We quit because of the felling of being useless... Of being less talented, skilled, having no skate friends... Being afraid... We come back because of being done with the life without the freedom of the ride. We then quit because the freedom of the ride crushes by the wall of not having the freedom of movement we wish to have... We come back again because nothing left but for doing this again. Inbetween we achive moments of clearity in a timeless something no one can tell what it is... It's like with style - it is there, but noone can tell what it is, but it exists.

@iconic_filmdirectors

26 күн бұрын

poetry right there

@dawidjuros474

21 күн бұрын

Thx Brothers. I am a foreigner. I didn't knew that what I wrote will be valued as good words, not mentioned poetry. I wanted to say the truth. Riding snow, and skateboards made me free. Freedom hurts, but gives spiritual health.

@Phatballzinyoface420

18 күн бұрын

Tail bone slam and wind knocked out those always suck

@unsocialburrito7179

15 күн бұрын

This is profound seriously

@dawidjuros474

3 күн бұрын

@@unsocialburrito7179 Freeriding The Soul. I was working at a hospital during covid. I witnessed soo much lies that made me soo angry. Once at that times I came home angry, and was talking about political abuse in lockdowns. My lovely Wife told me just one thing: do You wanna talk about politics, or do you wanna show me your next snowboard to get, and a new spot in the mountains to ride? It's freedom when we ride, freedom to the core. I bless every good Person i'm riding with, or talking to about riding. We will never be broken if we don't stop riding. Much respect to all of Ya!

I stopped skating because I cannot afford to miss work due to injury.

@Claith

13 күн бұрын

Ez solution, live in other countries with better laws 😅

@MattCupan

13 күн бұрын

Right. Can't call the customer saying can't come to jobsite cus I got hurt yesterday skateboarding.

@andre942009

5 күн бұрын

So true😢, and its really sad, cause its make you feel better doing something you like, and life just get boring, home work-work home...

@yougotmycheezewizboy

5 күн бұрын

I got aflac, so I could skate agian. Still don't do anything crazy mostly just slappy some curbs, but still better than not skating.

@toejamisgreat

4 күн бұрын

​@@MattCupanthat's sounds like self imposed prison man, really sad

I got my first skateboard at 40, broke my hip at 42, still going at 47.

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

Inspiring!

@elmonkey17r

23 күн бұрын

this motivated me to keep going i recently tore my acl and i just got back into skating

@Killadey

20 күн бұрын

I just ordered my first board at age 42. I'm also 6"6' and 250lbs, so I'll need all the luck I can get 😁 Hope you're doing good 👍

@chereborn2525

19 күн бұрын

Right on!

@undard

19 күн бұрын

Got first skateboard at four,got first wheelchair at forty seven.i Happy you still have balance re

Getting hurt sucks. Getting old sucks. The two together is horrible. Just have to adjust the skating to what one is willing to deal with pain wise. Still better than a gym

@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777

18 күн бұрын

getting Old should be a status figure not something that sucks, you should be choosing better things for yourself and family as you age, not sticking to a child hood game (skateboarding) .. I'm not saying don't skate but know when your limitations are dangerous to yourself - being Old is about wisdom not being stuck in youth.

@cozzybuggi

10 күн бұрын

@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777bro said nothing of value, live your life how you want🤦‍♂️

@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777

9 күн бұрын

@@cozzybuggi you're right you said nothing of value.

@deus5215

5 күн бұрын

@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 The question is what made you say this is what the status figure should be? Why do you consider it to be a "child hood" game", but then you say limitations... why can't I go beyond my limitations, because someone on the internet said I can. I mean to grow in life, isn't it to do things that are uncomfortable, risk-taking. There's so many errors in your thinking, and I hope you're not serious. One day you'll understand your own way of thinking; however, you can choose to ignore to question your own dogmas, but when that day comes... You may seek youthful thought, new beginnings, instead of the dogmas you've grown into

@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777

5 күн бұрын

@@deus5215 it's clear the limits have been reached. don't feel insulted.. it's just a game and passtime in the meantime. Nothing important but due to worldly marketing and illusion of status.. it 'seems' important to some. I have nothing against it but it's also let down millions of young men due to prior delusion mentioned.. another limited time hang that people 'hang' onto. Cheers.

