60 year old skater telling us why he can’t stop skateboarding, even after over 40 years
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- 60 year old skater Neil Hackett still thriving on skateboarding. Skateboarding is a lifestyle and without it a lot of people woild struggle dealing with day to day life. Skateboarding can be an escape as much as it is an expression. Hearing and listening to why people skate, especially those thatbhave skates for 40 years, will always be an inspiration.
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This guy found a way to stop time, mad respect. This is what life is about, and our generation has a lot to learn from people like this.
There is a fountain of youth
It's not a fountain at all
It's in a skateboard
Put the phones down and do something productive in life
yes. im 37 and still hold onto my childhood curiosity (still love to learn and see the world as a wonder - i was always artsy and techy) and people think im just "immature". no. im already thinking like this guy for when i get to an older age. people my age are trying to "race" towards being elderly without knowing, stressing with grey hairs acting like theres a hill to overcome. yes, that hill is life, and yall just missed it instead of enjoying it.
100% and u KNOW hes an OG w the “Flip” shirt, bet he rockin Spitfire wheels too lol the good days
YOUR*
YOUR GENERATION
Ditto, Neil. I'm 61 this month....started pushing in '75. Still going.
I hope I get to where you are. I'm 43 and started in '85.
So gnarly bro skate 4 life
I'm 32 and forever grateful for the shredders before me that pushed the sport and allowed me to skate at skateparks instead of car parks all the time
Pushing 62! Lol🤪
Old dudes that still can get hard turns me on VLAD GET THE OIL
As a 44 year old who still skates this guy speaks for all of us. It’s in our blood, the only way to describe it. Thanks for posting this.
You still got 20+ years left lol
47
I'm 46. Got my 1st pro board in '87 . You're right, if you are a skater it never leaves you. My wife will catch me staring at a random spot and think " what are you doing? Oh, must be a skate thing"
Yeh I gave it away just busy with work and stuff really now 46 15yr hiatus but have started skating last couple of years again very good exercise although my brain is confused why my legs won’t do stuff it knows how to do.
Oh cmon Im 45 and they are the new 30..... :)
You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding. Skate Till ai Die 🤜🤛
but you will slim down your tricks to just flowing which is still a good feelin
You quit when you become an adult with real responsibilities.
Man i’m 27 and my doctors says I need to get back into something like running/climbing/free running again. My right knee already has too much damage and I get chronic back pain, so I can’t afford an injury.
Ps: I skated through my teenage years and I completely battered myself as you’d expect from someone age 10-17, one car accident and one work injury, now if I walk on it or stand on it too long I have to lie down. Definitely gunna try get my old board out one day and put some new bearings in and longboard wheels for cruising. ❤
@@RSProdism велосипед
@@RSProdism28. Knee issues. Try a surfskate, very mellow, if you used to skateboard/longboard you'll feel like a new born deer trying to ride a surfskate, but well worth it. Once you get the hang of it, no pushing required, you can carve around town 🤙🏽🌊
I live in San Diego and every now and then you’ll see an old head on a skateboard and I got mad respect for them. To still be active and enjoying this sport and culture at their age is awesome to see. We don’t have to get old and boring. We can be who we are and like what we like. I’m gonna be doing kick flips in the nursing home, blasting Simple Plan and eating Lunchables at this age and I can’t wait.
❤
Until you have one bad kickflip, bust your shin or your balls, and then you’ll be wishing you didn’t 😂
@@nickthompson1812why are you people so negative? Out of everything you could have said in a comment you had to find something negative to make yourself feel better.
@@nickthompson1812that’s the point, real skaters got a little masochist in em
You won't be in a nursing home if you stay fit and mobile
I hope this guy never stops skating. I hope Tony hawk never stops skating either. It's an art, and it keeps one young & healthy.
From a skater in his 40s also from Brighton this is inspiring stuff! Hope to still be rolling when im 60 too!
As someone that just started skating at 45, this gives me hope. I still got at least 15 years ahead of me.
You started Skateboarding at a age of 45 years? Nice
Yes dude! Skating til we die for sure
Lies
@@jtothac5364 what is a lie?
@@jtothac5364piss off
He's 60 and still going strong. Living proof that age is just a number. Looks like he's in great shape, too. Keep going as long as you can my dude.
Age is the number used to gauge how incapable we will become.
Are bank accounts just numbers too? There is a difference between 1$ vs 1000000000$
@@TheGamingChad.critical thinking goes brrrr
its the same argument ped0s use, just saying@@WeezyOld
@@TheGamingChad.Did your mom drop you as a kid or something
Big respect to him he’s been skating so long that his fit is back in style again
Mad respect 🙏 I so hope I'm still skating at 60, 11 years to go!!!
