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

[FredClogs]

I skated up to the ave of about 25, when my son was 5 (i was 41) we bought him a skate board and whilst demonstrating how to ollie i fell onto my hip, which was already dodgy... Oh how we laughed... (well they did).

Practice Ollie's on grass first.

Things do take considerably longer to heel once past a certain age, but you only live once.

[Hoofy]

designforlife said:

At my peak i used to go through a pair of shoes in 2 months, and decks about the same...other than that it was basically a free hobby lol.

"I've had this skateboard from the start, it's had 30 new wheels, 14 new trucks and 20 new boards but it's the same skateboard, Dave."

[Bill]

bazza white said:

I did the same but with trampolining, 20 year break thought it would be like riding a bike. Within 10 minutes i was on my was to hospital with 2 crushed vertebrae, disc damage and torn muscles. Turns out it wasnt like riding a bike.

I think plenty of born again cyclists will testify that it's exactly like that.

[J B L]

Yep. 40 next year. Bought a longboard last year. It's been fun.

[nute]

Lots of electric ones out there if you can’t be arsed to push. There is quite an active London Facebook group for electric boards as well.

Better still try one of these -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHMM6v3i5s&t=24...

I’m the wrong side of 50 and I use one to get about all the time rather than driving. Surprisingly good excersise too, tho everyone in the village I live in thinks I’m a bit odd, not that I care.

[.:ian:.]

phil1979 said:

I turn 39 this July. This was my pressie to myself when I turned 35

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[HairyMaclary]

Bill said:

You're going to look stupid*.

*Unless you are actually Tony Hawk.

You know Tony Hawk is 50 now! Ffs I'm old.

I'd love to have a go. I'd choose BMX but after having a go at the velodrome recently I dont think I'll last that long around a dirt track.

[Captain Smerc]

PixelpeepS3 said:

Um, i think you'll find Marty McFly invented the skateboard in 1955

That's true

[nute]

Lots of electric ones out there if you can’t be arsed to push. There is quite an active London Facebook group for electric boards as well.

Better still try one of these -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHMM6v3i5s&t=24...

I’m the wrong side of 50 and I use one to get about all the time rather than driving. Surprisingly good excersise too, tho everyone in the village I live in thinks I’m a bit odd, not that I care.

[PorkInsider]

Go for it, OP.

20 years ago I was BMX’ing at Wakefield Skatepark with Jamie Bestwick & co when BMX saw its resurgence (look where JB is now)..

We all seemed too old for it even then (we were mid 20s), but I still think the coolest thing I ever saw on wheels was a guy who would have been 40ish back then pulling manuals, nose wheelies, and all kind of moves on the vert ramps which wouldn’t haven’t been a twinkle in someone’s eye when he was a kid.

He honestly looked like he’d come straight from a drab accounting job into a different world.

[chris4652009]

Update:
F*** it, ordered this yesterday (never able to afford this brand when I was a kid), along with some 56mm 78a Ricta clouds and ABEC 7 bearings.
https://www.skatehut.co.uk/skateboards/complete_sk...

R.I.P me




Edit to add:
oh any my wife pointed out it would have actually been 30 years since I last skated, yeah thanks baby

[chris4652009]

daddy cool said:

42 here. Last skated in ~1994.
My two skateboards (Powel Perelta Steve Saiz and Death Box Pete Dossett) are still in my mums garage. Im over there tonight... this thread has got me wondering whether to dig them out. What were the truck rubbers made out of - polyurethane?

Funnily enough my old Rector knee and elbow pads (also almost 30 years old) were brought back into service when I went mountain biking at Bike Park Wales last year. While the foam inside had turned to dust, I figured they would be better than no protection at all...

Did you dig the old boards out?

[Andy_mr2sc]

I keep flitting in and out of this idea too. 44 now and not skated for 30 years.
I keep looking at these:

http://longboardsbygrizbee.webs.com/

Probably a bit more sensible!

[chris4652009]

Andy_mr2sc said:

I keep flitting in and out of this idea too. 44 now and not skated for 30 years.
I keep looking at these:

http://longboardsbygrizbee.webs.com/

Probably a bit more sensible!

Very usable.........

[Andy_mr2sc]

Well I figure there's enough problems with the NHS at the moment without me going near a half pipe on a 30x10" and promptly adding to it!

[ApOrbital]

I still have my santa cruz board from the early 80s think I would snap a few bones if I went on it now.

[chris4652009]

ApOrbital said:

I still have my santa cruz board from the early 80s think I would snap a few bones if I went on it now.

It'll be fun though, right

[ApOrbital]

Yeah might get it out from the loft and look a fool break a few moves and bones.

[DanielSan]

wildoliver said:

I'd love to get in to skateboarding but I was rubbish at it as a kid and have no reason to believe at 36 I'm going to be any better. But I would like to get back in to bmxs which I thoroughly enjoyed as a kid and wish I still had one of my old frames as they are like rocking horse now. The only thing that puts me off is the thought of how I will look on a BMX 20+ years and quite a few pies later.....

This is where mountain biking comes in, all the off road fun of BMXing but you’ll see more fellas and ladies the same age who are suffering as much as you are on the climbs but having just as much fun on the way down.

[RC1807]

OP: give it a go, but don't expect it will be easy!

I've a younger mate whose son wanted to learn to skateboard a few years ago, but my mate's never done it. I went to his house and helped the son out. I'd not been on a board for 30 years, and I surprised myself that I could still do a lot of stuff I could as a teen, and I didn't even bruise my pride!
The young lad's now a whizz on his board as he's been practicing a LOT!