Hey guys, do you struggle with learning a technical extreme sport?
I've made this video to help you based on my experience in 4 different extreme sports.
I think I have a pretty good overview of the important parts and I'm not keeping the secret
for myself.
Try these tips and see that they work.
This video will also give you motivation in case you're about to quit a sport.
So let's start.
I'll talk about independent things, this is not an agenda but I can sum up the video something
like this: You need knowledge and abilities, time and
if you manage these well, you will achieve anything.
I'll talk about these in way more details in a second, but to quickly overview:
Knowledge: is a prerequisite, don't start anything without this.
How to build up a solid knowledge?
Probably by using the internet, if you're lucky, talking to people in person.
Learn from the average of the tips you receive.
Watching only pros might deceive you, their technique can be so good, so their style hide
important details.
Extreme sports are relatively new.
The makers of the tutorials are not teachers.
Unless they taught 20 people of the same trick, there is a high chance that they forget something
from their tutorials.
For example There are no two identical tutorials for a webster on youtube.
This is the reason you want to make an average of the tips you hear, plus you need to understand
why something is working.
Time: Long term motivation tips will come here like
how to get friends to train with, because your knowledge worth nothing if you don't practice.
I'll also mention other hints like frequency of the trainings, games you can play and traveling.
It's hard to speak generally about extreme sports but I'll try get as close as possible
to provide you valuable tips.
Now, the details about: Knowledge and ability.
You need to understand the moves Logically, You need to train Physically,
You need to know Mentally, that you will succeed, fully commit when you
do it, and on a long term not to give up if you want to land something difficult.
All 3 are important, but the ratio can be different in each trick,
for example: mostly technical: a btwist.
A Physically hard one: jumping on a box with your 10+ kgs ski gear, which is on the other
hand technically and mentally easy.
A mentally hard one, but otherwise fairly easy example is a backflip.
Technical part To learn anything: you absolutely need to
understand what's going on (logically).
There is no guarantee that the tutorials can tell you the key points.
For example: You can't see the exact power, angle or other details that you need to understand
in order to execute a trick correctly.
It's your task to find these out and practice.
Eventually this is what you'll experience: Also watch tips from multiple people and create
an average in your head.
If you pay attention to guys with medium skills that can be also helpful.
Maybe you even spot a mistake on their technique.
All in all you need to be absolutely sure what's working and why.
If no expert is around you, you need to record yourself with a phone and compare your tries
to other clips to spot the mistakes.
If you don't monitor your technique, you might run into a dead end and practice forever without success.
Two important things about this.
First, compare set ups for a trick, small details like foot placement.
Use more than just one reference.
Secondly compare the tempo of the tricks, how much time you should spend in each phase.
These 2 are equally important.
Watch for your posture.
Recognize if you have some physical limitation to reach your goal, maybe you need more muscle
strength or stretch.
Then train those before you force landing a trick.
More details about harmful forcing in the commitment section.
You can also learn more about the tools you use.
I remember this was the board that skyrocketed my skill back then.
It was years later when I recognized I was using a w-concave narrow board which was very
easy to handle as a kid.
2 Physical part.
Your muscles need to develop for certain activities.
No shortcuts here.
They develop with different speed.
Sometimes you just need a couple of weeks to land something clean, but for example if
you start a frontflip from zero, you'll needs years because your core develops very slowly.
Additionally it takes 2-8 weeks for your muscles to actually grow, until that only your brain
registers the need.
It is advised to take a 2-3 days break per muscle before you continue with the strengthening exercises.
During that time your muscles will regenerate.
It's per muscle, so it's fine to do abs training on monday, then legday on tuesday.
Muscle memory: key takeaway: really without going too deep into this:
Your brain is super good on memorizing robotic movements.
If you learn it the wrong way it will be hard to correct.
What you can do is that you stop practicing difficult tricks when you're tired or the
conditions are not satisfying, like grass is too slippery or it's dark and you can't
see the landing.
You don't want to memorize any bad stuff.
Stretch after the trainings, for several reasons.
It's good for your muscles, good for your posture, and good for your style.
Believe in yourself, but be aware of your conditions.
Tricks are not legendary achievements, you will get anywhere safely if you practice consistently.
You can build everything from zero with baby steps, just find your weak points and be honest to yourself.
Is there something you can't do in a certain way?
You can try slower, safer then get confidence and make your way up.
3 When you commit.
Never underestimate the power of committing.
Typical example: the backflip.
You do need some core strength, but most importantly commitment.
As you progress in any sport, you try new and harder things, but only when you feel
ready to.
