Maybe it’s not too late? Just 5050 loads of curbs and really mellow ledges and build some confidence back? Crooked grinds are a good one to play with too, you can grind them but jump away easily if you get scared.
I had solid Smith grinds when I was a kid and stopped doing them in my late 20s for some reason and now I’m super scared of trying them, frontside and backside.
In the spirit of this thread, I have no idea how to get out of regular crooked grinds going to forwards. Can go to fakie, can shove, 3 shove 
, bigspin etc. Can pop out of “fakie” switch frontside and backside versions (never switch ollied in, only ever 180 or fakie ollie) but regular crooks to forwards? Not a hope in hell, either mid ledge or off the end. Whatever I do, no matter how fast or slow, the board always half flips. I’ve had everyone show me how. “You just bump it forwards.” It doesn’t work.
Yeah, I fifty stuff here and there.
And kerbs, I don’t even think about. That’s fine.
It’s just ones where I have to pop above knee height. All of a sudden, its game over.
I used to be able to jump into things and play around with it a bit but now, I just roll past.
Hhmmm, I was gonna give you the same piece of advice as everybody else, just bump it forwards. Can you sit on the grind though? Might be a weight distribution problem, maybe you’re not on top of the ledge enough? That’s how it sounds to me.
Yeah, can hold it until it stops if I want. TBF it could be because I did noseslides for years before I learned crooks and sit on them pretty much the same and so my brain just goes “turn out like a nose slide” and overrides everything else.
Fuck it, there are other tricks.
I can relate to that, I’m definitely more comfortable on low ledges, I’ll stick to my go-to tricks on knee height ledges and then even some of those scare me mildly, like frontside 5-0s for example.
Absolutely.
Crooked grinds feel really good though. 
As long as I can mayday and front rock I have “the feels” wrapped up.
Word. Maydays feel extremely good and we’re definitely gonna keep those for a while as they don’t require much effort unlike 360 flips for example.
Pretty sure I retired the 360 flip a while ago. I should have probably marked the occasion selling it as an NFT…
I had a similar thing. Broke my ankle in my 20s olling a gap the when I recovered I was scared to do front 50s and front 5.0. Backside was fine but frontside still seems scary as shit.
I rarely skate anywhere other than a local curb spot and The Mini House. On the odd occasion I go somewhere I’m not intimately familiar with (I.e. one of those two places) it takes me ages to adapt and I get bummed and feel (even more) useless.
Hear that one!
No boardslide or lipslide on anything ever after the first ever attempt on a metal girder that was liked iced marble and led to a twatted head and cracked tailbone.
Never done stairs beyond 2-3 steps, or any rail ever.
Typical mini ramp was: drop in, rock fakie, tail stall, kick turn, rock fakie, tail stall, repeat until a bailed Ollie fakie.
Never done a nose or crook grind of any kind apart from f/s 180 fakie nose grind on curbs.
Equally no nose manual of any kind ever apart from f/s 180 to fakie nose manual.
Skating is so fucking fickle/hard.
Cannot pop my board backside very well at all. I can squeak a bs 180, but pop shuvits, 360 flips etc have/will always elude me.
Most of my best skateboarding has very much been a one and once only situation.
My bs axle stalls/grinds are terrible. I can never get on top of them and feel like I’m doing them probably.
Regardless of how good a bs rock and roll looks, it has always felt terrible to me.
The bump is just a little nollie out, I always stand on top while grinding then dip it right at the end to get the pop out to move it away from the ledge. Best way to learn the pop out is do it mid ledge but basically just bonk it I reckon, ollie in dip straight away and use the motion to pop out.
And roll away clean
I can never go in backwards on a ramp. Ive got a fair few circus trick. But only rock fakie to backwards.
Skateboards hate him. Land 30 nollie flips in an afternoon with this one simple trick!
Was going to say this. Every time I try to ollie into a nose manual, I snow plough. Have never worked out how to properly balance nosegrinds either.
