I gave up skateboarding after a fractured arm a year and a half ago. Mature decision.
But I still had the fever. On the Waldo Approach, I’d fantasize no cars and being able to carve across 5 lanes. Each time I saw smooth and/or fresh pavement with the right downslope, I’d get excited.
Yesterday I got out of the dentist’s and was looking at the smooth pavement, and thought, Why not? Got on my board for the first time in a year, felt a bit creaky, but started rolling and the feeling came back. It was so much fun! I decided to start skating again. Bunny slopes. Not pushing it any more. Better to skate carefully than to suffer the spills that go with the thrills of more aggressive skating.
I must be one of the least-accomplished skaters around, but I love it.
- Board courtesy Santa Cruz Skateboards
- From @lloyd.kahn’s Instagram
You make me want to learn it! Gliding with the breeze…
ah Lloyd…take care. Are you fully kitted out (this time)?….(please be so).
also, here is name of a supplement to investigate/consider trying. (apparently widely used in Japan)
Much of the research focuses on its benefit in pain/inflammation/etc…
but I have spoken with several who claim wide variety of benefits (I take it on /off, and do admit to benefit).
Some I have spoken with have claimed it even improves reflexes, etc.
One man I know, your age, takes it everyday, and still does daily large amounts of hard physical labor. He attributes
much benefit to it.
Serrapeptase