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Hey skateboard thread, I'm beginning to think that maybe this skateboarding poo poo is for me. Just turned 30, still as lanky and uncoordinated as I was in high school. Had a board I'd acquired in my late teens, though I'd promptly stopped trying to learn how to use it because I was a lazy loving teenager and it was "too hard." Something got into me last week (possibly an early-mid-life crisis), and I decided to refurb it. Ended up acquiring the parts for a whole new board at the local skate shop and assembling the thing myself. It's been five or six days now, and I've been utterly unable to stop myself from riding. I'll do things like go out for food simply as an excuse to skate somewhere. Where I'd once go months with minimal physical activity, I now find myself skating to the point of exhaustion and wanting to keep going. Simple things that those of you who've skated since your age only had one digit likely take for granted feel like enormous accomplishments: maintaining balance on loose trucks, pulling tighter turns, feeling more and more comfortable on downward slopes at higher speeds, pulling tiny tic-tacs, doing simple manuals over cracks in the pavement, and getting measurably better at these things every day. It's helped renew this sense of youthful exuberance in me that I honestly thought was just gone as an effect of aging. I'm excited by the endless depth of things to keep learning and continue getting better at. I can't imagine this ever feeling rote or repetitive. tl;dr: I'm getting old, and just now discovering that skating is loving awesome. If you're on the fence about starting, stop pussyfooting around and put some drat wheels to asphalt. You will absolutely not regret it.
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