My problem with learning new tricks is that I don't know where to fit it into my session.
At the start of the session for warming up I do all the tricks I already know in a certain chronological order that only makes sense to me. I have to land all of them at least once clean. The goal is not to lose any and, if possible, improve them. This takes about 30 minutes (I don't have a lot of tricks).
Then I start the "proper session" which I was planning in advance and which might include trying a line, skating a ledge or trying to flip a gap or something at a specific spot, trying to get a clip. This I do until my legs are tired which takes about another hour or 90 minutes max. Even if I get my clip that day, my legs will be too tired at that point to try new stuff.
So where do I fit in learning new tricks? I guess I need to have dedicated "new trick sessions" but there's so many spots I want to hit.
How do you guys do it?
I tend to drill warmup tricks aiming to land 3x in a row of all shuvs, 180s, bigspins etc etc, then move onto knocking out 3x of my "big six", flips both ways, heels both ways, varial flips both ways. That's usually 40 odd minutes i guess.
Usually by that point I kind of know where the session is at, so i'll start working on something new for half an hour or so.
Occasionally I go out with a specific new trick in mind, where i'll do a short warmup for 15 mins or so then just launch straight into spending the session trying to get that new land.
I've had both ways work before, and sometimes learnt something else new that I wasn't planning on... spent ages one session trying to get fakie inward and varial heels, neither were working so switched to trying half cab heels and landed one within 20 or so tries.
I don't think there's really a magic formula, on the days i've gone out without a plan i've often surprised myself...it's rarer that i go out with a specific trick in mind and meet that goal on that day.
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