At what age did your skateboarding progression stop...

[GAY]

Definitely coincided with coming out of the womb for me.

[rawbertson.]

i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

[OhioGuy]

i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

Same. Riding doesn’t get enough attention. I remember when I started I could barely stand on a board without falling. Now I can throw down regular and switch, and only fall if I hit a rock or something.

Just cruising with my favorite Indy’s is super fun.

[headtowall]

14

[GAY]

i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

I feel this actually. During the pandemic I started skating a ton and sometimes I'd just switch push around a parking lot. I really enjoyed the feeling of getting more and more comfortable doing that, just getting in little switch ollies and manuals and whatnot. It was way low impact obviously, but I'm nearly 50 so I'm alright with saying goodbye to stairs and gaps.

[skunty]

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i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

[close]

Same. Riding doesn’t get enough attention. I remember when I started I could barely stand on a board without falling. Now I can throw down regular and switch, and only fall if I hit a rock or something.

Just cruising with my favorite Indy’s is super fun.

Honestly I think it really helped me get better when I realized everything where your feet don't come off the board is basically just augmented versions of things you do for riding. Like an ollie is an exaggerated version of lifting your nose up and getting lightfooted to go over a crack.

[pops]

I was progressing fast in my twenties and felt very consistent until I got hurt badly. I pretty much had to learn ollies like I did day one. I lost a lot of tricks but learned a lot of new ones and found a whole new perspective to my skating. I just love to go out skating, hit everything on the way and have a good time.

[IpathCats]

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i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

[close]

I feel this actually. During the pandemic I started skating a ton and sometimes I'd just switch push around a parking lot. I really enjoyed the feeling of getting more and more comfortable doing that, just getting in little switch ollies and manuals and whatnot. It was way low impact obviously, but I'm nearly 50 so I'm alright with saying goodbye to stairs and gaps.

I noticed myself doing this when i deleted my IG.

idk why exactly

maybe because i wasnt focused on getting a clip to post? idk

but i share this experience to some degree.

[OhioGuy]

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i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

[close]

Same. Riding doesn’t get enough attention. I remember when I started I could barely stand on a board without falling. Now I can throw down regular and switch, and only fall if I hit a rock or something.

Just cruising with my favorite Indy’s is super fun.

[close]

Honestly I think it really helped me get better when I realized everything where your feet don't come off the board is basically just augmented versions of things you do for riding. Like an ollie is an exaggerated version of lifting your nose up and getting lightfooted to go over a crack.

Exactly! I remember hearing one pro say one reason Daewon Song is so good is cause he rode around for a long time before doing tricks.

Folks often talk about how much they suck, but skateboards are not like bikes—the average person can’t ride one. So anyone who can should be proud of themselves. There’s nothing easy about any of this lol

[Banned from the room]

I haven't stopped. Its just a different direction now. I've lost tricks but they aren't far away. If I wanted them I could get them back. Pop is really the only thing I've lost. Also my transition skills are not there anymore but I rarely skate transition now the Orchard bowl is gone. If I had one more winter with it id have it all back no problem. Plus some new ones. I just need a wooden ramp of any size id get everything back easy af. Probably could do it at the park but I just hate eating shit on concrete and then having to climb out the deep ass bowl. Zero fun for me. Wooden ramps are my shit.
Also i have much better switch than i did in 2002 when i retired to just cruising. I never had switch BS and Nollie Fs. Now I got them pretty good. I just had to think about it and try it more.
Before i just didnt care to push through the ugly feeling I got from them. Pretty soon ill have switch back tails on tallish curbs and small ledges. Way further than i thought id be when i came back in 2016.

I almost got back 80 fakie 5oh locked in again on curbs. Really that's all i need to do rn in my skating. I can kickflip on to the manny pad at lynch. That was the goal since 2016. I thought id never get it back but i did.

 I'm ok with all that except not being able to do big rails. My flat bar game is pretty tight rn and I loved skating handrails as a kid. I just get scared that i could end this streak of awesome I'm on so I'm taking it as slow as I can.  Also trash cans. I wish i could still get over a can. I only got like 4 boards today. That's one less than last year. I'm not sure why. I'm afraid I wont be able to get on a ledge soon and is why i skate my curb every single day.

this summer is the flip in summer. I'm going to lock it all in. I cant believe I've been blessed to skate street almost everyday since 2016. If it wasn't for all the horrors id say I'm in a dream.

[Banned from the room]

Ben Degros and my friend Abe got me serious about skating again. Same with you Pals. I was almost afraid to talk to other skaters during my 14 year hiatus of just angry cruising and I love skating as a whole way more than I did in the early 00s today. Real true street level core skating is more beautiful than ever imo. I aint talking about just pros. im talking about us as a community.

I started feeling pain at age 35 tho. Before i was able to slam and be tougher than the ground. Now the ground has my respect as an adversary.

I do wish we could kick Nike out of skating tho.

