Let's Talk About Skateboarding

Hey guys, .

One thing I did growing up, a lot was skateboarding. Basically from the age of 12 - 17.

I don’t really skate too often any more, but it’s just one of those things I’ll always been passionate about.

I always watch skateboarding competitions. Videos on Instagram.

Every time I see a young kid skateboarding it gives me bit of a sense of pride.

I remember all the injuries that I got from skateboarding aswell.

A broken arm, torn ligaments in my ankle, I've hit my head multiple times on the concrete.

I've had back injuries, shins, rolled ankles, bruises, scars, cuts.

Just a consistent amount of failure in the form of pain and falls, but as you grow older. You realise that success is actually built on failure.

Without failure you wouldn’t be able to grow as a human being.

Whenever you apply for a job, you get rejected. You question yourself, why did I not get this job? Where can I improve?

How can I become a better speaker to interview better? How can I write a better resume?

How can I level up on my skills that apply to the certain jobs that you want to apply for?

Yeah, you can look at failure a lot of different ways, but as you get older you realise it’s great.

It’s how you learn, it’s how you grow.

If you go up to a girl, you try ask for her phone number. She shuts you down and she says that she has a boyfriend, or she just straight up says no.

That’s alright, you take a loss. It’s fine. There will be other girls.

Once you learn that rejection is a form of failure, and failure can be a good lesson you don’t really care about the outcome.

You just care that you took the risk.

You realise that people say no. In jobs, girls, and every aspect of your life.

If you start your own business, you might get shut down. You might start cold calling people, and get shut down.

You might come up with an idea, and look for investors. They might say no, so, it’s always a good way to learn.

That’s one thing that skateboarding really taught me, really, really well.

Failure is good because you failure all the time in skateboarding.

Skateboarding is very progression based. It’s a bit like solving a Rubik’s Cube. You solved it for the first time and that is your bench mark.

Then you can work on getting quicker and quicker.

It’s like that with skateboarding, when you first get on a skateboard.

you don’t really know how to balance and push at the same time.

And then you slowly learn how to push, and you start turning, then you can like, turn around on ramps and stuff.

But then you learn how to ollie, then you might learn a pop shuv-it.

Then we all remember that special moment. Everybodies favourite trick.

Your first kickflip!

Landing it just brings out this sense of pleasure and excitement, and it’s hard to find anything else like it.

Then once you land your first kickflip, you start progressing in other tricks.

You might learn how to varial kickflip, or heelflip, or 360 flip.

Then a hardflip.

It's slow progression, but it's still moving forward with skateboarding.

If you keep practicing you can really see yourself getting better, and you can feel yourself getting better.

It gives you more motivation in skating and in life.

Skateboarding requires a lot of practice and persistence to master.

You’ll fall a lot of times before you learn your first trick.

And this really does teach you the value of persistence.

And the importance of getting up after you fall.

I was the sort of skateboarder that would literally just get hammered for like an hour.

I’d have my mate filming me, I would just take slam after slam after slam because I wanted to land a trick soo badly.

Obviously some of the falls would hurt, but you’ve got all that adrenaline.

As you get closer to landing the trick, the adrenaline actually builds up inside of you.

and you don’t even think about falling anymore.

You’ve also learnt how to roll on your back, so you basically fall, you roll.

You’re back on your feet, you grab your board, you’re excited because you’re getting close.

You just run up, and try that trick again. It’s a really good lesson on persistence.

It teaches you to fail. But fail in a way, where you might think, I’ve got this next time.

It’s Just one of those things, you just need to practice and learn.

you try learn how to do it, you fail, you fail, you fall, you fall,

You get back up, Then bam!

You land it.

It’s literally the best feeling in the world. Your mate is filming it.

Now days, you post it straight onto Instagram from the skate park.

And fucking get all these likes, you get your dopamine hit because everybody is liking your shit.

Skateboarding also teaches you courage, to try new things and take risks.

You have to be willing to push yourself out of your comfort zone.

Face your fears.

And with facing your fears, and getting out of your comfort zone.

leads to personal growth, because that’s where basically where you grow

out of your comfort zone

Facing your fears.

This resonates with everything in life. Talking to strangers, starting a business, putting money into an investment, playing sport, applying for a new job.

Anything new you do takes getting out of your comfort zone.

If you don’t get out of your comfort, you’ll stay around in the same bull shit job.

You’ll go out, you’ll do the same shit every weekend. You’ll hang out with the same people.

You won’t meet anybody new. You won’t meet a new girlfriend or partner.

It’s just the same boring shit all day, every day.

Then when you’re 85, laying in bed at your retirement home you think..

Ohh, I should have taken that risk. I should have pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

I should have faced my fears. Because you never know

facing your fears and getting out of your comfort zone could personally be the best thing you’ve ever done.

It could lead to the biggest change in your life, that you’ve just been aiming for for soo many years.

Skateboarding also encourages creativity. You have to think outside of the box to come up with next tricks. New lines.

It teaches you the value of creativity and how can it be applied to other areas of your life.

Here I am, on YouTube.

One thing I’ve wanted to do for quite a while now.

I’ve always been into personal development for the last, probably 6 or 7 years maybe.

