I try to ride my skateboard around my campus sometimes and sometimes I trip and fall off (it's a regular skateboard with hard wheels and not a longboard = noisy on brick sidewalk and easy to trip on the rough surfaces if I lose my balance).
Maybe people think I look like a doof but I also think they don't care that much or sympathize with me if I hit a hard crack I didn't see and lose my balance. I try not to think too much about what they think though. For practicing though I would try to just find somewhere you can be mostly alone. If I saw you practicing I would probably wish I could learn to skateboard like you were trying to do so try to think of it that way.
Ok here's a confession - I just started ice skating, and I am SO worried about people seeing me fall over and mess up, especially when I have my own skates and it looks like I *should* know what I'm doing, but you know what? Everyone starts somewhere. And it's really good experience in life to have people see you mess up and learn to not be bothered by it, because it's never going to stop happening. The best you can do is to not care, and to realise that most people dont care either and if they see you fall all theyll do is worry if youre ok.
One of the best parts about skateboarding is the fact that when a skateboarded falls down, they get back up. Every skateboarder started out falling all over the place. If you want to avoid getting laughed at, then get out there! Practice, practice, practice!
you probably will fall and mess up, but every pro skateboarder started the same way. go somewhere that there arent alot of people as you start to learn
You know, pro skateboarders fall all the time when the tricks they do is incorrect. They dnt care wat people think they show how they fall and get back up to achieve the goals. Its life. Show them
