Keep Your Head Up

Over critical people like myself tend to focus on performance over simply being happy. This directly relates to me when I go skateboarding. I am always over critical of myself and putting myself down in my head, not so much these days as the past though. I have learned to just have a good time. My focus on skateboarding these days is to land my tricks first try every try. 

I see people going for the same trick over and over even when they have already done it. I find that rather pointless, unless your filming a part or for instragram or something and you want it perfect. 

I have learned to focus on what I can do as opposed to what other people are doing. Here I am doing footplants at the skatepark and here comes so and so 5050 grinding every wall at hyperspeed. Damn, that is something I just know that I can't do. I have tried and its not that I have given up, although that is arguable, it is actually that I have moved on. 

Move on and identify with your own personal style because you may be thinking that your style sucks when the next kid over is super stoaked at how you skate. Remember, it can't be that bad if it's all for fun in the end and I'm sure not everyone is countlessly picking at how you skate every minute of every day either. People are people and have different struggles than your own.

Skating experience is relative. Good, bad, in between. You may have spent a few hours earlier in the day digging the hole in the basement so you are just too tired to skate that day. If that is the situation, why are you at the skatepark in the first place? 

I know I can't compete with the skaters on Thrasher, but I go to the skatepark and have a good time with my friends. That is what is important. I do my tricks and it feels good to land them. Focus on the positive and more positive things will happen. Good things will come if good things are always on your mind. As I have been told countless times, mostly by bums, while I'm out skateboarding to just keep doing what I'm doing. I think that's all I can do.

I forgot this for a while, but it has all come back to me. Figure out what you are doing and try to be the best. If you're not the best, be the one having the most fun. Everything will be ok in the end.