[Closed] Is 38 too old to skate?

What do you think?

Never too old to try anything it just takes you longer to bounce back.

Skate [s]or[/s] and die! 😀

if you want to do it, then do it.
your age should have no bearing on your decision, if you're physically able to skate then i say why not?
since you used to skate "back in the day" (as did i), then i'm sure you're not likely to really care what anyone else thinks about the things you do with your life!

Nope, not long dragged my board out of the loft and treated it to some new Spitfire's.

Just need to find time to get to the skatepark...

Hell yeah , that's the spirit!! the missus dented my confidence telling me to grow up
Now a penny cruiser or alva?

IM 41 and last year came very close to buying a longboard,but the winter came and my dream driffted away :oops:,were do you live i will come out with you,let me no what board you buy dude nice 1

you know this is going to end badly, but have fun till then!

You've got another couple of years and then you're too old to do anything which doesn't involve wearing slippers.

i'd go for the alva. but i had a couple of tony alva pro models back in the 80s too.

still got a toy machine jamie thomas sat in my spare room, not been out skating for at least 12 years but i've never said i quit...

You've got another couple of years and then you're too old to do anything which doesn't involve wearing slippers.

Oh crap, I'm 46 and still climb trees..

Just be careful. I'm 48. Seven years ago bought a longboard and loved it. Fifth time out trying to foot brake on a gentle hill caught my foot and thought I'd rolled the fall nicely like I used to. Got up to find compound wrist fracture. Ruined holiday to CA booked for that weekend

Wear as much protection as you can. It might not have been cool when you were first skating but now you don't bounce so well. Be careful...

My gf said the same Dan, I'm just gone 40.

For no other reason than it's an Alva, I'd go for the Alva...enjoy! 🙂

@foxski Based in Manchester

Don't forget to dress and act like da kidz, innit!

My son had a street surfing party last week, I smashed it, loved it and peed all the kids off as I was carving the turns.
😆

@Wrighty, show off 😉

the missus dented my confidence telling me to grow up

Where's the fun in that? Bought a BMX for my 54th birthday and got featured on the FBM front page 8) - beats slippers any day!

Wish I could skate 😕 - I did try bitd when my boys were into it but I have zero sense of balance 😡 . We'll need pics of the new deck 8)

Mama - so cool.
I just hope I learn to wheelie before I turn 60.

you're [b]never[/b] too old to play;
you start to get old when you [i]stop[/i] playing.
😀

Me too Moses 😆 - keep trying eh?

My children seem most impressed that I can skate, but they are only 2 and 4. Im 40 in a few weeks. Im mentally still a skater, but my ankles, knees and beergut think otherwise.

Starting to skate in your late thirties?
Go for it! What's the worst that could happen?

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[url= http://www.middle-age-shred.com/forum/index.php?sid=c80bb61aa8da7465ce6141800bc9157c ]Never too old, some people just get older quicker than others[/url]

I personally still wear skate trainers and hanker for a skateboard and a BMX. I'm 36 but still 17 in my head. My car may be boring and my house be of the mortgaged persuasion, but i'm not dead yet

Gonz is still skating

I've spent the majority of my life skating... but I'm too old now. 32.

There is a therapist that works in another department who is in his early fifties, has a long grey beard and rides a longboard. General consensus at work is that he is slightly cooler than he is uncool. But only just 😉 .

you've still plenty of time

get your ass over to [url= http://www.middle-age-shred.com/ ]M.A.S.[/url], tons of people on there much older.

I started again about 2 years ago after about 18 years off the board and haven't looked back (discounting the broken humerous which had me off the board for 6 months).

It's a boat load of fun, and once you start seeing all the old boards you used to covet being sold for crazy money you'll hate yourself for not keeping them 🙂

Learned to RipStik at 43. What's not to like. It does take longer to heal when you fall off. But I can ride a half pipe (just).

He's possesd to skate 😈

38??? No!!!

I'm 56, and I still use my Hobie slalom board to run some steam off the dog.

Skate on!

SB

35 and got a kalani robb flexdex hiding in the shed.

