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| bobbyb13:
I would advise against trying to get off curbs before you can cruise anywhere without damage. The whole walk before you try to run thing- Snowboarding is far less painful ! And surfing is the best of all of them ;) |
| Zebidee:
Jenn, much as I admire your work I still think you are crazy trying to learn skateboarding at age over 40 (but you are still 21, right?). However, I like a bit of crazy so just hoping your medical insurance is good :D Agree with Bobby that surfing is the best. You don't even need a board if you learn to body surf :o |
| jennifer:
Well yes true Jennifer is not as young as she once was, But I am not stupid either, sliding down handrails, off garages, dropping into a pool, ya not going to happen here...And I do realize I need more experience to just ride at all consistently, but riding off a curb (what 6 inches or so?) Is a personal goal, means to an end anyway, and doesn't seem all that unrealistic...Probibally even quite boring and considered a lame trick for some...That last ride in CA, was probibally the most exciting horrifically dumb thing Jenn has ever done in this lifetime but was strangly satisfying and addictive. (Although going that fast ever again would just give me a heart attack and just kill me dead), so some slow lame trick it is. |
| Zebidee:
I'd like to be good enough at skateboarding to be able to do this, like Walter Mitty |
| bobbyb13:
--- Quote from: jennifer on February 08, 2021, 09:05:12 pm ---Well yes true Jennifer is not as young as she once was, But I am not stupid either, sliding down handrails, off garages, dropping into a pool, ya not going to happen here...And I do realize I need more experience to just ride at all consistently, but riding off a curb (what 6 inches or so?) Is a personal goal, means to an end anyway, and doesn't seem all that unrealistic...Probibally even quite boring and considered a lame trick for some...That last ride in CA, was probibally the most exciting horrifically dumb thing Jenn has ever done in this lifetime but was strangly satisfying and addictive. (Although going that fast ever again would just give me a heart attack and just kill me dead), so some slow lame trick it is. --- End quote --- I speak from the experience of remembering how unpleasant my first trip off a curb was- and I was already quite proficient at snowboarding and could surf too at the point I began riding a skateboard. I hit the deck of course- my head hurt for a few days and one of my shoulders for over a week- and I was 23. I got to the point I was riding ramps and pools and bombing big hills (no handrail self- flagellation though!) and still had to quit the whole thing by the time I was 30. It was keeping me from being able to work and surf. Even with pads and skill skateboarding is fraught with injury. Love your enthusiasm but... maybe bike riding is a better way for you to roll around with some speed?! |
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