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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #90 on: October 16, 2019, 05:39:02 AM »
i wish i could go back in time and erase all the noseslide shuvits and half cab nose slide shuvits that I did. I wasn't too many, but fuck that. (inside shuvit)

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #91 on: October 16, 2019, 06:09:58 AM »
I wish I didn’t take so many years on and off in my 20s. I’m happy now but I’m like I’d probably know a lot more tricks if I didn’t.

I wish I spent more time learning flip tricks and not just trying skate stuff I thought was big.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #92 on: October 16, 2019, 06:37:09 AM »
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Ollie into the trick, not onto the ledge.
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What the hell does that mean?

I often found myself, especially on higher ledges, focusing way too hard on just getting up there when I didn't need to. The pop was there, but my approach was wrong and in turn I would come down way too hard and that jolt would fuck up my balance and make me lose speed.  Now I visualize myself landing a good 6" to 12" further forward than I used to. I better position my body to be ready to slide/grind before I even pop my tail. It all ties into the other parts of the post - being intentional and using my upper body to balance.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #93 on: October 16, 2019, 08:41:06 AM »
Wish I had cared more about skating switch young. Now i have no will to practice tricks that have me looking like an 8 year old on his first board.

I'm learning sw flips in my late 20s. Yes it sucks to not land a basic flip but actually the dudes at the park were pretty supportive when they realized I was going switch.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #94 on: October 16, 2019, 09:32:48 AM »
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Ollie into the trick, not onto the ledge.
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What the hell does that mean?
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I often found myself, especially on higher ledges, focusing way too hard on just getting up there when I didn't need to. The pop was there, but my approach was wrong and in turn I would come down way too hard and that jolt would fuck up my balance and make me lose speed.  Now I visualize myself landing a good 6" to 12" further forward than I used to. I better position my body to be ready to slide/grind before I even pop my tail. It all ties into the other parts of the post - being intentional and using my upper body to balance.

Ah, gotcha.  Interesting. 
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« Reply #95 on: October 16, 2019, 09:33:54 AM »
Another thing I wished I learned sooner is that skateboarding isn’t about chillen with the homies and doing it for the love and passion of it, it’s about getting good enough to achieve hometown hero status and vibe everyone at your local park.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #96 on: October 16, 2019, 09:43:59 AM »
Surprised that “learning to fall” isn’t mentioned more often.  I sprained/fractured wrists way too many times by not tucking everything in or learning to roll out out slams like Cardiel or Daewon.  Still suffer from that now that I’m old, a bruise is way better than a break.  This and skating faster are vital.

sliding on my back and/or rolling when falling is probably one of the most important things (if not most important) i've learned fortunately. I wish I learned that sooner so i wouldn't have some odd liquid built up in my elbow from all of the swellbows i got between the ages of 13-17

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #97 on: October 16, 2019, 11:37:09 AM »
Shout out to everyone who responded (even the funny posts). Was sure this was a topic already but couldnt find it in search. It's been great reading everyone's experiences.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #98 on: October 16, 2019, 11:44:01 AM »
That having fun is more important than being good.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #99 on: October 16, 2019, 11:58:40 AM »
That building a high tolerance for pot is more important than being good.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #100 on: October 16, 2019, 12:02:27 PM »
wish i had learned to skate transition earlier
having a bitch of a time learning


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« Reply #101 on: October 16, 2019, 12:04:18 PM »
That building a high tolerance for pot is more important than being good.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #102 on: October 16, 2019, 12:14:15 PM »
I wish I never quit from 16-21, probably the years that I had more free time in my life. I don't how I preferred to play handball instead of skating...