You should avoid skipping any steps.
It's different to be ready technically and mentally.
Quick story: I was practicing 50-50 grind when I was a kid.
Then a woman walked by and told me I'll break my neck.
Usual story so far, but next to the woman there was a child with down syndrome.
I saw that disabilities exist and I'll injure myself by my own will.
I couldn't land anything later on that day.
The opposite also works but more about that in the motivation section.
Here are my tips on how to overcome fear: Your self evaluation should match your skill
level (meaning: when you're not ready logically + physically, don't do it / on the other hand
when you're absolutely ready, don't fear doing it.)
You fall a couple of times, that give you confidence.
You can train anything, including safety falls.
You should try to learn by taking small steps, go for tricks which are not far from your
previous step, and still expect mistakes and falls.
If you decide to commit, don't change your mind in the middle.
You can change your mind right before executing, but if you started it, you need to finish
the move.
If you can't commit, you're not ready yet.
Which is fine, you need to work more on something from what I mentioned earlier.
I never injured myself doing btwists on ice with the correct technique, only when I didn't
fully commit.
I know you can't really commit when you try something for the first time right?
But that's why I told you to build from smaller steps.
If you understand these, it might save you from quitting a sport.
TIME Moving to the second big section, which is
time.
First a quick tip about the trainings, then a lot of motivational tips.
Sometimes you need repetitive training to learn something.
I mean real training.
For example freestyle skiers train a lot on trampolines, pools, big airbags.
What you see is a huge trick on the slope, but there is actually a lot of work behind it.
Sadly for some moves it's not enough to train once in a month.
You, can barely maintain your skill level with that so it will take forever to improve.
If you see you're struggling with a trick AND you're sure that your technique is correct,
then go for a 2-3 weeks intense training and you might be able to learn that trick in that
timeframe.
Now motivation.
People My personal number 1 motivation is people
that I send together with.
For me it's not about a goal that I want to achieve, it's the road that leads there with
these people.
You simply have to get mates you do your sport with.
And it's easier than you think.
Just walk up to these people and say, hey I really like what you're doing, can you help
me out with something.
Ask about when they practice.
Tell them maybe you join 1-2 times to get more help.
These are individual sports, you're not joining a football team or anything where you pull
back the team with your low skills.
If there is nobody around, just start it.
If everybody waited for others, no one would have done anything.
Social media can help you gather a team.
My first ice skating movie shows how we started back then.
I got negative critics that this was embarrassing and amateur, and truth is they were right,
but nothing really existed back then.
Thank god I didn't listen to these people and didn't stop freestyle ice skating.
What the community has become since then is astounding
Games Overlooked.
No, actually THIS is the way I started ice skating.
You join at any skill level any you have fun.
Games exist in all sports, for example game of skate, bboy battles, and I already made
2 ice skating game tutorials.
This is the reason for them.
A great way to have fun (and to learn).
I'm really curious what are your biggest motivation guys, maybe I missed something, so feel free
to share it with a comment.
I have some other things that can motivate you:
Traveling: you meet new people, see and even learn new tricks,
Watching pro videos before going out: I did it a lot when I was skateboarding, there is
a lot of content there, it can be a great help when you catch the feeling
Or listening music while you're doing your favourite sport.
for how long can you do extreme sports?
Well, I'm almost 32 and I'm better than ever.
Lastly, mindset motivation Whatever trick you're learning there is always
somebody who eats that for breakfast.
Don't compare your progress to others.
This is only about you.
Planning something risky?
Let your risk - gain ratio decide What do you risk for what benefit.
Does it worth it?
It's only you who makes the decision.
Fun scientific fact: wearing protective gear makes you braver.
Watch out for the clean technique even if something protects you.
Doing extreme sports is difficult everywhere.
These are too underground.
There are no dedicated places, no culture.
We have to accept these and force our way through.
It took me 2 or 3 years to find a gym where I can train now.
In fact the original script here was that I'm still searching, but just found one when
making this video.
We saw that style comes with hard work.
We need to train hard for some tricks, but don't let this disappoint you.
There is still a lot freedom in these sports.
It's not a must to do research and training, but it does help a lot if you shoot for results.
A couple of years already passed when a guy taught me how to stop the rotation on skis,
I wish I was searching for that information so much earlier.
Lastly, remember this.
Failure is not the opposite of success, its part of it.
The opposite is giving up or not even trying.
Than you guys who are still with me, I have a similar video for freestyle ice skaters
and a lot of other ice skating related stuff on my channel.
See you soon, have a nice icy day!
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