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Jeff

Age and Time for skating

Posted: 2007-11-29 08:54:33

Since our style of rollerblading is getting older and older, many of the people that started rolling back in the prime of rollerblading are now getting older and older and spending much more of their time in "real" jobs and managing finances, family and other things that don't really take any time when you're 12-16...

Anyone else feel like it's hard to find people your own age to skate with and hard to find the time to skate? Any suggestions on how to remedy this?

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- Patrick
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2007-11-29 11:11:17
  
  yeah I feel the same way. Luckily my best friend from highschool still skates. One of the things we do is designate a day to go skate. We call it take the park Tuesday. Its gotten a pretty good response with a usually showing of 5+ skaters. Its slowed down now since it has gotten colder. We will probaly start having it in the pay to skate park. Also I hardly ever skate street anymore. I grew up not having any parks at all so actually having one close to the house is such a lux that I have become a park rat.
  
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- skate_Troll
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2007-11-29 13:50:17
  
  since i'm 43 now, it's really hard to find any skaters my age to skate with. luckily i have been in the rollerblading industry and got to skate with some of my heroes at the AIL championships back in September during the old man sesh on sunday afternoon, which was the first time in 5-6 yrs that i skated park. right now with a 20 month old, and a minimum of 20 minute drive to a park, i don't see me skating a whole lot until my daughter starts in a couple of year (hopefully)
  
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- - Jeff
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-11-29 15:48:14
    
    I'm 28. 29 on Feb. 2nd... I've always skated with people that are either a few years older or in their teens (regardless of my age just cuz it seems to be the case that teens skate a whole lot more than 20somethings).
    
    I was skating alone for a long time, but I'm more concerned trying new tricks when skating alone and never really progress... It's all fun though and I always make time to just roll around if nothing else. It's strange how fun I can have just rolling around the parking lot since I used to feel like anything lacking a grind wasn't my kind of skating. hehe
    
    I like skating parks, but with all the crazy kids flying around sometimes it's pretty intimidating. I do tend to hold my own though and at least I don't look out of control like some of the kids that are trying to do the biggest tricks before getting the basics down.
    
    Oh yah. I'm glad to hear you still skate and a late congrats on the 20 month old.
    
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  - - HansHockey
      
      Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
      
      Posted: 2007-12-30 13:58:40
      
      25 here, still going strong.. I don't skate handrails that much anymore but I love skating transition
      Skating is about having fun, not about how good or old you are.
      Just skate and enjoy the time while doing it.
      
      Peace yall !
      
      XXX
      
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- lace
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2007-11-30 10:59:37
  
  I'm 29 now, Hoax 2 generation....It was cool to skate when I was a kid but now people look at me like I'm some old lady that should be driving a mini van full of kids to the skate park instead of actually skating there myself. Plus being "old school" and doing souls and royales doesn't bode well for me skating in the age of 540 kind grind and jumping through a second story hole. I think if you're old or "old school" then you should just find someone on your level to skate with. Don't skate with someone who's on the fast rise to rollerblade fame b/c lets face it...you can't keep up and will be left in the dust with no one to skate with all over again. If you like to roll around and do Mizus then find someone else that like to roll around and do Mizus.
  
  ps...anyone who wants to do soul grinds with a 29 year old , k2 fatty wearing woman...hit me up! I promise I don't drive a mini van.
  
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- - Jeff
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-11-30 11:28:18
    
    Hey... Glad you joined up here. It's been ages - I hope all is well! We should have an old schooler session sometime to re-unite some of us old skaters from the bay... I agree with what you're saying, but sometimes it can be fun to skate with the young ones to help push your limits a bit and try new things.
    
    540 kind grind -- sheesh, that only happens in my dreams.
    
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  - - Law
      
      Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
      
      Posted: 2007-11-30 14:27:38
      
      Point me towards the Mizu session!
      
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    - - lace
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-03 15:07:25
        
        I have a few photos of Mike doing Mizus too.....and of Law
        
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      - Patrick
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-03 18:44:38
        
        Post them up! lets see.
        
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        Law
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-03 21:13:25
        
        Only the PG13 ones of me, ok Lace? We're trying to welcome people to the site, not scare them off.
        
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  - oldskoolslow
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-12-31 04:48:11
    
    FAKIE 630 KIND GRIND BY A 30 Y/O
    
    Old skoolers still hold it down...nuff said:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeneBM8e5w
    
    Hit me up if you're down for some stupid fun random rolling with a 540 every once in a while in Manhattan.
    
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  - oldskoolslow
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-12-31 05:15:43
    
    I know the feeling lace, I was in San Jose for a business trip and I went to visit the aggressive mall store. The kids working the store were shocked to see me come in full "just got out of a management meeting" business attire. Fuck the mini-van, gimme a convertible and throw some blades in the back seat!
    
    I didn't care though, the store was great and I got to try on most of the skates I read about in Jeff & Law's holiday buyer's guide. I ended up with some 0801s which I still haven't gotten around to skating on cause I'm being a bitch about skating cold weather (NYC).
    
