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@aimu_yamazuki came onto the scene and just blew everyone’s mind. The way he skates is so unique, he pretty much got legend status overnight. You just need to watch one clip of him kickflipping on flat to realise he has something special. Like I said in the video, a few areas that give him his unique style are: - His insane range of motion - He’s explosive: gets his pop from both jumping high and speed he flexes his hips - He has fun, which often means less tension in the body and better movement - He’s skated since a very young age, developed efficient movement patterns and as a result moves very little when he skates Even though you can’t get back the years you didn’t skate and your range of motion has physical limitations, you can almost certainly improve in all of these areas with the right approach, a good training program, along with skating frequently. There will never be another Aimu, but if you want help getting to YOUR best skating, then click here and let's chat! forms.gle/LddWMibWRUqc3RCY6 . A few spots have opened up on my online coaching program and I'd be hyped to see how I can help you get where you want with your skating🤝

If your training is getting in the way of your skating, you’ve got the wrong approach. Building the habit of training is legit one of the most powerful tools you have to feel better, both on and off your board, and especially as you age. It should support your skating, and with the right approach it absolutely can. Yes, on the occasion you’ll push it too hard, you’ll get too sore you’ll have to miss a skate. But you’ll likely do the same with skating more frequently - skating so hard you have to skip a session. By learning how to regulate your training so it supports your skating and doesn’t get in the way of it, you should actually be able to skate more and handle more. It’s all about building resilience progressively and consistently, so you’re better prepared for what skating throws at you. If you go so hard in the gym you’re always feeling sore and under-recovered, you won’t be progressively building that resilience. With this approach, it’s understandable your skating will suffer, as will your progress in the gym. So rewire that limiting belief from “training leaves me too sore to skate”, to “with the right approach, training helps me skate and feel better!” And if you want help with this, click here and let's chat! forms.gle/LddWMibWRUqc3RCY6

Shout out to @altered_state505 for winning the battle challenge and to everyone else in The Daily Push coaching crew that participated!! Do you still battle tricks like you used to when you were younger? I mean, like, really battle them - putting in thousands of attempts a month to figure a trick out? Like you did when you learned to kickflip. Or do you try a few times one session, leave a couple of weeks break before trying it again, and repeat that cycle for months? So many skaters I chat to do this, myself included. But the problem with this approach isn’t just that you haven’t actually battled the trick enough to learn it, it’s that it’s deluded you into thinking you’ve worked on it, and even worse left you thinking that it’s something you “just can’t learn” or “are not very good at”. It’s left you with a fixed mindset that you can’t get better at the trick. When in reality, you just never really tried. You know what else is true? You can learn the trick. And you can get better at it. You’ve just got to do what you did when you were younger - battle! Battle and start believing in the value of effort again. Because with every bail, you’re on the way to figuring it out. The bails are an essential, unavoidable part of the journey. As you do this, I’d recommend starting to film yourself and reviewing your clips to figure out what you can work on. The skaters in The Daily Push coaching community share clips each week that I review on the weekly group calls. These review sessions are often a huge help and they make a lot of progress from just one review. So whack the phone down and give it a go!

Yeah Right! Taken from my latest “How to build strong & resilient knees for skating” YouTube vid, inspired by one of the most legendary videos of all time @girlskateboards Yeah Right. I must have watched this video 6324 times as a kid and it HEAVILY inspired my skating and life in general. From watching it to get hyped for a session, to pausing clips to learn tricks. Walking to school listening to the soundtrack I’d downloaded from Limewire and ripped onto my mini-disc player, to wanting to skate and dress like the legends in the video, such as @prod I know every generation thinks their generation is the best, but this is different, because Yeah Right era was objectively the best!! Nah, but there was something special about the pre-Instagram era of skateboarding. At least for me, I valued the details more. Don’t get me wrong, I still love to actually skate as much as I did on day 1 (24 years ago!). But in recent years, I haven’t valued any video in the same way as I did back then and to be honest, haven’t built a deep connection to many new brands like I used to. Nowadays, there’s prob more new clips that get uploaded to IG in one day than all the footage that came out from 2000-2010. And full-lengths just aren’t prioritised by brands or individual skaters any more. I literally watch the most insane part I’ve ever seen, think “damn that was sick!”, and move onto the next. Back in the days, I would stop to invest energy into deeply appreciating a video, going back to watch it over and over - often discovering more details every time. Appreciation is a powerful energy that has a powerful influence on your body and mind. The more you appreciate, the more you program yourself to recognise more stuff to appreciate. Luckily, what I appreciate and value is my choice. It will likely take more energy to start appreciating the details again, but I imagine doing so would be more beneficial for most of us and the industry as a whole. Even if having less clips mean people learn tricks a bit slower. So that’s it, rant over. Thanks to Girl Yeah Right and all the other videos from that era. I’m gunna start trying to appreciate and value the details again.

