Long term breaks from tricking

[Reza]

anyone that has taken a couple months off from tricking due to work/injury/school/etc., what was your experience like when comin back?

[FaithJr]

Hiiii Rezaaaa!


Umm well, I havn't been off it. But I've been lazy through winter break. :tongue:

But I felt like I lost those moves I knew.
Time to reteach. XD :punched:

[JKT]

that you need to stretch again! and some fear returns

[slik]

WOW JKT I was just wondering last week what your status is :smile:

On-topic: I'm just slowly getting back to tricks now after being gone since early september due to my injury. It feels good, so far the tricks haven't felt all too weird, most of them actually feel better.. Of course I've lost a bunch of tricks but will hopefully get them back soon.. Can't tell for sure, I'm not fully tricking until february I think...

Long breaks suck, but it clears your head and is a weird experience when you're stripped of something important to you and become occupied in other things. Also, it's a time of self-evaluation and evaluating your own motives/determination etc..

It'll feel REAL good to be back.. right now I'm starting to do cheat tricks again, won't do flips and hard punch take-off tricks before feb though...

[n3m3s1s]

I took a break once, I'll never do it again. I lost all the moves I knew:dead:

[maxx]

i havent really tricked in forever..just been doing basic martial arts. now i'm back into it...and i've found im more powerful than i was. my jacknifes alot more comfortable...i got my pop 720 back and working on pushing that 900/1080. working on my basics has really helped my advanced stuff...working backside has definetly helped my pop 720. i never expected it to. i feel alot better on spin stuff. my raiz has become more floatier...i feel like tricks you can easily get burnt out with and when u take a break and come back..you can find yourself 10x more eager to do it..than when u started.

[Asura]

anyone that has taken a couple months off from tricking due to work/injury/school/etc., what was your experience like when comin back?

Look at Danny Graham

- He was gone for years
- got motivated again
- came back a beast

[maxx]

Look at Danny Graham

- He was gone for years
- got motivated again
- came back a beast

was he truley gone? i saw his myspace long before he got into the tricking scene like wit haime n stuff. never knew who he was at the time..just randomly came across his myspace. seemed like he was always tricking in some way. if not...damn thats beastly.

[Yuri]

it feels a bit slow coming back, and the first session always gets you real sore. I find I don't lose too much and most moves can be acquired again with a bit of drilling.

I do think about tricking a lot when I am on a break though, and I still try to practice something like basic kicks, lifting, hand balance, etc.

[Safari]

Look at Danny Graham

- He was gone for years
- got motivated again
- came back a beast

What he said, I had a break for almost a year ( in the middle of turning to a trickster from a bboy ) And I came back learned a lot.. nothing was lost and gone.. But when you start again it will take a couple of weeks for your body to get used to soreness:tongue:

[ChrisMack]

i havent been able to trick in 4 months ... Knee injury. BUuuuuuuuuut , What came with that is alot of TT browsing and Vid watching. I learnt ALOT of things about tricking and the tricks i was performing eg. how to clean them up a bit, more powerful take offs etc.

[Shadow5217]

First off my injuries havent been severe enough to affect me for the rest of my life or change anything critical but Ive been out for months at a time. It was really slow comming back each time and I had to get some groove into some of the moves that I learned LAST before I was injured but a month into getting back into it I end up twice as good as I was before my injury.

EDIT: Also what happened to NZTricksta

What doesnt kill you makes you stronger-Though you might want to condition to get your muscles used to it again :punched:

[Gravityjay]

I had almost a year out due to my knee, definately at the best ive ever been at the moment

[Kalvin]

yeah im still out for about 2 more months and haven't tricked for almost 4 now :dead: but what ive noticed, is instead of just watchign a sampler and being like omg he double corked! you noticed how he does it, his technique you critique much more, you learn lots when your on the sideline that i think will benefit all when you return!

[Daniel Graham]

i started tricking in 96 but stopped in 99 2 do other things

i did us open once in 2000 and charlie lee 2002 4 fun didt train

it wasnt a passion of mine i just want 2 see old friends sammy and marc

2002 i stopped completely and in late 05 some kid name dan found my aim and ask me 2 trick with him protein tony and taco

i tricked with haime and saw a lot of trickerz and motivated me to come back

started to trick again then after hurricane 07 i got hurt then at us open i got the zimababwe sickenss only tricked a couple times since then

went to ny 07 and fucked my knee up so now im out again lol

my life story just train hard and take your time

[Shaolin.dk]

i started tricking in 96 but stopped in 99 2 do other things

i did us open once in 2000 and charlie lee 2002 4 fun didt train

it wasnt a passion of mine i just want 2 see old friends sammy and marc

2002 i stopped completely and in late 05 some kid name dan found my aim and ask me 2 trick with him protein tony and taco

i tricked with haime and saw a lot of trickerz and motivated me to come back

started to trick again then after hurricane 07 i got hurt then at us open i got the zimababwe sickenss only tricked a couple times since then

went to ny 07 and fucked my knee up so now im out again lol

my life story just train hard and take your time

Where did u discover tricking, in a martial arts dojo?

[Ryan Sas]

i started tricking in 96 but stopped in 99 2 do other things

i did us open once in 2000 and charlie lee 2002 4 fun didt train

it wasnt a passion of mine i just want 2 see old friends sammy and marc

2002 i stopped completely and in late 05 some kid name dan found my aim and ask me 2 trick with him protein tony and taco

i tricked with haime and saw a lot of trickerz and motivated me to come back

started to trick again then after hurricane 07 i got hurt then at us open i got the zimababwe sickenss only tricked a couple times since then

went to ny 07 and fucked my knee up so now im out again lol

my life story just train hard and take your time

what happened to your knee man? it looked like you mighta tweaked it overrotating a dub cork in one of the gathering vids, but im just paranoid since i tore both acls, sometimes i think i see things i dont with knees, ha

[TONE TONE]

dam danny thats interesting, sux you busted you knee in ny and only tricked at the first gym sessioni was looking forward to see you tick, and hella impresed by what i saw

[maxx]

i started tricking in 96 but stopped in 99 2 do other things

i did us open once in 2000 and charlie lee 2002 4 fun didt train

it wasnt a passion of mine i just want 2 see old friends sammy and marc

2002 i stopped completely and in late 05 some kid name dan found my aim and ask me 2 trick with him protein tony and taco

i tricked with haime and saw a lot of trickerz and motivated me to come back

started to trick again then after hurricane 07 i got hurt then at us open i got the zimababwe sickenss only tricked a couple times since then

went to ny 07 and fucked my knee up so now im out again lol

my life story just train hard and take your time

i saw your myspace i think right before haime found u and there was this insanly long combo like at the time...no one was really stringing combos that long unless u a west coaster..shit was ill. you had some comment like dont jack my moves cuz i know u are. lol.

[Asian Joe]

I was out for some time with an injury and kept injuring it because i kept tricking :/

[JCslug]

haven't tricked in 2 weeks and everything went to hell. i lost all my tricks except backflip and webster. everything went from tricks i could do with ease to tricks i can almost land.:dead:

edit: ps my joints are also dying from the low aerial "landings" they weren't good.

[k-slash]

I gained 1000000000000000000000 exp points and gained several levels.