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #103 on: October 16, 2019, 12:47:18 PM »
I wish I learned how to skate transition 10 years before I learned how.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #104 on: October 16, 2019, 03:10:23 PM »
pushing switch is the biggest one I've seen mentioned already in this thread. It seems like pushing with one foot dominantly for many many years has the real potential to fuck up a skateboarders back and hip.

push switch often.

and skating transition growing up skating in NJ/NYC the late 90's early 00's was not the easiest thing to learn. we had no parks . but damn I wish I would have tried harder to get good on mini-ramps etc.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #105 on: October 16, 2019, 03:40:51 PM »
Learning that there's more than one way to skin a cat. I never got too big into crazy flat skills or flipping my board and that really limited my skating because my friends all had crazy switch game and ran SKATE like clockwork. I could hold my own but I was never consistent but John Fitzgerald kind of opened my eyes to the fact that there's much more.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #106 on: October 16, 2019, 03:45:32 PM »

- slide and flick your kickflips...I got my kickflips dialled but in the worst way, and only recently started focasing on getting them looking good, fighting that muscle memory is hard
- just saying hi when a skater arrives will break usually break that tension of you  two vibing each other out

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« Reply #107 on: October 16, 2019, 03:47:00 PM »
I wish I never quit from 16-21, probably the years that I had more free time in my life. I don't how I preferred to play handball instead of skating...

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« Reply #108 on: October 16, 2019, 04:12:35 PM »
backside airs and judos.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #109 on: October 16, 2019, 06:01:34 PM »
Don’t jump down what you can’t jump up.

IMO this is just for the old and injured(me). Kids should jump off loading docks.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #110 on: October 16, 2019, 06:16:10 PM »
1. Don't get stressed when you're younger and your crew is filled with sponsored rippers...they're your buddies not some evil competition.
2. Skate transition..as now that you're in your 40s there's going to be parks EVERYWHERE.
3. Follow the old Cab rule of "work on 3 tricks at a time" and get them dialed in. Build from that.
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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #111 on: October 16, 2019, 06:33:26 PM »
I wish I spent way more time skating ledges in my formative years because now I'm terrified of them.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #112 on: October 16, 2019, 08:30:11 PM »
tranny.

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« Reply #113 on: October 16, 2019, 10:34:12 PM »
tranny.

My excuse is we didn’t have any parks when I was growing up.

But, yes, tranny.
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« Reply #114 on: October 16, 2019, 11:01:56 PM »
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tranny.
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My excuse is we didn’t have any parks when I was growing up.

But, yes, tranny.

I didn't have tranny and proper ledges growing up either and to this day those aren't my forte. In a miniramp I'll have my little repertoire and do some tricks, but also look super uncomfortable in general because I'm used to the pace and stability (or unstability?) of skating street. I'm used to wide open spaces, so going back and forth between walls in a straight line without being able to carve in sharp turns and react accordingly the way I've always been used to messes me up.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #115 on: October 17, 2019, 04:07:22 AM »
Although frontside stuff came to me pretty easy I wish I skated backside more often. There's so many basic tricks that take me a few tries backside I.e. backside 180s and backside grinds on transition and ledges. For some odd reason I can do switch backside flips pretty consistently though...

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #116 on: October 17, 2019, 05:12:01 AM »
Wish I skated faster.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #117 on: October 17, 2019, 05:22:48 AM »
Skate fast and practice the consistency of the basics a lot. I got carried away with doing as many tech combos as I could, loosing the basics in the process. If you have the basics down every try, then combining them into combos on less scary spots shouldn't be that hard.

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Re: What is one thing that you wish you learned sooner in your skate life?
« Reply #118 on: October 17, 2019, 05:41:37 AM »
two things:
- push switch
- learn transition

But since I can't see through my left eye both of those were pretty hard, since I couldn't really see where I'd be going (I'm goofy).

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« Reply #119 on: October 17, 2019, 05:50:47 AM »
1. Being more intentional with movements, pop, and where body weight is during tricks. I would often kind of lazily float around and lately I’ve been concentrating on things like both trucks locking in on a frontside 5050 on transition, and I’m getting way more consistent.

2. Just saying hello to everyone at the park / spot, it goes along way with meeting skate friends and I’ve been trying to break out of my isolated introverted tendencies.

this is a good one