KYSkater
12-15-2004, 06:04 PM
I found another article that might intrest a few more of you........
Progression
Progression. Is it universal? Or is it submissive? If we all rolled the same things for the same amount of time would we all be at the same level of skill? Or is there a pre determined skill level for each of us? A barrier to which we are destined to hit and when we do…the progression ends. And possibly the fun also. The latter must be true otherwise pro’s would not be professionals. They would just be the people who have had the most time and at the best location to practise. So if progression is indeed submissive. Is rolling already imprinted into destiny? Maybe fate has already arranged how far one can progress before their ability becomes placid and maybe even digress. If this is true then it surely follows that the fate of our rolling ability level is broken down into a handful of elements:- Drive, Physicality, Time, Terrain, courage.
Driving the engine...
Drive is hard to define. Call it will to go on. Call it perseverance in the face of anti-progression. But something in us forces us to go on. To roll in the face of malignance but maybe the very presence of drive refutes its self as it is futile if the progression is pre-determined. So, if drive isn’t the essence of progression then what is?
Beating the beat ups…
Okay so Physicality is obviously a factor in progression. If you drink or smoke then you will be in bad shape, no question. You will slow down and you will feel lazier. No question. But here’s a thought experiment…what if you were the biggest drinker and dope smoker in your crew? You are rolling in your crew all day not doing anything. The hangover has set in, and you’re out of breath from just from getting to this spot. But then after a while you just get up and suddenly pull a 720 top acid to back fast-slide on the biggest rail you have been sessioning that day (even in bad shape surely someone with enough sheer balls could pull one trick off in a day, even if it is an insane one). A photographer is there. He captures this trick in sequence and you end up in Daily Bread. You have some recognition, and the millions of rollers who stay fit and healthy still have no coverage. So even though I’m not saying drink and drugs won’t effect your rolling. It is not vital in progression. So this could not be the right way of finding the essence of progression. Injury is the parallel argument from physicality as an injury could literally put a complete stop to your rolling. But in the introduction it was said that a pre-determined fate must decide progression so wouldn’t it be correct to assume that if fate is indeed the determiner of progression it would also be correct to assume that if injury determines a part of progression then wouldn’t fate determine injury? As fate determines progression as a whole.
Tick-Tock Tick-Tock…
I’m not sure why I put this in the list. Maybe because it was an obvious candidate for determining progression. But to be honest, If thought of in depth, I believe time has nothing to do with progression what so ever. This may seem absurd but I have seen people let go of their skates for years and come out one day and bust out the illest tricks. I have also seen people skate day after day and do the same things as the day before. Replicating the replica. Merely dreaming of doing what the guy who quit did just “yesterday”. And that brings me to another point. Time cannot indeed be the essence of progression as one could spend all day every day on skates and always do the same trick. All the time, I am not saying time doesn’t play a big part in progression. I’m just not looking for a big part of anything. I want to find the true essence of how to progress…
The concrete labyrinth…
We’ve heard this before. “I have nothing to skate where I live so I can’t progress” so this is a blatant choice for the essence of progression. But if indeed I have refuted time in the last paragraph…then we have all the time in the world to just travel to somewhere where there IS somewhere to skate even if it cuts down on how long you get to skate for. And this shouldn’t matter as long as you use the time productively to learn new things. Just be careful not to be the latter guy in my last paragraph…
Being the lion…
Personally, I don’t like the term courage much, I just used it as a template so everyone would know what I’m referring to. I’m talking about sheer balls. To cast away the care or even fear of pain and land something unthinkable. It’s unquestionable, if you are brave you will progress. Is it not true that if you think of bailing before doing a trick you will chicken it and bail anyway? The person that can get into the right mindset to push themselves in this way is a unique one. And this I believe someone is born with. A characteristic just like any other. An angry person, a placid one, a happy person, a sceptical one…a brave one. These are pre determined characteristics that we inherit subconsciously, if we could consciously accumulate them we would all be the same idealistic iconographic person. A kind, happy gentle… blah blah blah. So this indeed is beyond our control. I find my self unable to refute bravery as the essence of progression but also unable to justify it. And indeed I have come to the end of my list and I still have not found the essence of progression. Or maybe I have already?
