Your Problem Could Be Mental
The Practice Session
You practice the beginning of tricks by beginningand practice the end of tricks by falling
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Watching skateboarders practice I get the feeling something's missing. It's like a movie that shows over and over on HBO but you always catch the start and have to leave. You never see the ending. They take off again and again. Trying and trying, and missing and missing.
I almost never see skateboarders break down a trick into beginning, middle, and end. Usally they just make a million attempts at the beginning and blow the end. Eventually they get damn good at the beginning, but they still don't complete it, start to finish. Is this you? Do you launch your tricks perfectly but have trouble wrapping it up?
I could excuse you for being a self taught athlete, but there's still no excuse. Skateboard magazines are filled with sequences, so the example is right there. But the sequence stops with the first panel, when most of you practice.
Here's the solution. Break it down. I know you've probably tried that, but take it a step further. Break it into three; beginning, middle, and end. What's more, forget the beginning for a while, start with the end first. Go from end, to middle, to beginning.
