5 Tips For Skateboarders Wanting To Land More Tricks

For many skateboarders, it’s the dream to become a professional skateboarder. You get to do what you love and get paid for it, while travelling the world, skating amazing spots and skateparks.

Unfortunately, not everyone can become a professional skateboarder. It’s tough work and can seem nearly-impossible looking in from the outside. There are a lot of details to manage and unless you have a good deal of time to work it out through trial-and-error, it’s easy to miss something important and continue to struggle and get no where.

Fortunately, I’ve had some time to make those mistakes and learn from them, and in this blog post I’m going to share with you some tips I’ve learned from my twelve years of skateboarding.

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Here’s the truth: you will always feel uneasy whenever you step outside your comfort zone. Everyone has that feeling on unfamiliar territory, when you’re stepping outside your comfort zone. The professionals choose to put a different meaning on that feeling. They feel afraid too, but they move forward anyway. That feeling can now become a familiar feeling to have whenever some good happens. Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Be Prepared For Anything To Happen

Before you can feel confident enough to move forward when facing fear, you have to prepare yourself. Play all the scenarios of what could happen and how you would deal with the results. Then choose to focus on what yo want to happen. See it happening in your minds eye and get familiar with that feeling. See it happening a couple times perfectly in your head. Once you see that there’s nothing to be afraid of your esteem rises, and it becomes easier the next time.

Work Your Way Up

For example, if you’re a beginner skateboarder working on an Ollie, you would practice them first by standing still. Maybe even by holding onto a railing or fence to make things easier. Once you feel confident with your pop, try to Ollie while moving forward. From there you could Ollie curbs, skateboards, stairs, etc. Start with the basics and work your way up.

Follow Your Passion

To get really good at something you have to be passionate – you have love doing it. If you don’t really enjoy skateboarding, chances are you’re not going to become very good at skateboarding. To reach your highest potential in life, you have to love what you do. That doesn’t mean you wouldn’t ever get frustrated, but when that does happen learn to calm down, relax, and get into a better state of mind before you try it again. Professional skateboarders do their best when they aren’t even really trying. Everything is effortless and smooth.

Surround Yourself With Positivity

If you focus on the chance of getting hurt all the time, chances are that’s what’s going to happen. Focus on HOW you are going to land the trick, not what if you don’t. You also have to be careful with who you’re surrounding yourself with. Negative people are like a virus that needs to be avoided. That type of people don’t want to see you succeed and will try to squash your hopes and dreams. Surround yourself with positive, happy people and your life will be amazing!

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Keep skateboarding fun!

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