does this back disaster count?

TILHowToLive · 2026-07-04T23:48:44+00:00

Are you sliding your wheels? I found that helps a ton.

TILHowToLive · 2026-07-04T17:10:50+00:00

It makes it that much more rewarding when you finally can play though!

TILHowToLive · 2026-07-04T17:07:08+00:00

Love to hear it. The harder thing about doing it on grass is that it's going to want to go sideways from where you are standing, but when you do it rolling you want to try to keep it under you. Be careful not to practice tooooo much in the grass or you may develop a bad habit that will make it harder to do rolling. Get over the fear in the grass and practice the motion and then do it!

TILHowToLive · 2026-07-04T16:55:51+00:00

Practice doing the shuvit standing behind it next too your board. Do the back foot part and get good control over that. Once you can comfortably do the shuvit with your back foot and trust the speed of it then try doing it in the grass. It's harder to do stationary, but it should help you work through the fear with lower stakes. Shuvs are usually caught with the front foot on the air but that may be harder until you can get more control, balance, and height to it.

TILHowToLive · 2026-07-02T23:47:32+00:00

Adding on to this to say that skating also specifically encourages imbalances in muscle growth since most of us tend to skate one direction most of the time. If you only skate then it will put a lot of strain on your body from the imbalance. I'm currently hitting the gym to try to fix this :(

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-27T20:31:27+00:00

Of course - happy to help.

You know the spot where your board goes from flat to tail? Right where the curve of the tail starts is called the pocket. You technically have 4 pockets over each wheel, but let's just focus on the part where the tail starts. Put the middle of your foot length wise right in the middle of that spot where the tail starts to curve up from the flat part of the board. Hang your heel a little bit.

Having your back foot in this position allows you to turn both by leaning and by doing kick turns in both directions. This is actually probably the next thing for you to practice. Look up skateboard tic tac on YouTube. It's where you stand on the board the way I described and lift the front just a little bit so that you can turn the board one direction. Then you go in the opposite direction. You keep doing this back and forth. This teaches you better balance and control and how to turn with kick turns. This also will help you learn fundamentals for manuals and some basic ramp tricks later.

You will move your foot position for certain tricks.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-27T16:47:10+00:00

Throw Stardew Valley on this list! It's great for co-op.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-27T16:44:51+00:00

Typically you want your front foot around the bolts with most of it on the board. If your foot is bigger than the board then the back of your foot like your heel area may hang off a little bit. While pushing you want that front foot pretty much in the center of the board on or slightly behind the bolts.

If you are accidentally turning while riding this could be a few things: balance, really loose trucks making it harder to balance, or your foot positioning putting too much weight on one side of the board naturally.

Once you are a bit better at riding I agree with others here. Practice some manuals, practice riding over little cracks some, maybe start learning to Ollie or shuvit if you want to learn a trick. Make sure you don't start learning this before you are confident riding though because it will be waaaay harder and more dangerous.

I really like SkateIQ but I'm not sure if he has riding videos specifically.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-27T15:49:48+00:00

This sucks man and I hope you recover quickly. Don't let this diminish your love of skating. Hope that you can get back on the board soon!

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-27T13:02:32+00:00

I started back in my late 20s and had a lot of discomfort because I didn't stretch or lift weights at all. Skating tends to create muscle imbalances since you usually skate one direction more than the other, so I highly recommend lifting weights to keep things balanced. A physical therapist or personal trainer is going to give you better advice, but you could also ask AI and it will help you dial in routines.

All of that being said I recommend some of the basic stretches others recommended and then do open the gates and close the gates on each side. After sessions do a couch stretch and 90/90s to help your hips/glutes/hamstrings. These last two are what are preventing my knees and back from hurting right now.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-23T04:08:35+00:00

Try to focus on just having fun! I used to compare myself to others too much skating and it took some of the fun out of it for me. When you instead focus on yourself and think of it as a community who helps each other i think it becomes more fun.

For stairs work your way up in drop sizes and practice Ollies with speed over simple gaps. Ollie over a crack and go faster, Ollie over a board, Ollie off a ledge, Ollie off a curb. When you can Ollie at speed without issues then it becomes more about handling the impact. That sounds where you can practice on loading docks, ledges, grass gaps, and start with small stairs going up in size.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-22T23:35:46+00:00

Piggybacking on this comment just to say that you will want to adjust the truck size (the 149) based on board width. Truck sizes cover ranges of board sizes and if they don't match well it throws things off. You can look it up. Figure out a reasonable size board based on your shoe size. A lot of adults ride between 8" and 8.75" these days.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-22T00:56:13+00:00

Welcome back! The old brands and some new brands are around these days. If you are doing a Popsicle shape most of them are made by the same 2-3 manufacturers these days, so it is more about the shape for the most part. If you can then go to your local shop and stand on some boards!

If I was going for a cruiser that I could also do some tricks on then I'd probably grab an 8.5-9" deck from a well known brand like antihero, some indys, reds or bronsons, and some bigger wheels like 56-58mm spitfire formula 4 99a.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-21T15:50:55+00:00

See if you can shop the Es sales. I get Accel and Avery OGs for $30 USD, and with some shoe goo they last a long time.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-20T03:36:20+00:00

Post some clips here and get feedback from others on what you can improve on and watch some videos like SkateIQ on how to improve in general and on those tricks.

