Like the tricks you been doing since you started to really get the hang of skating, ollies, 180s,pop shuvs, kickflips etc etc and how often do you really process what you could do to improve them and put effort into experimenting. And how often, if ever, do you think about and focus on playing around and experimenting with anything else that might alter your individual style?
I'd be interested if anyone's got any insight to share as well about improving when you're already fairly proficient, like to be able to learn more efficiently during those solo sessions where you're really paying attention to every intricate movement that goes into a trick or whatever, and what areas or movements to focus on that make the biggest impact on improving and developing a better style
Lately I've been putting a lot of focus on trying to improve my ollie technique, and I'm getting a nice natural back foot tweak without even thinking about it, and I think it's starting to come through with other tricks like kickys, I'm just recently starting to deliberately incorporate that technique into them but I think I'm feeling it happen. Experimenting with my posture and shoulder positioning, and also the motion of swinging my arms up I think has made the biggest difference for me in achieving that, and I'm finding that for a lot of things I'm actually not having to put so much effort into popping and can focus on what I'm doing in the air more clearly. Another thing has been angling my popping foot to point a little more forwards to the front of the board. Both my back foot and the shoulder/posture change has really shifted my natural stance, my foot positioning and set up positioning feels really different to even month ago but way more comfortable, and I almost never have my shoulders or anything "squared" with the board any more for anything unless it specifically needs it.
What's your secret for progressing?