Overcoming your fear of sets, handrails, and gaps.

[YaskinEOFK]

At one point we all ride up to a obstacle ready to bust something on it, but stop and look at it instead.

That was your mind imagining the worst.

Once your first time is over with. It gets easier.

On your first try, DO NOT HALF ASS IT.

If you half ass it, you'll increase your changes of eating sh!t.

approach the obstacle with good pop and confidence.

I'll summarize this.


1. Approach with confidence.
2.Do not half ass it.
3. Don't imagine the worst.
4. Once you try it once, it's no longer as scarier or hard.


Hope this helped

-Yaskin


ps. DO NOT TRY TO DO SOMETHING WAY ABOVE YOUR SKATING LEVEL.

[Dookie416]

usually whenever my friends roll up to something they say "i'm gonna take a non-committing try" meaning they basically just throw themselves down the gap or set senselessly.. i used to do that but now i just straight go for it first try and see what happens from there.

[TrAnCe]

I listen to nirvana and it helps too. Dunno why though.

[sk8br04d3r]

i have issues committing with ledges and rails.

i honestly think it's a deal with me being uncomfortable skating at high speed cause it always sketches me out skating halfpipes and i just do a small pivot stall on the first wall to slow me down.

not sure how i deal with my issue except for just committing and getting over the fear of speed. :\

that and my inability to stop pushing mongo (i started out skating goofy, so when i switched to being a regular footer, it was a habit i couldn't break) are my biggest issues while skating. pushing mongo affects my speed and balance and not being able to handle speed kicks my ass when skating transition.

[luckysk8er1991]

why the hell would you switch to regular? everyone knows that goofy is better. and i dont really see why you need that much speed with rails and ledges. especially if they are hand rails and hubbas. you can just get on slow and it will just push you down lol. if you arent talking about handrails and hubbas and just flat bars and flat ledges, just practice the trick going as slow as you want and try to work your speed up, it will come with practice and in time being on the board will just feel natural no matter how fast you are going, it will just feel like running. except more fun. and for mongo, just practice. it only took me like a week to stop pushing switch mongo. just practice.

[skateblank714]

orlando bloom goes to the doctor and tells him "docta, i need your help... anytime i look in the mirror i get an erection" the doctor looks and him and say "well no wonder my boy, your a pussy"...

basicly what im trying to say is, stop arrousing yourself when you look in the mirror, and just go for it, theres really no other way, or some magical secret that will make your fear disappear

[China Skate]

Just get hyped up for it

[Scottp014]

usually whenever my friends roll up to something they say "i'm gonna take a non-committing try" meaning they basically just throw themselves down the gap or set senselessly.. i used to do that but now i just straight go for it first try and see what happens from there.

haha thats me....dookie always says "c'mon scott man up and do it" haha

[Dookie416]

haha thats me....dookie always says "c'mon scott man up and do it" haha

my nigga

im gonna start saying beta

[jonnym]

I tend to think of the bad things that can happen, to get them out of my head, but I just go straight for it, any other way and your gonna get hurt I guess.

[sk8br04d3r]

why the hell would you switch to regular? everyone knows that goofy is better?

i started skating goofy when i was six...i switched to regular at like ten. i'm twenty now.

at six i had no idea what regular footing was. so i thought goofy was regular. so i tried to skate that way. later on, when tony hawk 1 came out i found out i was wrong and switched. regular feels more natural but i just can't stop pushing with that damn foot out of habit.

best thing about skating switch for so long is that i've got most of my stuff in switch and nollie on lock.

<33 nollie 360s

EDIT: and as for speed. i meant for doing crap off sets. >.>

i suck at hitting sets. i spend most of my time skating in local skateparks.

most i've ollied was a seven stair.

best fliptrick off a set was a 360flip off a three.

half of the problem is most of my friends haven't been skating very long and they aren't good enough to hit sets and gaps with me and i hate skating alone. so i get like no practice. i just skate a set whenever i see someone skating it.

[crazy_dave]

If its a set of gap i usually just ollie it first. If its something big i usually kick it away just so i get a feeling for the height and length.

[sk8br04d3r]

i can usually get the ollie and sometime a bs shove or a fs 180. i have issues hitting other things on bigger sets.

cause usually i get to hit a set maybe twice a year. other than the little three stair my friends skate. which i've done absolutely everything on.

ollie, fs and bs 180, fs and bs shove, kickflip, heelflip, varial flip, 360 flip, bs flip.

i guess i could go for a fs flip, a big flip or a bs heel though.

but a montage on a three stair isn't exactly interesting >.>

[I_Eat_Emo_Kids]

Make Every Trick First Try

[sk8br04d3r]

lolwut?

even the three stair treflip took me four tries. o.o

[I_Eat_Emo_Kids]

So? unless you're 100% warmed up I don't see any problems with that, and even if you are whatever. A lot of skaters have to work for their tricks, me being one of them and it makes it all the better when you make it.

[jonnym]

If you want a trick , you might as well go for it.

[sk8br04d3r]

i just wish my friends would get better faster or i could skate with some of my old friends. it's impossible to progress as things are.

i guess they do have me skating transition a lot more. like i rarely skated halfpipes before i started skating with them. i guess that is a department i need some work on.

[Skaterrdude]

you gotta believe in yourself.:-41:

[sk8boarder0]

yea. just do it then it will become much easier.. however for some reason i can not seem to get over my fear of a 5 stair. i know that it is a small set but i always think the worst and can not get that out of my head. Anyone got any really good ways to stop thinking about the worst things because that is one huge problem i have with doing sets. i have k-flipped a good size four but for some reason can not get the 5-stair ollie. Thanks!

[Ramp]