[10.20.21]
1 hr in the morning
I was landing only the back leg consistently
My shoulders still turn ocasionally when jumping
2 hrs at night
Got really into it with friends and started trying doing them moving
My legs weren't jumping high enough though
I have to remind myself to pop "lightly" without straining my legs going down. It would probably help suck in my legs when I have to jump up.
Sometimes I need that GO FOR IT!!!RAWRARARAR mode. I'm literally fearless at that point!! But it kicked in when I was almost out of fuel.
I think I switch into that when I'm around people who are trying things with me. (mebbe i need sk8 frands)
The guy who was helping me out landed his first tre flip and he couldn't even ollie that well. It's making me think about whether having a solid base is so important. My verdict it is in the long run. I waited around 2 years to even try heelflips and it's not taking me that long to learn them, but sometimes skipping to some cool tricks may not be a bad idea either
I called it a day after I couldn't jump anymore. I guess it's all right cause it'll rain tomorrow.
[10.17.21]
Weather: Surprise sun! It was truly a gift~!
I've been practicing heelflips for 2 months so far!
My goal was to land one before summer ended and I haven't quite made that goal but I'm not sad about that.
11AM
I alternated some stationary ollies before I did a few heelflips to try to get my back leg moving from a shuvit position (kicking back) to ollie position moving forward with the board.
Landed a few while holding on to a bar, then kind of lost it and couldn't flick consistently. I don't really like holding onto a bar because of how unnatural it feels, but I thought it would be helpful to teach my legs how to come back to the board. It kind of helped.
Another thing I noticed was that the board was easier to catch when I popped it snappier with less pressure on my feet.
Mental state: I got kind of frustrated when I jumped in front of the board. Ever since I was trying to land my back foot, it started become something I was doing. One thing I try to remember is that I'm doing all these tricks on concrete now and that's a big step up from the soft surface that I was practicing on a few weeks before.
(My self-talk hasn't been the most positive. But I was tried to be supportive. When I notice fear, I tell myself that I am just scared and acknowledging that helps me face the risk of falling. In reality I'm not that scared of falling, it's happened to me so many times, but somehow it stays with me whenever I start skating every day)
3PM
I went home and came back out again with a new board that I had sitting at home. I customized it and had to wait for the varnish to cure for some weeks.
When I got on the new board, the old board felt like an AIRCRAFT CARRIER wtf (AND the new deck is larger)
Old setup:
| Zero board, 8" |
| Tensor trucks |
| Ricta cloud wheels 54mm |
New setup:
| Blank pro deck 8.125" |
| Venture Hi Lights |
| Indys wheels 52mm |
I love and hate my old board.
Yeah, I shouldn't be using those wheels. Maybe I should have also changed my trucks.
Maybe this was all like being Goku training in that spaceship in DBZ working with worse and heavier stuff to then graduate to a beautiful airy deck.
Because when I got on the new board it was like night and day. Even with ill-fitting shoes.
My boyfriend told me that I flipped it like 540 degrees. I was tired from the first sesh, but I went back home hopeful. I also loved my new board
[10.16.21]
Weather: Rain
I spent a little time comparing videos of myself jumping vs. a guy on youtube.
My conclusion was that I was missing key frames for the last milliseconds LOL.
I'm having trouble sucking my legs back into my body after flicking the board.
Some other things I need to keep in mind:
[10.10.21]
Weather: Sunny
I did some long distance skating with friends on a longboard.
I felt so chill after lunch that I could land a few with my back foot!
[10.02.21 - 10.09.21]
I had periods of really trying to land the board. One time I was so close that it felt like the skaters around me were really anticipating it. On every other try I was landing on the graphic side of the board. Sometimes the flicks were good but it was because my back foot was on the floor supporting my front leg. I had done so many tries that eventually I had to call it a day when it looked like a fissure just ruptured the front part of my shoe. It looked like it was like a mouth - the top part was opening when I flicked it. Ugh. and I wanted to do more!
From that point, I think some things got lost along the way.
I started putting a lot of pressure on myself to land the heelflip because everyone was saying that I was really close.
[9.27.21 - 10.01.21] [BREAK]
Practicing ollies over things and getting them higher!
[9.13.21 - 09.23.21]
Around the start of this period, I got the flicks down for the front foot, but I wasn't popping at all. The motion of the back foot was like doing the kicks back like popping for a shuvit. That was also why I wasn't landing it.
What I tried to do to make my back leg get back on was alternate ollies and kickflips, telling the back foot, "Hey, you know how to do this, it's the same!"
It took a long time to kind of fix that.
[VACATION - NO SKATING :(]
[08.30.21 - 09.06.21] TRAINING THE FLICK
Around this time I focused solely on getting the front foot to flick and land.
I had a rating system for this step:
(1 being best, 3 being worst)
If you just made your goal catching or not catching it, it's not very motivating you're just not getting it every time.
This provides more data for yourself to review, and over time you can see when you improve.
I didn't actually write down my results but I should have. I was taking note mentally whenever I went out to practice in the morning.
I started going once in the morning (30 mins) then at night (1-2 hours)
My front leg was always EXTREMELY SORE in the evenings when I went home.
[08.27.21]
I started to focus on heelflips seriously.
I was comfortable skating but I didn't have muscles developed yet for that movement.
The ratio was still around 1 of 20.
[BREAK]
[07.21.21]
Started learning heelflips on some lovely astroturf.
No pop. I could only flick the board like 1 out of 20 tries...
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