Not because skating isn't fun — but because landing 1 in 20 attempts, forever, stops feeling like progress. This is a free log for practicing tricks like an athlete trains a skill, not like a session.
Most skaters don't follow any practice structure at all — show up, try things, some land, most don't, go home. There's no record of what was attempted yesterday vs. today, no sense of whether you're actually getting better or just getting lucky more often. The trick itself usually isn't the missing piece — how to practice it is.
A small number of skaters progress anyway — some seem to have a freak intuitive feel for it, but a lot of the rest stumbled, consciously or not, into something that resembles real practice structure: isolating one variable at a time, not throwing the full trick at speed from rep one. Everyone else plateaus at "tosses board, lands 1/20 if lucky" — and most of that group eventually quits.
Mitchie Brusco's breakdowns are genuinely the best resource out there for trick mechanics — what your feet should be doing, why a trick works the way it does. That analysis layer doesn't need reinventing.
The gap is what happens after you watch the video. Even with perfect technical understanding, most people go practice it the same haphazard way — full speed, no isolation, no tracking of what's actually going wrong rep to rep, no sense of when to move on. Shred Log is the layer that sits after the breakdown: turning what you just learned into something you can actually drill to consistency.
None of this is new — it's how gymnasts, climbers, and divers train. Skating just doesn't have this culture built in yet.
This isn't about making skating more serious, and it's definitely not about sucking the fun out of it — it's the opposite. The whole point is that landing something at will, with control, repeatedly, feels completely different from landing it once by accident. I think that difference is what separates people who stick with skating from people who quit.
I was in the second group for years — tossed my board around, landed stuff occasionally, never felt like there was a throughline of progress, basically stopped. This is my own attempt to get out of that using an actual structure instead of hoping intuition kicks in. It's free, runs in your browser, and your data stays on your device. Hope it helps.