Help!! i´m progressing too fast...

[Cymatrelic]

So i have a kinda strange problem. I´m in a tricking group with 4 other guys and i´m progressing faster then they are. Tricking sessions are kinda stupid lately cause i´m all hyped and enthusiasticly tricking while the others are totaly down, bored and depressed cause they´re not learning as fast as i am and they think they can´t ever catch up to me anyway. This makes the whole thing really stupid for me, too, cause it´s just not fun tricking and knowing with every new move you land your friends get less interested in tricking and depressed.

So what should i do?? I have the feeling that if it keeps going like this our group is gona decrease to two insted of 5 (theres one other guy kinda on my lvl, but he´s always the most depressed when i land something he´s been working on for the last weeks). I thought of maybe just eating lots of chocolate and getting really fat so i cant even Backflip anymore and let the others catch up. But then after two weeks we´d have the same problem again.

Do you guys have any tips on what i can do to keep the rest of my group motivated?? I always try helping them with new tricks and cheer em on.
But a few other tips would be really appreciated...
thx

[Skilzat85X]

Oh come ON don't be silly.

There's no such thing as "progressing too fast." If your friends want to drop out because you're progressing fast, that means THEY have issues, not you. If they get so bummed about freaking that, they might as well just stop tricking now, because there's hundreds if not thousands of people who are better than them as well.
So what, they're just gonna give up cause someone's better than them? Well, as much as people would like to image, tricking is NOT for everyone. If they can't settle for having people better than them, and progressing faster than them, they just don't have a good mentality to begin with.

[JiayoJames]

Fuck 'em. If they are not happy for their friend's success, then you are better off without them.

[k-slash]

Good job on progressing quickly.

[Cymatrelic]

Well in the beginning they were really happy for me when i learned new things but i guess it just got annoying. Cause for example the other guy whose about my level, he´s been trying to Aerial ever since we started tricking and ive been doing aerials easily on concrete with shoes already for a long time. And hes been trying to learn how to cork for the last 6 months and then i tried and it took me maybe 2 weeks to learn em and ive been trying to DoubleCork while hes still doing Corks.
Those are just two of many tricks with which that happens.

And they´ve been my friends for over 15 years so it would be sad to lose em.

[jiayo-chris]

This thread is silly, if they dont like your progression so what fuck them! You cn't slow down to let them catch up, thats silly.

[Sakanem]

And they´ve been my friends for over 15 years so it would be sad to lose em.

You've been friends since before you were born?
Anyways, they should be happy for you..

[tricker_d]

You could always break a leg or purposely land on your neck in a backflip to even things out :good:

[JiayoJames]

And they´ve been my friends for over 15 years so it would be sad to lose em.

Cymatrelic
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Hmmmmm......

[jiayo-chris]

If they are your friends, they wont ditch you because your better, if they do they are shit cunt friends...

[Flowers]

I feel for ya man. I used to have a big group with me when we started going to the gyms and such to train. Most everyone dropped out for various reasons, some being they had level out.

Some of them just became cheerleaders instead.

[Reim]

You're put in a really tough position, eh? Well, like Skilzat said, it's not your fault, it's theirs, but not purposefully. They have to learn to channel that into something more productive like enthusiasm to get better. It's what the really good tricksters do to get even better, and it's also a valuable after school special life lesson to be able to turn the negative for you into the positive for everyone.

They shouldn't be guilt you into thinking your progression that you've either worked hard for, or that came naturally is something bad, you should be having the time of your life right now, and so should they. Maybe if they can't get over that they should take another look at what they want from tricking.

Don't take my advice, but I think you should just open up to them about this and be honest so they will know how you feel. Maybe try some new things with tricking like training somewhere else, or start different classes like martial arts, gymnastics, or parkour.

[Shadow5217]

HELP TEM WIT TE'RE TREECKS!!!!

[JiayoJames]

Man I'm so glad I've got such an awesome group of friends to trick with. :D

[Shadow5217]

Or you could help them with something else like conditioning or something just condition with them and see who is better at that. Idk most of the time I see not progressing because of a lack of conditioning mostly because well, Ive struggled with that problem but yeah You will figure something out for their sake.

[jiayo-chris]

Man I'm so glad I've got such an awesome group of friends to trick with. :D

You can say that again :smile: seriously when one of you guys land a trick for the first time i would never get jelious... i would just run up and hug you haha.

[Cymatrelic]

ok first of all cause of the 15 years confusion: im gonna be 16 in 2 months and our moms have been friends/neighbours for like 20 years. But were prolly only really active "friends" for like 13.5 years or so just to make everyone happy.:tongue:

Weve been conditioning together alot actually. We did AA, which was fucking hard and it took a shitload of time but it actually really brought us together alot.
And we meet up to just stretch and train now and then, and we actually hang out together 24/7. So they wouldnt ditch me cause of tricking they´d prolly just stop coming to the sessions.
Its just really cool that all my friends are/were tricking (one kinda stoped already) cause where ever we are and what ever were doin we just talk about tricking and trick all the time.

But i think ill just try talking to em once about the whole problem. Maybe if we´d meet up daily and train a bit theyd get more into the whole tricking world again. :smile:

[jiayo-chris]

Maybe you should show them this thread.

[bobcheese]

Just be grateful you even get too trick with people who understand what tricking is. No one in my area even knows what tricking is let alone do it.

[Sakanem]

If it really is a major problem you should of course talk to your friends.

[Ryu Sujin]

No one fucking progresses fast enough, else everyone would be at Anis' level now. If your friends are being depressed and negative-energy whoring bitches, don't trick with them man. I once tricked with someone like that, so I quickly just stopped training with them and started going on my own. It's much better. By the way you describe your friends, I'm betting that you have to invite or ask them to come train with you. Don't bother if they never extend the offer to you.

[jiayo-chris]

No one fucking progresses fast enough, else everyone would be at Anis' level now.

Well thats actually a load of shit, Anis has been tricking for a long time, alot longer than most trickers, i could name a whole list of people that will be as good as him after tricking aslong as him. Ott and Teddy pretty much already are...

[anerky]

Take a month to practice basics fairly exclusively. It probably will be fun anyway

[Cymatrelic]

Well tbh the other guy ive been talking about is a real tricking maniac. He spends alot of time looking at samplers analyzing tricks and he talks about nothing but tricking. Thats actually the reason why hes always a lil bit sad when i learn three moves in the time he looses one. The other guy also likes tricking alot but doesnt put that much time into it. So i dot have to beg my friends to come trick with me theyre usually the first ones there. They just learn slower then me and thus are kinda losing their motivation.

Well but anyway thx for your help guys! I guess its back to conditioning and basic kicks then:juji:. Lets see if that does something:wink:.

[lak89]

LOL i usually have trouble progressing with tricks being a slow learner myself, and you're complaining about progressing too fast, just talk to your friends about it, it shouldn't affect them that much, jealousy is normal

[AjStyles]

Now is the time you should teach your friend

[zambri]

this is pathetic , why would you want to limit ,tell them to stop being such pussys and whining , instead of whining why dont they start training.