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If you’re afraid of falling, wear protectors and just deliberately fall a couple of times to test the level of protection and practice falling to build confidence.
I’m bad at sports and use skating to exercise, so I suck and regularly fall ~3 times per hour, but it’s not a big deal at all and rarely hurts. And over time you really learn how to fall in a more controlled fashion, which is a useful skill to have by itself - it’s prevented me from getting injured when I tripped and fell on a hike.

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practice falling

I’m not a skater, but I do parkour and I really can’t stress this enough.

If you know how to fall it takes away your fear, because you know how to act when it happens. And pro skaters are damn good at falling, even from a parkour perspective.

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