Here’s the training program that I’m currently working. I believe that it’s about on the money for someone with 3-5 years of dedicated practice and 95th-percentile core physical fitness. This is not meant to get you oodles of new tricks, it’s the drill-and-mastery oriented practice practice practice approach to emulating the endless time and unswerving focus of the 15-year old.
In addition to a minimum of 1 hour skateboarding every day:
- Alternate daily between (40 minutes):
- lower body (squats, heel raises, weighted vertical jumps, weighted lateral jumps, weighted single-leg jumps, weighted 180º jump-rotations)
AND - upper body (exclusively on the olympic rings: push up, plank, mountain climbers, dips, pull up progressing to full muscle up, lower leg-raise progressing to full pike)
- lower body (squats, heel raises, weighted vertical jumps, weighted lateral jumps, weighted single-leg jumps, weighted 180º jump-rotations)
- minimum 30 minutes of yoga per day (it’s pretty hard to beat Yoga with Adrienne)
Skate routine (everything rolling. don’t drill tricks not rolling, you’ll handicap yourself brutally. Ask how I know):
- Ollies.
- Shuvits, frontside and backside. Progress to pop shuvits. Progress to tre flips.
- 180s, frontside and backside. Progress to bigspin. Progress to biggerspin.
- Kickflips
- Heelflips
- Tailslides and noseslides, frontside and backside. Progress to shuv out. Progress to kickflip in. Progress to kickflip out.
- 5050s. Progress to kickflip in. Progress to kickflip out.
Full-routine progressions:
- Do everything over a parking bumper.
- Do everything over 2 stacked parking bumpers.
Nothing in life is free, nothing worth having is easily got. Get out there and motherfucking drill.