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@Leo Gura Ah that's really good insight, thanks. Sometimes I watch slow motion videos and visualize myself in the video doing the trick. If I visualize practicing in my head, how do I know if I'm doing a trick right without the feedback of physics? I could be developing a wrong way to do it.

@Slade interesting, I thought the 20/80 refers the amount of time spent on something In this case, I might or might not already have found my 20%. For the past year, I only practiced 3 tricks, and most of the time I only practiced one trick, the most basic one, the ollie (the jump) while all my friends are practicing all kinds of tricks. I wanted to perfect my ollie before moving on to other tricks. I wanted to figure out inside out how exactly to do this trick, like how to distribute my weight, the motions of my legs, etc. In fact, I spent 2 months trying to learn a flip trick when I wasn't good at the ollie yet, and I just couldn't do it. I went back to the ollie and got better at it, and the flip trick came very easily. Today I'm still just practicing the ollie, it's so simple and basic, yet there is so much to improve at it

@Slade Thanks my dude, i will now read this book because of you so if you put more time into the 20%, doesn't it become the 80% eventually? (hmmm)

@h inandout Ha I thought yoga helps your body recover? To answer your questions: I dont have a coach and the tutorials on the internet are pretty bad, i learn by watching slow motions and figuring it out in my head. My friends don't care. Other fun things..? Not really. Financially stable not yet. Bigger reasons to become pro? Hmm, 1. I want to be as good at as I possibly can. 2. I plan to make quality tutorials after I become good at it. 3. I want to show that it's possible to get good at it when you start late. Not doing any cross train and meditation yet. I actually wanted to be a musician too but i guess I didn't want it bad enough to be putting hours and hours into it. Best of luck to you!

@d0ornokey You're right there are a lot of ways I can make money off of it that i never thought of, i'll probably discover more as I progress @aurum Sorry to say bro there are actually no pros i can find that started skating at 19/20, maybe there are 1 or 2 exceptions. I ain't discouraged tho, as I discovered you don't have to be absolutely master at it to make money. If pro = 10 I'll be happy to be a 7 and I think I'm confident i can get there.

@Slade Pretty much what I've been doing. Skated on average 4-5 hours a day the past 3 days. My legs are falling off literally

@Slade Haha, I thought about going pro too. I know I will be good at it no doubt, in 10-15 years. But I won't be insane like the pros. They're literally insane. I don't think I'll ever be good enough to go pro. I started skating 2 years ago, I was 18-19, that's late. I'm not the brightest tool in the shed, 2 years and I still haven't gotten the basics down. However, in my head I see that I could maybe be making money off skating when I'm finally good enough (make tutorials, etc). But this is a very slow process given the physical limitations. I guess the problem boils down to, how am I supposed to pay the bills and survive while I try to get good at skating?

I just watched the "How to stop judging yourself" video. I completely resonate with the message in the video. For example, I constantly judge my parents for wasting their lives doing useless things, but I judge myself just as harshly when I watch TV or play video games. I also judge them for yelling at each other and fighting constantly. That made me a passive person who never speaks for himself. While it's definitely a big step to be able to recognize all these judgments I make, I want to know what I can do instead of judging. I can't help but think someone is fat when I see that someone is fat. I also can't help but to think that yelling doesn't solve anything when my parents fight again. What can I think instead??

@Henri @vizual Thank you. I think I understand now. I will become aware of things (i.e. someone's weight) but without any negative or positive connotations attached. I simply observe.

I don't know if anyone else is in a similar situation. I don't have many friends. I have only one friend that I connect with on an intellectual level. We talk about dating, life, and all the self help stuff. And tbh, I have other friends just so that I can say "oh yeah I have friends I am not a loser." I also don't like any girls that I know because I think they care way too little about improving themselves and have low consciousness (often jealous, manipulative, etc.). I feel incredibly lonely. How do I find like minded friends? Or am I looking at it wrong and am being too judgmental? Criticism is appreciated. Thanks.