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Thanks for the advice, but I’ve never skated, am learning now so I can skate with my child if their interest picks up in it, as it seems to be doing, so what other skaters may take for granted in terms of the experience and the knowledge of how to do things I don’t have, which is why I’m asking here.
Sure pushing is a learning by doing thing, but I want to make sure that the learning doesn’t frustrate them so much that they don’t want to skate at all, or never get past just balancing on a board whilst I pull them..
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I get what you're saying!
Still, at the end of the day it's just a learning by doing / try-and-error thing, you figure it out as you learn how to climb a tree or how to work on a frozen sidewalk.Like I said balance exercises will probably make things easier a bit but they do need to figure out how do do the thing themselves, with the balancing and pushing off the ground at the same time - and they will fall sooner or later, probably repeatedly, and most likely hurt themselves - that really is part of skateboarding frankly.
Wristguards are probably a good investment if you're really worried!
salad
No offense, but you're overthinking this. Pushing on a skateboard is not rocket science, it's very much a learning by doing thing.
If it were my kid I'd probably do some playful balance exercises with them if I noticed that they're having difficulties with this in general (think tree pose / moving your arms around while standing on one leg etc.) - and do some falling-down-on-purpose (in a sandpit or something) so they loose the fear of falling a bit (it will happen), and learn how to fall safely.