Slowly skating again! ❤

@louisbradshaw7248

26 күн бұрын

Hell yeah your channel is the reason I didn’t quite skating. I was feeling like giving it up because I’ve never been a good board flipper then came across your skating a lot of transition a lot of smooth skating and diy and not a bunch of techy stuff and I realized I can just skate how I think is fun and not for what other people are doing. Long story short I now skate for me again and not for what’s popular and I’m in love with it like when I was a kid so thanks a ton keep it up

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

@@louisbradshaw7248 Means a lot hearing that brotha!!

@chereborn2525

19 күн бұрын

Me too

@jangojules

6 күн бұрын

i think what happend was you got a sprained wrist, i got the same injury 2 weeks ago and it was exactly like this

Played rugby. . ... got hurt...played football got hurt...played squash got hurt....literally every sport I've done I get hurt.....life hurts !

@moonautogd

4 күн бұрын

Whomp whomp

@normanosborn1277

3 күн бұрын

How did you get hurt playing squash?

@OrbitalVibes

2 күн бұрын

You need to HEAL and get back out there. Stop quitting after getting hurt! 🤷‍♂

I stopped being a full time skateboarder when the pain was bigger than the enjoyment I was getting out of it. I usually skate around 2-3 times a year nowadays, but having skated for over 25 years fully committed, I will always be a skateboarder in my heart.

@done.6191

25 күн бұрын

Exactly. At a certain point, (depending on what kind of skating you enjoyed) you will no longer be able to do that kind of skating. And when that happens, we all make that decision...that a different kind can be fun, or that it's done and to know when to bow out. I had the pleasure of skating frequently with people that one day became some of skating's legends, by being in the right places at the right times, and even for these pros, for many the decision eventually came to them as well. Like all of us old timers, we'll still get out the board and skate around, but TBH it often feels like the Rush song "Losing it."

@darkknight097

15 күн бұрын

I took a break for a 7 years. Now back and within two weeks i hit the ground and landed on my wrist. Had that dull pain for another week. I ride in full gear now lol. Can't bounce back from the pain like I used and have more responsibilities now (wife, career, etc)

@soberskater

6 күн бұрын

​@@darkknight097I call my wrist gaurds my session savers.... being padded up will keep me skating longer, so I'm all in, mostly

@toejamisgreat

4 күн бұрын

You guys really need learn how to fall,

@done.6191

4 күн бұрын

@@toejamisgreat we know how. There is simply a limit to how well the body repairs and recovers. And despite knowing how to fall, even seasoned vets can fall victim to bad luck.

I was a hardcore skater from 9 until I was 20 when I got hurt. I had little local sponsors and the whole nine but Man after I hurt my back I was terrified to ever go hard again. I am a 38 year old now and working in the trades beats me bad enough, skating unfortunately just doesn’t have a place in my life anymore. I still watch and support though and have an extreme fondness for my days as a street skater. Stay safe everyone, as you get older these things come back to bite you.

I'm 52 and only skate bowls (no street). Yes, slams are the worst and will make you question why the hell am I doing this? The love of the sport keeps you going. With that being said, I am FULLY padded up, including heavy duty wrist guards and padded shorts because I do not want to get hurt. You get used to the gear. You're 100% correct - it's only a matter of time before you get hurt. Pad up OG's!

@xanderw1460

26 күн бұрын

Yeah man as an adult learner I started progressing so much faster and skating so much more once I started with pads. Even just wrist guards dramatically changed my life.

@DoubleSupercool

26 күн бұрын

Yeah man. I have gotten back into it and am just flatlanding, ollies, shuvits its, so grabbed some wrist guards that have saved me a couple of times, but a hard slam last week has me buying elbow pads and a helmet. You just don't have the reaction time and ability to bounce any more. No one is giving you street cred for cracking your head or being unable to work for a month.

@RasKitchen

25 күн бұрын

For real Christian! Old street skater here, still skate street a bit but really enjoying padding up and bowl skating...it's like learning a whoel new way to skate and I actually feel like I'm improving instead of getting steadily worse like my street skills 😆

@GreybeardSkates

21 күн бұрын

Yeah, I look like I'm going to battle with all the gear I wear now.

