What's your start-stop history?

[Banned from the room]

started when I was 5 or 6 skated till I hurt my back around 25 now im 31 and my back is much better and I'm trying to convince myself to skate again...

Let's go. Just remember it's gonna hurt the first like year. 6 years off I'd say would melt away in less than two and you're gonna be right back when you left off.

I've seen it tons last few

[dallou]

Started at 13 stopped at 13.


Started again at 21, I have yet to take a break (31)

[Lou Strux]

Started at the bottom, now I’m here.

[Lou Strux]

Real answer though: started in ‘82.

Took two years off around 2010-2012 for a couple of femur replacement surgeries (& attendant rehab time) & hopped right back on that shit as soon as I was able.
40+ deep & resisting the forces of gravity, friction & age every gol-blamed day I’ve got left.
To be fair, I am even more of a pile now than I was before, but I have no plans of slowing down until medically mandated.

Fuck a number!

[MareVitals]

I started in 99 and while other hobbies like music or biking have taken priority over skating at certain points the longest I've gone without skating is three or four months.

I think ease of access and having friends you can skate with often is a huge part of keeping the spark going. I probably peaked in my mid twenties when my apartment was right outside a schoolyard spot. It was like stepping out into a personal skatepark everyday. Then I moved to a bit of a spot desert with nobody to skate with and sessions became much more rare until I started biking to spots. Live as close to where you can skate as possible.

[DarkPools]

Non stop since 2006 at 18 years in May. Only time I've "stopped" is because of an injury or two preventing me from even standing on my board.

I wish to never stop, either! Even if I don't skate every day, I'm still watching or thinking about it every day