Do watching skateboarding tricks frame by frame make you progress faster?

It definitely helps, a simple position change of the foot can make a total difference. But this is only one part, skateboarding is so much muscle memory, even if you know how to do it, you need to try it hundred of times to get your body to actually do it.

For someone in their 40s, what&#x27;s the best way to learn to ride a skateboard? I just want to be competent enough to replace a 10 min walk to&#x2F;from a subway station.<p>I&#x27;ve tried following video instructions. But each time, after 10 mins I felt like I was making zero progress. Perhaps I just need to keep trying and eventually it will click?<p>Or perhaps I should ask one of the neighbourhood kids?

I&#x27;ve always been curious about what it&#x27;s like for other people to watch something like this.<p>Can you watch a dance or a trick or something and feel what it would be like to do it yourself? Do you see this stuff in your head as a sequence of frames? Or a movie? Or do you somehow have access to the whole thing at once like you&#x27;re thinking in 4 dimensions?<p>When I watch any kind of instructional video for even something very simple it looks like a total blur, one of those &quot;Wow that&#x27;s impressive, I can&#x27;t even tell what happened&quot; things, and I usually don&#x27;t see or feel anything in my head at all, I&#x27;m just saying &quot;Ok he moves his arm up at the same time as his foot goes back away from the camera towards the hand with the stick&quot; and trying (And failing) to copy things one piece at a time.

Interesting, my conclusion, it depends. That particular one has back foot just barely in the frame at critical moment.<p>Watching Troy Grady&#x27;s closeups of leading guitar players picking hands from a few inches away didn&#x27;t do much for me, but watching lots of telemark skiers vids helped pinpoint variables like pole length and pole plant reach that I would not have thought of.<p>So, like learning piano or violin or sports&#x2F;kinematic skills, read and watch vids a little and practice a lot.

There was that paper recently where they built a model of tennis players by feeding it recorded tennis matches. I wonder if you could just do the same with skateboarding and use that to figure out the possible parameters under which a trick succeeds or fails, and then also use it to be able to evaluate your own performance and tell you how far off you are and what you need to do different?

I expected an article and was disapponted it was not.