@JamesBond-py8xs

11 күн бұрын

Same age and compounded my ankle three years ago in a bowl in Vista. Guess I should have quit while I was ahead, but you can't predict what may or may not happen, just gotta enjoy it for as long as you can

I just started skating at 37. I grew up riding BMX. Always wanted to skate but thought it was impossible. I'm 40 now and it's my favorite activity. I'll skate until the day I cant.

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

Love that!

i became too comfortable too after months of progression n getting better , then the board humbled me again n yeah, reminded me to always stay focused even on tricks u did a million times

I went to that dark place a week ago also after my first bad slam this year; I screwed up my wrist and had to get my knee stitched up in the emergency room. I was ready to quit because I'm so tired of hurting myself. Then after a few days of processing what happened, skating seems to have already started to reel me back in. I'm 49 this year and have been hurting myself on a skateboard since I was 11 years old.

My bro broke his wrist the other night , it looked so painful !!! I had to call an ambulance He's going for surgery tomorrow (metal pins etc) I'm gonna wear wrist guards from now on !!!

@cursorygame

26 күн бұрын

I still wear helmet, kneepads, elbowpads, and wrist guards at all the spots. Toxic people snicker under their breath. Toxic person fall down and get hurt. Toxic people's snickers silenced.

@cursorygame

26 күн бұрын

You will feel 100% more confident.

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

Hope it's a smooth surgery & speedy recovery

@willblackett4709

26 күн бұрын

@@ZackDowdy Cheers from NZ

@deathrawphantasma

17 күн бұрын

I called the ambulance? did they bill you ?

depression, lack of improvement/skill and poverty is why i quit. respect to everyone still out there skating

I'm mad proud of you bro, it takes a lot of bravery to come back from a scary fall, especially when you get injured the way that you did. I've fallen many times, like all skateboarders do, and it is so hard to get back up sometimes. Mad respect/ kudos to you my friend.

Skated from: 2001-2017 Bipolar disorder related fatigue and weight gain caused me to quit. Otherwise I would’ve never stopped skating. Since then like an addict i’m fingerboarding and skate gaming like crazy every day, imaging that it’s actually me doing the tricks. What can I say. It fucking sucks!

@user-ec4yw5hj3r

8 күн бұрын

yeah i used to be fit because i skated everyday 6-8 hours straight i quit 3 years ago mainly because i got bored of my skatepark and the bad weather plus every skate friend i had just moved on in life they either got married or moved out of state im sure some skate but idk its been so long it would just be awkward to skate with them again time changes people fr and i gained like 60 pounds all i been doing is playing skater xl and session i only use my skateboard for transport and nothing more these days

@im_sincerely_sorry8812

5 күн бұрын

@@user-ec4yw5hj3r Damn, I still skate. I also play modded skaterxl

@toejamisgreat

4 күн бұрын

Lame excuse man, I have bipolar 1 take your meds and get healthy eat good sleep good, you'll feel better than before you were diagnosed. Bipolar ain't stop me from doing anything I want

@bovedli

4 күн бұрын

@@toejamisgreat you know that it can be very severe though. Of course I take meds. Im not looking for excuses it has been very harsh for me both physically and mentally.

@jorgelouis709

13 сағат бұрын

@@user-ec4yw5hj3rThe matrix took them you stayed the glitch.

people quit becaues they realize you gotta be good at skateboarding for it to be cool

Respect bro! Skating is gnarly. I quit a few years ago to stay good for my job climbing trees. I miss it everyday. Keep pushing g!

All of us older skaters need to just suck it up and wear protective clothing for tailbone, ass, knees under out clothes. It’s not noticeable and it definitely helps when falling

That slam lookd heavy😮 I’m Soo glad you recovered 😅 Can’t wait for more of your vids

I'm slowly skating again, good to hear this now from you cause i was having fear creep moving back up my trick bag, i think i just need to send it on a spot some time and just pad up and hope for the best.

Glad u back on the board dawg!✨🛹💯

Dang! Glad you’re getting better Zack. You are right about getting hurt more often when progressing, and I think it is because when you are progressing you are feeling good, so you keep trying to ride that wave, meaning you continue to try harder tricks therefore you are more likely to fall and get hurt, as compared to skaters that stick to doing the tricks they already know and are used to. Mind you those skaters that stay in their comfort zone can still fall and get hurt, as we all have off days, but it is more likely to happen on the former scenario.

