Returning to skateboarding after 20+ years!!!!!

[Sway]

Still alive, and lusting after a Lush Samba after a very quick play on one a little while ago...

The carves...

[RC1807]

Looking back at earlier posts, I'm wondering where my skateboard is now, since it has California Slalom trucks and original 70mm Kryps with precision bearings on - from 1979 or so. I'll bet my eldest brother nabbed it and it's now in Illinois!! Those wheels are crazily expensive now!

I'm using one of my mate's many skateboards now. Back on at 51, just cruising, nothing wild.

[FatboyKim]

Any significant injuries to report then?

Dug out my old board from my mum's garage after the combination of reading through this thread and finding an old pair of Vans in the wardrobe. Think they were £12 when I bought them 17/18 years ago (I'm 31 now), and they're now about 60 bloody quid! I'll keep my old pair thanks!

The Vans are okay but the board looks a bit worse for wear now and the bearings a bit noisy. Wood looks a bit brittle so I don't think I'll be going in for a hard boardslide grind any time soon I had a zoom around on the pavement outside and it all came back to me when I remembered that it's all in the shoulders. Might get some softer wheels and treat it to some new bearings.

[matthias73]

Just go buy a brand new one.

What's the point in being middle aged if you can't just walk into a skate shop and buy everything you couldn't afford when you were young?

(I've had a shandy, so I'm being particularly financially irresponsible)

[RC1807]

NO injuries - and do what Matthias suggested!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Don't buy a new one, it's not scruffy, it's patina.

[BertyFish]

I skated from the age of 9 - 18ish, (1989) im 42 this year....
Not much around then, waxing curbs and find stairs etc,trips to Radlands.

There are so many parks with ramps now.

I got my 7 year old a board last months and i think im going to have to get one...
Im just unsure on width now? 8 - 8.5?

Thinking this looks ok -

https://rollersnakes.co.uk/collections/complete-sk...

[BertyFish]

Forgot to add we would make our own ramps from crates etc
Kids these days are spoilt, we have this 3 minutes drive away…

[PurpleTurtle]

BertyFish said:

I skated from the age of 9 - 18ish, (1989) im 42 this year....
Not much around then, waxing curbs and find stairs etc,trips to Radlands.

There are so many parks with ramps now.

I got my 7 year old a board last months and i think im going to have to get one...
Im just unsure on width now? 8 - 8.5?

Thinking this looks ok -

https://rollersnakes.co.uk/collections/complete-sk...

I was looking on Rollersnakes the other night too, I'm 50 in a few weeks. I had a board when I was 7 in 1979 at the tail end of the '70s skateboard craze, then it all died off a bit whilst BMX took the UK by storm in the early to mid-80s, before getting back on a board in '87 for several years by which time wooden ramps had become the thing.

I then got into cars and motorbikes and real life and stuff, so haven't properly skated for about 30yrs. Nowadays I take our 7yo to tennis lessons every week, there is an adjacent skatepark that he's itching to have a go on. and if the truth be told so am I.

He doesn't want his old man showing him up though ... or being too good! :-)

[Wacky Racer]

I remember when the skateboard craze came to the UK in 1976, I used to sell loads of them, Skuda, Gecko with ACS trucks etc,

Then, in 1978 the newspapers started doing stories about how dangerous they were. with broken arms etc, and sales dried up almost overnight.

The craze has come and gone to a lesser extent a few times since.

[ade73]

Bit a a tip for anyone starting up again. Get some harder rubber bushes for your trucks.

Getting your balance back takes some time, after you haven't done it for years and maybe not as light as you were too )

I bought a full new set up in 2018 after stopping for a good number of years (started skating in 1st year of secondary school until my 30s)

Wasn't that much more for that compared to the complete set ups you can buy now.

Bought a second set of softer wheels too a while later.

I'm 48 now and I'm going for a skate on Saturday.




Old and New.

Blind deck, venture trucks, spitfire wheels.

[BertyFish]

ade73 said:

Bit a a tip for anyone starting up again. Get some harder rubber bushes for your trucks.

Getting your balance back takes some time, after you haven't done it for years and maybe not as light as you were too )

I bought a full new set up in 2018 after stopping for a good number of years (started skating in 1st year of secondary school until my 30s)

Wasn't that much more for that compared to the complete set ups you can buy now.

Bought a second set of softer wheels too a while later.

I'm 48 now and I'm going for a skate on Saturday.




Old and New.

Blind deck, venture trucks, spitfire wheels.

Nice, i do worry about wheels and most complete come with 52mm, ideally i would like something bigger,
i dont plan on flipping around more like cruising around.

[Al Gorithum]

Anyone tried a rip-stick? Takes skateboarding to another level IMO.

[andrewjamesroberts]

Al Gorithum said:

Anyone tried a rip-stick? Takes skateboarding to another level IMO.

You might as well buy a scooter

Although I did have snakeboard at one point

Edited by andrewjamesroberts on Thursday 12th May 11:54

[Al Gorithum]

andrewjamesroberts said:

Al Gorithum said:

Anyone tried a rip-stick? Takes skateboarding to another level IMO.

You might as well buy a scooter

Although I did have snakeboard at one point

Edited by andrewjamesroberts on Thursday 12th May 11:54

A scooter. How so? A rip stick twists between the foot pads and the wheel carriage rotates 180 degrees, so is much harder to use than a skate board, and nothing like a scooter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCvdfY8UlGk

[anonymous-user]

My brother did this about a year ago, I tend to think of it as his mid life crisis. He bought a couple of boards, wheels, trucks etc. and ended up putting them in the cupboard and to my knowledge never actually used them.

I guess it is cheaper in the long run that buying a sports car or chasing younger women.

[witko999]

Al Gorithum said:

Anyone tried a rip-stick? Takes skateboarding to another level IMO.

You can use them to 'wakeboard' behind a car. Just don't fall off like my friend did.

[andrewjamesroberts]

Al Gorithum said:

andrewjamesroberts said:

Al Gorithum said:

Anyone tried a rip-stick? Takes skateboarding to another level IMO.

You might as well buy a scooter

Although I did have snakeboard at one point

Edited by andrewjamesroberts on Thursday 12th May 11:54

A scooter. How so? A rip stick twists between the foot pads and the wheel carriage rotates 180 degrees, so is much harder to use than a skate board, and nothing like a scooter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCvdfY8UlGk

It was my attempt at skateboarding snobbery that from my teens to my early twenties that we laid down on any roller bladed or non skateboarder skatepark user out there (that wasn’t a BMXer as those people are hardcore).

[castex]

Skateboarding non e un crimine.

[WY86]

BertyFish said:

Forgot to add we would make our own ramps from crates etc
Kids these days are spoilt, we have this 3 minutes drive away…

I still ride bmx at the age 35, the problem with these new parks is the transitions have been designed for scooters more than skateboards or bikes, meaning they are really mellow. Good for learning and nibbling but thats about it.