Are you skating enough?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Pushing yourself to improve and do things outside of your comfort zone is a big part of skateboarding , I think the more comfortable you get with new things you have learned it's very easy to settle and not continue pushing forward, sometimes to the point where you forget what its like to be in unknown territory and when those situations arise you forget how to deal with them.
This is something I look into a little deeper in this video and I hope it sheds some light for others who are struggling to push a little further.
Let me know what you think in the comments section below and even ask me and questions you may have,
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Definitely not skating enough, but those are realities of life for me between work and family. I'm not going backwards, but also feeling shitty at times going the next time and knowing that I need an extra hour just to get going again... That said, I LOVE skating and the mind-clearing it does for me, and the sense of achievement when I get a new trick or even just a variation and got my heart rate up and worked up a sweat... And walked out of the park with my own two feet! ;)
@@darude I absolutely agree it’s a real tough one trying to fit enough sessions in with a busy life too. But it’s great if you can keep in the right side of it and always walk away feeling like you have had a really good time. My working hours mean that I miss a lot of potential opportunities but that just means I also have to make the time I do get more worthwhile. Learning something new is a great boost to push you on to the next one too. So many times when I’m not skating all I can think about is the next opportunity 😜👍🏻👊🏼
Yewwwww!!! Killing it! That park looks amazing! Jealous!
@@sshouser31 thanks man 👊🏼 it’s pretty nice, lighting could be better for my old eyes but I can’t complain really 😜
Well done for pushing yourself to overcome you fear. The bowl crete sounds lovely, my kind of surface.
Thanks 👍🏻 it’s a continuous process I just have to keep reminding myself to exercise those boundaries and keep pushing them. It’s a pretty good surface there now so I can’t really complain and it’s a good winter refuge when it’s dull and wet outside.
Great talk Neil. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
@@dillinger1980 Thanks very much 👍🏻
awesome dude, if you take up jogging and lifting on your off days your stamina will get way better too and you'll be able to skate more often
I wish I had the energy for that too but I need some time for recovery and it just so happen the 12 hour days that I work means my time is pretty well taken already. But one of the main reasons I started skating again was for the exercise. I don’t enjoy regular forms of exercise like running or gyms so I wanted to do something I enjoy so much that it doesn’t feel like exercise.
nice skating man! I enjoy your thoughts and approach!
Thanks 👍🏻 I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it !
Spot on Neil…. Skateboarding is all about repetition!
Unfortunately loosing tricks is something that will starts to happens as we get older. I guess we will need to reinvent/adalpt how we skate so that it continues to be fun.
I also think that it’s super important to know how to pick our battles to avoid injuries.
I wish I could skate more often. At the moment I need at least a couple of days to recover before I can get anywhere near a skate again. 😂😂😂
Cheers Ronaldo 👍🏻 Eventually age will catch up but I’m no where near ready to start slowing down, I’m still improving so I’m still better than I’ve ever been before I just have to remind myself to keep practicing the things I want to keep. I’m not even worried about injuries at the moment because I’ve not had anything happen that’s slowed me down more than a couple of months. So as long as I keep stretching and moving I hope to continue that way. Also part of what I was taking about with making sure to skate several times a week means I don’t need so much recovery time, often I’ll skate 2 or 3 days in a row and I truly believe the more you keep going even if you ache a lot you loosen up pretty quick and the pain goes away until the next day and then you just do it all again just like you would if you were a regular gym user, you just have to push through it. Well that’s what works for me anyway.
Awesome skills mans !!
Thanks! 👍🏻
I took a 17 year break. been at it for 1 year.
very relatable
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Thanks 👍🏻 I think there’s a lot of us out there getting back into it for the second time around. Hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am !
I feel someone is having a go at me for only skating 2 hours a week 😂. Neil I struggle on Saturday morning after my 2 hours at Better on Friday evening but I’ve got 9 years on you. Hope to get a few more hours in over the festive period. Let me know if Old guys night is still on over Christmas. If so I’m definitely considering going. Have a good Christmas and see you soon 👊🏻🛹
🤣 it’s only really an observation of my own experience 😉 just like going to a gym the more you do and more often the easier it gets, that goes for recovery and getting going again too. I know it gets harder as you get older but I think it’s still possible to power through and gain from it. The pain puts you off going again so soon but if you go for it you’ll loosen up once you get moving and hugely benefit from it.
I won’t be around for OMN I’m out of the country for Christmas but have a good one and I’ll see you again soon 👊🏼
@ Brazil 🇧🇷?
Yep 👍🏻
I’m 42. Been skating about 2 months. I go to oxhey park watford. That’s got lots of different stuff.
@@beedomguitars cool I hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am 👍🏻 I’ve heard good things about Oxhey but I’ve still not made it there yet. I’ll try and get there next summer (although I did say that last year too 🤣).
@ haha. I was there yesterday. Going today as well. Enjoyed the video. Will watch more on your channel
Cool 👍🏻 sounds like you are skating a lot then , glad you enjoyed the video and want to stick around for more , cheers 👊🏼
Skating is one of those things that I don't need a timer for. I honestly feel like I can condense half a week of progression into a session, sometimes. That being said, progression is relative. It changes from person to person. What I want out of my skating is a highly personalized thing. So it's possible that someone who skates more hours, does in fact progress more. But they also could be progressing less per hour, at a worse rate, or even not being as efficient as I might be. Because skating does feel taxing, especially on the plantar fascia for me. The muscles also need time to recover and put on mass, when you're jumping onto higher and higher stuff.
Sometimes progression is just doing a trick over and over and trying different stupid stuff until you figure out what works, that's almost like a interrogation. Because if someone could just tell you what you're doing wrong, or if you could review the footage, it would make life much easier lol. I hate reviewing footage while I'm in the zone, and most times I refuse to do it, so there's the extra investment of time when you learn going by 'feeling the board under you'. Instead of using a third-person perspective tool.