Dang glad you're on the mend Zach! Slamming sucks because of the pain obviously, bur more so when it takes you away from being able to skate for a long time. But such is life. Its a balance of pushing yourself to new limits, but hopefully mitigating injuries. Have a nice Sunday funday 🤙

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

Thanks Jonny!

Damn Zack, putting in work. Glad you’re better

Missed you! Good to see you back!!! 🙌🏽🔥

I loved skating that little park! Best place to chill & skate. Glad they’re gonna be improving it soon!

Great video Zack! I'm a skateboarder always have been as soon as I saw and road one from 10 years old, I recently did a Liz franc been a year off it's been brutal 💔 Wishing you good vibes, man, peace ✌🏾 from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 Skate on you got this 👍🏼

I'm glad you are ok bro and healing up. I'm in mid 40 and 2 yrs ago or so back skating after 20yrs or more . I've already had a couple slams . I should definitely get wrist guards. I love street skating and soon I'll hit up one of the parks.

Zack and Christian together?! Gahhh! Two of the best!!! So sorry to hear of the injury man, hope you heal up fast. That's why I stopped skating the first time... it really freaks you out to get hurt badly, but I learned you just gotta get back to it as soon as you can and overcome! Good on you, and looking good out there!

people also quit skating when they find better / more interesting / gainful things to do with their time - not just because they become injured. I never quit .. just scaled back and I"m still walking at 50 for that correct choice and when I get on a board I still get the same feelings of when I was young but I don't have to 'show off' to the degree I put myself into danger and I never do things to try to impress others - never have - so the mental game of self induced competition is not in everyone's game - the guys I knew who were like that .. are now basically crippled - the proverbial 'self game' of delusional competition that goes nowhere - and they have a type of delusion as they age , never progress but push themselves to things that only a young person should be doing if you want to think logically and health wise.. Cheers thanks for sharing your experience.

I'm 42 and want everyone to be grateful of your knees as long as they work as intended. I still skate on a weekly basis but man, oh man my knees are so busted so I'm nowhere near where I once was...and I should be grateful that I'm still rolling at my age, but it's still frustrating af when the rest of my body is up to par.

@marshallstreet903

25 күн бұрын

Have you tried the knee compression sleeves from Old Bones Therapy? Game changers!!

i came back after 19 years of a break the first 3 days in, i broke my elbow back then Skateboarding was so easy man i was so fit i learned all those tricks very fast even while riding alone then the injuries stacked up and it was either Skateboarding or playing Football (Soccer) on a pretty high level on the potential going Pro so i decided to quit skateboarding at the end i didnt become a pro in Football and my left knee were done so i was afraid coming back but last year i just felt it and was too motivated and instantly lost my Job being out for almost 4 Months now i got my Job back and i take it way way slower now more controlled my biggest Goal is to Push on the Streets and move with the Board i dont want to know tricks yet outside of those i need to move with my Board

I hella slammed the a few weeks ago too. I got the clip but I had to take 2 weeks off and then I had to have a tooth extraction. Getting back into the groove sucks but it's all a part of why I don't quit. Every time I slam I am forced to learn how to rest. Resting is a super valuable skill, especially when your icing the injury, because if you do it right, you find that when you come back to skating, you kind of suck for like 3 days but then you start making hella progress. Sorry you got hurt man, I know it sucks! Thanks for making these though because us 35 and older skaters really understand what your going through and vice versa. Cheers man!

When I was 16, I was going off a four foot launch ramp and did a front foot kick out and my foot did not make it back on the board so it scraped all the way up my right leg and cut my ball sack open. I let that heal and was going down a handrail about six months later and racked myself again and cut it back open. I let that heal again, but I kept skating, but it just was never the same. Then a friend of mine and me went to San Diego and was skating at Mission Beach by Hamils skate shop and ended up meeting Ray Barbie and Danny Way. I believe Chet Thomas was also there, but it was cool to talk to Ray Barbie and I told him that I was from Arizona and he basically told me that the only way to turn pro is if I lived in California, so that really kind of sucked. I spent a month there skating a ton of cool spots and the weather was always nice, and then came back to Arizona and it was hot and miserable. Now I can see why it’s so easy in California because that’s where all the companies are at and the people and the weather is pretty much always nice then in my senior year my parents were notified that I was so many credit hours behind to graduate on time, so I had to focus more on school and I always had what Barbie told me in the back of my head about not being able to turn pro in Arizona so I basically gave it up. I’m now 50 years old and all of my injuries from skating all those years Have definitely come back to haunt me. But I still check out all the videos and think about all the good years that I was able to skate and go to contests. It’s insane to see how skateboarding has advanced so much and the tricks are just insane these days.

