First Rock to Fakie! | Skateboarding at 63 

Thanks! It is tough to know when to draw the line between overthinking it and just going for it. Sometimes I break things down too much and end up taking too long on the buildup and wimp out that day. I really wanted to nail this before we left and decided I wasn't leaving the park until I tried it.

Yea, I feel like I'm on the verge of it. A lot of the kids do coping tricks on the low side of the volcano at our local park, its like 2 feet or so high, with an oddly slanted top and strange transition at the bottom. I rock to fakied on that side, and the high side which is 4 feet or so, this past weekend, and may be ready to just go for a moving axle stall or grind on that. I don't know when I'll get back to the park in this video.

That's awesome! I love skateboarding and am so glad I have started skating again. Good luck on your skateboard journey!

Stay with it and you'll be out crushing it in 13 years! I stopped for a long time and its hard to come back, but if you stay with it, you'll be killing it by my age!

Nice job and Happy Birthday! It definitely doesn't get any easier but it sure is still fun to learn new stuff, or pick up something you haven't done in a while.

Thanks, I love to hear that!

Its slowly getting better, but I still have trouble sleeping on that side. I got a set of rHip cLips clip on hip pads at my local skate shop, I think I show them in a video coming out soon. They just go down your pants and you clip them to your waist band. I wore Bodyprox padded shorts for a long time and it just seemed like they had a gap in the padding right at my hip bone. With the new clip on pads, I can place them wherever I want them. I have taken a couple of falls on that hip with them and its not nearly as bad, it it wasn't already sore I probably wouldn't even have felt it and you can't even tell you are wearing them.

@@theaverageoldguy Oh that sounds like a much better solution, thanks for mentioning them.

Thank you!

It has been so hot here the past couple of weeks, its crazy. My son and I inlined last night and I spent the whole session jumping and it dang near killed me. Its even hotter today, but I feel like I am on the verge of a grinding breakthrough and really want to go again. We'll see what happens.

Thank you!

Its all mental. Even though I knew for a fact my trucks would not hang up, it still took all my willpower to actually try it. I was really afraid of falling on that hurt hip, but as you saw that fall ended up being on the non-hurt side so it was OK and took all the fear away. Sometimes you have to fall and realize its not that bad before you can really commit.

@@theaverageoldguy agree, it's all about risk we are willing to take. Tho, my biggest nemesis are shuvs 😅 Actually have landed some, but i will wait moment like i had today. Had 0 fear so i dropped on medium A bank and roll off its curbe. I was all in, just standing on board was like so right, no fear, just visulation how to do it. Got to that moment before when i was doing body varials and hippie jumps. Mental preparation is weird thing.

@@Sure2Skate You are so right about that, some days you have it and some days you got nothing. I have never been able to land a dang shuv. I am going to really start working on my street skills. I never skated street other than just cruising or longboard. Never learned to ollie or any of the regular tricks, they just hadn't been done when I was a teenager. We made ramps everywhere out of any scrap of wood we could find, and it was all about transition. All of us were surfers too, and it was that feeling we were after. My jumping skills are just about gone with the arthritic knee, but I am hoping I can get at least a couple of inches on an ollie eventually.

​@@theaverageoldguy you must had great crew back then, i can imagine. Shuv is easyest trick of them all, it's 99% mental. Most of them i rotate perfectly, but my left leg wont commit. Well, gonna work on that soon. Rock to fakie and Axle stall first i think. Im 37 and i have torn meniscus, can't imagine what it would be 20 years from now. Tho, all i know is im gonna use years left best i can. Today going to publish 30 days Ollie progress. Stay young mr.

@@Sure2Skate Unfortunately it doesn't get better as you age😮‍💨 I trashed my knee in a dirt bike accident at age 24 and the hardware has held up fine, just arthritis set in pretty bad in my 50's. I'll be sure to check out the ollie video, I am still working on that and the shuv. I can't get both my legs to jump right either, it seems like my left leg works hard to protect my right knee and just lags all the time.

I try to acclimate to the heat, but man it has been tough. I don't think I deal with it as good as I used to, and eventually I get tired of chugging water!

@@theaverageoldguy I went early at 6:30am last Wednesday but I didn't even try on the weekend because of 90+ days.

@@rob3bb I will have the Knoxville videos out this week, it was terrible hot there. Probably at least 100 on deck at the park and it just sucked the life right out of me and my son. All I can do on those kind of days is skate a little and take a break. There was NO shade there and not much at my local park. The park in this video has a little sun shade and a water fountain and that was great., but the metal ramps get hot enough to cook on!