- Schade wrote:
- When you realize you are FINALLY starting to understand how switch heelflips work
I got my first techdeck when I was eight (I'm 25 now). I remember the feeling when I first learned kickflips. I was trying to ollie over this pretty tall rail at my church but whenever I'd try and pop high enough the board would always kickflip. So then on flat I just tried to pretend I was "ollie-ing" over that rail and soon enough I had kickflips.
Then I remember trying to nollie and the board would always just nollie shove with no pop and I didn't understand how people did nollie anything. To this day I still don't get how people can nollie almost as high as they can ollie. Jump ahead to, only a few years ago (that's jut a guess because it wasn't THAT long ago but it was at least a couple of years) I somehow started figuring them out. When when I first got nollie flips I was like a kid in a candy store.
However, I can't get nollie heels for the life of me. I've only ever landed one and it took me ages. Trying to do them kind of feels like trying to go the whole day only writing with your opposite hand. Now I feel like if I just kept prcacting over and over and over and over for ages I might me able to get them good enough where I could land maybe 1/10 times but I've never bothered too try and learn a trick that I'll never really have anyway.
Now skip ahead to the topic at hand, switch heelflips. Trying to do these to me feels like tying to write with my oppistite while handcuffed, your opposite hand is asleep, and you are, "the room is started to spin" drunk lol.
I could try to switch heel over and over for five hours a day, every day for a month and I don't think I'd be any closer than when I started.
No matter what I think of someone style, trick selection etc.., if they can switch heel thy automatically get a pass in my book.
