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Skateboarding during the Corona virus pandemic 2020

Late last year, the world was struck by a virus called the corona virus SARS-CoV-2. Some places had been locked down quite early (San Francisco, USA and China) but despite this the world had to continue and we as skateboarders had to continue pushing as usual.   About to go skate However, due to the mode of transmission of the virus; it is recommended that people should wear masks you can find more information about why masks are important here . Therefore, the wearing of the masks is not some conspiracy, waiting for the police to remind you doesn't make sense too; you are protecting yourself and your homies around you. I wear one every time I go skating. Here's a photo Personally wearing a mask while skating is the hardest thing I've ever done; Besides climbing Kilimanjaro. The sweating, the heat and the loss of breath makes it hard to concentrate on landing tricks because in between the panting and the loss of breath the rhythm just tends to slip away. For example, I tho...

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. Frequency of ollie as days pass. Green dot is a confidence interval seems to be stagnated at 5. 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 ...