To Old To Skate

Baldee · Faceplant Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

Hi all!!!

I've been riding for one season and am really getting into it doing lipslides ollies having go at body varials etc...
I took up wakeskating because I popped my knee big time from wakeboarding and motox. I'm 40!!! and feel strong and fit enough
for skating and am up for it. What do you guys out there in the wakeskate world think
is this to old???

Rob · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 5:53 am Post subject:

"To old" doesn't exist Exclamation

tribal · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 8:47 am Post subject:

Well I'm 37 years old and I've been wakeskating for 3yrs now.Like you I started doing it more than wakeboarding when I did my shoulder again[reacuring injury had surgery already twice].Other than compensating for old injuries[it happens to anyone involved in action sports long enough] I think you are only as old as you feel.Granted I won't push things as much as when I was young and bones break easier but I plan on Wakeskating,skiing,moto-x and surfing till they lay me down to rest.
Here's a pic of one of my riding buds Team Monk,he's 45yrs old and still one of the fastest skiers at Whistler/Blackomb,pups step aside.

Mr. F · Ollie Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 52

Well if you have fun wakeskating your are not too old! And you already land ollies and body varial after only one season YOU ARE SURELY NOT 2 OLD. Skate til you die! Mad

rukusrider103 · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 961

believe it or not this is tottaly true, there is a 43 year old woman down here that wakeboards and owns her own boat and goes out with all her friends around the same age who actualy pull her, i've rode with her once and it was the awesomest thing i've ever seen. she seriously was doing w2w 180s huge and w2w half cabs huge with grabs. its insane.

Synergy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 249 City: Atlanta

if you think you're too old then you are... it's all up to you.
I know I'll be getting pulled behind the boat till I can't hold on any longer.

Martinsen46 · Ollie Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 61

Never can you be too old. even if your 80 and in a wheel chair, you can still strap skates on the bottom of that chair and ride!

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject:

i know my dad was almost 50 last time he rode and now hes just kinda to busy to ride as much but he was like every weekend, and iv rode with lots of dudes that were well over 40. just gota stay in shape

numb · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 7:00 pm Post subject:

my dads 57 and he wakeskates and wakeboards.

Morphine · Backside 180 Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 1207 City: 706omg

Too old is when your arms rip off as you get pulled up. That's the ONLY too old there is.

BillyOLDS · Posted: Sep 15, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

my dad wants to ride but i think he reached that "im lazy and old and work too much stage" but age isnt a factor in my mind Baldee, what class did u race in?

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Sep 18, 2004 10:02 am Post subject:

my friends dad wakeboards and hes liek 40 sumpin and hes better then his son lol, also i seen this video of this lek 65 year old guy wakeskate it was crazy lol

wakesk8r9610 · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 1267

my dad is 48 and the ifrst time out on a wakeskate he did a shuv it. it was werid,