I embarrassed myself; your heinous crime was being witness to my lame stunt.

[No apology necessary, in other words.]

I mean, yeah, it was stupid, but it is also pretty natural. I know you're going to call me out on the hypocrisy here, but I'm going to just ignore that fact and just say a lot of people get too scared to start things.

For what it's worth, I don't think it matters if you're bad at it or not. You're still cool either way. But I think you're intelligent and quick to learn, so I doubt it would be especially difficult for you to pick up if you had good instruction.