It's a boat load of fun, and once you start seeing all the old boards you used to covet being sold for crazy money you'll hate yourself for not keeping them

this is true.

my mate just sold a well-used 20+ year old SMA Natas deck (the panther graphic one), complete with drill holes from rails he had fitted and a well delaminated tail, for about £150 on ebay!

BOLLOCKS! I'm 65 on the 21st of this month and its on my 'bucket list'.
Just f88king get on with it you tart.

i noticed that sports direct are selling vision street wear shoes, so i got me a pair. i was very excited, they're the first pair i've owned! and now i'm tempted to get a board, though i was never particularly good. i think i landed on my arse more than on the wheels whenever i ollied up a curb! i'm also a little scared of being seen doing it. saughton skatepark ALWAYS has kids on it, even during term-time. but if you can get over all this, then go for it! 🙂

Go for it I started again and now have a mini pipe in the back garden love it get home from work and have a skate, my 3 yr old rides his balance bike on it all the time.

DAN im in the midlands what a blow,go and get a board and skate 😆

saughton skatepark ALWAYS has kids on it, even during term-time

mostly true.
but [i]not[/i] at 7am during the week.
i'll soon be starting my pre-work skates again. often get the park to myself or mebbe share it with one or two people.

which is great if you're learning new tricks or are feeling generally shaky...

don't delay, man. get a board and get down there!

BOLLOCKS! I'm 65 on the 21st of this month and its on my 'bucket list'.
Just f88king get on with it you tart.

Word!!! 🙂

haha, perhaps i'll see you there one morning, stanley! 🙂

I'm 42 and bought my first ever pair of skate shoes a few months ago. For unicycling rather than skateboarding mind you. I'd have a go at skateboarding, but not really that interested in the idea - though I fancy having a go on a waveboard/casterboard (7yo kid on our street has just got one of those and wanted me to show him how to do it - I had to defer that being able to ride a unicycle and inline skate didn't mean I could do that!)

Skated throughout my childhood and also through my 20s/30s, bought my son and I a Lush Bahari long board each a few years ago, 46 now and was skating along the sea front in Brighton with son when I went past a group of about 10 women, heard one of them quite loudly say 'did you see that old guy on the skateboard, he ought to grow up' did make me chuckle as could imagine her husband/bfriend being some fat, footyloving beer/couch monster. I couldn't give a tuppenny f&ck what others think, if me and my son are spending some quality time and having fun it's all good to me 😀

Great thread, so much love for skateboarding 🙂

Nice wee clip of Mark Gonzales. I have a picture of him standing on a grassy hillock about 20ft from my mother. Both of them on a hill with nobody else around,its mad! It was taken at Livi.

edit: you would have to know what the deal was with Gonz in the 80's and early 90's to appreciate it I suppose. :O/

I still ride around on my driveway with my son. Having a kid is a great excuse to ride again 🙂
I take him to the skatepark to go scootering and sometimes stick my board in the car in the vein hope that there are no kids there. Haven't had a chance to have a go yet! Reason why I need the park to be empty is because I've only ridden on the flat in the last 30odd years, so don't want my beginner-ish attempts to be witnessed!
When jr first started riding his bike I use to go round with him on my skateboard, loved that.
My skateboard is from 1977 and I'm from 1964. 😉

martyn- i definitely appreciate that! the gonz was one of my faves. him, tommy guererro, dune, ed templeton, natas...

i remember going to see the world industries/plan b "tour" at south shields skate park and the gonz spent most of the afternoon drawing on the ground with chalk rather than skating. ha!

My poor old John Lucero deck is mostly used for taking the recycling boxes to the end of the drive.... Last time I went to a park I pulled my achillies pushing off.
Most of the kids I see with boards carry them, I rode everywhere, lightweights.
Anybody seen Chlorine, the film about pool skating done by one of the Sprung guys (Milan I think?)

Do it, I'm 42 got a pair of bauer turbos with krytonics and a zoo york board, thinking about getting a retro cruiser for the summer too.

Anybody seen Chlorine, the film about pool skating done by one of the Sprung guys (Milan I think?)

no, but i'm really looking forward to stacy peralta's bones brigade documentary that's due out this year though...

