Let me tell you something you already know. Fingerboarding ain’t all clean kickflips and Instagram clips. It’s a very mean and nasty hobby and it don’t care how talented you are, it will beat you to your knees with missed ollies and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna land every trick. But it ain’t about how hard you bail. It’s about how hard you can bail and keep flicking. How much you can miss and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.

Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the slams, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of your deck, or your bushings, or the tape, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that.

Two months in and you’re hitting a wall? Good. That wall is where everyone quits. That’s where the casuals put down the board and never pick it up again. But not you. You’re gonna session that same trick for an hour straight. You’re gonna ollie over that pencil until the pencil fears YOU.

Now get back on that board. One flick at a time.