learning curve

[switch245]

About how long did it take you guys to get rid of the fear of falling/hurting yourself aand getting a hang of skating?

[TrAnCe]

Never. But thats because I do bigger stuff now.

[yoda_emo]

"Pain is just fear leaving your body"

I acctualy like hurting myself trying somthing, becouse then i know if i try it again it really can't be much worse (takes the fear away)

...but then again i always fall

[crazy_dave]

^unless you break yo' back!

I never had much fear either.

[Slyde]

I'm just a natural pussy. It took me like 1 month after getting comfortable cruising, to get rid of fear with curbs. After that, I was just fine until I started doing stairs.

I went to that 3 set 3 times without so much as popping off of it. Then I got the hang of it.

Basically, now I've pretty much tried every type of skating out there. Ledges, Manny pads, and such, so I don't have to much fear anymore. But everytime I learned something new, it was pussyfoot time, lol.

[RooR]

Ahh that just reminded me, yesterday was the first official day where I was ollieing up and off sidewalk curbs without mentally psyching myself out :)

How are your bowl skills Slyde?

[Slyde]

Not very good. I can ride the bowl pretty fast, and 50-50 it at times, other than that, not much.

Better at street type of stuff, why do you ask?

[RooR]

Just wondering, because it seems like your learning curve is not steep at all. Seems like you get new tricks down fairly fast.

:mad: <---Jealous

[falloffboy101]

I jumped from a 4 set to an 8 set in one day.


Was great, I tell ye.

But I've always been scared like.

[Flamethrower]

I've always been scared. Never wont be scared. The way I see it is, you may feel like your going to throw up while your in the air, but it all only lasts a couple of seconds. And if you eat some pavement, then oh well. Suck it up.

[Super_Skater]

After the first pop I'm usually pretty fine. Actually I've kind of mellowed down from doing big stuff for a while now, its not that I suck at them or anything I've just pretty much been just skating the ledges at the park all the time.

[Ramp]