Never learned a single switch trick, even switch ollies. Or nollies. I did everything fakie instead.
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I’m 47 and refuse to see myself in my twilight years, but when the youngling at the park asks if I need an ice pack after a slam, I should probably say yes…
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Unashamedly.
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I have tried so many times and one day after talking with someone who does them, I unlocked nollie flips, all of a sudden they were easy and my god I had them good, popped and caught. I did them for a solid 30 mins at the end of a session at derby Storm and then the next time I tried them I was back to square one. It wasn’t a dream because I have had those, one recently actually.
I think due to injury, my back leg is weak and apprehensive so 50-50s on ledges are hard work and hard to aim, i’d much rather go straight for a nosegrind over anything else on a ledge.
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(Nearly) 46, lying to myself that I’m skating better than ever, only realise my age when I see the old man wearing my clothes in footage. Fuck it, I can do boardslides, rock and rolls and rock fakies 
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Heelflips are the best. Nothing to be ashamed of
How you gonna lead with this and not tell us the secret!
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He forgot what it was 
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because I lost them just as easy and the advice stopped working. I know exactly how to do them but my back leg won’t agree to implement. Once it does, like it did that day maybe 20 years ago i’d say that they are easy tricks.
It’s dead easy, just don’t flick and put your foot down like every non nollie flipper does. You simply make your back foot flick and lift and all of a sudden it snaps to your feet.
Honestly, they are so easy but for some reason none of us let ourselves do this simple thing, we just carry on flicking down and leaving it down, landing front foot perfectly.
I think I could make myself do it if I was forced but I don’t like not landing things so 5 tries and i’m bored.
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Yeah I do the flicky down thing. I try them every now and again and they ruin my session because it all feels so alien
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exactly, we all try them for a few mins and then think fuck off and just do what we know.
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Haha, yeah it’s rough.
It’s the wooden old man legs that make me a bit sad. Nursing a sprained ankle at the moment so I’m praying that I’ve not lost too much by the time I can skate again. Really missing skating with the yoot.
I was always terrible at flip tricks but I had a whole bag of heel flip variations that I could get very close to landing and I would regularly throw these down things, particularly when skating in front of people I didn’t know, to make myself look better than I actually was.
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I tore my calf at the beginning of October (right before we had that lovely Indian Summer). Trying to get back onto it in the middle of winter has been tough - as much psychologically as anything else. Genuinely did consider, for the first time, that I might actually be too old.
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You can do backside Smith grinds but you can’t do a frontside 5050?
Man I feel like I’m on acid reading your posts today.
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One 360 flip ever.
Have pissed about and feel like I’ve done most flip tricks and had a minute of doing nollie flips but I’ve never, ever done a switch flip or switch frontside flip. I can’t even make a switch frontside flip look like the trick I am trying.
I broke my arm when I was about 32 skating mini ramp. Was out for 7 months. Returned to skating and the first site I saw was a kid break his wrist on a ledge at Mile End.
I really, really, really struggle to do anything but noseslides on ledges since. All I can think of is missing and whipping out grinding. And never, ever just dealt with it.
I should have and it bums me out.
Oh I can’t do bs smiths anymore. This was a long time ago. But yeah, I would favour a bs smith over a fs 5050 
I know how stupid that sounds
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I get the smith idea. There is a lock to push yourself off of the ledge if it is going wrong.
A fifty fifty doesn’t have that.
I think that’s actually the case for a fair amount of people. I see people who can do tricks like SSBSTS but struggle to do a proper frontside nosegrind or a lipslide or something basic. Same with switch 360 flips. I see people doing good ones but their frontside or backside 180s on flatground are terrible. I don’t know, maybe people focus on cool tricks too much and forget the basics.
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Thought that when I was getting up off the floor at the start of the year. 4ft to flat on a fucking b/s axle stall. Knee still hurts 5 weeks later 
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