14 Years to go 😁
Nah bro vandalized the park that’s not respectable
@@Claycooo what are you on about
@@spikemaisley can you read
@@Claycooo 🤓
Imagine how much better his balance and co-ordination are compared to most his age. Keep boarding bud!
He's young at heart.
He's probably really good
Learning how to fall is a big one when u get older! Simple falls can ruin you if u fall wrong. Not talking about skating, talking bout just everyday life accidents.
yeah a lot of people have a hard time getting out of a chair. people are still saying dumb stuff.
50 this year and feel the same way. You just can’t give up that feeling. Keep it up for as long as possible you only live once.
You look 20 years younger then you are! Keep on doing what you love! #Respect
I skated from 1985 until about 2010. I had to quit because my knees just couldn't take it anymore. I think about it every day and as I grow older, its the thing I miss the most about my youth. I still watch skate videos and play skateboarding games. Once skateboarding gets in your blood, its there forever.
Start yoga. You will gain additional mobility even in your knees.
@@dennisrobinson8008it's not about mobility but the wear and tear on your cartilage. Once your cartilage has worn out it's just bone and bone contact and is very painful. The only option is knee reconstruction.
I started thekneeovertoeguy ATG program here on RUclips. Seeing massive progress with my knees (49yo) also thinking about going back to skateboarding
@@appletvaccount1364 that knee mobility is a big deal. I got mines in yoga it removed overuse irritations from sports related training.
the technology is a little better. get some powell dragons and the shock will decrease
Other dudes at 60 be break’n hips. This dude is smashing stereotypes! Makes me motivated to break the thinking that over 40 is already over!
I am over 40 and still post new tricks every day! Skating better now than I was 30 years ago!
@@nathannowicki5336 that’s sick bro, shred hard!
@@aleho1 I try! 😂
@@nathannowicki5336 where do you skate?
no it's at 80 old years not 60...
Thanks Neil for the inspiration! I am 46 years old, I went back to skating 3 years ago, after 30 years off the board. I enjoy every moment skating, going with my son to the skate park or just carving along the coast with my daughter. Every moment is pure Magic.
Something about just riding the bowl as you get older without doing anything high impact, is very relieving and strengthening for knee's if you have the balance and experience. This man is proof enough, such a spry fellow
It definitely gets in your blood. I got the bug in 1985 and haven't quit yet. It's been 38 years now. Keep it up, I hope to get there one day.
My Grandpa taught my brothers and I to skate in the late 60s early 70s in So Cal. My older brother went on to skate semi pro for a while and my little brother was a state champion in his age bracket for "Banks and bowls" . My Grandpa skated well into his 70s.
I love that there are people like this. I was 4 when I first skated and I loved the music the culture, all of it. All my heroes in the sport are older now and refuse to quit, I love it.
I am 43, and still cruise about. I am so proud of you man. You are a LEGEND. Also nice flip shirt, sick, stiizy af dude.
Even though i don't skate this man is an inspiration. Age never means giving up on what you love. I've been into metal since i was a kid and i can see myself still listening at 85.
right on! 💕🤙
I get exactly why this guy kept skating, and I feel the same thing.
If you keep skateboarding even while it's boring, you will just get addicted to it.
Then skateboarding gets more fun and more fun as time goes on.
It's the only activity that gives me that amazing feeling of fun.
God bless this guy!
A lot of guys his age are skipping work, doing drugs, getting in trouble with the cops.
This dude does his own thing and doesn’t care about what anyone else thinks of him.
My hats off to him. I stopped for about forty years. Just recently bought me a board and am getting reacquainted with my balance, pushing, and carving. Once I get comfortable, the tricks will come.
I'm 50, and I skate. Started in the late 80s, quit in the early 90s, and picked it back up about 2019. Can still bigspin, kickflip, manual, etc., but not as smooth or consistent as I used to. Still fun. I'll probably never quit. Hope I'm skating into my 70s. Shout out to all my old skater bros out there 👊
Not sure why this video was recommended to me. Maybe because my name is Neil, too? Lol. But I used to skate and it felt good hearing his story and why he still does it. Great video.
We’re all chasing the dragon in some ways, whatever our activities. Constantly looking for that rush that hooked us early in life. So happy for this man that he can still do what he loves at his age.
His physical and mental energy are both so impressive, he seems like he's like 20-30 years old. He looks so young for his age too
This dude is living happier and healthier than probably 90% of the world, and that’s in general, let alone his age group. Keep rolling m8! 🤘🏻
and people still knock him for it. unreal
NIce! Watching from Fort Worth, Texas. 55 and still BMX riding and skating. A few years ago some teens started hassling me and I talked with them and told them it's us older guys that can vote and been doing this a long time that are voting to have more skate areas built for them. It became a civics lesson, a connection between young and old.
