ANDY ANDERSON VS THE PUMP TRACK

As somebody falls A LOT here's what helped me: * Pads. I wore full pads for the first month or two when I was falling A LOT. I highly recommend wrist guards. * Stretch to warm up. I do this routine [VIDEO] by Andy Anderson. Helped me avoid little sprains and stupid aches and pains. * Wound care. I have a lot of gauze and band-aids to take care of scrapes. I found Aquaphor is a good dressing to put on top of scrapes to help it heal better. * Rest. Most saturdays I would do my biggest sessions (7 or 8 hours at a bigger park) where I would try harder stuff. I always sleep in and take it super easy on Sunday. * Practice the easy stuff a lot. Once you can do a tail stall or a rock to fake or a good ollie, do it like 10 times when you're at the park. Tricks that you know a little bit are low-risk, so I spend about half of my time at the park just staying fresh on all of the little easy tricks. At the end of the day though, it was just about keeping it up. I like this quote from Steve O: "Skateboarding has a way of weeding out the quitters." [VIDEO] I didn't want to give up, so I kept doing it. It's borderline masochistic, tbh. There are a lot of easy things you can do to stay fresh like …