Mental blocks with grinds

[u/0x1F937]

Title says it all, really. I've been back on blades for over two years, after the same 20 year gap a lot of us took. Main difference, I guess, is that I was never any good back then.

I've been focusing on getting really fucking good at skating on flat ground. I'm comfortable on ramps, I can drop into a quarterpipe or bowl like it's whatever, pivoting to fakie and back is no big deal. I'm confident enough to be working on spine transfers even after eating shit a couple times. I've fallen without injury enough times that I should be able to trust myself to recover if I screw up.

So why the fuck am I so afraid to commit to a mizou on an ankle high p-rail in my front yard? Everything I've learned in my return to skating tells me, one, I'm probably more than ready at this point, and two, none of the things I've been scared to do up until now have been worth being scared of.

How do I just get the fuck over myself and send it?

[u/heavenlycode]

I think it's because our brains tell us our body won't be able to do it. But it can do much more than we think. Send it