Any adult skateboarders on here?

Any adult skateboarders on here?

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ph1l5

5,024 posts

201 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Im 35 and in the same boat mate. I just bought a A Renner Z in blue from the skate hut, but havent had a chance to properly test it out you. Never to old smile

phil1979

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3,540 posts

214 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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ph1l5 said:
Im 35 and in the same boat mate. I just bought a A Renner Z in blue from the skate hut, but havent had a chance to properly test it out you. Never to old smile
Is the quality pretty good, from what you can tell?

D1ckie

739 posts

189 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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 about

Why 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


phil1979

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3,540 posts

214 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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.

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.

v8250

2,724 posts

210 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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!"

ph1l5

5,024 posts

201 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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 smile

loughran

2,731 posts

135 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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It's the falling off that puts me off, it just hurts when you get older. smile

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. smile

Take a look at this, this very nearly got me going again.

http://vitaminl.tv/video/782

GTIR

24,741 posts

265 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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

D1ckie

739 posts

189 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Try this one, an older video but still 2M + views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLFZcONQAs


anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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 smile

Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels? wink

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 4th July 17:53

ellroy

7,005 posts

224 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Anthony Soprano Jnr: "What's the worst part about skateboarding? Having to tell your parents you're gay."

MarvGTI

427 posts

124 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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YOLO, bro!

You should really get back into it, who gives a flying feck what other people think.

If I saw an old dude skating, I'd high-five him!





Also, please film it!

Tc24

527 posts

138 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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Funny you ask this, as only earlier in the week I hopped back on my deck after a good few years out of action. I'm still st, but enjoyed it immensely smile

As for Renners, certainly not bad for a cheap deck. Had one years ago and it withstood a fair amount of punishment.

TinyCappo

2,106 posts

152 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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electric is the way forward now biggrin



15-25mph and 10mile range great fun even at 30. had my gran on the board at 78! she loved it!

Nuisance_Value

721 posts

252 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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 smile

Do they still do ACS Trucks and Kryptonic wheels? wink

Edited by garyhun on Friday 4th July 17:53
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.

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! smile

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 20:05

lerd

227 posts

195 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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46 still skateboard re started at 26 when my kids started skateboarding and never looked back
Go with my youngest (20) some times as we have a day out and go to the ramps
Skated in Camden last week
Couldn't care what people think, your a long time dead!
Do a mean hand stand too

FlossyThePig

4,083 posts

242 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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"adult skateboarders" is an oxymoron

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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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.

daddy cool

3,996 posts

228 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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loughran said:
Take a look at this, this very nearly got me going again.

http://vitaminl.tv/video/782
God-damn! Awesome!

omniflow

2,545 posts

150 months

Friday 4th July 2014
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"Big Reds" anyone?

Tracker Full Tracks

And totally struggling to remember what make my Deck is, but the name "Stacey Peralta" is ringing some bells.

I can't quite cope with these modern decks with a tail at each end, and I don't like these wheels that all look like "bones"