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find it hard to mentally get over the feeling of impending ankle doom
It’s not a bad thing to feel fear. Three old mates of mine (in our 40s) with fractures during the last year, skating with their kids. Wrist, ankle and kneecap. Wear protection (they didn’t)…
Edit: are there skateparks with soft stuff to land on while getting the hang of a trick? Like there is with trampolines, ski/snowboard jumps etc.
russmeyer-
I remember that there used to be a humungous foam pit at Skaterham! I’ve never seen anything ‘soft’ at a crete park tho.
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Take your own crash mat?
EDIT:: Don't modern playparks have rubberised concrete? Could try some static tricks there before inevitably getting berated by a hoard of Karens; The new getting kicked out of spots by security guards.
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I try to learn stuff rolling usually - I find it a bit sketchy practicing stuff static. I had a little skate this morning, nailed a couple of nose slides, which I’d previously been bailing on all the time. Also managed to get my ollies and fs ollies popping much higher when I realised I had my foot too far back on the tail. Put it more in the scoopy bit and instantly doubled my pop!
vilms5000
monkdagola
AlexD
Interesting to see a few, ahem…mature? people either coming out of retirement or starting new.
Recently my eldest (6yo) has got to the age where she’s interested in learning to skate. I can take her to a skatepark and we can both skate around and have fun, which I’m enjoying immensely. She’s got the hang of rolling down banks and she’s starting to learn how to roll up and down transitions.
I’m also really enjoying getting back in to trying to do tricks rather than just cruising.
I’ve got soft ricta clouds on my set up, which are great for cruising, but I’m finding the lack of revert a bit punishing - I’ve got a package hopefully arriving today with some harder wheels and some posh hollow Indys -rubs hands with glee-
One thing I’m struggling with is committing to tricks. Compared to before when all my bones were bendy and my joints not crumbly, i could just fling myself at stuff. Now I find it hard to mentally get over the feeling of impending ankle doom. Even stuff like pop shuvvits and heel/kick flips I just find really hard to keep both feet on. Has any other geriatric skaters had any similar issues and do you have any suggestions?