Agh. This is the main reason I have no good clothes.
IT’ll be ok. Just reminded me I need to take it out of the washing machine…
Had a sick skate yesterday and Thursday.
Got the itch big time this year
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Hey! Are there any skateboarders in Doncaster?
I’ve recently started up again in my 40s after a long break. Just easing back in, relearning some old tricks and getting comfortable on the board again.
If anyone’s up for a casual skate session or can recommend some good spots, I’d appreciate it.
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Thin @anonymity can point you in the right direction for a decent park in that neck of the woods
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I’m often skating in Doncaster mate although I don’t live there. Do you know about DSC skatepark?
This is their website - very friendly vibe in there and not at all ‘cool guy’. As a rickety 53 year old I never feel out of place there. My family and I go usually a couple of times a month. I can shout you on here before go next time if you like?
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I know of DSC but I’ve never been before. I’ve mainly been skating at my local concrete skateparks, which aren’t great. Yeah sure, sounds good. Where else do you usually skate?
I live in wakefield so all over really. I really like DSC though, mainly because of the ethos of the place and the people who run it.
Cool, it must be decent to travel all that way for. I’m looking forward to checking it out. The last indoor skatepark I visited was at Graystone in Salford. It’s definitely worth visiting if you haven’t been already.
DSC is low key, a bit weird and not perfect. Unlike Greystones which is a sports centre basically.
Beginner’s bit in Donny and the outdoor DIY stuff feels like skating street
Finally allowed to skate for real after having surgery last month, skated every day this week apart from Friday (because I went hiking). I missed that so much. My new board and new Half Cabs feel goooood. Ended tonight’s skate with a back 180 fakie backside grind on a curb, I’m well Gonzarelli. Totally going skating if it’s dry tomorrow. Yeppa.
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Welcome back! 
Had a great 90 minutes solo session tonight. Just skating around mainly, but started throwing front feebles onto the small ledge which are sort of working providing I kept my weight off my front foot. Reckon I’ll be able to get them soon as they’re between front boards and front 5-0’s which I have down pretty well.
My board is also fucked so it is new everything except trucks tonight. If I can get my son to bloody sleep!! Exciting.
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Skated three times last week, I am so stiff today.
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First skate since last summer yesterday morning. Felt gooooood.
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Same. Felt shaky and scary but good. Want more now.
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Usual pool skate yesterday morning to shake off the stout haze then checked out the newer bits at the existing norwich park. Loadsa fun bits but lotsa people to swerve in and out of. Took a nice full body check that im certainly feeling today.
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My lad wanted to go to the skatepark last week so I took him. I skated of course but fuck me, I hated it. I felt like a sack of shit. I’m not overweight, but I felt so heavy. I’ve felt shit at skating for a long time now and yeah I know, it shouldn’t matter but this time it was awful and I know it’s because I don’t do it enough but unfortunately that skate had the adverse affect than your comments above. I wanted to never step on a board ever again.
I have had numerous skate dreams since, some wicked and some frustrating. I clearly have enormous love for it still, I think about it still but actually doing it puts me in such a place that ruins more than just that time trying.
I know the only way to sort this out, just skate and see how it goes, things will come back, the more I do it. I’ll never get back to a half decent level and I should accept that. But what if I never enjoy it again, because of not getting what I want from it? I don’t even feel socially connected to skateboarders.
Anyway…
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We’ve all been there.
I find my skill and confidence come and go, especially as I’ve got older.
I make gains and learn new stuff, and then I lose it again.
I’ve found the only way - for me at least - is to keep pushing through. I lose a trick for a few months, or get scared of trying it, but then if I work my way back up to it over multiple sessions it sometimes comes back. I have to skate regularly for this to work, though: I’ve found twice a week to be a minimum.
I’ve always made my biggest gains at times when I get the chance to skate every day.
Who would you try to impress anyway? We are old farts having fun, and that’s pretty cool.
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