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Week 610/27/2021 This whole time I have been skating on the road since there is no pavement near my house and the road is the most flat place I could find. There are three problems I have with it though... the first problem is that my driveway is pretty long so I have to walk about a quarter of a mile I think (I don't really have a good concept of distance) to get to the road. The second problem is that falling onto the road hurts really bad. I mean falling on a hard surface is of course going to hurt but there is small rocks and stuff just lying around and that just adds to the pain. The final problem is that cars are going up and down the road so I have to listen very carefully so that I don't get ran over. I am thankful that my road is concrete and not like a dirt road or something. Aside from my troubles with where I skate I have noticed some improvement with my ollie. Honestly I have been really burned out with ollies and have grown a hatred for them but they're still very fundamental to skating so it's something that I'm going to have to just get better at no matter how much I hate doing it.
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Week 510/20/2021 I have grown a hatred for ollies and really do not like even attempting them so to distract myself I learned to shuv (pretty much making the board go 180 without pop) and I landed it on the first day and that made me really motivated to keep getting better. The next day I went out and I was doing really bad it was making me mad so I gave up after like 30 minutes but now I think I'm motivated enough to start practicing again. I'm a little sore right now so hopefully that doesn't make anything difficult and if it does I'll just go easy for a few days. I want to get a new board for Christmas though because the one I have I got off of Ebay three years ago and it was already pretty beaten up then. I think building my own board will be really fun so I'm excited for Christmas so come around so that I can do that.
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Week 410/16/2021 A recent problem I've come across is that when doing an ollie I get barely any pop. I asked my friend and he just said to jump but thats what I've been doing so it wasn't very helpful. But actually pushing the board is getting way more comfortable now and I'm not losing my balance quite as much as I was before. I just want to start getting faster and I think I'll be satisfied. I also looked at some local skateparks and the best one seems to be one in Lexington. I don't plan on going to a skatepark yet though because I feel like I'll be a little intimidated by the other people there. I think I'll go when I can do an ollie, kickflip and pop shove it since those are the basics.
( I also made a section to post videos now so you can see what I'm doing)
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Week 310/6/2021 The weather and me being sick made it really hard to practice but I did as much as I could. I first started with trying out some of the tips my friend gave me and it made it a little harder but at least I am doing it the right way now. On Saturday though I was doing really bad and kept falling so I got a little discouraged. I want to slow down a bit and instead of working so much on my ollie I think I want to get more comfortable actually pushing the board because thats why I've seen myself struggling with the most.
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Week 210/3/2021 Although I wasn't able to practice much this week, I made a lot of progress. I'm more comfortable pushing the board while its moving and can go a good controlled speed. My ollie is also getting better and I actually managed to get the board off the ground. I got some tips from a friend and so I'm going to start practicing doing what he said to. My goal for next week is to be able to cruise faster because I think I'm going a little too slow at the moment.
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