Warmup / Session Routines

[Powerslide]

What is your warmup or session routine?

Every single time I go out for a session, I do 20 tricks on flat. Sometimes it is all I do, and it is a session on its own as you don't have any particular trick on lock like you used to, especially when you only skate once or twice a week or so. Apart from the below warmup/session routine, if I get through all of the 20 tricks, I'll keep doing repeats faster and better, or start trying heelflip tricks (the arch nemesis).

The 20:
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Regular/Switch/Nollie/Fakie ollies, 180s in the all the directions, shuvit, kickflip, frontside and backside flips, treflip, melon grab, and two rotating tricks that come and go through the ages, usually nollie front heel and fakie frontside flip.

Keeps an aging man able to skateboard decently without losing too many of his tricks.

Share yours. :-)

[Zurg]

i would always nollie the sewer in front of my moms house if i was headed out skating. it was bad luck if i missed

[Noble Experiment]

I just do a bunch of fs and bs 180s and a few nollie pop shuvs and see how I feel from there

[metsuri]

Some cruising around, a few shove its (no pop), no complies, power slides.

If I'm at a park (which is usually the case) some axle stalls and other very basic lip tricks.

I'm over 40 so I really have to ease into it, it takes awhile for sure. it's at least 20min before I feel like I'm good to go.

[Badmeaningood]

After a few push-it variations and no-comply's, I'll do the "Straight 8". Sometimes it takes the whole session.

[Dorknerd]

Skate to the bottle on the way to the park/spot. I find it’s best to warm up my elbow first at home though.

[Sanka Coffie]

straight 8 shuvs

[Far from relevant]

I always do a nollie back 180, if I miss that I know its gonna be a rough session

[thebacker]

nollie front 180 every time

[Chatbot]

Stretch for 10 min. Then do all shovs, 180s, bigspins then move to the straight 8. So between stretching and those tricks, it's like a 20 minute warmup for me. That's if I'm at the local park. For street, I just do stretches and see what happens from there.

[Cousin Avi]

Jump Rope, 100  push ups

[SneakySecrets]

1. 20 min of positive affirmations

2. Smoke a cig

3. Straight up murder the spot

4. Make a clean getaway

[Donkey Lips]

• 10 minutes of stretching
• Tie shoes, untie shoes, retie shoes
• P-rod hat prayer
• Ask the spot if it wants that smoke
• Go to the store to grab a drink before session
• Never actually come back from the store

[HugeBodBoyle]

Stretch a little...push around the park perimeter, back 180, rock and roll, 50/50 and then I guess I am as ready as I am gonna be.

[C Dash Money]

I feel like ollies are one of the worst tricks not warmed up. Like, you get ready, crouch down, and then pop it 10 inches..

Nollie and nollie shuvs for warm up surely

[MintySandwhich]

Usually..

- Open a beer
- Leg stretch
- Bunch of quick shove-its and no complys
- Then I do like.. 50 flatground kickflips one after another
- Cruise some transition to get the speed feel and grind some 50's

[ChrisLambe94]

i would always nollie the sewer in front of my moms house if i was headed out skating. it was bad luck if i missed

I have to Ollie a manhole in front of my house for good luck n when I'm downtown I have to tic tac over every crack or its bad luck lol. Lots of stretching , Ollies , I'm probably tired out by then n call it a day.

[tension]

i roll up to the park and find a nice shady area to put all of my stuff down then i do one lap around grab my phone to take a picture of the park to upload onto instagram, check slap and remember how much i dislike going on from my phone so i get in my car and drive back to my apartment to check it out again on my computer.... i also stretch from time to time.

[S.]

These days I mostly skate the same skatepark. That park is about 15 minutes away pushing on my board. I usually push switch to get there. When I get to the park I do long regular and switch manuals on flat then I do long switch and regular nose manuals on flat. Skate arround a bit and stretch. Usually I stretch my calves, my thighs and my hips. I also move arround my feet with my hands squizing them in all directions. I saw chris Joslin do that before a demo and I found that it really helped with some chronic pain in my ancles. Then I will slowly start skating whatever and however I feel like that day. I guess it takes me about 30 minutes to warm up. I am old.
I have been doing that same routine for about a year now. It is fine sometime not to do it, if I really don't feel like it, because I do it on most days.

[ndsr]

1. 20 min of positive affirmations

2. Smoke a cig

3. Straight up murder the spot

4. Make a clean getaway

We must have had the same skatecoach

[Powdered Toast Man!]

Stretching and pushups at home guarantees a sesh for me.
Pushing around like an idiot to the point i think i go “fast” is my warm up and full session. Maybe ollie up stuff if i feel confident, try flat ground flip tricks if i’m, like the kids say, FIRED UP.
But really, having my front foot run over by a bus of mentally challenged and disabled people when i was 11 is really catching up to me decades later.
I’m lucky to do still this, cant complain

[Battery Aziz]

Stretch for a bit, roll around for about 5 min on a qp and banks usually not popping my board, gradually starting with a couple basic ledge tricks then nollie flip on flat. Been stuck in that routine for a minute now but does the trick for me

[elbarto]

But really, having my front foot run over by a bus of mentally challenged and disabled people when i was 11 is really catching up to me decades later.
I’m lucky to do still this, cant complain

Shouldn’t have fallen off the bus brother.

[lamfordie]

I kinda have a routine I've been doing for like the past 5 or 6 years. I start off with some stretching. Then some Ollie's on flat. At my local park I'll do fs half cab the pyramid then 50 the low box. Come back again do fs half cab again then front crook the low box. Do that twice. Then nollie 180 the pyramid then half cab nose slide the taller ledge. I do that twice. In the end I'll do nollie cab the pyramid then nollie front crook.

[honey island]

i kick a football around 

[Little Debbie]

if I can't go fast, I can't warm up,

[cosmicgypsies]

if its the summer i usually cycle into town about 7/8 miles so that gets the legs feeling pretty warm, atm bus life. liter of water beforehand, basic stretches/walking around to limber up, cruise around 5/10 minutes with some solid pushes then maybe a game of skate etc.

[moneen]

nollies and nollie 180s, nollie shuvs, everything nollie to warm up.

[JB]

stretch like i know what im doing (i dont). i find doing the russian crouch helps me the most and probably makes me look the stupidest at the same time.

[Davie Dick]

bunch of reverts and carving on flat, some warm up ollies and 180s and once i shuv to fakie on the mellow bank i'm good. keep in mind i am not a naturally talented skater