Do y'all think its more important to work on riding through a park/ line of obstacles or learning flip tricks first?

i got my ramps set up like this right now and im able to roll through with like bs boardslide on the stair rail landing switch and then to a bs shovit to fs nose slide down the box and then ride back through non switch all very clean but as of right now i can land like 4 outta 10 kicks and then the rest is pretty much on accident lol

Learn your flip tricks first.

I wish I had an answer for you but as y'all know I suck at fingerboarding.

lol then me and you are in the same boat max

I would say learning flip tricks is more important though.

Learn your easy stuff first man. After that everything falls into place.

learn your basics first

Work on each trick at a time and then you can build up to the lines. Riding through a course isn't really that difficult on fingerboards.

I do both at the same time.
There is no reason to sit and practice flip tricks if its not fun. Also, I will rather look at easy tricks done clean than sketchy hard tricks.

But yea, you'll need both to progress.

Do whichever you find more fun.

My method is to work on all my basics until they;re presentable, only then do I move on to other tricks.

Lines are just stringing together what you learned. Making one is easy, but it'll look ugly if you can do all these tricks crappily.

Oh, and I hope you're not mad at me for what I told you about your plaza thing.

think about skateboarding, people dont attempt handrails before the have your basic flip tricks down, once your confident with the deck you will find your genrally more clean with your lines.

Definitely master your flip tricks first. And learn how to do the basics switch stance. I was very surprised at how much my spontaneous lines improved after getting just my kickflips to grinds down. After that, other flip tricks to grinds and more technical tricks began coming much more natural to me. Out of everything I've learned on a fingerboard, kickflip to 5-0 was by far the hardest thing for me to learn. But after that, more difficult lines like varial heelflips to 5-0's and tre flips to boardslides with a few shove-its and 180's thrown in were much easier to learn, even though the tricks are actually much harder.

I thought I had the hang of things until I began PERFECTING my basic flatland tricks. It opened up a whole new world for me.

LOL, I never thought of this. As much as possible fingerboard doesn't need to be complicated IMO. All what matters is that you're having fun. What I did is don't rush yourself as Xi said before go in your own pace. What I did is, I tried to learn a specific trick first to the point that I can do the trick effortlessly and landing it clean. Then when you got some consistency on it, try to experiment on your plaza by implementing those tricks that you've learned. It would be a lot easier for you to nail down the lines.

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I just work on whatever I want. Whatever I feel like doing, whether its flip tricks, grinds, lines, etc. I think if I'm in the mood for what I'm doing, I'll be more likely to get better at it.

Robert wrote:

I just work on whatever I want. Whatever I feel like doing, whether its flip tricks, grinds, lines, etc. I think if I'm in the mood for what I'm doing, I'll be more likely to get better at it.

Just make sure you are having fun or there is no point in persuing any sort of hobby.

Although like skateboarding I would say you would probably have more luck learning on flatland and then bringing those tricks to rails and etc.

MaxL wrote:

Robert wrote:

I just work on whatever I want. Whatever I feel like doing, whether its flip tricks, grinds, lines, etc. I think if I'm in the mood for what I'm doing, I'll be more likely to get better at it.

Just make sure you are having fun or there is no point in persuing any sort of hobby.

That's kinda what I meant by my post, whatever I feel like doing/what's the most fun to me at the moment. Not just mindlessly practicing flip tricks and grinds or whatever.

Just try your hardest, and have fun.