Twenty minute tricking.

So I was early for a meet-up the other day and got bored just standing there.

I spotted a patch of grass across the road and figure; why not? Crossed over, ditched my shoes, bag and pocket-junk and start with some gentle warm-up tricks. Now, my tricks aren't the best, but this day they seemed to just work. Even in jeans and with a poor warm-up, I was training hard and pulling out some tricks I can rarely land in the gym.

The sun was out and I had great music playing, getting me even more engrossed in training. I was having such a great time training, I forgot that I was on the corner of a huge crossroads. After a while I took a break and looked up see an old lady pointing at me from the bus stop and chatting to somebody who had just arrived at the stop. I threw a polite smile and carried on.

Another 5 minutes or so go by, me oblivious to the world when I land my first double b-twist on grass, I grin, celebrate and then throw b-twist swing-thru cork straight after, landing that as well. Then I heard something over my headphones and looked up to see one of the most uplifting things that's ever happened to me: A group of people on a bus pointing at me through the window, people stopped at the traffic light applauding out of car windows and a car on the other road honking.

The old lady was still sat there, as she had been for the full 20 minutes. With buses once every 15 minutes from that stop, she either wasn't waiting for a bus or had taken time to watch me tricking. In either case, She was taking her time to watch some kid throwing himself about. This made me think a couple of things:
- When was the last time I took my time to stop and just appreciate something?
- And that I've become completely desensitised to demanding sports and forget how they might be impressive to random bystanders.

Normally I hate tricking in public because I'm not terriffic at it; I get self-conscious. I don't think I would have even tried tricking if I'd realised people would be watching, but in those 20 minutes that I forgot anybody was watching I pulled off some of my best tricks, and got applauded by strangers. Good day.

Tl;dr: Take time to appreciate things. Realise how difficult it is to do whatever training you do. Have a good time training, it feels much better.

Ben