Good to see you healing up dude...👊

I gave up skating because I don't feel any sensation anymore. And I don't want to get some irreparable injuries. Although I started surfing which help building my body and having a good diet.

Growing up makes people quit. Increase of responsibilities the big reason. Being young you don’t have big bills, you don’t have a family to support, full time job etc. compared to when you finally become an adult. And as you get older you just don’t have time. I’m thankful I work from home and can do chores during lunch. But I have so much full adult stuff to deal with like things around my home that need tending to, working on my car, taking care of my dogs, etc. I skate only 4 hours in the weekend just due to being an adult now compared to those 6 hour sessions A DAY when I was younger

I will never stop skating. I started surfing at age 26, started surfing at 27 so I could do something when the waves are flat. I am 45 and it seems like skating gets better every year. Of course, I just roll around bowls, but I’m skating. I can’t imagine slamming, I skate way inside my limits. High five to all skaters out there, no matter your age. This sport is so awesome and so consequential at the same time.

I’m currently going through that “going through the motions” part of skating. I’m not dealing with any injuries, but there’s just other things going on in my life. So finding the time to skate has become difficult. Also a few years ago I switched to a night shift job, so even when I find time to skate I’m usually alone. So what I’m realizing in my 40’s is a mixture of my schedule not lining up with the other local skaters. And it so hard to self motivate when skating alone, that you wind up just doing the same few tricks at the same spots. And never really pushing yourself to learn anything cause, what’s the point you’re alone! And I find myself just thinking “why am i even still doing this?!” That add on top of that I’m in my 40’s so when I do slam, it fucks my everyday life up even longer now. I’ve been struggling really bad the last few weeks, even considering quitting all together. I’ve never even given that a serious thought in over 25 years! Like I’ve made it out every year, but this year has felt way different. I know I’ll actually not quite, but it’s getting harder for me to justify it …..

I just tried to quit after pulling my back out. I didn’t even fall. It was from not landing my tricks, getting that whiplash when you stop suddenly. Getting old sucks

Movement is medicine brotha!

The responsible part of my mind keeps telling me not to get on a board while the rest of me wants to knock it off my bucket list before I'm far too old and have regrets even later in life.

Dowdy is the best when he waxes philosophical ❤

Did you get it X-Rayed? It could easily be a scaphoid fracture. I just recovered from one and it was exactly as you described - no pain until much later, limited mobility, and I even did the push-ups with my fist like you. I got it checked out and it was a fracture. Don’t wait on it either because the bone can get cut off from blood supply and dissolve 😬

My last slam shook me more mentally than physically. What convinces me to keep skating is that I have to practice that much more to get better. And I need to patch that crack at the end of my sidewalk. Having a rear wheel hang up going over a curb has its consequences.

I just bought a skateboard at 38 and I love it. Greatest hobby yet.

skaters and filmers should do a First Aid and CPR course. It has really helped in dealing with and keeping people calm when they injure themselves and are panicking. When you got winded, your homie just stood there filming and didnt really seem to help.

I hadn't skated since highschool. I'm 38 now and at the end of last August I'd gotten a longboard. 3 weeks later BAM! Broke my shoulder. I was super depressed and skating was the one thing I had. It wasn't a couple weeks after breaking my shoulder I hopped back on the damn thing in my sling. Skated for a couple months in that thing. My balance after removing the sling and having an extra appendege to flap around was pretty incredible.

@ZackDowdy

26 күн бұрын

That's a boss move!

@cursorygame

25 күн бұрын

@@ZackDowdy Hah. Thanks, I appreciate it. I didn't wanna do anything too dangerous with the sling on so I spent those 2 months on flat pathways pushing normal/180/push goofy/180 rinse and repeat. I wanted to feel hella comfy no matter what when I got the sling taken off. I appreciate all that you do for the skating community. Thank you!

