Truth is, most skateboarders will never make it to professional skateboarder status. Not because it’s hard, but because they’ve haven’t been enlightened yet to what really works when it comes to progression and taking things to the next level.

If you want to learn the secrets of skateboarding, progress faster than all your friends, and amaze them with all your new tricks put these 3 secrets of skateboarding to use:

1. Think Big

All highly successful people have big aspirations.

If you’re going to dream, you might as well dream big. Same goes for what you think you can do. Think as if you were a professional skateboarder. Imagine all the possibilities of what you could have, do, or become.

Big thinkers set goals. If you don’t have any goals, you’ll have no direction, and you will probably never reach your full potential. All professional skateboarders set goals, consciously or unconsciously, that lead them to where they are today.

Know the outcome you want from skateboarding. Don’t be afraid to imagine all you could have. Let your imagination go wild for a minute. Write down all your goals and see yourself reaching them.

2. Visualize Success

See yourself reaching your goals daily. Make it an obsession for you to reach your goals.

Picture your tricks happening perfectly over and over in your head. See this as if it were actually happening. Imagine how it would feel, what it would look like, and then practice doing the trick in your imagination enough times for you to believe you actually can.

It’s not practice makes perfect, its perfect practice makes perfect. -Tony Robbins

Something you can do to remind yourself of what you’re working towards is to create a vision board aka. inspiration board. You could hang this on your wall and everyday imagine what it would be like to reach those goals.

3. Feel Good

Think positive and expect favorable results.

A large part of feeling good is avoiding negativity and focusing on positivity. Use positive words when thinking or talking. Never say you can’t do something because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Instead, you could say “it’s a possibility” or “I could learn how”.

In time, your mental attitude will begin to change everything around you, including your skateboarding.

Feeling good is the best way to bring more things for you to feel good about. Spend time hanging out with people with good energy, instead of associating with people who only whine, make excuses and talk sh*t. Skate with friends who inspire you and you’ll see better results, guaranteed!

Conclusion

By following these tips you can learn how to skateboard quicker and easier, but there are still a couple more secrets that have been kept from you. Skateboarding is 80% mental and 20% physical. That means that having the right mindset is more important than knowing where to place your feet for a trick. If you want to learn these secrets of skateboarding and get your mental game together so you can land a boatload of tricks that will amaze your friends, find out what the professionals know that they aren’t telling you about!

Here are 5 strategies professional skateboarders use for landing tricks:

1. Flow with the go.

Don’t spend all your energy trying a trick you’re not ready for yet. Make it easy on yourself by landing easier tricks first. By doing this, you get into the flow. Now flow with the go. Land tricks you’re ready for, build some confidence, and then try that 360 flip again.

By doing this, you’ll find that 360 flips aren’t even that hard to learn.

2. Study the best.

Who’s tre flips do you like the most? Watch all the video you can on them and study all aspects of them. Check out the foot positioning and body posture. Notice the scoop and the light flick with the front foot.

Like Eric Koston once taught me in this 360 flip trick tip video, it’s all in the SCOOP.

3. Meditate on the trick.

Professional skateboarders will think about a trick they’re trying to learn even when they’re not skateboarding. They visualize how the trick will look in their mind before it happens in reality. Not only that, but they also get into the feeling of what it will feel like as they land their trick.

You have to see it and believe it before you can achieve it.

4. Achieve peak performance.

This is one of the most important things you should do to land 360 flips and any other trick with ease. Achieving peak performance is about fueling your body with the best food, surrounding yourself with the best people, and filling your head with positive thoughts and images.

Your will be an enhanced version of you when you eat right, exercise, skate with cool people and looking at things optimistically.

5. Keep cool.

Stressing over a trick doesn’t help you in the least bit. If you can’t land 360 flips right away, relax, maybe today isn’t the day. When you start flipping out and letting your emotions get the better of you, everything seems to go worse. Let the trick happen instead of trying to force it to happen.

Skateboarders are cool, so act like it.

These strategies are going to take work on your part. They aren’t magic spells that instantly make you land 360 flips. Skateboarding takes work but its worth it. If you’re motivated to become a “skate great” you’re going to see success when you implement even one of these 5 strategies.

Have you ever wondered if professional skateboarders know something you don’t? Yeah – well they do. Not many pro skaters talk about what really got them to where they are today – and it’s not just the tricks they do.

It’s like it’s a secret among professionals they keep hidden from everyone else… For the last couple of years I’ve been studying pros and I’m telling you THERE ARE SECRETS they’ve kept from us. Professional skateboarders, like Paul Rodriguez, know this and the truth is starting to come out.

Not All Things Are What They Seem

In practically every trick tip video they teach the steps for doing tricks, but they don’t teach you what really matters …and that’s your mentality. Like many things in life, skateboarding is 80% mental and 20% physical. If you don’t how to use the mental aspects of the game, you’re missing out… BIG TIME!

With the right mentality we can accomplish just about anything we set our minds to. P-Rod set his mind to become a pro skateboarder and get paid to skate for a living and he made it. Wanna know how he did it?

You Are Who You Surround Yourself With

When P-Rod started skating with Eric Koston it was like he absorbed some of his style and skills. He became a better skateboarder learning from Koston. You get better by skating with skater better than you are. That might mean you’re gonna have to leave some friends behind, but so be it. You’ll make new friends and these guys will motivate and inspire you to get better.

Skateboarders, like P-Rod, know that the secret to getting good and landing tricks has more to do with who you surround yourself with, what you’re your mentality and the approach you have than the actual step-by-step process. Knowing how to do a trick isn’t even half of what’s responsible for you landing that trick.

Not 100% sure what I’m talking about? Learn what I’m talking about by going to: SecretsToSkateboarding.com/prod and watching a FREE Video Series by P-Rod revealing his secrets to skateboarding.

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!