There's also instruction, if you don't know how to practice, then it's exponentially harder. Skaters actually do better with some light coaching, which cuts down on time needed for learning and recovering from injuries. I loved skating growing up, but I never had someone with more experience to coach me. The first time I found out a guy I grew up skating with was teaching kids, it was mind blowing. How come he never actually skated with us?! He was also at the park chasing the pros and getting better lol.
Oh yeah its absolutely an individual thing and everyone is different and I didnt mean My comments to be based on comparing yourself to anyone else after all (and quite selfishly my channel is all about Me 😂 ) But I do draw on some observations of some people who get down on themselves about not progressing while at the same time don't put the work in or others who assume that My progress albeit slow has somehow come to me easy. Age and agility also has a huge impact on the speed we can learn and or retain stuff which is what i was touching on in the video.
Reviewing footage is one thing but actually making your body do what you want it to even when you know very well what you are doing wrong and what you should be doing, this is where even coaching cant always help.
So yeah as with everything there are many many facets to consider and we can only pull from our own experiences and observations but thats why i thought it would be a good talking point.
@@NeilHesterSkateboarding I saw another one of your videos recently about the Dunk highs! I like those shoes, I skate dunks too a lot. And yeah, I like what you said about putting in more work than others and still not progressing sometimes haha. I think I compared myself to my friends growing up, but they'd just been doing it for much longer. I'm 33 now so I stopped skating for like 15 years at some point, and I feel much stronger (but definitely not newer) than I used to be in many ways. But if I'd never stopped, maybe progression would have come to me, perhaps. I really enjoy the pace of my skating now, though. It's better to not be the young guy, you wish you had the youth, but the experience is priceless! And yeah seeing footage doesn't always help! Sometimes you need to level up your skill a little bit, Hahaha.
At my age I am pretty strategic about how I conduct business. I've gotten into doing some squats (sets of 25) and stretches before skating, but I don't like doing them in public so I do them at home and I feel like it helps me when trying to do more difficult tricks than I have done before. Of course some food I might eat feels more sluggish while protein foods make me feel like it's all working, as I want it to. Also I drink like 2 glasses of water right before going out to be optimally hydrated (the muscles love this) and skating my best. But don't drink the water too early, it has to be at the door, or you'll be peeing by the time you get to the park lol ...Also, I get burned out on things but I already know that. I have only so much energy before old-man mode kicks in sometimes.
@@haroldcampos9661old man mode ? Oh you just wait, you have no idea what’s coming 😂
@@NeilHesterSkateboarding Yeah I guess that it’s gonna get worse. My health is getting sketchy though. But my habits are getting better, mostly. It could’ve been much better these past few years. Skating makes me feel like I’m running from it for sure… but I don’t wanna think about that!
I always blame myself for not skating enough, though. Mostly when I get hurt… I ask myself if I’m not focused enough, or if I’m only thinking I’m focused when I go skate. That’s probabl not wrong, I could probably make myself skate daily but that’s not where I’m at with everything else in my life at the moment.
But if I do skate too long in one day at my current state, and I get bruised enough, then I turn into a huge whiner and wanna go home lol But I usually find myself progressing.
I also hit my the outer edge of my knee the other day, or right below it, the little bone that you can feel below your knee to the side. It was on a manual pad, and I hate that it was my good one and now it’s all clicky. And the bone sticks out all ugly now lol. Swelling went down with the compression old bones thing. Then I smashed it into the ramp on a frontside kickturn like a noob… :(
It’s a humbling experience at times which is why it’s good for you 😉👊🏼
Absoluute truth. You cant just expect to pickup its gotta he familiar. Think about how much ams and pros skate to getwhere they are ability wise. Its cool if ypu dont wqnt that. I dont. But to be happy with progressing. . You gotta get uncomfortable the body will follow the mind. I can go on forever. Endless battle. "You never master skateboarding - mark hubbard
@@marissac870 yeah absolutely 👍🏻 you can’t ever learn enough, there’s always something else just around the corner. It does take me way longer to learn things but the reward worth it. I think I’ll get bored if I don’t keep learning new things and I think that might be partly why I gave up in the first place , I wasn’t pushing myself but I just didn’t realise it back then.
nice 50/50 that things huge
@@PipsClips thanks 👍🏻 it’s definitely a challenge but I’d really like to skate it more and get a bit more comfortable with it, I think it’ll help My vert ramp skating.
Hey Neil, are you still riding the SPFs? If so do you prefer them now? Or did you go back to the F4s?
@@CamSutton75 yeah I’m still on the SPF’s for all surfaces , I’m quite enjoying them and haven’t found a reason to change yet 👍🏻 thanks for reminding me I really need to make an update video!
@NeilHesterSkateboarding Cool, you're obviously finding them grippy enough then? No issues with the skinnier profile and less contact surface? I've gone through the same thing with F4 Conical Full 99s - had shelved them after a couple of slip outs but just gone back them after watching your video. I'm trying to give them a decent go now, but also considering trying some SPF. Thought I might give the 81b a go - slightly softer.
@@CamSutton75I think I had about a week of tentative use on wood where I felt like they might be very slightly slippy but I’ve totally adjusted to them now and don’t slip at all. I’m totally sure it’s down to technique more than anything else so I believe you can get used to anything within reason if you can feel how to adjust accordingly. I never found the spitfires slippery even on wood but just find the 60mm SPF’s that little bit faster on smooth concrete so have stuck with them for now.
@@NeilHesterSkateboarding In case you're interested, I just uploaded a video of my McGill flight deck setup. ua-cam.com/video/Zapuxwzdhh4/v-deo.html
@ cool, great job 👍🏻