For me, Old Bones therapy compression wrist wrap helped with injury, and I actually love wearing it even when I’m 100% because it prevents injury and boosts my confidence during falls. ❤

When I was 13 I was at the skatepark, I had already been there for 4 hours, the sun was setting, I was tired, but I was determined I had my front foot on the nose by accident and took my back foot off to push and fell, I fell sideways and I couldn’t walk for the rest of the night but the next day I went back and skated again

So having the mini ramp in the backyard, how's that work with home insurance?

I pretty much stopped skating at about 27 years old after skating almost every single day since I was 12. I got married and moved away from California. I used to tell myself that I don’t want to skate anymore because I didnt have all my friends to skate with anymore but honestly the times I did go skate it just felt boring. That and the fact that I can’t get hurt in my line of work or I can’t work and also took up golf before I moved and it’s a lot more enjoyable and easy on the body. I guess in my experience it just got boring after doing it non stop for 15 years.

I'm 40 years old. Skated almost everyday from 15 until 18. Since them i skate occasionally. Sometimes i became away from skate for a year, and there was some years that i skated 1 day a week or 1 day a month. Broke my right wrist at 21, became away from skateboard for 3, maybe 5 years. Came back because i love skateboard, it is a lifestyle and a artform. I'm changing my skate style to a bowl style, and more focused on carving and less and less risky tricks. Skateboard scene needs more people talking about the importance of using Protection Equipment.

I quit because of work and my injuries started piling up. Had 3 surgeries by the time I was 21, and couldn't afford to miss work. Now I'm 31, have chronic knee and ankle issues, and work 50 hours a week. I've hopped on a few times over the last 5 years or so just to skate flat and see what I can still do. It's wild how much muscle memory you retain even after years of not doing something

I'm 53 just picked up a Santa Cruz again haven't skated in 30yrs and it's harder now than ever all I knew I've lost plus now the fear is huge but I still love it I had a spam two weeks ago and the bruise is only just coming out !!

I am 62 and have skated off and on most of my life, and recently gotten back into it as well as started inline skating. As was mentioned by another viewer, as you get older, you have to adjust your expectations and skate within your acceptable level of pain and fear knowing that you aren't likely to escape the slam forever. I have a laundry list of injuries from various sports over the years and at my age, they ALL come back to haunt you. If you can't find an acceptable level of risk, skateboarding is probably not your sport, but sitting on the couch afraid of getting injured is not living, it's simply existing, and that's more scary to me than getting hurt.

I quit skating in 1988 when I got my first peddle bike and still ride mountain bike today at 48 years old.

Someone might have already said this. Zack kinda did in his video. Been skating for over 25 years. I'm almost 40. Don't quit. Just cool off on the big shit! Listen to your body. I'm not throwing myself down a 10 set anymore, but I can still have fun doing a backside flip on a wedge, or hitting a 5-0 on a small hubba. It can still be fun, and your kids (as well as the newbies at the park) will look at you like a GOD.

thats why i longboard sidewinder double trucks are fun for cruising ive broke to many bones on a reg stateboard

About to be 50 here. Been on a skateboard since I was 10. I'll never quit skateboarding. As I get older I understand more about risk vs reward. When you are young it's almost always worth the reward. When you are older it almost never worth the risk.

its the same with stunting motorcycles. getting hurt is part of the game. and it can be tough getting back into it after getting hurt. because we fear getting hurt again. but if u enjoy what u do enough then youll continue with it despite the injuries

im 28 now and havent skated in over 6 years since a bad neck injury. well i got me and my son boards, and weve been riding alot . getting super comfortable again .... but today i went to just ride off a curb and misplaced my foot and slammed hard asf. HUMBLED like you said lmaoo

Some of quit after coming to the realization that we're 52 and not 21 anymore and that compounding your ankle at 49 and up is a lot worse than doing it at 21. Like David Bowie said, "time may change me, but I can't trace time."

I started when I was about 20, quit at about 21 because I got into guitar and was scared of getting hurt so that I couldn't play. Also frankly because I was a coward. I'm 36 now and I promised myself that on my 37th birthday I'm buying a board. I grew a lot as a person and have had a lot of pain in life so I figured whats the problem of concrete and tarmac. I really admire the life lessons and internal strength skaters have. Salut!

