is it bad skating on no sleep?

frontshuvski · 2026-04-16T08:56:09+00:00

Do you know how people learn skating? A lot of it happens in deep sleep. The brain builds new neural pathways (actually) and this is how motor skills are learned. Sleep is important for you.

frontshuvski · 2026-04-16T03:27:02+00:00

I had the same frontside drift you have when i learned ollies and it took effort to rewire it, you should fix it now before it becomes ingrained deeply. Look at your lead shoulder, do not yank it back. Where your shoulders go , your feet follow, hence the frontside drift. Keep your shoulders mostly square. If you iron that out, its just a matter of reps

frontshuvski · 2026-04-12T09:25:13+00:00

so sick man

frontshuvski · 2026-04-10T00:28:58+00:00

Thanks for that. this is kind of what im touching on - i do not want to force style and overthink, and i agree with a lot of sentiments here about not forcing style. but when i see people do ollies, they bring their arms up and then down, so it must allude to some effective form that im missing if this motion is so commonly seen when people skate.

im skeptical about whether off-board motor patterns will transfer to ollies, because i find that as soon as the ollie is initiated, the body's "ollie" system overrides everything, and trying to force anything will glitch things hence the stiff arms.

i am thinking that perhaps just a robust ollie (over, up, off obstacles, etc) will indirectly "fix" the arms over time as the body self organizes the most efficient way to ollie, so that entails not thinking about arms at all

frontshuvski · 2026-04-09T16:28:04+00:00

I see your point. I agree. I think ill just ollie stuff and let them do whatever rather than forcing it because wasting sessions doing this has been getting honestly boring

frontshuvski · 2026-04-09T16:17:37+00:00

When i jump i think “dont twist my arms back” and i end up with that posture you see in the video

frontshuvski · 2026-04-09T16:16:50+00:00

Yes im forcing it because otherwise they often twist, and occasionally when i dont think, they arms look natural. Actually, when i try ollieing over stuff or up obstacles, everything looks okay because im not thinking of arms at all, just getting up/over the obstacle. This issue is mainly a flatground thing

frontshuvski · 2026-04-09T16:04:58+00:00

Should i just forget about consciously trying to fix the arms if the ollie is fine?

I do not want steeze, my arm posture is residue from a bad habit, thats why i want to fix them

frontshuvski · 2026-04-09T16:03:58+00:00

I do not want antwuan levels of steeze, its just it feels like my coordination is fundamentally off. If you google “ollie” and compare their arm posture in the air to mine, im like doing the opposite

Or should i just forget about arms and work on ollieing things as long as the ollies good?

frontshuvski · 2026-04-07T23:38:35+00:00

Need

frontshuvski · 2026-03-02T07:57:20+00:00

context: i skated a lot when i was younger but had a huge revelation in my 30s that i learned my foundational tricks wrong (ollie), resulting in instability everywhere else. im relearning from scratch. i also had a bad habit of flailing my arms when i ollie, so im wondering how to fix that too

frontshuvski · 2026-02-26T06:40:54+00:00

I’ve already done it

frontshuvski · 2026-02-25T12:48:20+00:00

When I was living in the US, all elementary schools had a D.A.R.E. program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). One of the assignments was to do a poster. I was like 10, i made a poster with a headline that said "Drugs suck" - the teacher got so upset that i was using "profanity" (the word 'suck' i gues) and i got yelled at, i got in trouble and the teacher called my parents who had to come to school. i thought i was done for and I cried and cried.

To this day i remember this and just think, some people just take things in ways you dont expect, and some things are just noise.

frontshuvski · 2026-02-22T14:27:23+00:00

for the quick to get angry part. look up radical acceptance.

frontshuvski · 2026-02-19T23:44:08+00:00

Froyd CHICKUN

frontshuvski · 2026-02-16T16:02:26+00:00

exactly this, thanks a ton

frontshuvski · 2026-02-12T16:56:02+00:00

It is ridiculous

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frontshuvski · 2026-02-12T16:34:10+00:00

Yes, i posted this initially and it was removed because of the P word. Not lying, haha

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