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The only time I get mad anymore is when one of my "greatest hits" tricks isn't working. I don't mind not learning a ton of new stuff but losing tricks is a hard pill to swallow. Feels like death.
This is, unfortunately, your inescapable future. It will come faster than you expect.
One of two things will happen. You will either make peace with it, or you will quit skating because of frustration, despair, and ego-pampering.*
If you make peace with it, skating will suddenly open up to you like never before. If you think you had fun as kid, you have no idea what's coming.
If don't make peace with it, you, also, have no idea what is coming.
This is not, at all, to say you should just resign yourself to existential capitulation. It is, however, to affirm (your) reality.
*There is a third option, and it's the worst one. You keep skating, but you always resent it because your mind is living the past, but your body is living in the present.
I feel that, there are tricks I could do as recent as 3 years ago that have just kinda stopped working for me due to neglect, reduced mobility, or both.
My nollie and switch game is in shambles.
It's much more noticeable these days that skate tricks are a lot like building muscle where without regular maintenance and repetition they diminish quickly.
And both diminish faster the older you get.
I've been slowly culling my bag because I just don't have time or energy to maintain dozens of tricks. I'd rather do 5 tricks strong, stylish and consistent than 20 tricks weak and inconsistent. So a few years ago I pretty much stopped skating switch altogether. About a year or so later I slowly quit doing nollie tricks.
It's like when a person is dying and the blood leaves the extremities to keep the vital organs alive, haha.
I sacrificed switch and nollie so I could devote more time to keeping my regular flip tricks strong.
I know the clock is ticking, and when the kickflips stop popping, the tre flips stop spinning, and benches are just too tall to jump on anymore, I'll be sad, frustrated, I'll mourn their loss, but I'll move on.
It's a part of why I've never given any time to learning slappies...yet, I'm saving those for later.
When my current bag of tricks betrays me, I'll have a whole new world of skating and gear madness I've never even explored waiting for me on the other side!
Topic: Skateboarding After 50 (Read 18721 times)