Another thing that happens is you can get hit by someone next to you, that has just as little experience, doing it a lot better than you on their first try. It

Another thing that happens is you can get hit by someone next to you, that has just as little experience, doing it a lot better than you on their first try. It doesn't help if this person is way younger than you to boot. Kids generally get more slack for not being good at things, as well, whereas with adults, since there are many adults who've done X since they were young, being an adult who just started X makes you extra bad and sometimes a minority. I have gotten the "why are you so bad at this?" reaction from people before when doing new things. Especially with anything physical, I improve rather slowly.