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Week 1011/29/2021 I brought my skateboard to Thanksgiving and taught my cousins how to do a few tricks. This made me realize what I want to do for my final presentation. I think I'm going to make a video showing how to do an ollie and just my basic knowledge on it. I know that my ollie is far from perfect but I definentily know how it is supposed to be done. It's one of those easier said than done type of things. I think doing this will show that I have good knowledge and have learned more about skateboarding and will be a good project. Anyways, lately I have been wanting to attempt a kickflip. My ollies have been getting progressively higher and easier to do. Well not exactly easier to do since I have to put so much power into just one but I mean eventually it will be easier. I think a kick flip is the next step up. I haven't been able to ollie while moving though. I've tried and everytime the board ended up flying under my feet and I just go fustrated and haven't attempted it since then. I might try it again next week.
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Week 911/21/2021 This week I focused a lot on my ollies because, as I've mentioned before, they make me really mad. They are starting to feel more "right" but I still don't really know what they look like because I am way too scared to record myself in the fear that it will reveal that there is nothing really different about my ollies and its just my mind telling that. I will one day overcome that fear and hopefully not disapoint myself in the process. I also am more comfortable pushing the board and better with my balance now which is good.
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Week 811/10/2021 I really only went out to skate once this week if I'm going to be honest so there isn't really much to talk about. But that one time I did skate I felt like my ollie was better but everytime I record myself it looks bad. But I figured out how to fix a bit of why its not looking right. I have to slide my right foot more but its easier said than done. I'm not really in control of what my feet are doing mid air so its hard but next week I plan on skating way more since it won't be as busy of a week. I also need to practice just riding the board. The road I skate on doesn't really have the best pavement so it makes it 10 times harder but I'll manage.
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Week 711/7/2021 This week I tried mainly focusing on my ollie (although it is my least favorite thing to do ever and I've probably never hated doing something more in life than doing ollies) since it IS very fundamental thing to know how to do if I want to do anymore complex tricks in the future. So as I mentioned in previous blogs, getting the board high has been my main problem so I looked up some videos to help with that. One video said to tap the tail of the board with your foot so you know what the pop feels like. So I did as the video said and the board barely even lifted off the ground. Eventually I kept hitting the tail of the board harder with my foot in attempt to make it go higher but it still barely even went an inch. Then I started to think about it.. my board was bought for like 30 dollars off of Ebay there is no way that the board is the best quality. I'm not trying to say like "its entirely the boards fault" but that also is kind of what I'm saying. There are definitely things I could get better at when it comes to my ollie but I'm not going to beat myself up over not having as much pop anymore. Hopefully around Christmas I can get a better quality board.
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