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I’m just happy to be wasting grown-up money on skateboards to ride 10 mins on a path for coffee and groceries.
Unlikely to ever reach any agreeable level of skill. Cruising and carving was my ceiling. All the Dogtown and Z Boys vids made me depressed I never learned to ride properly.
pdlouche-
I’m just happy to be wasting grown-up money on skateboards to ride 10 mins on a path for coffee and groceries.
This is a nice way to think about it.
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I'm in a similar boat - on the upside, skateboards you barely ride are cheaper than the bike equivalent & easier to hide away.
I've ended up with a couple of surf skates & resigned myself to a life of cruising round the skateparks when they're empty, having a lovely time of it & having no intention of leaving the ground.
One of my mates (also 45) has recently gone all in on the street / park stuff and is doing pretty well with it - although recently suffered a proper shinbastard which caused an existential crisis & a limp for a week
Tonts
mcJ78
This is true and the issue I also have is that, although I haven’t had a skateboard for 20 odd years, I haven’t stopped watching skate videos. So i still look at the park imagining what could be done by people with many, many times more skill than me as well as imaging what 18 year old me could have done.