Keep moving brother. If you're lucky enough to discover the thing that keeps you moving, keep doing it for long as you can. It's keeping you alive!
This is how you gain instant long term respect.
So sick! Keep shredding Neil🤘
44 here and shredding. Big ups to all continuing to live the love.
Damn hes fluid. No push just pumping around the park
When you're ancient pumping is easier than pushing. Trust me!
after 20 years in skateboarding im feeling like you! i just don´t whant to stop! i feel something like the skateboard is an extension of my soul! keep pushing bro!
I am 57 and still skate. I have had some really bad lower back issues so I am just happy to be able to go out there and skate. Like Neil in this video, I also hold back and regard not getting hurt as my most prized skateboard trick. It is weird sometimes how I used to drop in on big vert like it was nothing and now I am scared. I don't mind starting over again. I have been getting some baby grinds on a little ramp at my local skateboard spot. I am thankful to be able to skate. I do not mind "starting over" ha ha
Health is wealth bro play it safe no crazy tricks just enjoy skating
We definitely heal a LOT more slowly as we age!
It's different, but I used to frame houses. Very dangerous job if you aren't using safety equipment. I used to walk the top of walls like a balance beam like it was nothing, but when I briefly went back to the same job 7 years later at age 29, or so, I realized that what used to be easy suddenly made me more nervous.
As you get older I think you naturally notice how dangeroys certain things are and you stop taking as many chances
Respect to you bro. I’m 51 and still skating. Keep on rolling dude 🛹👍
Im 47 and was very good in my teens. I have not skated in over 27 years and picked up a board my friend had and hoped on it (boneless) like I used to do a million times and slammed extremely hard. It discouraged me to the point I was wondering if I could even balance anymore. As soon as heal gonna try again.
when you have healed again take your time with it, I know its tempting but you'll spend more time injured than skating. I slipped a disc in my back and its been 2 years of recovery, still cant do the old tricks but having just as much fun
This is so awesome. I would love to skate again but I'm recovering from my second foot surgery. This inspires me and gives hope that the time will come where I can try this again one day. Keep it up and don't worry about the people who think your crazy for skating over 40.
Even though he's not doing tricks, that looks like so much fun to cruise around like that.
He did do a nose manual.
Plus a 540 on a light bank & a bit of a power slide.
He skates because it keeps him young. ❤
Killing it Neil! 🤙
Inspiring for this 58 yr old who just started skateboarding for the first time. Thanks!
He comes from a generation of active youth unlike most of todays lot sitting on their backsides. It’s not about how long you live it’s about how fulfilling it is. Respect to this guy 🚀
Damm this guy brings me so much joy, I see people his age that can barely walk, keep shredding bro even if it is just cruising around ♥️♥️🙏
I really like this dude... I wish there were more like him
Dudes just floatin! 😊
Yo this is fucking sick!!! 🤟
@@johnnichol9412what's your problem?
@@monkeymox2544 🤣 I thought you were replying to akuma and I was going to have to explain that sick is a good thing in this context.
@@idmhead0160 haha no, but I think the person who I was originally replying to _did_ think 'sick' had a negative connotation. They appear to have deleted their comment...
the dude rips!!! so inspiring
As an aging strictly street skater I’m realizing that I better learn how to carve bowls soon lol
I'm 43 and only skate street and bomb hills. Of course I'm not hucking myself down stairs anymore, but I can still skate curbs and ledges and bomb big hills.
@@mikecynic5167 I used to skate stairs handrails and hubbas like a madman. Now I’ve pretty much limited myself to ledges and flat bars. The change has definitely allowed me to skate at my age (32). Glad to know I can stay at it in my 40s!
@@Ghostyfrost9688 I did too. Not anymore though. I probably could, but my 43 year old body can't take the hits anymore. I've limited myself to curbs, ledges and banks. I love big hills though. There's something fun about going so fast your wheels are screaming and barely gripping the pavement. I don't skate longboards with nice soft wheels. I'm skating a modern board with hard wheels.
@@mikecynic5167 I feel you on not being able to take the hits anymore. Definitely agreed. I don’t do that crazy hill bomb stuff that’s scarier than anything else imo. You’re a badass lol
Good for you. All the skaters still at it!
