learn to skateboard

on my 13th birthday i asked my parents to get me a board.They got me one,i started getting the hang of it (olie,manual,catwalk)but when i was trying to kickflip i fell scraped my elbow and got 33 stiches…after all that pain i told my parents i will never try skateborading again.Boy,was i wrong 3 days later i tried to do a kickflip again and guess what i did it soo its not really somthing people need to teach you or somthing you were born with practice makes perfict