Re:Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
by agentultra on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:19AM
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Nice! Yeah, warmups are huge! I've been learning a lot about how to strengthen and maintain knee and ankle tendons and muscles.
I find skating has definitely helped me rebuild those priopreceptive muscles and memory which helps me strengthen my core.
I also find that if I'm like even a bit tired I'll scale back my session and won't try to push hard. Need to get good sleep too.
Over these four years I've had 5 ankle sprains (balanced over each foot), every single time it was me not warming up (like, at all) and pushing it beyond the fatigue limit ("one more try" just one too much). I have a warmup routine, I now diligently follow, no excuses (it's 5min).
Still, it's something I always wanted to do and never had the guts to try, for completely baseless fears of looking stupid or being incompetent, especially as I grew older. A fantastic, supportive local crew made a ton of difference erasing that mindset. Then I learned about Neal Unger[1], and just saw that IG post[2] from Gou Miyagi about that 80yo learning to skate the other day...
I'm so glad I made the jump and will do anything to continue as long as I can. Eric Koston[0] has this said: "it's like my hand, I wouldn't get rid of my hand", and this is exactly how I feel about it.
https://youtu.be/p8uUL5GdStE
https://www.nealunger.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3-1CkFE1J/