

I’ve taught myself to ride a longboard by watching a ton of videos and memorizing what you need to bear in mind. I was able to get on it myself and ride around town first try. Maybe the videos just gave me enough confidence to try it and I would have had it in me anyway. But I do think they helped quite a lot with technique too. Not sure how that tranfers to swimming. I learned that like most Europeans, by being chucked into deep water.
I think it’s just that different people have different preferences. I don’t like musicals nor concerts of any kind simply because I prefer picking the music I want to listen to myself. Plus I usually prefer the studio version to live. And seeing other fans having fun doesn’t emotionally move me one way or the other. So at the end of the day I’d be paying a lot of money for a most likely lackluster evening as I have many times before accepting that it’s just not for me.