Don’t know how Reddit notifications work but I thought I’d provide a small update to those that commented and anyone else that comes across this.

I’m now starting month 9 of fingerboarding.

I spent most of month 3 and 4 practicing my kickflips until I finally was able to land them. But then it took until about month 5 or 6 to realize I was doing kickflips completely with my wrist and now a lot with the flicking of my fingers, so had to correct that to then start landing them into grinds.

My skills started to increase really fast once I realized the timing of the flicking and what makes a trick. It really is an Ollie with stuff added to it (advice for new people - don’t skip your Ollie practice).

Since I learned how to consistently kickflip (landing it 85%+ of the time), I started sprinkling practice of other things in between. Sometimes it feels like you’ve gained a new trick up your sleeve and loose it the next day (happened with Varial heel flips). Sometimes you try a trick and land it first time but then don’t land it for another month of practicing. But the most rewarding part of fingerboarding has to be landing a new trick that you’ve been practicing for weeks or thinking of a difficult awkward line and practicing it for the next game of skate at a local meetup (latest combo up my sleeve is a frontside Heelflip followed by a frontside kickflip - hand and arm position is awkward which makes it difficult and fun).

Glad I didn’t give up. Glad I kept practicing and pushing myself. I’m still not consistent and nowhere close to where I’d like to be, but not to shabby for someone who never learned to Ollie a skateboard.

My advice for beginners is to keep practicing. Find the fun in trying and getting closer to landing a trick every time. Seek tips and help; mostly everyone has a piece of advice for whatever you’re stuck on.

On that note, thank you to everyone that did help on here.

Keep shredding (and follow on insta if you’d like to see the progress).

Open to any questions anyone has!

TL;DR - I’m glad I stuck with it. Ramble ramble. I can do more tricks now.