having a really good day until I took a slam trying a tailslide. I kept skating, operating of adrenalin and the fact that I was showing out of town homies spots, but started skating like shit and everything felt difficult.

Waking up today and feeling the slam still, no wonder why everything got harder. As I get closer and closer to 30, the realization that slams are now session enders is setting in.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: sproutslide on June 16, 2021, 10:58:33 AM
Body feels shakey. Afraid  falling. Social anxiety and flick is all choppy. Flip tricks all mobbed leading me  a spiral  some sort  depression for a week or two. This thread reminded me  go set another appointment with my therapist aswell.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: primo on July 04, 2021, 11:15:58 AM
Oof on bad days I can't even ollie properly. My whole body just won't move right. When that happens I'll just do something else like work on no-complys or slappies.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: dime a dozen trend skater on July 29, 2021, 07:29:18 PM
I’m going through a few bad days in a row, I can only fa 50-50 and back tail(on a curb can’t do them on a ledge on my best days lol). Every other trick the board doesn’t stick to my feet! I’m not sure what causes it but my board feels sluggish(?) and unresponsive like I have no control. I went through a week like this in the fall,winter and spring so maybe it’s seasonal  :P :
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: sexualhelon on August 05, 2021, 05:13:03 AM
Usually not too horrible unless I'm really off. Sometimes getting out to skate is nice because I forget about everything else and can just not think about things stressing me out. But if there's something that I really can't get off my mind then I'll have a bad skate day because my focus is off. Or if I'm sick, tired, etc... something like that then obviously going to skate is going to be shit.

In a more general sense, I feel like I'll have days that are better for flip tricks or better for grinds/slides. So there might be a day where I keep getting into front noses trying to front krook or missing the front truck on 50/50's but flip tricks are feeling good. Or vice versa - grinds are feeling solid but flipping the board just isn't working out.

I also tend to do what others have said in this thread where I work my way up. There's a little bump at my park and I usually start off the session by doing all the ollies on it and some 50/50's on the ledge before anything else.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: vicious cycle on August 05, 2021, 10:04:34 AM
Like I never stood on a board before.
At the moment, most of my sessions become a battle with my local ledge. It's not like I'm not able to ollie up that fucker but something is totally wrong with my pop.
I have to focus so hard on my ollie that I mess up my grinds.
It's like I forgot how to ollie higher than one and a half decks. Super frustrating.
Gonna quit trying any other stuff and just focus on getting my ollies back.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: phlap on August 05, 2021, 11:21:18 AM
On my off days, I just feel weak. Any "high-effort" flip like a 360 Flip or Varial Heel will just take far to much effort to pop.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: yungthug on August 05, 2021, 12:24:15 PM
When my skating is "off" ollieing up anything higher than a curb is weirdly impossible and the harder I try the harder it gets.

It'll take me like 20 tries to land a kickflip.

I think it stems from not learning how to properly channel frustration/fear in skating as a young guy and overthinking tricks rather than realizing letting go and relaxing is the best way to learn a trick.

Shuvits, manuals, slappies, pushing around and doing basic lip tricks on smaller transition at the park, etc are all fine. Anything beyond that goes from a molehill to an oddly tall and steep mountain if I'm not feeling it.

And I can generally tell by the first five minutes of rolling around if it's gonna be a good day or bad day.

Frustrating, but I've been skating long enough that I know it's like the tides, and I've learned to appreciate even the worst days of skating.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Xen on August 05, 2021, 12:37:23 PM
^^ same.

I've flipped it so I don't have bad days anymore. If I'm sucking at what I can do, I switch it up and focus on shit I can't do/do well or new shit; this way if I'm bailing, at least I can chalk it up to progression.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Dwyck on August 05, 2021, 05:45:36 PM
the other day at the park i forgot that sometimes you have to pop off of just your back foot. I got very angry ultimately for no reason
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: yungthug on August 05, 2021, 07:32:10 PM
^^ same.

I've flipped it so I don't have bad days anymore. If I'm sucking at what I can do, I switch it up and focus on shit I can't do/do well or new shit; this way if I'm bailing, at least I can chalk it up to progression.
That's smart! I've tried to do that, but I end up falling into this weird trap of losing what should be fundamentals for someone who's skated as long as we have because I go too far down the wormhole of learning "off-base" stuff.

There was a summer I could fakie 5-0 pop out pretty consistently on ledges but could barely backside 50-50 because I just never practiced those. I got too caught up in the excitement of learning fakie 5-0 pop outs, if that makes sense.

Part of what I love about a hobby like skating is how much your mind factors into your skating, whether we realize it or not.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: somefucker on August 25, 2021, 11:44:22 AM
Like i'm on a stage for the whole park/spot to look at. All of my tricks are under a microscope and everyone is silently judging me. Especially when I get there and the homies are already warmed up/bangin' out tricks. I just wanna get in the mix and wind up trying shit without warming up and get discouraged and skate something else/leave. Some of the days I don't flip my board wind up being my best days.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: GGK42069 on August 25, 2021, 10:30:07 PM
on a bad day i just cant get off the ground, if i can get a kickflip going it wont be higher than the bottom of my shins, forget about tre flips or grinding anything taller than a curb. on a good day i can get some decent height on most of my tricks, but bad ones just seem to weigh me down
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: fup234 on August 28, 2021, 10:48:08 AM
Reading that you all have that kind of bad days too is kind of comforting. So I'm not the only one who fucks up simple ollies.
My problem is that I adopted a wrong posture (tilting my right hip forward) a long time ago. This really fucks up my core, thus my balance, and ultimately my ability to skate.
I've been doing physical therapy for quite some time now and been getting much better, but after work or when I had a long session on a previous day, my core muscles get weak and I slump back into the wrong posture.
Then I really feel like shit and mostly just extremely insecure. I know that I have the ability to ollie up the curb, but I just can't, because I feel I can't control my body.
Usually I stick to very basic stuff then (all kinds of 180s, basic lip tricks on quarters and goofing around) and have fun anyway, but when I've had a couple of bad days in a row, it bums me out, because there's no progression.
Title: Re: How bad are you on your 'bad days' ?
Post by: Blueabyssofthisss on September 12, 2021, 04:08:56 PM
My switch game goes to shit. Start overthinking everything. My manuals start to scrape. I can’t land bs 360s. I can’t even get close to bs tail. I get this dull fatigued feeling in legs that’s normal during a warmup but I just can’t shake it the entire session, no matter how hard I go. Those are all the symptoms a bad session for me