Audaces fortuna iuvat
At the start of whatever this mixture of words is, I concluded that fate, destiny, luck or whatever must define progression. I then went on to try and break down the meaning of progression to try and find the essence. But I believe I have failed...or have i? after all this I believe that that list was indeed pointless. Because in finding that luck must define progression, haven’t I found what the true essence of progression is? I’m staring at this short list of things that make up how fast and how well we progress. When taken into account that all of these things can be affected by sheer luck or fate if you will, I believe it would be correct to say that the essence of progression is fate. It is beyond our control. And for those of you who don’t like to believe our destiny is out of our own hands, maybe this is for the better because we don’t have to worry about trying to get better, this only leads to frustration. Isn’t it a relief to believe that progression is out of our hands and all that we can possibly hope to accomplish in rolling, all we can ever hope to give or receive in doing what we love is simply…to have fun. And by coming to the realization that progression is independent of us couldn’t we hope to have that much more fun rolling? To know that whatever happens, the only thing I can hope to accomplish is be happy? And for those of you who feel that I am unclear in what I’m trying to say (and believe me I am one of them) its simply this – At the end of the day, fate chooses a select few to progress rapidly, the rest of us are left to wallow in the mediocrity of our skill level. But if we just block our selves from progression its self (Not progressing, I am not saying no one should progress.) and not worry about it because it’s not up to us to decide anyway. We can be less frustrated, have more fun and progress in ways that have nothing to do with skill.
I apologize if I sound vague and I am concluding on this note I promise… the essence of progression for us is to detach ourselves away from it. To progress but not have a mental template of progression. Just let fate take its course and naturally occur. Just have fun. Because really, isn’t that why we all started rolling? All I’m saying is, just have fun.
(From toxboe.net)
Enjoy!
Progression
Progression. Is it universal? Or is it submissive? If we all rolled the same things for the same amount of time would we all be at the same level of skill? Or is there a pre determined skill level for each of us? A barrier to which we are destined to hit and when we do…the progression ends. And possibly the fun also. The latter must be true otherwise pro’s would not be professionals. They would just be the people who have had the most time and at the best location to practise. So if progression is indeed submissive. Is rolling already imprinted into destiny? Maybe fate has already arranged how far one can progress before their ability becomes placid and maybe even digress. If this is true then it surely follows that the fate of our rolling ability level is broken down into a handful of elements:- Drive, Physicality, Time, Terrain, courage.
Driving the engine...
Drive is hard to define. Call it will to go on. Call it perseverance in the face of anti-progression. But something in us forces us to go on. To roll in the face of malignance but maybe the very presence of drive refutes its self as it is futile if the progression is pre-determined. So, if drive isn’t the essence of progression then what is?
Beating the beat ups…
Okay so Physicality is obviously a factor in progression. If you drink or smoke then you will be in bad shape, no question. You will slow down and you will feel lazier. No question. But here’s a thought experiment…what if you were the biggest drinker and dope smoker in your crew? You are rolling in your crew all day not doing anything. The hangover has set in, and you’re out of breath from just from getting to this spot. But then after a while you just get up and suddenly pull a 720 top acid to back fast-slide on the biggest rail you have been sessioning that day (even in bad shape surely someone with enough sheer balls could pull one trick off in a day, even if it is an insane one). A photographer is there. He captures this trick in sequence and you end up in Daily Bread. You have some recognition, and the millions of rollers who stay fit and healthy still have no coverage. So even though I’m not saying drink and drugs won’t effect your rolling. It is not vital in progression. So this could not be the right way of finding the essence of progression. Injury is the parallel argument from physicality as an injury could literally put a complete stop to your rolling. But in the introduction it was said that a pre-determined fate must decide progression so wouldn’t it be correct to assume that if fate is indeed the determiner of progression it would also be correct to assume that if injury determines a part of progression then wouldn’t fate determine injury? As fate determines progression as a whole.
