Any adult skateboarders on here?
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phil1979 said:
Is the quality pretty good, from what you can tell?
Quality is great of the Renner Z series, best sub 50 quid skateboard aboutWhy don't you try this instead of skateboards, www.loadedboards.com ..... chilled and relaxing to ride next to your son on his scooter, the Sama boards are excellent
D1ckie said:
Quality is great of the Renner Z series, best sub 50 quid skateboard about
Why don't you try this instead of skateboards, www.loadboards.com..... chilled and relaxing to ride next to your son on his scooter
Thanks.Why don't you try this instead of skateboards, www.loadboards.com..... chilled and relaxing to ride next to your son on his scooter
To be honest, what I want to do is take the board out when he's on his scooter and, when no-one's looking, start doing all the old tricks again, ideally behind some sort of hedge so that no one can see me!
Then, when they're all in bed, I sneak out with the board in the back of the car, and hit the industrial estates in private etc.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Who gives a flying fk what your look is? If you enjoy it, do it. If others don't think it's a good look, then they can look away. One of the advantages of getting old is no longer caring what irrelevant people think of you.
+100 very well put...I'm 49 later this year and when on holiday, particularly in the Alpes, my son and both skateboard together. When I was a teenager I just couldn't get the hang of it. Now though, I can trundle along all day long. Plus, we love the looks we get from some other folk seeing a greying professional male having absolute carefree fun. It's even better when we're playing cricket together in the local park...the Frogs stop and watch for ages at these mad Englishmen. We've had so many families stopping, watching and wondering what's is this crazy game. The uneducated ones ask is this Baseball? To which the reply is an "absolutement, non!"phil1979 said:
Thanks.
when no-one's looking, start doing all the old tricks again, ideally behind some sort of hedge so that no one can see me!
Then, when they're all in bed, I sneak out with the board in the back of the car, and hit the industrial estates in private etc.
Ha Ha Thats exactly my plan. quality looks good and to be honest for £50 im not that bothered, although have started to look at better wheels now when no-one's looking, start doing all the old tricks again, ideally behind some sort of hedge so that no one can see me!
Then, when they're all in bed, I sneak out with the board in the back of the car, and hit the industrial estates in private etc.
It's the falling off that puts me off, it just hurts when you get older.
I'm 52, stated skating at 15, skated and surfed for ten years but haven't really hopped on a board for a long long time. I still have them, G&S Fibre flex, Kryptonics and Bones, Bennett trucks and Tracker trucks, Norcon helmets... All gently gathering dust. I'm probably fitter now than I was at 25 but not as bendy, I think you have to leave these things to the young.
Of course, 40's young to me now.
Take a look at this, this very nearly got me going again.
http://vitaminl.tv/video/782
I'm 52, stated skating at 15, skated and surfed for ten years but haven't really hopped on a board for a long long time. I still have them, G&S Fibre flex, Kryptonics and Bones, Bennett trucks and Tracker trucks, Norcon helmets... All gently gathering dust. I'm probably fitter now than I was at 25 but not as bendy, I think you have to leave these things to the young.
Of course, 40's young to me now.
Take a look at this, this very nearly got me going again.
http://vitaminl.tv/video/782
This is an old mate of mine showing some kids how it's done. He must be at least 40yo in that clip.
Jason Boyd was an accomplished BMX'er in his day.
http://youtu.be/Yv4xsTFSeaU
Jason Boyd was an accomplished BMX'er in his day.
http://youtu.be/Yv4xsTFSeaU
I'm 51 now and used to be a regular down the South Bank and Skate City in my teens.
I has a go on a friends motorised board in the US last year - I had the balance but not so sure I would fancy riding a ramp
Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels?
I has a go on a friends motorised board in the US last year - I had the balance but not so sure I would fancy riding a ramp
Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels?
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 4th July 17:53
garyhun said:
I'm 51 now and used to be a regular down the South Bank and Skate City in my teens.
I has a go on a friends motorised board in the US last year - I had the balance but not so sure I would fancy riding a ramp
Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels?
In our youth me and my mates used to skate a lot (my last deck was a Cabellero, still got it somewhere) Anyway, one of my very good friends of 30 years now did (until very recently) skate bowl and ramp and he's just turned 50. Only started to tone it down due to the damage to his knees it has started to do so has gone back to surfing again instead.I has a go on a friends motorised board in the US last year - I had the balance but not so sure I would fancy riding a ramp
Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels?
Edited by garyhun on Friday 4th July 17:53
My other mate is 45, same as me, and he regularly rides 25 miles everyday on his BMX and can still show up younger guys on the ramp.
Please bear in mind this isn't some SoCal hippy utopia, we live and play in the north of Britain, where skating and surfing doesn't look like an advert for holidays in LA or wherever. I unfortunately am too long out of the saddle to take up skating again and middle age has well and truly captured me, but I don't think my friends antics are anything unusual, it's just what they like doing.
Oh and mate 1 had a set of purple kryptoniCS back in the day and he's started making his own decks, proper old school ones none of these modern twigs!
eta pretty sure superman never skated!
eta2 here's a pic, maybe a couple of years old, so 48ish at the time
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Edited by Nuisance_Value on Friday 4th July 19:49
Edited by Nuisance_Value on Friday 4th July 20:05
ellroy said:
Anthony Soprano Jnr: "What's the worst part about skateboarding? Having to tell your parents you're gay."
But you're missing the point. Coming out as gay when you're young can be traumatic, but not when you're in your 30s or older. You'd just shout about your gayness from the rooftops and if people don't like it they can bloody well p1ss off.I'm 51. I care what my wife thinks and what my sons think. Everyone else, including my mum, brothers and friends, can like it or fking lump it.
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