I got my son a skateboard for Xmas, he’s only just turned 7, and hasn’t been doing any board sports before, within 3 days he can ride switch, prefers goofy, can jump of a 3 foot wall onto the board and skate on and seem to be really at home skating about. I was wondering if this is standard or maybe he has something special? And what I should do?
I’ve been skating, snowboarding, surfing since I was little, but never got as good at skating as he seems already. Super cool.
Just let him skate and enjoy it! Take him to spots and parks and show him some cool vids. At that age it might be cool just to see how he sticks with it.
I’m taking him to the skate park tomorrow, there are a few near me. I’ve showed the videos of him skating to a few mates who are into this kinda stuff and they seem to be amazed that he can do it that quick. I mean he’s probably only spent about 6 hours on the board.
I mean, not to lessen your hype on your sons ability but I teach skate lessons to similar kids and some of them learn to drop in on ramps within hours and can do similar stuff to your lad. I mean, he might have some incredible talent in the future but so far it’s pretty normal to be doing what he’s doing, some kids just have the knack and some dont!
Yeah, be supportive and while he’s at that age enable his new hobby but please do not turn into a coach dad, nearly every time it turns the kid into a vilified oddball, even if they turn out to be really good.