Tick-Tock Tick-Tock…
I’m not sure why I put this in the list. Maybe because it was an obvious candidate for determining progression. But to be honest, If thought of in depth, I believe time has nothing to do with progression what so ever. This may seem absurd but I have seen people let go of their skates for years and come out one day and bust out the illest tricks. I have also seen people skate day after day and do the same things as the day before. Replicating the replica. Merely dreaming of doing what the guy who quit did just “yesterday”. And that brings me to another point. Time cannot indeed be the essence of progression as one could spend all day every day on skates and always do the same trick. All the time, I am not saying time doesn’t play a big part in progression. I’m just not looking for a big part of anything. I want to find the true essence of how to progress…
The concrete labyrinth…
We’ve heard this before. “I have nothing to skate where I live so I can’t progress” so this is a blatant choice for the essence of progression. But if indeed I have refuted time in the last paragraph…then we have all the time in the world to just travel to somewhere where there IS somewhere to skate even if it cuts down on how long you get to skate for. And this shouldn’t matter as long as you use the time productively to learn new things. Just be careful not to be the latter guy in my last paragraph…
Being the lion…
Personally, I don’t like the term courage much, I just used it as a template so everyone would know what I’m referring to. I’m talking about sheer balls. To cast away the care or even fear of pain and land something unthinkable. It’s unquestionable, if you are brave you will progress. Is it not true that if you think of bailing before doing a trick you will chicken it and bail anyway? The person that can get into the right mindset to push themselves in this way is a unique one. And this I believe someone is born with. A characteristic just like any other. An angry person, a placid one, a happy person, a sceptical one…a brave one. These are pre determined characteristics that we inherit subconsciously, if we could consciously accumulate them we would all be the same idealistic iconographic person. A kind, happy gentle… blah blah blah. So this indeed is beyond our control. I find my self unable to refute bravery as the essence of progression but also unable to justify it. And indeed I have come to the end of my list and I still have not found the essence of progression. Or maybe I have already?
Audaces fortuna iuvat
At the start of whatever this mixture of words is, I concluded that fate, destiny, luck or whatever must define progression. I then went on to try and break down the meaning of progression to try and find the essence. But I believe I have failed...or have i? after all this I believe that that list was indeed pointless. Because in finding that luck must define progression, haven’t I found what the true essence of progression is? I’m staring at this short list of things that make up how fast and how well we progress. When taken into account that all of these things can be affected by sheer luck or fate if you will, I believe it would be correct to say that the essence of progression is fate. It is beyond our control. And for those of you who don’t like to believe our destiny is out of our own hands, maybe this is for the better because we don’t have to worry about trying to get better, this only leads to frustration. Isn’t it a relief to believe that progression is out of our hands and all that we can possibly hope to accomplish in rolling, all we can ever hope to give or receive in doing what we love is simply…to have fun. And by coming to the realization that progression is independent of us couldn’t we hope to have that much more fun rolling? To know that whatever happens, the only thing I can hope to accomplish is be happy? And for those of you who feel that I am unclear in what I’m trying to say (and believe me I am one of them) its simply this – At the end of the day, fate chooses a select few to progress rapidly, the rest of us are left to wallow in the mediocrity of our skill level. But if we just block our selves from progression its self (Not progressing, I am not saying no one should progress.) and not worry about it because it’s not up to us to decide anyway. We can be less frustrated, have more fun and progress in ways that have nothing to do with skill.
I apologize if I sound vague and I am concluding on this note I promise… the essence of progression for us is to detach ourselves away from it. To progress but not have a mental template of progression. Just let fate take its course and naturally occur. Just have fun. Because really, isn’t that why we all started rolling? All I’m saying is, just have fun.
(From toxboe.net)
Enjoy!