[work_lurker]

I'm 29 and I think around 24 is when I stopped trying to "push it" and started to just have more fun skating. Realized I had already become too old to break into the industry, and stopped trying to film as much, or do shit that was really scary. I still skate couple times a week though, and am in the best shape of my life, didn't get burnt out or anything sad.

I've sacked enough rails, and rolled enough ankles, to just want to skate ditches and small tranny forever more now.

[SatanicPanic]

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i dont wanna sound too out there but i feel like every time i skate my turning or balance or whatever gets better even. doesnt even have ot be tricks. i am just better at riding the board. especially switch cuase i neglected that for ages. i think it would take a lifetime for that to catch up to my regular, so i dont see that ever stopping progressing if you think about it. i need to get my switch and fakie manuals as good as i can too... really primitive stuff

[close]

Same. Riding doesn’t get enough attention. I remember when I started I could barely stand on a board without falling. Now I can throw down regular and switch, and only fall if I hit a rock or something.

Just cruising with my favorite Indy’s is super fun.

[close]

Honestly I think it really helped me get better when I realized everything where your feet don't come off the board is basically just augmented versions of things you do for riding. Like an ollie is an exaggerated version of lifting your nose up and getting lightfooted to go over a crack.

[close]

Exactly! I remember hearing one pro say one reason Daewon Song is so good is cause he rode around for a long time before doing tricks.

Folks often talk about how much they suck, but skateboards are not like bikes—the average person can’t ride one. So anyone who can should be proud of themselves. There’s nothing easy about any of this lol

This is a great point. Even relatively easy shit takes forever to learn. Just being able to cruise without really thinking about it is fucking cool

[BootsWithTheFerg]

Does it ever? Probably subjective regardless. Feel like as long as you got the capacity to do it physically, progression really up to you.

It's never too late to put on a pair if half cabs. Grab a case of coors banquet. And just cruise around the bowl. That's progression in itself. Regression in skateboarding can be just as crucial to enjoying skateboarding as your bones grow old. At least compared to progressing in your youth.

It'd be rad to still be hitting hubbas and shit. But no shame in stepping on down to the curbs. Slappy days.

As always it's what you make it.

[Skatebrain]

I’d say goals change.   Gotta have the right perspective with skating past 40.  Can’t compare yourself with a 25 year old,  Also can’t even compare yourself with yourself from 10 years ago.   But if you look at at just overcoming a challenge,  simpler things become more of a challenge. Thus you can still get a feeling of accomplishment.

[Ray C. Usery]

48 years old, learned feeble grinds last week and took to a curb this weekend and did them on a pure evil beamer. My best years in skating when I still had all the tricks that I've forgotten and was learning new ones was 35 to 38. I've been skating since I was 10, injuries, work and women are the only things that take me away

[Fartknocker415]

Does it ever? Probably subjective regardless. Feel like as long as you got the capacity to do it physically, progression really up to you.

It's never too late to put on a pair if half cabs. Grab a case of coors banquet. And just cruise around the bowl. That's progression in itself. Regression in skateboarding can be just as crucial to enjoying skateboarding as your bones grow old. At least compared to progressing in your youth.

It'd be rad to still be hitting hubbas and shit. But no shame in stepping on down to the curbs. Slappy days.

As always it's what you make it.

I like this sentiment. Its like what the other homie was saying about switch riding. Regression can almost be a type of progression.., for your mind.....

[JoseCansnake0]

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25. I think it was a combination of depression and self medication. Oh and fear of getting hurt to where I can’t work.

I’m too much a lil baby to try shit now

[close]

I fear getting hurt too, which keeps me in check. Kids are at a major advantage cause they don’t have to think about supporting themselves and families, so they can do dumb shit. Me, I’m like, “Even if I know I can do this—is it worth the risk?”

It’s why I’ve decided to never learn transition. IMHO, it looks more dangerous than flat ground for a newer skater.

[close]

Mini ramps are the spice of life, couldn't hurt to learn a few basic tricks in there that you can keep doing even when you're like 50. I see far more 50+ guys skating transition than I do skating flatground or just street in general so there must be something to it.

Hell yes! 4' mini with chill transitions is simply the best. I'm re-learning all my pivot variations, and while I've taken quite a few slams, it's not like falling off a ledge.

[j....soy.....]

I think it comes down to finding thing you’re comfortable with….I’ll take a skatepark over a mini any day…..it’s muscle memory too….I see a lot of guys in their mid 30’s and they will be able to back T ledges into their 50’s…..

[Streebo]

My skateboarding never progressed but I’m ok with that. Talking about it is more fun than actually doing it anyways

[bohemian]

the year of the acl

[HASHZOOT]

When I was younger I just “did” tricks. Now I am older I “learn” tricks.

Probably consistent with more shit in my 30’s than I was in my late teens early 20’s.

Didn’t skate much mid 20’s cos u know life n shit.

Got heavy back into it late 20’s and it was a pleasure to just relearn stuff. Then quickly realised that it’s waaaay more fun to learn to stomp the simple shit.

