skating to free the mind
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- … by only trying moves that take +30 tries lol
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Skating is a psychotherapy, I totally relate with the mood part. For example when I come back from work, and my brain is a butter, I am feeling so tired, I am feeling that I just want to lay down on the couch and do nothing. However, what I've noticed is that from the moment that I will start tying my skates I start feeling already such a pleasure, a dopamine injection. So now, if I do not have to do anything more important and weather permitted I try to push myself to wear the skates and even just go for a relax stroll (and of course I always end up doing a non relax stroll 🙂). At the end I always feel so fulfilled and happy. Good job anyways, keep it up man ;-)
very well put. i really dislike it when people describe your situation in extreme terms, but you found good words. once you overcome that inner lazyness and have the skates on it’s all good
yooo the Christmas trees had me dying 😂you should make a reel out of that
Looks like someone's seasoning some fuel for a halfpipe bonfire!
First time I’ve seen your channel. Great skating and fun accompanying “practice commentary”. It’s a great format.
I’m an instructor in the UK and I can’t help but try to offer a technique tip when I watch someone’s video because it came to me as I watched your jump onto the box, 360 fakie (awesome btw) and then fakie jump off the box in the earlier part of your video.
If you want to end it fakie off the box, you will need to stop the rotation you created for the fakie 360 on the box. Watch the position of your left arm and shoulder when you land. It’s usually way behind your back and is also causing you not to do the landing linearly. If after the 360 you could point your left arm at the box (the direction you approached from) and kept it pointing there as you hold the fakie tuck position and then hop off the box, still pointing your left arm at the box. I think that would stop the rotation and make the fakie landing easier and more straight. Give it a go if that makes sense. With advanced skaters I’m all about correcting the upper body which is usually responsible for subtle issues which can frustrate us.
Love your skating though. Great job!
thank you for the detailed input, i’ll definitely try that! i think one reason i couldn’t focus much on the upper body is that i was distracted by the crossed feet motion. i did get it with a regular fakie off the box before on the first attempt when i didn’t cross my feet, that’s why i figured that was the reason i couldn’t hold it.
@@witzemann_twg That makes sense. The brain is needed for those ore complex foot positions. I always say skating is a "brain splitting exercise". We need part of our brain on our feet, another part focussing on our upper body, another on the head etc etc.... It's a juggle of focussing attention t multiple things. Total Brain Gym!
We evolved for millennia hunting, running and climbing to survive on a daily basis. When we get back to movement it’s connecting us to this long line of natural, intuitive movement in human history.
The current period of human history where we have a choice not to move is so small, it makes perfect sense why our mental health gets better when we move back into what we know best.
Skate, run or climb to feel better! Thanks for your thoughts on the matter 🙏
very true! thanks for your input on this too :) if you wanna stay in touch with everything i’ll be more active on patreon, you can join for free just so there’s an own forum www.patreon.com/witzemann?
I can totally relate to this. Winter months are so depressing 😢 you need to find some indoor skatepark, or skate in car-parking spaces. It's not the same, but it helps a lot
I enjoyed the explanation of the leg-wrap trick and what you were envisioning for it vs. what was happening. It seems like both legs being tight to the axis of rotation cranked up the spin factor like a figure skater! Also it seems we're borrowing the literal ICE from figure skating these days too, as I'm skating in sub-freezing temps here as well. ☃Cheers to sunnier days ahead!
impressed with your motivation to wizard alone at the skatepark in that cold :D wish I could find other people around me to share the sessions. I always found that skating with others brings new ideas, helps to find new lines, new tricks vocabulary and pushes the limits. Cool vid as usual, really motivational, keep it on!
same here but the week off really got me hyped to skate no matter what :) that’s also why i’m trying to do more patreon now, where it should serve as a platform to share everyone’s experiences.
not to do just patreon promo but just so you know you can join for free, as sort of a forum :) www.patreon.com/witzemann?
That's so true especially if you are sharing the same willingness of improving and push a bit more every time.
Thanks for the inspiration, Michael! Skating helps my mood a lot!
Many years ago, I took up ice skating during an extremely stressful time of my life. Skating saved me from completely losing it.
I'm getting into wizard skating once winters over and your vids keep me inspired 👍
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when you come to Santiago de Chile??🎉😊
Would be cool to hear a little more about your thesis and perhaps how you can tie that into skating, or vice versa. I've been watching a bunch of Dylan Johnson, a cycling/sports science guy, and he's got a bunch of super nerdy videos covering research around training, health and wellbeing in relation to cycling. would be cool to hear your perspective!
can you elaborate the whole thesis thing? i haven‘t seen dylan johnsons videos but that does sound interesting, i think i never spent much thought in that area yet :)
yess love the wizard sessions
Blue bird 😎
Rivet
i hope that was the right word
Loved the way you edited it in there.
you gotta setup you would reccomend ik dumb but its been sooooo long since ive skated but im prlly gonna rock some 80mm freestyle but idk what brand is worth buying? thanks in advance
i say if you have a skateshop somewhere close to where youre located its really worth trying a few options in person to see what fits best. if you look just for frames and you wanna cruise around more id recommend some metal frames. my biased take would be the powerslide next 90mm setup, which is non ufs and pretty much perfect for a standard big wheel setup. if you wanna customize id say any ufs suitable (preferably metal) frame and your boot of choice. hard to explain all in one comment lol
How are you finding the advanced frames? Think you'll stick with them?
looks like it, but i definitely wanna switch wheels in order to have a cleaner setup
Is there any possible chance to do well wizard skate on normal aggresive frame?
it’s definitely possible to do wizard moves on an aggressive setup but from experience it feels less flowy and almost always it feels forced. the more you have a banana rocker on your aggressive setup the easier it gets but i haven’t gotten to the point where it would be comparable
If it gives you too much momentum, why not go with it instead of fighting it? Maybe try to NOT pull your back foot from behind your calf at the end at just continue the spin to a forward rollout instead of this continued into the fakie setup/rollout? It appears to me that it might also look smoother (and maybe it will feel smoother) to just treat it like a 540 gazelle spin (or some crazy name).
Also, you aren't wrong on the whole feel better and less jaded/pissed-off after skating thing. I go so far as to say that either all or almost all pains I have vanish when I lace up, granted, they come right back shortly after I'm done skating though, but I do have a more laid back POV after skating.
Another thought, I think gazelles, lions and slides have a tad more meaning across other types of skating than heel presses and toe presses. One can toe-press on almost any type of skate, but try lionX's on an aggressive frame - much harder.
the idea was to find the right movement to stop the momentum and have a smooth feeling and i think i can get there, already got some solid input, but i see where you’re going :) and good insight in the toe/heel vs other wizard moves!