Originally Posted by MPerson
Try a four foot halfpipe or quarter pipe, those will improve your dropping in skills. Then u need to work on balancing with quick acceleration....also hard.
I'm starting on the smallest half pipe in the skate park.
Four or five feet.
Originally Posted by txhatch
The first time is the scariest, then you fall and say "hey that wasnt too bad". Just do it, if you get hurt oh well, you most likely wont. I've broken a lots of bones, pissed blood, and have to have my hip drained everyone now and then but wouldnt trade the times i've had skating for anything.
Everyone keeps telling me, "after you drop in for the first time and bust your shit, you just want to get up and do it again, and again, then you build confidence to try other things". I just need to loose common sense for a few seconds, just long enough for me to snap that nose down and cross my fingers.