Started back just heavy into slappies for a year or so and that opened up loads of new ledge stuff I was too scared to commit to before. Just getting comfortable sending the grinds and slides as far as possible slappy really dulls the fear of tryna do a 5 inch back tizzy on a knee high ledge.

Might have to get into switch slappy for a bit to unlock that stance more.

[Mr.Jenkins]

Im soon 45, and I feel better then ever. This winter might have been my best in years. I can definitely feel my age, but lately not as much. I have had years where my body been complaining and easily getting small injuries. I still try to learn new stuff and skate as hard as I did when I was young, I just has to be smart about. basically no stairs or bigger handrails.

This winter I learned switch 360 flips really good, and got switch fs flips down pretty god. Last indoor session I man up to do a FS Hurricane up the park rail, which worked so so still progressing. I dont fel that much worse then in my heyday 20 years ago, even though the pop isnt what it used to be and that some tricks are lost.

Im very good on transition, and I feel that has built a good foundation.

Edit from this winter, bs smiths on rails (got it down on curbs last year), the switch 360´s and fs flip and hurricane was some new stuff this year.

[IpathCats]

Im soon 45, and I feel better then ever. This winter might have been my best in years. I can definitely feel my age, but lately not as much. I have had years where my body been complaining and easily getting small injuries. I still try to learn new stuff and skate as hard as I did when I was young, I just has to be smart about. basically no stairs or bigger handrails.

This winter I learned switch 360 flips really good, and got switch fs flips down pretty god. Last indoor session I man up to do a FS Hurricane up the park rail, which worked so so still progressing. I dont fel that much worse then in my heyday 20 years ago, even though the pop isnt what it used to be and that some tricks are lost.

Im very good on transition, and I feel that has built a good foundation.

Edit from this winter, bs smiths on rails (got it down on curbs last year), the switch 360´s and fs flip and hurricane was some new stuff this year.

you're killing it man! total inspiration! I hope im skating like this at 45.

That front blunt and halfcab crook were fuckin mooooonneeyyyyyy!

[GrayCellGreen]

Im soon 45, and I feel better then ever. This winter might have been my best in years. I can definitely feel my age, but lately not as much. I have had years where my body been complaining and easily getting small injuries. I still try to learn new stuff and skate as hard as I did when I was young, I just has to be smart about. basically no stairs or bigger handrails.

This winter I learned switch 360 flips really good, and got switch fs flips down pretty god. Last indoor session I man up to do a FS Hurricane up the park rail, which worked so so still progressing. I dont fel that much worse then in my heyday 20 years ago, even though the pop isnt what it used to be and that some tricks are lost.

Im very good on transition, and I feel that has built a good foundation.

Edit from this winter, bs smiths on rails (got it down on curbs last year), the switch 360´s and fs flip and hurricane was some new stuff this year.

God damn that was impressive. I need to step my shit up

[Coastal Fever]

23 or 24.

[modern life is war]

Im soon 45, and I feel better then ever. This winter might have been my best in years. I can definitely feel my age, but lately not as much. I have had years where my body been complaining and easily getting small injuries. I still try to learn new stuff and skate as hard as I did when I was young, I just has to be smart about. basically no stairs or bigger handrails.

This winter I learned switch 360 flips really good, and got switch fs flips down pretty god. Last indoor session I man up to do a FS Hurricane up the park rail, which worked so so still progressing. I dont fel that much worse then in my heyday 20 years ago, even though the pop isnt what it used to be and that some tricks are lost.

Im very good on transition, and I feel that has built a good foundation.

Edit from this winter, bs smiths on rails (got it down on curbs last year), the switch 360´s and fs flip and hurricane was some new stuff this year.

The level of skating from some posters here is just insane haha

[L.S]

I'll be 40 in a couple months. I feel like my athleticism started a steep decline around 35. Around the same time life got into the way of skating as much as i'd like and injuries that had piled throughout the years started taking a bigger toll on my body.
I can probably ollie less than half of what i used to be able to when i was younger. I've also lost probably 90% of my flip tricks.
I still learn new stuff as well, though. It's just limited to lower obstacles and old guy stuff like no-complies and all that. I also still try to search for random spots and film as much as i can and challenge myself. That's still way more motivating to me than just hitting the local park and do the same standard tricks over and over again.

[VHS ERA]

Why would that ever happen? You can always learn a new flatground trick or something. Not saying you’ll all around continue to get better forever but there’s no reason you can’t keep learning tricks you’ve never done before.

[theloniousmonk]

For me staying proactive and ahead of injuries means that I can keep skating.

Around age 40 I lost weight (60 pounds which was life changing) and started to do this leg routine three days a week


My sessions feel good and I’m connected to the board

Recently, an old injury was really bothering me. I smoked some and went on a walk one day and realized it was my Achilles tendon.
So I found some physical therapy for the Achilles. It’s easy and I am skating with less pain.

I progress in different ways now than then, but I’d say that my board feel and control is progressing as much now as ever. Also, I can Ollie over stuff the same himeight as I could in high school, thanks to the leg exercises.  I wanted to be able to skate at 40 and now theee years later I’m able to