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The journey to trick mastery

I started this blog a couple of years ago. Now, I'm pretty excited that its up and running and that you are reading the words I'm dropping here. Yeah i said dropping :D. Anyways, today I'm gonna talk about trick mastery I've been working on for the past year or so and sharing what I've learned. I've been recording data of how many times i can do a trick if i was asked to do it 5 times. I found really interesting results within the time period specified.

A line and scatterplot showing how the points are distributed. Here, it looks like it's a straight line and falls to 3 on the 6th point. The title is frequency of ollie as days passed with mean CI meaning confidence interval, x axis labelled day and y axis the frequency,
Frequency of ollie as days pass. Green dot is a confidence interval
seems to be stagnated at 5.













An African guy skating an empty road and recording his trick consistency scores at the bottom.
Photo credit: Sam
On photo Shuyin Ben

I'm sure you're asking yourself why the heck I'm doing this?  In the simplest way possible. I'm trying to get good at skateboarding, i don't believe in the 10,000 hour rule. Paying attention and learning from mistakes is way better said in a previous article.  On the other hand,  there has been this thing pro skaters have been saying "Skate everyday". That is, nonsense if your not learning from your mistakes or taking extra effort remember how you are progressing. But what works for you should always be paramount, i just find doing things like this as pretty interesting.

Would you want an app that you measure your skating progress and show a graph like the one I've displayed?

Please leave me a comment about what you think about that. Thanks again for reading and subscribing to my blog you rock!

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