How can you skid / How to do skids / skidding

people want things so easy!

basically it's called practice, like anything. all the things you wrote in your post are true, those are ways to stop, now practice...in a few months, maybe years you will be able to brake effectively with just your legs. you can't expect to just get on a track bike for the first time and be able to control it like you used to control a freewheel!

1+ squillion, when I first ride fixed I expected everything to come to me easily, like how people buy mid-pro digital SLR and expected themselves to shoot like Ansel Adams.