I love your videos! How you are dropped in. I used to race road bikes. I came up with this Mantra: “the result of structure is to establish a new pattern. Once the pattern is in your body, it thrives in an environment of intuition.” Polarities are powerfull, let part of your practice be expansion into polarities. And yet play with that. Try drilling in a movement over and over even if just 3-5 times. Then go back to full expression. Then back to a drill. I think the personal expansion and inner stretching / ability to do both is what creates greatness.
And by greatness that doesn’t have to look like the worlds best skater, it might surprise you how your personal brand of greatness comes thru. I mean pure expansion in our human experience. It might be as a skater or perhaps something entirely different related or not.
I'm the same as you. Often times I've got an idea what I want to learn when I go out, but it just kind of dissolves as I play around and get distracted. I feel like "grinding" out something can be counterproductive. Falling is never fun and my goal is to have fun while learning. So I sometimes figure out that in order to learn one thing, I need to first get better at another. For example with wizard moves I realised I need to get way better balancing on one foot backwards, both on center and outer edge. I try to find another angle to improve. For the internal hip rotation moves like soul slide etc I try to excersize my flexibility and balance in these positions while static before I get frustrated falling a bunch of times.
I love your videos! How you are dropped in. I used to race road bikes. I came up with this Mantra: “the result of structure is to establish a new pattern. Once the pattern is in your body, it thrives in an environment of intuition.” Polarities are powerfull, let part of your practice be expansion into polarities. And yet play with that. Try drilling in a movement over and over even if just 3-5 times. Then go back to full expression. Then back to a drill. I think the personal expansion and inner stretching / ability to do both is what creates greatness.
And by greatness that doesn’t have to look like the worlds best skater, it might surprise you how your personal brand of greatness comes thru. I mean pure expansion in our human experience. It might be as a skater or perhaps something entirely different related or not.
I'm the same as you. Often times I've got an idea what I want to learn when I go out, but it just kind of dissolves as I play around and get distracted. I feel like "grinding" out something can be counterproductive. Falling is never fun and my goal is to have fun while learning. So I sometimes figure out that in order to learn one thing, I need to first get better at another. For example with wizard moves I realised I need to get way better balancing on one foot backwards, both on center and outer edge. I try to find another angle to improve. For the internal hip rotation moves like soul slide etc I try to excersize my flexibility and balance in these positions while static before I get frustrated falling a bunch of times.