[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. 😉