Is manual balance genetic?

[Yakusoku2]

Manuals aren’t that hard for me, but those nose manuals where the skater crouches so much that their back knee almost touches the ground is unimaginable to me. How is that even possible?

[lurkluke]

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I suck at manuals. Never had em good. Only times ever felt like a fluke. But I also don't like watching manual skaters (for the most part) so whatevs.

[close]

Check your ratio.

no way, that's nerd shit. Just like manuals.

[Giftedly Hater’d]

Cankles lower your center of gravity. 

[layzieyez]

If you feel like eating complete shit, try to ollie into a hang ten. Holy shit that went wrong so quickly and so badly for me.

[Fongstarr.]

I can count on my hands how many times I’ve manualed a manny pad. I for the life of me can’t do it. My attempts are just utter dog shit.

[midnitecruiser]

How many skaters today are first generation? I am 39 and feel like nearly everyone I know is first generation. My dad is still a distance runner and my mom bicycles. I can imagine maybe the second generation is approaching maybe a third of skaters by this point? With some small number of third generation currently.

[Emo jimmy]

I heard they were tactical

[vinithebr]

it's all mental

[GashBandicoot]

Only in the last year have I been able to do them but I'm not particularly talented just practice and some trial and error. Although I am comically similar to the Brezinski measurements on the last page so maybe there is something to it

[dr.prestige]

How many skaters today are first generation? I am 39 and feel like nearly everyone I know is first generation. My dad is still a distance runner and my mom bicycles. I can imagine maybe the second generation is approaching maybe a third of skaters by this point? With some small number of third generation currently.

I started skating cuz my older brother skated, I grew up with Questionable and Sorry and The End already in our VHS collection, in approximately high school he got into cars and stopped though