[url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/bones-brigade-trailer ]clip here![/url]

Watched dogtown and the z boys a couple of years ago.
I had to go and buy a new board after that.
Only go out in the dark. No one can see how old you are then. 😀

anybody got any photos of a retro cruiser please?

[url= http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Never-Skateboarders-History-World/dp/0802139450#_ ]Book[/url]

This book is worth a read, the title basically comes from the same question - how old is to old to skate?

Good book.

Anybody seen Chlorine, the film about pool skating done by one of the Sprung guys (Milan I think?)

This?

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Very enjoyable, If I won the lottery i'd have a pool in my back garden and an ambulance on permanent standby:

anybody got any photos of a retro cruiser please?

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awesome dogbert

ARACER can you start an over 40s skate thread going dude ,would be awesome now the light nights are here ????

I'm too old for tech stuff (twisted my ankle doing a nollie heelflip last time I played skate) but will happily cruise around popping ollies and manuals.

My ankles are thankful that I no longer skate, but I get tempted to go for a blast every now and then. Might treat myself to a new board this summer, never got on with my current one and it has bugger all pop left.

I'm too old for tech stuff

Thanks Kudos... this is what I was wondering...

What does 'Skating' mean to people on here?

For me it was sending it down the biggest flights of stairs I could. That feeling of catching the board with your feet is almost unbeatable. My knees are thankful I don't do this anymore and my ankles click with every step.

49 here and still manage a weekly/fortnightly vert session... Don't think I'd go for a longboard, too dull! Tricks are definitely pulled back a notch - the concrete hurts more as you get older, but the pads are so much better than the were in the 70s/80s... Aiming for my 50th at the local 11' bowl in september. Beers and inverts all round 😀

Discussing this yesterday with one of my 'other' children (the ones I look after at work) who skates. We wondered how old Stacey Peralta must be now (50-ish?), and he pointed out to me how old Tony Hawk is now and that he recently tweeted that he was well chuffed (I expect he said 'stoked or something) that he could still land a 900. 😯 I can still land off a modest sized kerb. 😳

What does 'Skating' mean to people on here?

Going quick and staying smooth...with a bit of sketchiness here and there to emphasise the 'big' moves 🙂

The Southern Yeti - Member
I've spent the majority of my life skating... but I'm too old now. 32.

I've been skating over 20 years. I'm 32 in a few weeks... do I have to stop being rad!?

I have mentioned this before but I am one of the few who has keys to a miniramp. http://www.idealbirmingham.co.uk/pages/the-ramp

I would be more than happy to open it up so we could go for a skate, Wednesday is open season ramp night and is open until about 9... I can use it any other day. there is a donation of £2 required to ride though.

My riding is pretty much reduced to no flat landings, cos my knees are done for... too many handrails and big stair sets, I can still skate driveways, funboxes, spines, hips, flat bars etc, just not steps or rails bigger than about 4 steps high.

Andy

The big question has to be is 32 too old to START skating?

Didn't really do much as a kid just played about really (more into the bikes!!).
I'm increasingly tempted to go out and buy a board though

Just a little ollie from the Gonz at the ramp I have the keys to...

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Andy - I had a bimble on the Ideal mini over Christmas when I went to pick my wheels up.

Quite shocking how rusty you get so quickly. Having said that I guess it's been around 7 years since I was skating regularly!

well in fancy a mini shred you know where to find me... 😉

Daz I bet you're still a ruler !

Im going to play on my local bowl again soon.

Cheers Alex, just takes a few months to get back up to speed these days! 😳

Well i've gone and done it!
just picked up one of these http://skateshop.com.au/products/keen-dusters-cruiser-green-slash-yellow
Will try out later when i take the dog out before A&E!!! 😆

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(Needs a lapper)

haze what make and model is your board please dude??

Foxski, pic ain't me...it's how I imagine Dan will be exercising his dog from now on...

LOL ok anybody no the model and make of the longboard please??

Haven't got the foggiest what the board is, but look at Lush and Urban blue, but He's standing on the wrong bit for longboarding, get up the front! 😉