999 out of 1000 kids don’t spend 5 min/day on sw ollies. For your kid to stand out from the rest, simply practice this basic skill.
Like anywhere, posture is all important. Your 15 pound baby suddenly weighs 45 pounds when your posture is off.
At a minimum, use 10 to 15 pound dumbbells to work shoulder rotation. Understanding rotation, and feeling it, will save your neck. Then we understand how to load our shoulder when keeping a 15 pound human safe.
We can see the child’s posture as their safety, also we’re far less likely to make mistakes if our posture is on point.
What we want to feel with rotation is the back of the shoulders right behind the deltoids. For most people these muscles are not activated or warmed up, ever. Especially skateboards.
When activated these muscles unload the neck. This opens up tons of possibilities for releasing tension, relaxing the nervous system, improving breathing, performance go through roof.