Happy holidays everyone !!

It took me about 30 yrs of skating to figure this out, doh. directly related to your last video, once i started landing kickflips and realizing that i still wasn't doing the kickflips i wanted to do i started experimenting with putting my flicking foot in all sorts of different places, just experimenting, and it gave me so much more confidence and understanding of the trick.

Thank you for this video. So many teachers on here use a "one size fits all" approach. I'm 6'3, 240 lbs, with a size 14 shoe. I always have to do tricks differently than most skaters.

Norman is the goat

Hey man great advice! Filmmaking is getting better to my man. Keep it up! 🎥❤

Happy Holidays Norman, more vids in 2024 please! Cheers

First off, Hapoy Holidays to you and you family and viewers, I really dig checking out your sponsor gear, and I am learning to adapt to my environment, skating the park fast and fluid, even power slides on the hip and fly outs, progressing a lot lately, thanks for all your videos, Norman🙏🏻🤙🏼😎

Hi, that’s a pretty interesting discussion. I‘m beginning to skateboard and find myself often to repeat the same mistakes over and over again. So far I discovered three main reasons. 1) it takes time to correct a movement pattern even if it’s recognised as unfunctional. 2) a trust in collected information about technique and the hope of working myself through iterations and 3) understanding of proper and improper approaches needs to be trained in the same way as the movement apparatus so that a possible change in strategy which is not just random is depending on experience as well. How shall I know of its weak technique, wrong strategie or no technique at all, when I’m missing the experience to interpret the direct feedback of my fails? So I think Rookies like me need to learn from what they see others do, hear explanations and reflections and own experience. Thanks a lot for this video!

I have loved stripe shirts too. They're like the heshy skater punk staple. I have a shirt that has duane peters on it and it says destroy. I don't mind looking like a punk, I'd even wear those knee pants too. I remember a lady told me once, "wear less dark colors" and I was like "but I really never don't?!" I can't do a band shirt for most of the time. Like if I'm skating, I really don't need to think about how the new york dolls was such a great band imo, everytime I look down, like that crap can still wait. You'll have better results wearing that to go out. Although feeling good is part of the hype too. But I ain't trying to fit in an x-small to go skate right now. The other day I bought a pink longsleeve dgk shirt with these cats hanging around the trash can (the one counting bread reminds me of my oldest half brother lmao) and I put it on at the end of my sesh when the other one was soaked, and ollied up a ledge before going home, and it was fun. It sounds easy but it was a major achievement for me at that moment. I really don't care about lemmy at that point either, unless I can actually hear him yelling 'fast and loose' lol or whatever other funny-lame innuendo, with music on at full bore to skate to. But I don't need or want that either. Anyway! I use Jessup but because I'm afraid of mob. I feel like the courser grit will just rip my shoe, especially non-suede chrome tanned leather. To me it's a diminishing returns at some point. (I use a whole sheet of jessup ultra grip clear tape every time I set up a new board, I'm not right) You're gonna hate me for this next one. Chuck Taylor classics are fine but imo not for skating. Need ollie patch and a real skate soles. Those diamonds and material on the bottom are a no from me. I don't know how you do it. I wore chucks in middle school right before I got into skating, there's a video that says you are chaotic good if you wear those, that's probably what I was haha. But then I came to school in the ellington shoe and my friend went nuts. Some of the other shoes in this video look really good though. I like the black ones with the big *> you're wearing towards the end. Also, I have those Old Bones knee braces. They feel good but my feet and ankles swell if I fall asleep in them haha. I got the two of them and putting them on after a rough skate sesh, you can feel all of the discomfort melt away. But I think the donut on the knee is kind of annoying. I find myself thinking if it was a hole instead, I would prefer that. That way, if it shifts, you feel less scrunching all around the brace. But mine don't have the hinge or the coil so maybe that's why. Recently I revised my kickflips to point my foot more towards the nose, and after recently seeing ginwoo doing them like this I felt pretty good about it. At some point I wanted my kickflip setup to look like an ollie setup and that's just not realistic. I also set up a second board with softer bushings. (It has clear mob grip on this one but it's not too course for me.) I know I said hard bushings skate well, and they do, but sometimes you can use a break and practice different things. There's days where harder bushings feel like I'm compressing my ankle on the front and hurting the edge of the shin bone a bit more. But I still prefer the harder bushings, which I was not that surprised about. Overall, I kinda enjoy hearing you talk about skating. Sometimes it's not the technique, but your ability. A guy who does 50lb curls, is doing the same trick but at a higher difficulty than a guy who just started at 7lbs. My foot for switch can't flick with the same finesse as the one I've skated for years on an off, and that's a fact jack. I have to build up that muscle memory. I scrolled down and saw some complaining, if you feel the burn that means it's working hahaha. mahalo

Great points about techniques

I've experienced this and seen this over and over! the same way you can create muscle memory for landing tricks, you can form muscle memory for landing 1 foot on it or not landing altogether

Hey man love your videos and tips they’ve helped me so much thank you😊

Personally, I always use the scientific method when I’m having trouble. So, in my case, since I was having trouble riding switch, I began focusing on my knees and how low they were bent. Once I started adjusting that aspect, my balance dramatically increased but, on the other hand, I felt it and that was a great feeling! It doesn’t mean they looked good but that will improve over time.

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Happy holidays!

I’m that guy trying kickflip every time

Im trying to learn how to ollie onto a curb the last time I tried I clipped back trucks and slipped back wards but caught my self with my feet instead of slamming since then I keep hesitating to land it

The nollie dude you were helping, thats due to not having a second set of eyes, i heard filming helps if you dont got a knowledgeable skater.

What you said about kickflips and stability got me thinking. Even if I correct every rookie mistake, if I'm not stable I won't land the trick. I'm 5 years in and still struggling with this. How do I get rid of that 'jumping in a rowboat' effect whenever I try to pop? I've tried some exercises from channels like The Daily Push but it's been super-slow progress for me

Do you have any advice for flipping out of a tailstall, or tailslide? Like power ollie kickflips. I've wanted that trick since I was a kid, my friend used to be able to do it. I'm not even close to understanding what I'm doing wrong. I feel like an anime character that gets told to go punch a boulder until I find my chi or something.

Bruxaria 💀

Jessup for life

At 20.24 a chart comes on the screen twice very quick with strange letters and pentagrams and a skull imma ask super directly do you do witchcraft or anything of the sort because if so I’m never watching your channel agian I hate witchcraft and warlocks i hope this is not the case but why would you have that on the screen it’s intentional because you had to edit it in there