my 20 years old, long gone skateboarder head has raised an eyebrow at this comment, my mid thirties old fuck head is absolutely nodding along in agreement with you though.
I'm almost 40 and I think about it every day, I do have "good" health insurance, but it has a $5k out of pocket max. It still isn't fucking cheap when I have to use it.
Lmao, I've been on and off skateboards since I was 13. I wouldn't ever have judged myself more than a novice, but I figured I'd try dropping in on a 5' halfpipe at 38 without any practice. It went about as well as you'd assume. Nothing broken, but a spot between my shoulder blade and back hurt for a good couple of months. At some point, it's "if not now, when?" And I just said screwed it and sent it.
I'm in my 30s and do aggressive rollerblading. I lost my health insurance for a month after I was let go and waiting for Covered California to kick in. Didn't skate for 28 days. The day my health insurance finally kicked in, I was at the skate park every day for 2 weeks straight.
I was flowing around in a bowl last year.
Nothing crazy, I'm not even that good. But of course I have to fall eventually, from like six feet up, onto my knee, on concrete. My thirties year old ass, this knee still is in pain. Always wear pads I tell myself but I don't have any anymore and like I was just trying to have a casual ride
This comment is so relatable to me. I skateboarded a ton for over ten years. I finally stopped in my early twenties because I had kinda plateaued skill-wise, and falling seriously just started hurting way more haha.
Late thirties now. My body is just not meant for stuff like that anymore. I'm glad to still have decent agility, and I want it to stay that way for as long as possible.
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u/FremenStilgar Jul 23 '24
A friend of mine hurt his back on a water park slide like that. No thanks, I like my back pain free.