The @christiana.means interview is ONLINE!! I'm really hyped to drop this because there is SO much gold in here for any type of skater. Throughout the interview Christiana drops countless bombs of wisdom - like you see in this clip - and acts as a solid reminder for how much inner power we all have, and how challenging moments can make you stronger, if you're willing to learn. We covered so many topics from injuries to her experience coaching the Chinese olympic team, to many things she does on and off her board to stay on point and build resilience. It's available on thedailypush.com, all major podcast apps, and YouTube - click the link in my story or search "The Skate Progression podcast" to find it. Cheers Christiana! 🙏

The older I’ve got, the more I’ve realised that I’ve gotta be prepared if I want to go and film a trick at a spot. I’ve wasted so much time and emotional energy going to spots, battling for hours and going home empty handed, that it’s just not worth not being prepared. Of course, many tricks happen randomly when you’re out on the session and roll up to a spot with nothing planned. But I’ve been to so many spots with a trick in mind and only realised I didn’t really have it on lock when I actually got to the spot. Some reasons for this were: - Landing the trick once or twice at a skatepark tricked me into thinking I can do it easy. I need to actually ""understand"" the trick so I don't have to think about it. - Not planning where I was gonna skate so I had the obstacle I needed to practice the trick - Not having a real clear idea of exactly what I wanna film and where - so not knowing how to prepare I’m gunna start getting even more strict with how I go about filming - like @prod does. Making sure I know exactly what trick and where. Making sure I regularly hit spots where I know I can practice the trick, and sticking with it until that trick is filmed and in the bag. If that means going back 5x, then that’s what it is. What’s your process to increase the chance of filming tricks? Drop your comments down below.

In this 2025 interview with Christiana Means, we cover everything from getting through the darkness of injuries and tough times, to her role coaching the Chinese Olympic team. From taking advantage of the energy of the present moment to do well in competitions, to the power of your mind to unlock healing. Along with the different things she does off her board to build resilience and stay on point. @christiana.means.sk8 ✅SKATE COACHING✅ https://www.thedailypush.com/skate-performance-coaching 👀WATCH NEXT👀 📺HOW TO BUILD STRONG & RESILIENT KNEES FOR SKATEBOARDING https://youtu.be/IuAG0qzMBXM 📺 LAND TRICKS DOWN GAPS: Proprioception & vestibular training (+ exercises) https://youtu.be/zM6cK_qYMHw 📺How to noseslide & hold your slides (+ exercises & step by step progressions) https://youtu.be/X0CRZ7GKDQ8 📺The Ultimate Guide to Manual Like a Pro (+ exercises) https://youtu.be/nNqLyUisD04 🌎 SKATE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP EPISODES🌎 1. How to learn skate tricks FAST (and hold onto them): https://youtu.be/z3Ih7hb6rb0 2. How Your Mindset Is Holding Your Skating Back & How to Overcome It: https://youtu.be/eoiFmcMFQ98 3. How To ACTUALLY Get Better At Skateboarding: https://youtu.be/cnbPfaZZJt0 4. How to Conquer FEAR & Commit To Your Tricks: https://youtu.be/FEBf19yHpbM 🔥 WHAT THE DAILY PUSH IS ABOUT🔥 https://www.thedailypush.com The Daily Push is a project made by skateboarders for skateboarders covering everything you need to know to improve how you skate and feel when you skate. Session hacks, recovery, training, nutrition, mindset, and so much more. If you're looking to increase your energy levels, pop, longevity and to just feel better on and off your board, The Daily Push has you covered! #skateboarding #mindset #christianameans

Was this the biggest tre flip that will ever be done?! I dunno, but I think we’re pretty close to that limit. Until we get robots skating at least... Ah nah, I just realised the future of skating is just gunna be a bunch of people sitting at home controlling robot skaters out in the streets. Anyway, that’s going off track… Research was done on skaters jumping down a 9 stair and impact forces as high as 17x their bodyweight were measured. That’s the amount of force that the ground exerts back into their body upon impact. Down El Toro 20, that could be around 25x or more (according to some equations spat out by Chatgpt). To put this in perspective, running can be around 3x body weight in force with each step. The ability to tolerate this amount of force is absolute madness and requires some insane strength levels. Like really, really insane amounts of strength. The average person would almost certainly get injured jumping down something this big. Before @chrisjoslin_ started taking care of himself, he was already massively resilient - dropping some of the biggest bangers in the game, but now he’s combining that with training, nutrition, and whatever else he’s doing, he’s getting even more resilient. And that’s not my opinion, like he says in the video, he literally says he’s never felt so good. Could he have done this without all this extra work? I could never say for sure, but from the only evidence we have (that first session he tried it 8 years ago), the answer is no. So don’t believe the myth that by your mid-late 20s you’re supposed to be sore all the time and feeling old. You’re still so, so young - you’ve just got to treat your body differently to access that youth and resilience. Share this with someone you think needs to hear it! #skateforever #skatetraining #chrisjoslin #skatelife #skateforlife

Want pop like @westgatebrandon ? Well you better skate a lot! But here's some areas to focus your resistance training on alongside skating. How much pop we have depends on how much power we can produce. Power in this situation is all about how can fast can you accelerate your own bodyweight off the ground. Our ability to do this is based on how much strength we have and also the speed we produce strength. And all of that sits on how stable you - can you create a stable enough base (your body) to produce power. The classic example is shooting a canon out a canoe - do that and you better believe you're going straight in the water! There are many different pieces within each category from how your tendons store release energy to how much muscle you have to how mentally turned up your are on that day. The final bit to training pop is all about flexing your hips and getting your knees up fast. Most of the height we get in most tricks is down to this, so we need to make sure we can blast our knees up strong and fast, and that we have the endurance to do so 100s of times in a session. DM me for more info on increasing your pop🚀 #brandonwestgate #pop #howtoollie #howtopop #skatetraining #skateboardworkout #skateworkout