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Thanks. I did trail marathon and ultra-marathon running for years and really don't want to get back into anything long distance! I love skating transition at the parks and hopefully can keep that going for at least a few more years.

This one is in Thomasville North Carolina. We skate mostly at the Lexington NC one now. This was a great park to learn on and I occasionally still go there to do stuff on those 3 foot ramps, there is nothing that small at our main park.

They scare me in the driveway, never sure when I will hit a stick or rock! Hit a stick on the skateboard last week and took a really nasty spill.

The struggle is there for sure. I would love to be able to do more, but my body just won't cooperate!

That's a great idea, I'll give that a try!

Box jumps are also another good cross training or warm up exercise !

@@ashleyrutledge7864 As long as the box is really low! I have tried box jumps of varying heights and they really hurt my bad knee if over about 12 inches but warming up on the rail would be a great way to do them.

Yep, the falling is getting to me a bit. I have raised it up 4 inches and have a new video with that somewhere in the backlog, hope to get that out soon.

I have raised it up 4 inches and have a video of that in the backlog, hopefully coming out soon. I am trying to work on getting up on the rail at the park. That one is a little over a foot high and those last few inches make all the difference in the world to me.

I have raised the box up 4 inches and I can 180 out of that (sometimes) I have a video of that coming out soon I hope.

we're about the same age, but I'm blading and skateboarding. trying to anyways. I want to get all the basics by the end of summer

@@merlebump5328 ok. I order new blade mesmer john bolino it's ok blade but little bit hard 🤔 I must fix it warm and skate more 💪🏼

Yea, I am feeling a little worse for the wear today though, took a nasty spill on the skateboard yesterday and tweaked my knee - ugggggg. That seems to happen more and more as I get older, just can't move quick enough to catch myself.

I'm padded up like the Michelin Man and still manage to find a chink in the armor. I did recently switch from Bodyprox padded shorts to rHip cLip's hip pads that clip inside your pants. I get better hip protection because I can place them where I want them and they are so much cooler, the bodyprox are hot even in winter.

No time like the present! Its never too late.

Nothing like a little time off to reignite the fire! Good luck on your return journey!

Oh, also there is another park in fountain city. It is way smaller and very little ramps, but might be able to do something there!

We saw a guy ripping up the bowl when we first arrived. I inline skated for a while and by the time I was on the skateboard, I was trashed. That big bowl looked like a lot of fun as did the smaller bowl that I didn't try, I just had nothing left and looked pretty lame in there! Those 2 "U" shaped mini-ramp type sections with the spine between them was really fun, I just had nothing left in my legs to pump with! That smaller one where I did some drop ins early in the video is a great place to learn drop ins, its got a great transition, but if you can hit some smaller ramps at that other park, that would be ideal. Good luck!

I had a similar experience and did a video a while back about it called "Face your fears". I was really intimidated to go to the park as an old guy returning to skating after decades off, not because the park intimidated me, but because I was worried about how I would be received there by the younger crowd. I have to say, at my local park at least, I have had a great positive experience. Skaters generally are very glad to see new skaters and my son and I (we do inlines together) have made a lot of friends at the park. I can't pretend to know how you feel as a female, but I would think generally the skaters would welcome you and be glad to help you improve. Good luck on your progress!

I do a daily mobility routine to help with the skating. I tried some real yoga once and it almost killed me! I definitely need work on my mobility, that starts going really fast after you turn 50.

Nice job and Happy Birthday! It definitely doesn't get any easier but it sure is still fun to learn new stuff, or pick up something you haven't done in a while.

Thank You!

I have swapped out the middle wheels for anti-rocker and the grinds are easier, but I don't like skating the rest of the park on that setup. I am thinking of getting some of the FR Oysi frames to see if they make a difference.

Thanks! It is tough to know when to draw the line between overthinking it and just going for it. Sometimes I break things down too much and end up taking too long on the buildup and wimp out that day. I really wanted to nail this before we left and decided I wasn't leaving the park until I tried it.

We are not even in the hottest part of summer yet, so I don't expect a cool down any time soon. It will cool down eventually and I'll be complaining about it being too cold next winter!

Thanks!

There was a kid there ripping the bowl when we first arrived. It was way bigger than it looked on the GoPro and I just couldn't bring myself to drop into it, my legs almost buckled on that 5 foot wall. You would have to do that to get enough speed, but even then it was incredibly rough. There was a smaller bowl I should have tried but didn't.

@@theaverageoldguyis Knoxville somewhere you return to from time to time? If so you could maybe put on some softer wheels since it’s so rough there.

That's easier said than done! You are right though, there is 0 confidence on that side. Most of it is my knee, I just don't feel good with it on the soul and boned over. I'm gonna drop that side for now and go back to working on the left foot back version that I have been semi-successful on.

@@theaverageoldguy yeah just keep working its awesome to see you get after it!

Nothing but hot lately. Yea, that park has some of the worst surface we have ever skated. That plus being tired just got me.

Thanks, I love to hear that!

Yea, was trying to cover both blading and skateboarding. I never know whether to call it blading or inlining or just skating, I guess "skating" is more the quads??

I have been a runner and biker all my life. We have a saying "there is no bad weather, only bad clothing" That always stopped the excuses.

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!