Frontside carve grind unlocked
That was a long battle on multiple fronts. First challenge was to maintain speed to be able to reach the coping. Second challenge was not to freak out and jump off the board the moment I heard a metal-on-metal sound.
Eventually my mind calmed down - skateboarding is such a mental game - and I realized I‘m not gonna die if I throw my legs up a little bit higher so that the trucks hit the coping.
This move also unlocked better frontside carves in the larger pool. I‘m now less scared to go up higher on frontside carves and overall can keep a faster speed cruising around. Now it's about working up to reach the tiles, and eventually the pool coping, which is a completely different ball game.