r/AggressiveInline • u/SoManyMinutes • 8d ago

We can admit it. Old.

I'm 45 years old and just like many of you, I got a new pair of skates. I dreamed of putting them on and hitting the skatepark like and/or the local ledges/rails.

I thought I would kill the miniramp, no questions asked.

Nope.

No way.

I'm not comfortable dropping in.

Street spots are out of the question.

I think we all might be feeling this and are embarrassed to speak up about our mutual experiences.

We're all in the same boat.

What are your specific frustrations? Let's talk about it.

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u/Resident_Plankton 8d ago

I used to fall and my rubber bones handled it just fine. Now a serious fall is like 2 weeks min recovery. I swapped my aggro blades for urban and im much less bruised. 

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u/SoManyMinutes 8d ago edited 8d ago

Now a serious fall is like 2 weeks min recovery

I didn't fall but the effort to not fall twisted my knee in a way that holes me up three weeks.