Maybe a little bit longer. But yeah, I’ve always thought I could become creative if I needed to.

But I’ve never done anything that would require creativity.

Now with my YouTube channel I can create my own thumbnails, create my own videos, I can talk about whatever I want.

I can try to create videos that benefit you. But being creative so I stand out from the other people on this platform.

Because you have a lot of competition on YouTube, but I believe if you keep being creative

keep coming up with new video ideas that benefit people then you will eventually gain traction.

I generally create PowerPoint presentations, so people can watch something while they listen to me talk.

This is how I want to grow. I think it’s beneficial to people.

It’s the way I want to go, eventually I’ll get a camera and talk straight into the camera.

I don’t think I’m at that level yet, but once I grow a bit that’s definitely on my plan.

Skateboarding requires responsibility aswell, as you have to take care of your gear, your board and your skate park.

You have to follow a bit of safety aswell. Obviously, you push safety out the window but you have to generally look around if you’re at a skate park.

If there’s little kids, generally scooter kids like to ride around the opposite direction that the skate park is flowing.

You need to be mindful of that, and just watch out.

Skateboarding is great for taking responsibilty.

It’s just you and your board.

Every thing on a skateboard is your fault. There’s no one else riding it.

No one else is making you try that trick, nobody is making you go down those stairs.

It’s all based on you, that’s the only thing holding you back.

That’s the only thing that is going to make you progress. That’s the only thing that will make you a successful skateboarder.

If you don’t take responsibility for your own life, you’re very immature and you really just have a victim mindset.

Just blaming other people through life. You’re one of these people, you go to work.

Ooh, this shift didn’t do that, day shift didn’t do this..

Night shift didn’t do that. Who cares what they do? Just focus on yourself.

If you’re doing well you’ll grow. If you take responsibility for your own actions people will see that.

They’ll actually think you’re very mature, I think this is one of the most mature things you can do.

Here’s some advice

Sit down, grab a pen and paper, write down all the fucked up things in your life. What you want to change.

and just write what you can do to change them. It’s really not that complicated.

Most things that people look at in their life are

Appearance, your health, your wealth, your job and your relationships.

Most things in life are covered by these 5 topics. Obviously, your health.

You eat better, and you exercise.

Your wealth - You get a higher paying job, you start your own business, you create a side hustle.

You start investing.

It’s literally that easy, just do simple shit and it’ll make your life better.

Your job, if you don’t like your job fucking quit. Make sure you can afford it. If you’re in a position look for another job, once you find one just quit your bullshit job that you’ve been in 10 years that you hate.

Get away from those people that bring you down at work. Some places have a very negative work space, very toxic.

If you don’t like it, then just fucking quit.

You could also start a side hustle, or start investing.

Once your income from these outweighs your income from your work, you can either invest that into your side hustle, online business or investments to try grow quicker.

Or you can quit and live off the income from this and you won’t need to work at a job anymore.

Everything in life is fairly simple if you break it down.

You think to yourself, “Ohh I’m overweight, how do I fix that?”

There must be some magic diet or there must be something I can buy that will make me lose weight.

No, it’s just diet and exercise. It’s sounds simple and is simple in theory.

But it’s disciple, and takes time.

The same as skateboarding, it really is just disciple, time and practice.

If you get on a skateboard every day, you try to learn new tricks. Eventually if you keep trying and practicing you’ll learn how to do it.

The same as growing your business, if you keep being persistent.

Keep going, keep growing, keep putting the work in you’re going to succeed eventually.

It’s just fate.

You’re putting in the work every day and you’re disciplined, you’re going to succeed.

Skateboarding is also a community based activity, you’ll skate with others who share your passion.

This is one of the best things about skateboarding.

I’ve skated in a couple of competitions. It’s not like other competitions.

You don’t hate your rivals, it’s just me and a couple of mates hanging out.

Trying to do our best trick, trying to perform.

You are just skateboarding with your friends.

As you grow, you like to see them grow and in a competition this is really great to see!

Everybody pushing their limits of their physical body, but also their mindset!

Whenever they land a good trick you get pumped for them, but it also gives you that extra energy so you go harder and try land your trick even more.

Once you both land your trick that you have been trying for a long time you get on a massive high!

When you do this aswell the whole skate park is cheering and gets all amped up aswell and the vibe goes through the whole park!

It teaches you the value of a community.

The friends I use to skate with a was 13 I am still friends with now.

I am 33 now, so it’s been 20 years and we’re still mates. I met them through skateboarding. Just through this board made of ply wood that is on wheels.

Obviously we arn’t as good as we use to be because we don’t put in as much work, time and effort.

It’s all about the community though, you all feel the love whenever you’re skateboarding together.

I really regret quitting when I was 17. That was my peak aswell, I was happy with my progression and I use to get people come up to me all the time..

They use to say they loved this trick I did or that I was a great skateboarder.

But I just quit, and I still regret it to this day.

It’s a bit of a sad topic for me but we won’t go there!

That’s pretty much the end of the video guys!

Skateboarding can teach you valuable life lessons that can be applied to any other aspect of life.

School, work, relationships.

It’s just all about breaking it down and looking at it from a different angle.

Thanks for reading guys!

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