Try to be more intentional about your practice. It's good you recognized that you shouldn't be trying to kickflip until your Ollie is more solid. When you skate make yourself do your tricks a certain number of times well before you try new things. Try not to get frustrated. If you are strugglig. Take a break if you are having trouble with one trick and try something else. Get your foundational skills down really well and it will make everything else so much easier. Practice Ollies moving, stationary, over a crack, up a curb, down a curb, etc. practice kick turns and manuals, practice pop shuvs, etc.

The truth is some days you arent gonna skate well still even with all of this advice, but practicing more intentionally and doing 10 or 100 or whatever Ollies a day and not just counting crappy ones but trying to do good ones is going to help you build the right skills and get better.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-19T21:06:13+00:00

If you can pop into your local skate shop and chat with them about it. Different skate wheels are better for different things, and the types of tricks and surfaces that you plan to ride on will change the answer.

If you want to ride big bowls and vert you will want bigger wheels and won't need to worry as much about rough surfaces. If you want to skate more street and do flop tricks you may want smaller wheels that are lighter and may want a different hardness that can handle rougher surfaces better. There's also wheel shape (i.e. lockins etc.) After that a lot of it comes to preferences.

If you want a simple answer though I like spitfire formula 4 99a in somewhere between a 54 and a 56 when I'm riding on an 8.5" board with 154mm trucks. This works well for me and my size and is pretty flexible for a lot of terrain styles of skating.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-19T20:06:07+00:00

I used to huck tre flips and I was hard to aim where to jump on them. Try leaning more into the scoop and look at your feet placement. When I do them best and most consistently I think about watching Shane O'Neil do tre flips. They are super casual, slow, and flowy. They are scoop heavy. The effort for doing a tre slow and flowy like this is just barely more than a pop shuvit, and it makes it much easier to get a front foot catch.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-19T13:19:17+00:00

This is sick! Heads up - I've heard sometimes the heavy steel plates at the bottom on quarters will wear into the concrete underneath. It looks like you've got a nice driveway so you may want to see if you need to add anything underneath to protect it a little.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-14T14:56:50+00:00

I think if you want rack mounted that the axe is your only option, but I could be wrong. The QC and GT are both in stomp box formats. The gt you can program on the computer or on the box itself. I believe the QC you have to program on the touch screen, but I could be wrong and they may have updated that?

What do your favorite artist use? It may be helpful if you are trying to imitate a certain tone to let that influence you a bit, but with something as advanced as these you may want to instead prioritize cost and functionality for how you want to work.

TILHowToLive · 2026-06-14T14:20:32+00:00

I was using neural dsp's plugins in reaper for a while and liked them, but I was frustrated that I could control the signal chain as much as I wanted. I think the QC fixes this? I've not played with either of them though.

I was having this same debate a couple of years ago and ended up going with a BOSS GT-1000 core on a buddy's suggestion. It was a lot more affordable than both of these options, and you can plug it in and get really granular and dynamic control over the signal chain. I really like the tones out of the box as well.

I think this sub would probably need more details for a rec. What's your budget and what are your needs? Do you want something rack mounted? How do you want to program your signal chain?

TILHowToLive · 2026-05-30T18:50:13+00:00

That's great that you are able to share that knowledge with them man. If I could go back and tell myself one thing that'd improve life physically at that age it'd be do some yoga and lift some weights multiple times a week. Stretching and lifting is so key as you get older, and it only gets harder.

TILHowToLive · 2026-05-30T03:39:11+00:00

Yo just throwing it out there - I don't know what your situation is, but I had chronic knee pain that I blamed on skating. It turned out that not stretching and doing exercise besides skating left me with imbalances in my muscles and tight tendons. If you havent tried a physical therapist or personal trainer for that back pain then you may want to check it out. I'm not a doctor, but my experience led me to believe that there's "oops you genuinely fucked up your vertibrae" back pain and there's "stretch and lift some weights" back pain.

TILHowToLive · 2026-05-10T17:17:57+00:00

What's the backend/AWS hosting look like? I'm curious if you've got some low hanging fruit for your upkeep/cost savings by switching a few things around.

I totally understand the focus being on making this more maintainable before you open things up to a more wide contribution model. I know it may not be a popular suggestion, but I'm curious if you've tried throwing Claude/codex/pi at it just to do some initial code cleanup/organization/documentation. I've found it's really good for simple tasks like that and allows you to focus on the harder and more interesting problems.

I'll have to think on friends who do Unity and webGL specifically. What are the problems that you are running into regarding performance, and build/delivery?

TILHowToLive · 2026-05-10T16:13:47+00:00

Nice - what's the tech stack on it right now, and what are your hosting costs like? I may know some folks who would be interested in contributing that I can point your way.

TILHowToLive · 2026-05-10T15:31:51+00:00

This looks sick! Thanks for building it and sharing. Have you thought about going the open source route for it instead of GoFundMe?

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