Hello Zack, Good explaind by a experiense skater, team pain it is, just let the passion rule. I broke my wrist (24) in may 6 weeks no skateboarding for me, i be 59 years in Aug. I been skating for about 8-9 years. My daughter started me up with this delicate habit. Like you said, it will happen fast and when least expected to happen, after a lot of fun skating with just one more run to go. Is it a focus thing? To relaxed? Or just to much adrenalin? Or everything at once. It cant be wrong to feel that good? Humble yes but deteminded. Is it possible to put an PVC PIPE to umbrace the pain with, and do some runs out night in the tennis court the fourth week. l am not shamed by this manners, love skateboarding to, no limits the flow. Anyway i don't take off my wrist guards text time!!! Keep sharp Zack.

Started skating back in the mid 80s, but more as a past time as parents wouldn't drive me around to different parks, no support whatsoever. Quit skating in the early 90s when I joined the Marines. Fast forward a few years wanted to get back into it, but no parks nearby, and the street scene was non existent. Fast forward to nowadays I am back on a board, but the kids at the local parks are always giving me a ration of crap, mainly since I cant do that many tricks, and the ones I can do, I do badly.

My family moved from one of the best places in the world for skating to one of the worst. i.e. from a place with hills, beautifully paved streets; you could skate for miles! To a place where the landscape was flat and the streets were made with rocks as big as marbles. I cried for a week. Thank god for mini ramps but I wasnt driving and nobody had one in my neighborhood until we stole a whole bunch of wood and built a 4 foot half pipe with a 5 foot extension in a kids backyard one Saturday. Conveniently there were two houses being built on each side of his backyard. I heard the workers were angry on Monday, but it wasn't my backyard, just my idea :^) we enjoyed that ramp for about a year. Surfing is certainly less painful.

Come skate Tustin skatepark or la puente Dowdy!

I can only flat tricks I just can't comfortablly go forwards or essentially sideways on any board having learnt everything on a bike or skis

When I was in highschool I got a bunch of signatures from around my community to build a skate park at one of the neighborhood parks. I got enough signatures and the city approved it. It took 3 years for them to actually start construction which by the time it was skatable I was working full time, doing part time college classes, and living with my gf in a different town. At least the future generations get to enjoy it.

That's the part of skateboarding I don't miss at all but dark slides on the local curb and getting off the curb/riding away...that was so much fun. Falling though and wondering if it's broke or not, etc...yea I don't miss that at all.

what kind of shades do you have on @ 5:00 ? looking for some new ones

Started skating again at 35 when my first son was born. I broke my wrist and my hand a month in. The first bone break in my life! I was ready to quit after that and just accept the fact I might be too old but a little into my recovery I got back on the board and eventually mentally conquered the quarter pipe that broke my wrist a couple years later. Glad I did not quit, I argue that I am a better skater at 38 than I was at 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and so on.

It much to do about your video title with this question but HEY! That cement halfpipe in that backyard is absolutely insane! That is exactly what I want here in Hawaii as lumber is so expensive after the Maui fires. Do you have a video showing the making and cost of that beauty? Solid, low noise and low maintenance 🤙🏼

@ZackDowdy

14 күн бұрын

Yeah there's a video of the process on my channel, I hope you build one!

@skateorbri

14 күн бұрын

@@ZackDowdy I should have looked harder before I messaged you sorry brah. Still in Hawaii it looks like the 10k cost is closer which I don’t have.

I was a skateboarder myself for years. After a certain age I found it too demanding and dangerous. I now do Wizard Skating (Inline) and I'm having the time of my life. A lot safer and a whole new set of challenges.

Bro, Im 49. I get back on the board a few times a year, each time losing a little bit more of my equilibrium and balance. I get broke off and then put it down, but then get back on it again a few months later. At this point I've lost practically everything except carving around and grinding. Was always a street skater with a big bag of tricks and all that's gone. The fear of building tricks back up is greater than the drive to push myself. I still have that style that says, I used to be good, whatever that's worth but I guess that's more than I would have expected at my age.

