no longer too old to skate

This is going to be my first and last article on the subject. In short, i've managed to skate my way out of the hang-up I had when I started skating again two years ago.

Some of you may be familiar (or may have found your way here via) my skate site too old to skate. Well i've decided to shelve that now*, partly because their just isn't enough hours in the day and partly because I want to distance myself from the name, the concept, the idea that I stiil think I am too old to skate at 32.

This feels like i'm repeating myself here because I have talked about this subject loads of times on skateboard forums, on the old site, to strangers in the street and to myself as I lay at the bottom of a bowl shaking with pain.

Anyway, where was I? (forget you see  - what with my age and everyfink). That's right. It seems the world is full of genuinely old gits on skateboards, most of whom don't feel the need to write websites about it, preferring to spend their time shaming the hell out of me by skating all the time and loads better than me.

The worst ones are those who never stopped, and seem a bit bemused when I start talking about how I "gave up" for a few years, and am now getting back into it, like it is some sort of profound rebirth. In short, I realised I needed to just get over it. Hopefully by the time i've finished writing this I will be. (That's over it, not past it - just to make sure at least one of us is clear on this)

anyway this article so far is all me, me, me, when really this is probably about you, you, you. or at least some of you - the five percent or so of you out of the thousand-ish a month who land on my old site having asked of the great god google things like "am I too old to skate?", or "how old is too old to start skating?". Can you still walk/ hop? then get back on your stuntplank and stop wondering! Sure some of you probably meant ice skating, and are now even more confused, but hey, you will get a bit like that at your age.

So looking for some advice? I'm full of it. most of it bullshit, and most I wouldn't even follow myself, so i'm not going to give any. but you may find one or two people over here that will be more than happy.

In the meantime, hopefully you might find some of my present tense musings here on dfrskatezine.com - if you want to hear some more rambling senile old git talk from me, or some weren't the old times great? stuff, come skating in bristol, find the sketchy people who can't kickflip and get us drunk (if we aren't already).

*update March 2007 - I've actually started posting to the Too Old To Skate blog again now :-)