It will mostly depend on how much you practice, and what your body is dispositioned to do.
I have found that things like jumps, bunny hops etc have come very natural to me...but other tricks like barspins, toboggans...anything that demands smaller dexterity type stuff, are foreign to me. I started back in the 70's and 80's with dirt racing and jumps, so that is natural. A lot of the "park" and freestyle stuff is coming to me slower b/c my balance, dexterity, and muscle strength are not hones towards that stuff yet. To me, a bunny hop into a 180 is A LOT differnt than one over an obstacle....like a straight hop.
It took me about 6 months to get my jumping skills back in order (after 20+ years off of BMX, but still in singletrack and bike packing MT
, but has taken me a year to even get a 90 degree spin going. I can fakie for about 3 feet now, which took me almost 6 months to do, but my spin out of it is sloppy
Interesting too that when I was young, I could manual (we called them wheelies) for like a mile. Now, I am happy if I can get 4 feet...
what I have found is that I also now have a different definition of progression: some of it has to do with the time line that I am learning stuff in, but it also has to do with what I retain. I consider the retention of skills a kind of progression as well as the addition of new. If I retain the balance elements of a fakie, I can also apply them to a manual etc. Tha tis also progression to me.
Hope some of this helps. When I was younger, I always felt like I was "behind" where I should be. It took me a while to readjust my mindset to being more within my own plan, than comparative to other people. We all progress different and it is a waste to judge our skill development based on other people...unless you are getting paid to do it...like if your sponsor is expecting certain amounts of trickery by a given date.
I ride with some guys who won't attempt any tricks. Are happy to just ride to the park, and sit on their bikes and talk. On the otehr hand, my step son learns 4 or 5 tricks a week...rather sloppily I will say...but he is just going for it
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