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Thanks! Skateboard session will be out tomorrow, it was not so great. I was beat from the inlines and heat, and what little energy I did have got sucked up on the rough concrete.

I have done a lot of sports where falling is part of progression, and lets just say I have hit the deck way more times in my life than I would like. The old tuck and roll does get a lot harder when you get older though, but if I wore any more pads, I would look like the Michelin Man!

Wow, where do you skate? Our issue is the heat/humidity combination, its just hard to cool down when the sweat won't evaporate. I generally skate in the late afternoon, I start work at 7 am and its hard to do anything in the mornings. Its been really hot and humid these past few weeks and we usually don't get this kind of weather until late July and August. I still exercise in it, but its not comfortable!

@@theaverageoldguy Croatia, midland. Yes it's 91 atm, 7PM. Humidity 30%. Not hard to breathe, only sunburns hit fast.

@@Sure2Skate You guys are at about the same latitude we are, I didn't realize it was so hot there but it shouldn't be surprising at the latitude. Our heat stays around in the evening too, until it gets dark and starts to cool, but by then its too late to skate.

@@Sure2Skate I was looking at my map wrong, you are much further North than me. I guess heat knows no boundaries.

@@theaverageoldguy forecast says that it will go above 100/40C, so, that will be really hot.

Thank you. I'm hoping to make some decent progress at 63, I'm definitely not done yet!

Squatting gets so much harder as you get older! That's a great tip though. I went from a 7 something deck from the 90's straight to a 9.75 egg shape, but that size was just too big for me. I have small feet and didn't like the fact I couldn't feel the edges of the board. I tried my son's smaller deck and liked it, so got an 8.5 with 159's and some bones wheels. I really like that size a lot, it feels perfect for my feet and has great stability and is lighter than the egg, so I can move it around quicker. I found out quickly when I started inline skating last fall that padded shorts were a great idea. I have some bodyprox that did me OK until recently when it seemed that I fell on my hip where there was a gap in the padding every time. I recently got some rhip clips and they are great!

@@theaverageoldguy man i hurt my hip too. same thing . i think my pants were falling down a little and pulled my hip pads down with them. i thought you were about the same size as me. i was just throwing that out there. im pretty sure i qualify for the old man club lol

@@chrhadden Once you hit 50, yep you are in the old man club for sure!

Thanks! I'm looking forward to a great year at 63!

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

I hope I can keep it going. It does get harder as you get older that's for sure!

Thank you!

Thank you!

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.

I am very happy with this setup and it does help to build confidence and muscle memory. There is nothing worse than not having confidence in your knees, I still have a fear of doing a split and tearing my MCL again, so I have backed off on the frontside grinds a lot. Our park's lowest feature is about 12 inches high and that just takes a lot of confidence and commitment that I have to work back into. I hope you can build something that helps you get back in the groove, best of luck!

Thank you. I am so glad my son got me into the inlines. I have had a blast with them and it also reignited my love for skateboarding. My problem now is my body can't keep up with my desire to skate! Good luck on your comeback!

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.

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!

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.

Wizard skating does look like a lot of fun, though it seems those wizard frames are really expensive! For now, I have all I can handle just trying to learn transition skating and grinding, but maybe someday I'll give that a try!

@@theaverageoldguy There are affordable alternatives such as ROKA frames. The channel "Wheel Scene" made a video about that.

Thank you!

Thanks! I plan to try, this heatwave here in NC is doing me in!

Thanks! Yea, this heat is brutal. Seth and I skated last night and almost got heat exhaustion, probably sweated a gallon and just couldn't drink enough to keep up. Even the teenagers are staying home now, and there is no end in sight here.

@@theaverageoldguy I can't agree more. Got to be somewhere that has light at night or early morning to stay out long. Thought about bringing a p-rail into a parking garage but haven't yet. No indoor options here except rinks...

@@Bl8ingSh0rts We have an indoor park nearby, but its just as hot in there as outside! I'm slowly getting used to it, I ran in this heat/humidity all my life, but it does get harder to deal with as you get older. Seth hates it.

@@theaverageoldguy We skated all in the dead of summer last year and it was hot but we soldiered through it. This summer is just about unbearable. You and I wear full pads and that really stops body heat venting. Stay hydrated my friend.

We love our local park! Can't wait to see what the next year brings.

Thank you! Hoping 63 will be my best year yet!

Thank you!

That's awesome! I love longboarding but have not done it in many years. I had one of the early Sector 9 boards and skated it all over the place in the early 2000's. I need to pick up a new longboard and go cruising. The drop in's, like most everything in skating, are 90% mental. I worked my way up to the coping doing kick turns, and if you can do that, you can drop in. Decide you are going to do it and don't spend more than a second or 2 on the edge or you'll lose your commitment. Best of luck on that and your longboarding!

I'm still skating, that intro was just a spoof off my birthday being the next day. I'm done at 62 because now I'm 63!

Thank you!

You are so right about the better late than never. I feel the same way about skateboarding. I have done that off and on my whole life and see guys my age who never quit with crazy skill still and wish I never stopped. BUT I am so glad I started back and found inline, both of them are so much fun and I just love skating transition on the both. Our climate is hot and humid in the summer, but you can get used to that and winter is mild and totally skateable. Good luck on your journey!

Yeah, sorry. The jokester in me came out to play a little.

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Sorry! Thanks for watching!

Thanks! Trying my best for a great year at 63

Thank you!

The jokester in me came out!

Sorry about that, it just came out that day at the park!

Lexington, North Carolina. Its a great park and we are so blessed to have it only about 10 minutes from our house.

Thank you!

Thank you!

As my old neighbor at the beach used to say "you ain't wrong" Keep it going and enjoy the journey!

Thank you!

Thank you! and thank you for the sub!

We love the park and are so blessed to have it so close to us. There are probably 5 great parks within an hour of us and each has its own unique features that are so fun to skate.

Sorry man, we'll still get together and skate one day!

@@theaverageoldguy cool. I think next year for sure. Which state are you in? I will return to western new york in January coming from abroad. I'm sure I'll have a couple weeks free to travel.

@@merlebump5328 I'm in North Carolina. Not real close to New York, but certainly not west coast far away!

@@theaverageoldguy Awesome. Yeah, not too far. i'm hoping to travel a bit anyway for a few weeks. I'll be back to the states in mid January. I know it's not possible to skate in western New York in January, but how about your area? I'm used to skating in the cold, just not the snow. I skated most of the winter in Beijing, it's usually cold but dry.

@@merlebump5328 We can generally do outdoor sports all year, we get very little snow and that's usually gone quickly if we do get it. Last winter my son and I never had to wait on weather to skate. Cold here is not the same as cold in upstate NY! We rarely have days with the high temp below freezing, most winter days average in the 40's and 50's, very comfortable skating weather.

Thanks! Hopefully I can keep it going this next year and make some improvements.

Oh man, I have never ice skated, the thought of that scares me! I do love watching ice hockey though and think I would have loved to have played growing up. The only ice we ever saw was in the freezer in eastern North Carolina! Keep it going and never stop!

Yeah, I just had to do it. Thanks!