Sucks to hear man, my park gets invaded by scooter kids frequently but the skaters usually outnumber them by a fair amount do they keep on line. I try and skate 2-3 times a week. Usually 1-2 days is a casual, catch up and chit chat with whoever is there and dabble in some harder tricks, usually after work. Then 1 day on a weekend morning is no nonsense go hard and solidify those fundamental days. I'm not sure how the conditions are at your place (weather, need to drive) but the morning solo sessions work usually work out the best for me. No distractions, just go repeatedly at a trick and not needing to wait your turn is the best.
All the best for figuring out your skate schedule. Waking up early for solo sessions in a Sunday morning is my favorite way to end my weekend.
Thanks, I think what's frustrating here is those kids aren't even scooter kids (although we have those too), they're your typical high schoolers, some of them even have boards but they don't even try and skate, they just hang out at the wack, pseudo-skateshop down the street in dozens, occasionally buy or borrow completes then come to the park to seek validation, but since none of them actually skate they do it by being obnoxious as fuck, teenager style and it's just unbearable. It encourages more and more randoms to think it's okay too, so regulating the place has gone out of hand.
My skate schedule already kind of has a structure to it, I'm self-employed so I get to skate pretty much anytime workflow and weather allow, those two factors pretty much dictate the fundamental possibility on the daily; then also, getting older I'm quite watchful of post-session recovery times and methods (over a decade ago one of my best, older friends was a martial artist with a scientific background who was very well versed on how the human body trained and recovered, influenced me a lot in my formative years), so on average I skate pretty much as often as you do, since I usually burn myself out to the point of exhaustion on a sesh then need the appropriate time and treatment (food, sleep) to recover.
Friend I mentioned had observed that what would physically work the best for him in terms of schedule and recovery time was a three-hour session every two or three days, but he also regularly complained that in actuality it wasn't enough for him because skateboarding was too fun to do so little.
Here like you said I just need to figure out a different timing. Most of the time I wake up early to skate, I end up downing four joints and three coffees whilst catching up on work emails/getting ready so even if I'm up at 8 I get to the park at 11 and that's already too late, so I just need to wake up earlier if I like that routine. It's just the park too and I'm free of skating anywhere else solo anytime, but I know all the spots in this city by heart and solo skates on rough shit are only fun for a bit.
I think some of the frustration also stems from seeing so many kids who are so close to actually skating, yet are too distracted to go for it, the way skateboarding is represented in the mainstream as something as superficial as it is ridiculously untouchable (like it's some pro hero shit and oh-look-at-this-man's-shoes-you-totally-want-them) right now probably has a lot to do with it, they're clueless about what it is, their own potential abilities when it comes to it, think it's some elite shit which discourages them from even touching the practice and, I don't know. I'm a bit weirded out because those kids are the type of profile who would have legit gotten into skating not too long ago (and it would have regulated their urges, opened doors and done them good) but now it's like the image of skating has become something out of reach (almost like, say, golf), when skating truly belongs to the people.
Fuck I got carried away (right now I'm sober by accident), sorry for more long ass ramblings that are all over the place. Changing habits of 20 years of skating is going to be one funny trip, but I guess I'm halfway there with my solo sessions and lunch break park attacks anyway. Thanks for the extra motivation.
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