Yes, all good points thank you. My biggest problem over the last few years had been not allowing myself enough rest between sessions. I most definitely overtrain, riding my bike has become an addiction unfortunately. I'm out there riding 1-3 hours almost every single day now, often split into a morning and late afternoon session. My poor muscles just don't have sufficient time to recover, I just often feel overwhelmingly compelled to ride every day whether my body agrees or not. I need to work on that obviously.I have at least started alternating legs, so one day I do all tricks while standing on my left leg then the next day only tricks where I stand on my right leg. I have been working hard towards being able to balance and do tricks on either leg in either position (switch foot vs regular in both regular and opposite). I have made considerable progress on the back wheel doing this now over the last 1-1.5 years, almost every backwheel trick I am working on all four variations (left regular, left switch foot, right regular, right switch foot). Was a very slow and frustrating process at first but once I finally started getting comfortable on my opposite leg (which is my right leg) things just started suddenly falling into place. I'm even now finding I can balance certain tricks better/easier on my opposite side then I can on regular. Only applies on the back wheel so far as I have a lot of work ahead of me when I bring this process to the front wheel.So this has helped tremendously because each leg now gets a day of lighter duty. Problem is flatland requires more than just leg muscles, back/abs/shoulders/arms etc all get used and also need proper rest as well...And I need to eat more and eat better. I'm already drinking tons of water everyday, can't seem to keep up always but I do my best.Edit: damnit why does this forum randomly change text size like that when I try to edit a post? So annoying Edit 2: never mind it corrected itself somehow on the last edit
For me it was simply a combination of time, concentration, motivation and persistence. Mostly these are just cliche words but they fit as there really has been nothing more to it than that for me. If you're out there on your bike regularly and you aren't just 'going through the motions" but instead are actually concentrating on your riding, then very slowly but surely the pieces come together. It doesn't usually just snap into place suddenly: often you'll go weeks/months and only make the tiniest amount of progress... but add a bunch of these tiny steps in progress together over enough time/practice and eventually you've got yourself some decent skills.