Buy a can of HTFU.

Push your limits just a little bit at a time. Each time you go out set out to try 1 new thing.

Pick a rider at your local spot just above your current level, make it your task to learn their tricks and get better than them, then pick a better new rider and do the same thing.

Untill your worlds best. Pitty Zoon doesn't ride at shearwater

It helps get over fears quickly if they can do it you can too. And the competition is good especially when your chosen rider learns something new

dorothyinste said...

Completely understand where you are coming from. Am going through similar feelings throughout my current progression. Small steps into the fear factor are the way to go. Break your goal down into smallest steps possible, then attempt each small step chronologically. It is easier to dissolve the fear factor in small increments.
Your self esteem will go through the roof!
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Sorry but what do you mean with small steps??
break up the trick?
or try easier tricks first?

Also yes i will try that to pick a rider i will go with a buddy we strted to do unhooked tricks at the same time but he went over me past like a couple weeks because of my stupid fear

It may be soft but I still seem to get smashed. When I learnt a simple front roll I used to come home with black and blue thighs

dorothyinste said...


Sorry but what do you mean with small steps??
break up the trick?
or try easier tricks first?

Exactly! Break up the 'trick' into small portions. Most tricks begin with the basic 'pop'. Become proficient at mastering the foundations of a good 'pop'. Work on getting your landings spot on. As your skill level increases you will naturally begin to challenge yourself into constant progression. Respect your own fear, it will keep you from progressing faster than what you are capable of learning.

Thanks youre right, break it up does a bigger board help for poppoing? or lighter cause at the start i had a 120cm board heavy as helllll!!!!!!!!!
way over 15 pounds i had hard time carrying it with one hand.
and im like 115 pounds is that the reason i had lots of trouble doing the backroll??
it took me like 2 months to landed good i couldnt landed right sometimes i didnt rotate or sometimes i rotaded burt didnt land. now im riding a 139 nova LF way better!!!!!!!

harry potter said...

Fear of what ???? It's water it's a lot softer than land or concrete

Shattered my heel on water. 12 screws, 3 plates and a bone graft.

harry potter said...

Fear of what ???? It's water it's a lot softer than land or concrete

you dont jump high enough or push yourself enough it seems Potter, are you a tea bagger? the guys that jump off the west gate would disagree with you

dorothyinste said...


Sorry but what do you mean with small steps??
break up the trick?
or try easier tricks first?

Exactly! Break up the 'trick' into small portions. Most tricks begin with the basic 'pop'. Become proficient at mastering the foundations of a good 'pop'. Work on getting your landings spot on. As your skill level increases you will naturally begin to challenge yourself into constant progression. Respect your own fear, it will keep you from progressing faster than what you are capable of learning.

This^^^ +5
something that seems to happen a lot in kiting is people skip the basic progression chain and go for harder stuff without learning the basics. I myself am a huge culprit for this! only picked up on it after starting wakeboarding and learning behind the boat.

break up everything. seriously just go out and spend a day learning how to get speed, flatten off, and do ollie backside 1s or ollie front side 3s.. the two staple techniques for any future freestyle/ wakestyle.

then spend time learning to load then ollie, you get heaps higher this way but its harder to keep on axis.

then learn how to load and do raleys, back rolls, front flips, sbends etc with floatier pop. makes learning tricks easier.. floatier pop is just a load and pop technique you will have to play with.

from there you can combine a various group of these to make tricks happen.

and like others said, ride with people better than you, or at the very least get a crew together that ride similarly, that push really helps you get pumped to try new stuff and makes it fun to mix it up.