44yrs old, torn ligament in big toe on my push foot. Need a surgery but can’t be of my feet for 6 weeks, I do construction and that not happening.

You’re such a trooper bro🔥🔥

That slam where you jacked up your hand made me get some full glove wrist braces. Scary stuff.

Still in my 20s, still skate to this very day. Sprained my ankles, my wrists, nearly dislocated my shoulders, and slammed on my ribs. So basically, slams don’t stop me

I started skating again after 30 years at 47 years old and I'm still at it after a broken humerus, multiple bruised ribs and a year and 2 months later. The only way I stop again, and I hope it's many years down the road, would be paralysis or death. I'm a better, healthier, more positive human being when I'm on my big ol' 9.3 Eric Dressen Rose Crew one! Keep shreddin' out there!

It is maybe the most impact in my life having to stop skating...my right knee got overstrained after I recovered from injury. Well, it never got good again 🥺

"", Zack Dowdy MMAASSHH!!!

As a 34 year old father of 2, who works Monday through Friday.... Beens skating for 20 years....Sk8 safe kiddos!!!✌🏻

I quit skating because I was fractally stupid - by being stupid enough to not wear wrist protection skating ramps, by taking drugs so I wouldn't realize my wrist was in fact broken and didn't bother with ER and stuff either. Took plenty of metal to fix a few years later and I had been lucky because the first hospital wanted to jump remove a number of my hand bones and stiffen the rest with a metal spider.. However, I couldn't help myself to at least pick up cruisers again after getting sober 7 years ago which proved little satisfying so I'd get into surfskating - and from there I tried skating miniramps again after a hiatus of ten years in may and found a surprising amount of tricks still dialed in even though I rode an unsuited surfskate. I got a popsicle setup the next day - and a set of knee and wrist guards as well as a helmet whom to wear I'm old enough now age 37 I suppose.. 😅

I'm 35, skating off and on since I was 8... now days I still roll just watch and kinda strategically guess the risk vs my ability. Knees aren't there but I keep pushing. Keep it simple, creative and fun. No more jumping stair cases for me 😂

Pain is a symptom of a well lived life

Have cartilage damage and stress fracture in my knee. Been 6months and not even close to better because of the cartilage damage. Ive broken bones in the past and been good 2months later. This shit sucks

Slammed hard in February and my palms still not full healed lol I AINT EVA GONNA STOP SKATEBOARDING!!

You either skate and ride because you like the sport, or you skate to you skate or die because you love the sport

I try to every now and then but the board sliding foot motion damaged my left hip after 30 years of skating and my knees go out in 15 minutes and can last 1day - 2 weeks. So with all this i cant do an eighth of the tricks i used to do and that can be depressing.

Skateboarding is like a drug addiction. You go hard, get your ass kicked, quit. Everthing is good then you talk yourself into repeating the cycle. If you a real skate boarder you never really quit.

@im_sincerely_sorry8812

5 күн бұрын

ong I feel the same all the time, sometimes I think I do wanna just stop cause I ain't gonna be that good but for some reason yet I still get up the next day to sweat my ass off

Bc it fuckin hurts the older you get when you eat shit on the concrete. When your young you get right back up like its nothing.

I'm getting back into it just today😊

I stopped skateboarding for two reason one my body failed ie i broke it and two and most important i got my baby boy luchen and alaskan malamute puppy like 12-13 years ago and i did my ankle in one day and couldn't walk and thought to myself i can't do this to luchen as i couldn't take him out for a walk so i thought i would just stop for awhile but ended up stopping for good and don't get me wrong i miss it everyday but i have so much pain now i could not do it anymore.

I love to skate. But I have to admit to myself that couldn't do it anymore after the tear of my knee's tendon. I think with blessing. I still could surf into my '70s, but definitely not skateboarding.

I did not quit at age 58 but I do hold back more to avoid injury. My lower back already has two bad discs. I have dropped in on a big vert ramp hundreds if not thousands of times but I don't do it anymore.

Been off my board since early December due to ACL tear and I'm struggling to get back into it. I'm pretty worried about my knee. and for the first time I have debts due to being out of work from it. fucking sucks. I absolutely love skateboarding but I'm certainly scared of the consequences.

every slam that I took just motivated me to keep on going, not falling you ain't doing it right as one skater told me.