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I don't have a point. No wait. I do. It's about having fun as you progress. My son beats himself up cause he can't do enough tricks. I tell him to just ride. It's fun. The tricks will come. The most enjoyable part of skating for me is being afraid of something and finally commiting and pulling it off. Nothing in the world like it.
Just ask if anyone wants my no comply trick renaming rant.
How old is he by the way?
I did try. Most I could do so far is a 180. I could try again later.
I was caught up in that too somewhat. When I was l3, it was how many boards can you ollie and What can you do off a launch ramp? And we all sucked on launch ramps. We were all early grabbing and dropping like rocks no matter how we grabbed or spun.
Noone I knew could do heel flips. Natas on video was the only heel flip I saw anyone do back then.
Speaking of no complys, The first no comply I ever saw was a picture of Natas in Thrasher, may have been Transworld, doing one and thought... that's some impossible shit. I'll never be able to do that. But was doing kick flip no complys over curbs a year or so later.
Watch vlskate Best how to tutorials on youtube. Love that dude. He has helped me correct alot of mechanics problems I didn't have when back when I was a real skater, Lol.
Indy: I thought he'd be around my age (15). In that case, you still have a lot of opportunity to teach him. Do you shred together?
Yeah thanks. I havent tried doing g that before. It should work.
When it comes to tutorials, I watch Braille. Sometimes Vlskate too.
Our media was mags, then bones brigade vids and so on. Doing 360 kickturns like @SK8ER is saying were valid things we were doing when we first started in the early 80's. And we always pushed ourselves you know? 360...540...720 and so on. Who could do the most. Then ollies...up gutters(curbs), over boards, boards on their sides, school bins(quite a few were bent). It's just a natural progression to egg each other on and stoke when you or a mate improve. I had a BMXer hooting when he saw me land a trick the other day I was struggling on.
The problem I see is the back catalogue. When we were young it was normal to learn how to stand, carve, kick turn, tic tac etc etc.
These days kids learn how to stand on their boards, then Ollie, then kick flip etc. The foundational sidewalk surfing crossover is no longer there, hence why many have a crappy style and struggle with stuff that we see as mandatory. And yes, their media does really push this problem, and feeds it's fire, because you will rarely see a modern vid with cuts like Lance's bits, which are fun, and we all can do a lot of. The old school vids may have had their head in the clouds, but Lance would keep their feet on the ground.
Incidentally on the fs 180 ollies...
I recall learning them by doing fs 90 ollies onto gutters(curbs), to axle stall, as I couldn't Ollie straight on. Then I pushed further around 120, 135 until I hit 180 on flat
You're right wake... the natural progression isn't there. When I first stood on a board, a 360 was the hardest trick we even knew about and 180's and tictacs were legit tricks. We also had never seen a skateboard magazine at that point either.
I haven't stood on my board in 2 days. Busy trying to get ready to move this weekend. Damn moving sucks. It's expensive plus it sucks.