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My advice for turning that foot, someone may correct me... keep your knee bent and lightly pivot on the ball of your foot, it's a bit harder with fresh grip. I've found pushing up a slight incline really helps as you'll not likely go speeding off and you have to keep adjusting to push.
That and just skating everywhere you can. Sometimes I'll skate 5km to a spot and 5km back (quality of the roads / pavement allowing).
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Yeah that sounds like good advice. Especially the bit about skating as much as you can - a lot of the technique stuff, like foot position, will just come naturally as you get more confident on the board. Don’t worry about learning particular things at the moment - just skate around and get used to balancing and leaning to turn. Getting over the initial awkwardness and gaining a bit of confidence will make stuff like kickturns much easier so don’t worry about stuff like that straight away.
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Sometimes I'll skate 5km to a spot and 5km back
Get a biek m8.
AlexD
roboto
Went out into my car park and skated for about and hour and a half, just getting used to standing on it, pushing, rolling at slowish speeds and getting my pushing foot onto the board. Seemed okay. Got a bit of a sweat on actually.
Current issue i need to overcome is getting comfortable turning my front foot from forward to over the side of the board and back again when I transition from pushing to skating/rolling and back again.
BiL sent me a video teaching you how to tic tac, so that’s next on the skill tree.