am i a slow learner?

[enemes]

It's been five months now, and i can ollie, fs 180, nose stall, and impossible sometimes. I think its strange that i can do impossibles even though i cant kickflip, heelflip, shuvit etc. I don't really focus on landing tricks, i just go out, skate and have fun... and if i land it, i land it. I'm sure i could have landed some more stuff by now if i tried my hardest, but then it wouldn't be fun because i'd just get frusterated.

So back to the topic, am i a slow learner? I surely think so.

[R-dude]

No your not, i'm skating bout a month now and i can only do ollies youre pretty good (in my opinion)

[T O O L]

Hey you're having fun, what does it matter?

[reggie_bar]

your doing good cause your not focusing on learing lots of tricks just having fun. just skate around and u will be able to do tricks later.

[Licketysplit]

hey an impossible is good for 5 months, and u cant even kickflip?! but as long as your having fun.......

[Heal flip]

yeah having fun is the most importante part..... i don think youre a slow learner......am i ?
i skate for two months and i can kickflip , shoveit , fs 180 ,indy and nosegrab.... i can do heelflips but theyre not as good as k/flips ... oh and i can land f/s and b/s halfcabs too and boardslide

[atticus]

took me almost a year to learn kickflips

[stupidsk8erkid7]

Yeah took me a year to learn kickflips, but right after that I started to progress faster but I'm still pretty slow.

[tryhard_skater]

yeh its good that this guy is having fun but do any of u actually believe this 1 time poster can impossible in 5 months and cant kickflip or anything.

[T O O L]

I don't think he's doing an imopossible the right way, I mean where it wraps around your foot 'vertically'. I mean I can do that weird funky shit where it's a 360 shuvit but it's just barely touching your foot. But an impossible is f*cking hard. Only met like 6 or 7 people in real life that can do it. This one rasta I used to smoke out with used to do em out of half-pipes and off kickers and shit, it looked so bad aas.

[Sick Chick]

awesome, I think impossibles look so cool... it would be so dam hard to do it out of a halfpipe.

[enemes]

This is what happens as far as the impossible goes, i scoop the tail and wrap it around my foot quickly and it sort of lands right under my feet. It doesnt go perfectly vertical, it is more like a 360 shuvit like you said so i guess its not an impossible then? When i try to get it vertical it smacks my knee.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

[sugar muppet]

"I don't really focus on landing tricks, i just go out, skate and have fun... and if i land it, i land it."

you answered your own question there. now go skate (i would, but it's dark)

[Zac--]

It all matters on if you're having fun or not. I'd rather have all my tricks smooth and perfect than have a trick bag full of sketchy ones.

[sk8nomad]

i can only impossible on flat, u set up ur feet like a pressure flip except u just scoop it.

[enemes]

<i>you answered your own question there. now go skate (i would, but it's dark)</i>

Yes, i know. I just wanted to see what others thought. I would go skate but it's been raining for the past week. I think it's about time to move to the desert.

[Snaker]

Originally posted by T O O L
Hey you're having fun, what does it matter? Now this dude knows what he's talking about.

[moose]

i cant even kickflip and i have been skating for four years but i can heelflip every time

[tryhard_skater]

well if u think wateva sort of impossible ur doin is cool then good for u

[Concrete Surfer]

ive been skating for about a month and i can only ollie. i broke my board so i havent been able to skate lately.

[DarkHawk2-2]

impossibles are hard. i cant figure em out. but yeah, ure not bad. as long as ure enjoi-ing skatin' right?

[rookie]

i just started this summer and i was havin the same problem for a while but i progressed faster when i had fun and didnt try to learn a lot of tricks at 1 time.........

[Skate or Try]

look,kickflips really aren't used that great deal by pros. True they unlock a lot of tricks but don't spend your life learning them

[enjoigirl]

nah youre not a slow learner....skating is just about having fun and doing things at your own pace...so as long as you're having fun...you cant go wrong

[enemes]

Things have really been picking up lately. I never realized that shuvits could be learned in a half hour if you try. Just the other night i landed my first kickflip. I finally figured out what i was doing wrong i was keeping my shoulders paralel to the board. They needed to be more like 90 degrees with the board. I was watching some blink 182 music video and i saw a guy on the sidewalk do a kickflip and i was like "oh so thats how youre supposed to stand?" and i went out in my driveway and tried it and a half hour later i planted one. What a great feeling. Just last night i almost landed a varial kickflip, i think i could have had it but it was so cold out so i went inside. Im also starting to familiarize myself with bs ollies and heelflips. Its amazing how everything falls together all at once. Good times.

[fliptrickmaster]

who cares if ur moving a little slow because u are having fun and that is all that matters

[Ramp]