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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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And @monkdagola thanks for the advice, I’ll spend the next couple of weeks just getting comfortable with skating and getting over the awkwardness, going to take myself over to a park and skate on their paths. I’m assuming having somewhere to travel to will increase my comfort on the board
cornelius_blackfoot
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).