Skateboarding • Non-Gaming • Sport • Eurogamer.net

MrFlay 12 Oct 2019 08:30:13 4,663 posts
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Has anyone tried taking up skateboarding as an adult? I like the idea. It looks like a lot of fun except for the falling part.

fontgeeksogood 12 Oct 2019 08:38:02 12,913 posts
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Grow up.

I ride a BMX

Decks 12 Oct 2019 08:39:30 30,302 posts
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KD 12 Oct 2019 08:48:21 3,435 posts
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Do you like your knees? If no then maybe its time to learn.

MrFlay 12 Oct 2019 08:48:23 4,663 posts
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Hahahaha. 😐

I know this place skews to 50+ but some of you must not be dead inside.

RGeefe 12 Oct 2019 09:10:04 2,162 posts
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I've got a mate who skates in his 30s. It IS tempting. He seems pretty happy.

rice_sandwich 12 Oct 2019 09:26:34 6,727 posts
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Do a kick flip!

mothercruncher 12 Oct 2019 09:32:58 19,338 posts
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I was obsessed from about 12 to 20, then college got in the way. Recently started to visit the local skatepark with my daughter occasionally and have a roll about. It’s still amazing to carve through a bowl but, these days, I like my ankles too much to push it. Not a backward cap in sight you cunts.

JamboWayOh 12 Oct 2019 09:39:24 24,368 posts
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I'm not sure I'd be skateboarding now, my friend's now husband broke both of his legs skateboarding for the first time at the age of 40.

You-can-call-me-kal 12 Oct 2019 09:54:05 22,975 posts
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I skated from around age 8 into my early 20s. Was never great but could do flatland stuff and a few flips and grinds. My kid has got into it recently so I’ve been doing very basic stuff again just to show him how. The muscle memory is still there but there’s no way I could learn new tricks now. The 300 or so failed attempts to get it would literally break me.

Skateboarding isn’t like other sports where an hour or two a week is fun and healthy and you make steady progress. It really takes lots of practise. Skaters spend all day repeating the same trick and it can still be weeks/months/years before they nail it. The fun is the culture of hanging out in a group all day and goading each other on. It’s a lifestyle thing more than a sport.

If you feel the urge rollerblades or a bmx or something would be fun and might scratch the same itch without the brutal learning curve. There is a really good reason why you rarely see older skaters beyond Shoreditch hipsters with longboards.

wuntyate 12 Oct 2019 10:17:29 17,221 posts
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Yeah I decided to try and learn along with my son a couple of years ago. Quite enjoyed it and got good enough to kind of trundle about pavements with him but that's as far as I got. I found myself too hesitant to try anything more complex and then I began to feel like a bit of a twat so I stopped.

BreadBinLidHero 12 Oct 2019 10:18:25 10,666 posts
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Used to. Would seriously injure myself now.

Dougs 12 Oct 2019 10:35:27 99,669 posts
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@You-can-call-me-kal The practicing is something my son can't get his head around. He is desperate to be good at it but like most things, If he can't do it perfectly straight away,he gets stroppy and refuses to put the hours in.

RGeefe 12 Oct 2019 11:00:44 2,162 posts
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As others said - very much a lifestyle thing. It definitely had its heyday around the early 00s when trick videos were just taking off and it combined with music.

Now it doesn't really have anything to latch onto and got replaced by...I dunno...parkour?

You-can-call-me-kal 12 Oct 2019 11:13:23 22,975 posts
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It think it’s still pretty popular. There’s a couple of skateparks near me and they’re always busy. If anything parkour was the fad. Haven’t seen much of that around in a while.

Jono62 12 Oct 2019 11:23:45 27,008 posts
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https://media.giphy.com/media/3orieJI3IdkKWIsAGA/giphy.gif

mothercruncher 12 Oct 2019 13:01:01 19,338 posts
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It’s wall to wall Scooter kids here.

askew 12 Oct 2019 13:33:29 23,594 posts
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If I die before I wake
At least in heaven I can skate

Stan546 12 Oct 2019 14:43:14 1,329 posts
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I dream of getting back into it. But I'm fairly active and busy so don't really have the time to get into it.

I do downhill MTB which scratches that itch.

If you do try, good on you though.

Skateparks are filled with scooters and kids, but Sunday mornings they're normally fairly quiet. Find the quiet periods at your local parks and the kids are less annoying

MrFlay 12 Oct 2019 20:52:23 4,663 posts
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I'm going to try it anyway. The entry fee is extremely low and I don't care about how long it takes to learn tricks etc. It won't be boring. I want to get a kayak too but that's actually expensive. I cycle (road and trail) and do kickboxing but I want to try other things. The guy at the skate shop is in his sixties and he still does it.

elstoof 12 Oct 2019 21:57:13 27,448 posts
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I take my eldest to the skate park, she loves watching some of the teenagers and having a bit of a go as well. There’s a couple of kids who are there every weekend, really good, and one day one of their dads turned up with his lad, he was all in all the Thrasher kind of gear and high fiving the gang of 15 year olds, talking about going to some skate park with his boy earlier outside London and some massive shop with some legendary skaters they met. I figured he was an old hand, been skating since he was a boy himself - until he finally had a go, where I nearly pissed myself laughing. I can do better and I’m fucking useless

wuntyate 12 Oct 2019 22:54:10 17,221 posts
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@MrFlay go for it man!

Deleted user 12 October 2019 23:16:36

Anyone over the age of about 13 who owns a skateboard needs to have a word with themselves.

I see actual grown men gliding around Leeds in them every day.

Beardy, fat, lumberjack looking, checked shirt wearing hipster wankers about 35 years old.

Probably on their way to a stand up to talk about company core values and how they're going to really smash q4 with a winning brand narrative campaign.

Kalel basically.

elstoof 12 Oct 2019 23:23:19 27,448 posts
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See also: presumably grown men who relentlessly pursue a one sided “beef” with a stranger on a forum

Deleted user 12 October 2019 23:26:18

Brand loyalty in action

Deleted user 12 October 2019 23:28:01

Sorry, advocacy

elstoof 12 Oct 2019 23:32:39 27,448 posts
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Yeah. Except I’ve got no horse in this race mush

You-can-call-me-kal 13 Oct 2019 06:52:54 22,975 posts
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To be fair he’s somewhat got my number. While I don’t dress like a hipster from ten years ago like they apparently do in Leeds, I do have some minor hipsterish tendencies. Although as above, my skating days are long behind me.

I also still don’t think Fabian Deplh is worth at least £50m, the source of this astonishingly pathetic beef.

Edited by You-can-call-me-kal at 07:12:01 13-10-2019

elstoof 13 Oct 2019 08:20:09 27,448 posts
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All those £5.50 bowls of cereal in shoreditch have really skewed your sense of value

You-can-call-me-kal 13 Oct 2019 08:29:42 22,975 posts
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Deep fried avocado in rice crispy marmite coating is so unashamedly meta hipster it kinda deserves some respect imo.

Genuinely want to try their fruity pebble fried chicken.