Cruise around switch as much as you possibly can. Its embarassing and sucks ass at first but if you keep doing it it'll slowly become very familiar and comfortable. Its also not like you're repeatedly bailing a trick and not landing anything, you just start off clumsy and it gets easier with repetition...
The rolling is strangely difficult. The worst injury I had in like half a year was on a switch fs kickturn on a radius. The getting easier with repetition part really helps, but as of right now I am fighting the fact that I don't want to look like an idiot (although rolling around awkwardly and then busting out a tre might be really fun). I'm in a different city than I grew up in and the locals are pretty cliquy so I didn't really manage to become a part of anything.
I am not really the greatest ledge skater and I am also pretty railtarded so I think I'll stick to flip tricks from now on, but I think the noseslides might be pretty possible. Thanks mate!
You don't have to make it fun, it's fun. Soon you'll be able to feel comfortable regardless of the stance you end up mid-line and have a greater range of maneuvers to just improvise and throw, that should be motivational in itself...
The issue is that getting through the start to the point where it's fun is very very not fun. I can sw ollie, sw FS shuv and probably sw fs 180 but I think that's just... Naturally easy for me? I can't for the love of god figure out how to pop with my right foot and it's driving me nuts (goofy).
Taking all of this into consideration though, the "in fact do know exactly what to do and just need to focus on physically refining your movement" kinda opened my eyes. I know how to do it. This helped a lot.
Just think, this 47 year old with switch skills could take you out in a game of skate with the basics. I'd probably do a switch one foot for your last letter. It's taken out a lot of kids.
This has happened to me. Although the final two letters were a switch press flip and a switch toeflip. I think that was payback for the dolphin I set. One of the reasons why I want to learn switch better is to expand on my tricks and bust out a random switch flip while my homies back at home think I can't.
Whenever I have a hard time learning new tricks, I try to throw them in the middle of a line once I have the fundamentals down. That always makes it fun for me. Toss a 180 in the middle of a line and go to town my guy
That's a great idea. I did it with switch fs shuvs but then I ate shit and got scared. Will try again today.
Work on the basics as part of your warm up.
Regular / Fakie / Switch / Nollie
Shoves, Ollies, 180s, Flips if you're frisky...
A lot of people pointed out to me that I don't warm up with basics. Do you think it's a preference? I usually go for shuvs, kickflips, varial flips, fakie bigspins and fakie bigflips because I won't tear a tendon on those and they come easy to me.
Now when I think about it, my bs 180s are still fucking horrendous so I think I'll start with basics today. Will add nollie and switch too. Need to build it up progressively.