540 shuv it

[burntiger]

Today I landed a 540 shuv it. Its a skateboarind trick, board rotates 540 degrees under you as you jump and make it rotate. Then you land on it afterwards. It was great... I spent a good 45 minutes just trying this one trick... time after time coming so close. Pushing myself so hard. I got a mantra in my mind "Only my feet and the board exist". And

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[jonathansfox]

I am capable of only the smallest empathy and understanding for your accomplishment. Beyond that capacity it is all wonder at something that takes a level of physical and technical skill that seems impossible to me. Yet you have a way with words that brings the emotional trials of a foreign culture out in terms and feeling so purely human that I can be with you in that brief moment of time. I wouldn't understand either... yet I still feel that I do.

[jonathansfox]

Let me try that again:

That's awesome, I can't imagine being able to do something like that. I don't even know how how to ollie on a skateboard. What do you do to be able to pull something like that off? How do you move to make that kind of thing possible?

[emo_tony]

Mike: welcome to the "next level". It's something that's hard to word, but this is the sort of trick that will always illicit that sort of mental response. The mid-air pause where everything fades into nothingness, and then, without thinking, you've caught it, landed, and rolled away, and you're back into reality. There's very few like it, and that's something none of these stationary kids or tech freaks will understand... It's when skating stops becoming technical, and becomes a real art...

Welcome to the next level.

A 540 shove it!!!!!

[dongstyle_ltd]

I don't skate, but I know some of the tricks. That is so amazing- and I know what you mean about that feeling when it clicks and theres the moment where time and space stretches around you as it all falls perfectly into place...

While I don't skate, I do practice martial arts (mainly tae-kwon-do) and when practising a new technique, sometimes an insight comes in and the moment happens when you know it runs just right...it happens in all those skills that require practice, the mastery of an art, where control is paramount, yet the fluidity of motion makes it look so easy. It's the balance of those that really counts, I believe.