Progression within Skateboarding

Dont get down on yourself. Skating is something you either have or you dont, you can still get pretty decent if you dont have it but to be someone like colin provost you have to both have it and be rodney mullen level dedicated to skateboarding

I skate occasionally maybe once or twice every couple of weeks. I picked it up in the beginning of the summer. i can barely ollie while moving. cant do any switch tricks. cant nollie. can shuvit and do a couple stalls but that's about it. I just hit a peanut bowl that's fun to cruise on. If

/td:lr you are already getting the kickflip around you are doing much better than me

I got a new board this summer. I can now Ollie and Kickflip really solid, i can cruise around, jump where i want. no complies for days. I can also skate bowls / ramps fine but nothing too special.

Ive been skateboarding for 8 years and I still do not have a kickflip down.

macinnisIve been skateboarding for 8 years and I still do not have a kickflip down.

Same. Been skateboarding for about 6 years now and I can ride half pipe, not doing anything hugely fancy and I love to cruise, I can get some very basic grinds sometimes but kickflips just baffle me.

Skateboarding is hard. Progress at your own time man and don't be too hard on yourself.

I've been skating off and on for years now, since I was about 8, and still can't land a kickflip consistently. I'm also not extremely dedicated to it though.

I skated a lot in high school, but now I keep starting and quitting over and over. So I can't do anything consistently, but I have fun. Back when I skated a lot there was a point where I started to get super obsessed with progression and what not. Shit loses its fun. Don't even think about time frames and quantifying your skill and progression. Just go and skate. Thats why I love it so much now. I may be just as good as I was two years ago, but that doesn't matter as long as i can hang with friends and have a good time.

Skateboarding is sooo frustrating haha, I think at this point in my life i've accepted i'd never be good at it

it takes a good week to get them semi consistant,
and around 2-6 months of everyday-after-school-for-one-hour of just kickflips to have them super consistant. then, if you stop for a period of time your back at the startingpoint of like 1 month. It sucks to have to "keep everything in check" in skating so i only bother with kickflips, and ollies, and grinds.

yea thanks guys. Im pretty dedicated at this point just to keep my mind off of skiing and I have nothing better to do. I can tell that the progression is there and on the rise. I can now half cab and fs and bs 180. ollies are allright popshuvits but not consistant. I know a bunch of stalls now. Im having lots of fun but skateboarding is really hard. Ill let you know how it goes!

I've been skating for 14 years and I still can't land a kickflip.

Skateboarding is hard and a lot of it comes from conditioning your muscles and body to repeat motions over and over. It's like learning an instrument or learning how to paint it takes a shit load of work, patience, determination, and time. Hendrix didn't start as hendrix he sucked for a bit before he got his touch. It just takes time to get the touch then once you have the touch you can do it over and over again. Keep practicing keep working. Concentrate on your front foot staying over your board and landing on the board rather than your back foot. I have been skating for 12 years and always see little kids kickflipping and sending their front foot way off their board to flip it and landing one footed with their back foot. They're achieving the rotation but don't have a snowball chance in hell of landing it. Concentrate on your front foot and keeping it over the board. Even if it's only flipping half way but both feet are landing on your board that just means your flip isn't strong enough yet. Keep on practicing the strength will coem and you'll be landing over your board everytime.

ive been skating for a year, and i still suck. in ten years, ill still suck comparatively. skateboarding is the best though, for real.

2 years ago I borrowed a friends board and started skating in my garage a couple days before christmas. I figured by the time spring I'd have kickflips down no problem but I was dead fucking wrong. It took me until october to get half kickflips and then another couple weeks to land my first one. Nowadays progression is slow and I still suck, but skateboarding is still the sickest ever.

To quote Jake Johnson from an interview, " Every trick is a mental block. The challenge of learning it is to find out what is blocking you, and slowly chip away at the thought process that is stopping you from making the trick. backside 360 has been nearly impossible for most of my life."

As others have said above: don't worry about rushing into progressing in a certain way. Ive skated for a little more than a year now and finally started landing a few kickflips. My advice would be to just kinda progress in a way that feels natural. For example when I really started to get popshuvits (which took me way longer than you), I learnt them nollie, fakie, fakie bigspins, nollie fs etc. and even the occasional 360 shuvit just because I felt the way of doing the trick better than the kickflip. Anyways just have fun and try something different every once in a while, that way you'll also get your own bag of tricks

after an entire summer of work I've got a decent ollie. Like skiing and just about everything else in life, skating is about having fun. It's important to push yourself but not everything's a competition

If i knew what the game was about i wouldve gotten on a skateboard as soon as i could walk.
Thats a big reason why nyjah and provost are as good as they are. I dont know of too many pro skaters who werent skating by age 10-12