This guy looks cool to hang out with. Why do most adults have to force themselves to be boring and "live their age" It is absolutely soul crushing and depressing to be around people like that
This is awesome as I'm an 80's skater and 53... Skating is the fountain of youth... Keep ripping👍👏👏👏
Do a kickflip
You're an inspiration! I've been faithfully skating since about 12 yrs old. I'm 32! And I will strive to be as accomplished as you are at your age. I will literally SKATE OR DIE!😊
Keep skating brother, don't let nothing stop you!
The same reason why guys like Ric Flair, Sting & Undertaker wrestled so long. The adrenaline rush is addicting!
WOOOOOooo!
Respect!!! From Los Angeles, California 💯💯💯💯💯
Freaking awesome mate! Big ups to this man, and everyone else out there keeping their youth strong. This is why we make an effort to be good to our bodies so we can live long, and enjoy doing the things we love.
You can see that he is fit, active and happy. Can't say the same for most people in his age group...
From Brighton. What a surprise he likes "cruising"
I ride Bmx and mx, this dude is spreading the good word.
Doing what you love the most, without hurting others.
That's the meaning of life for me.
How have I never seen this guy before? This is beautiful! I had a dream not long ago that i was rollerblading and got some big air over a parked car and it felt so good. When I woke up, the first thing I wanted to do was put on my old rollerblades and cruise around the culdesac. I realized how out of shape I was and im in my late 20s. Stuff like this inspires me to take advantage of the short time we have and enjoy what you love before your knees and back give out. Thank you so much for sharing this, I know what I'm doing this weekend ⛸🛹
God bless this man, big up.
Big respect to you brotha you are an inspiration for sure!! keep on shredding my dude 😎
Dudes the embodiment of what skateboarding is. I’ve been skating since 2002, so about 9 years old. There’s just something about it. When you wake up everyday and look outside and it’s beautiful out and all you think about is skating, but when you look outside and it’s raining so you get sad, that’s when you know skateboarding has you.
54 and still skate avidly. Started skating at age 7. Now I get to skate with my son which is amazing. Can't stop. Never stop. Healthy to keep moving and stay loose.🤙
This is a great story. You have a couple of videos with 100k+ views. From my perspective as a random viewer, they're your most viewed videos because the titles tell a story that everyone can relate to. Basically, I want to be doing stuff I love when I'm 60, because growing old sucks. That's the common thread. Thanks for making content!!!
God bless the skateboard OGs, without them fighting and grinding to make it what it is the sport would have faded away and we would've never gotten the privilege. From Tony Alva to Brewce Martin and all in between love you guys.
Awesome. I'm 48. Been skateboarding since I was 8.and now I can skate with my son, who is nearly 17 and better than I ever was. I don't mind. Just love the freedom roding a board gives me... Gonna keep skating till I die. Stay stoked. 🤙🏼
We need more people like this man. Salute 🫡👍🐐
Big love all the skaters from Brighton UK. Level Army n all that.
The opening totally brought me back to the 80s. We slapped as many as we could, as high as we could
I've been skating over 57 years (also while serving my country, 100% disabled) and still skateboarding at 64+. Still killin it with the youngsters everyday. Can't stop or I'll have nothing
I'm 57 and still riding.
Great camera work following him. Much respect.
The OGs always deserve the utmost respect
Will be 61 next
Month. Still playing in Heavy Metal bands. Just makes me feel good. Thanks m8😊
These are the heroes our times deserve. Such a Legend
I’m 37 years old now and people keep asking me when am I going to stop I tell them I can’t… he’s very inspiring. Let me know I can keep pushing my limits and expectations of myself❤
This is awesome, especially to see old school skating kept simple
Age is just a number. Mad respect.😊
So sick! love this!! Thank you!!
About to be 53, hoping to turn pro by 60! Heck yeah! Great video!
Hi, I'm almost 53 and I'm inline skater. I skate every day all year round and I hope to make it to my 80th birthday and beyond. It's something in the blood, in the mind. This is our nature. Let good energy guide you my Skate friend. Thanks for this short.🤘🖖🙏.
Entirely wholesome.
Right on! I'll be 60 next month and I still long board big hills!
I love longboards!
Eric Underwood Class of 81 Downey High school CA ✌️
Amazing! No other words come to mind🙂👍
57, still going, it still just feels magical
Love seeing stuff like this. Good for him
SUPER MAD RESPECT OVER HERE!!!
I used to skate. I'm 46 I've still got 2 decks and this has made me want to get back on it. Nice one fella keep shredding.
Right on bruddah!! I’m 58 and still skatin!! 🤙🏼
He is a freaking boss! I am there to. I'll be skating as long as I can🤙
There's a guy in Oceanside California who is now probably in his mid to late 50's who skateboards mostly in his bare feet.
carving the bowl at 60 living the dream
I feel like he'd really love surfing
you see a lotta older folk out here living it up too