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- Dar1
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2007-12-19 12:32:47
  
  wassup y'all
  
  got sucked into the life since vg2 / hoax deuce era. Been a roller at heart ever since. But that was like frickin a decade and a half ago, and $#!%, life happens and you gotta grow up and pay bills. It's the story of our lives, right? Grew up skating in the 408 where it Julio revolutionized the sport, and now i'm workin in Orange County. I'll be in my business attire walkin to the office when I'll notice a sweet rail or a ledge, and then I start to hear that infamous sound of grinding-plastic in my head. HAH! y'all know what I'm talkin bout. OC is oblivious to blading and its quite depressing at times. Solo sessions just aren't as fun as with the boys.
  
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- - Dar1
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-12-19 12:34:02
    
    ...oh yeah, 25 years OLD
    
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  - Law
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2007-12-19 17:04:19
    
    Umm, are you talking about Orange County, CA or Orange County, FL? Just saying, cause OC, CA is where the industry was born, there's a thriving skate scene there.
    Where in 408 did you start? Do I know you?
    
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  - - Jeff
      
      Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
      
      Posted: 2007-12-20 00:04:16
      
      I think the typical problem most rollerbladers face everywhere is that they rarely ever see another rollerblader on the street. There's a ton of skaters in the bay area, but I never see them. There's a ton of skates in Orange County, but when I go down there I never see them... You really have to just regularly goto spots and eventually you'll run into people. They're used to be a little Senate tool to help you meet people and now there's Myspace and facebook and rollerhome -- but it's still tough to really know where people are gonna be and when...
      
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    - Dar1
      
      Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
      
      Posted: 2007-12-20 01:23:15
      
      Orange County, Irvine, CA. Don't know a soul to skate with if my life depended on it. Except for that dood from KFC sportin a VALO t-shirt. Big regret not going up to him.
      
      I actually use to skate with JEFF. We go way back, when he use to ride that convertible pimpmobile. I forget what it was called. Do u still drive that thing dood? But yah, we use to go to MP and Creek a lot, and of course the oldskool spots like Townsend, Milpitas High, Morrill, Leyva, Dixon Landing, and Downtown San Jose. Hella oldskool.
      
      But yah, I'm pretty sure there are many people who skate here in OC, I just don't know how to find them. I do recall at one point, Jon Julio was living in Santa Ana, which is like 5 minutes from Irvine. I hit him up on myspace at the time to let him know that I desperately needed to skate with people here since I'm originally from San Jo. He never replied back...3 years come and gone.
      
      I don't recall skating with you. But I skated with Ingel a couple times, and Eric "FISH" and Lee Bendo from Overfelt, and some other homies that weren't really known. Once in a while we'd bump into Donnie G. and Quang Do, and sometimes John Starr.
      
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    - - Dar1
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-20 01:45:31
        
        ...BTW, I'm going up back up north to San Jose for the next couple of weeks, and Jeff and I are supposed to session one day. Seriously, I don't even remember the last time I did a Royale, so don't laugh Jeff. If anybody wants to join, let's do it.
        
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      - Law
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-20 09:24:30
        
        Hmm, you might have been in SJ while I was in OC. Strange coincidence...
        So Julio is up in SF now, used to own a loft in SA but I think he sold it, or at least it renting it out. However, Jess, my partner in 50/50 and owner of England, as well as Arlo, still live in those lofts.
        If you're serious about meeting up with people to skate, I can open up my rolla-dex (oh law, bad), and see who responds.
        
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      - Dar1
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-20 17:50:07
        
        haha...ROLLA-dex! nice...
        
        yah man, that would be sweet. Dyrenforth and Eisenberg, eh? I had no idea I was in the vicinity of such pioneers. But yah, as previously mentioned, I'm a little rusty on the skills (to put it nicely), so it would be kool to skate with people who aren't so PRO if u catch my drift.
        
        thanks LAW
        
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        smirnus
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2007-12-30 19:09:34
        
        Come down to Lake Forest to Thurs. night skate @Etnies park off of Lake Forest and the 241 toll road. Place is swarming with rollers. I'm Jared, 25 and live in Mission Viejo.
        
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        Dar1
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
        
        Posted: 2008-01-14 23:41:52
        
        man, I just got your message. I'm leaving for NYC this Thursday, but I will probably check it out next week. Thanks for the heads up!
        
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- aldolega
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2008-01-15 14:04:18
  
  I guess I'm lucky in that there's a good number of older skaters in Detroit that i skate with all the time- actually I'd say about a third of the scene here is 23 or older, and have been skating quite a while- quite a few decader-bladers in the D.
  
  As others have said, having a regular scheduled session helps a lot because you can plan around it/for it. Not as fun as being 16 and spontaneous but it's way better than not skating. For us, it's FNS in the warm months and Thursday nights at Landslide in the winter. We get anywhere from 20-40 people at FNS and usually around 20 at Landslide.
  
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- - Steve_metz
    
    Re: Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2008-01-15 23:52:33
    
    Im 24 and been skating along time off and on in the san jose, bay area. Now I live in San Diego, I graduated college but Im about to go to graduate school and I have a full time job. I try and skate on saturday though and esco on monday nights when I can. Seems like now adays the session always revolves around a camera and its not about sessioning with friends and having fun. Even at a skate park everyone has their ipod and is just zoned out and totally focused on skating ,which is cool but its just not how I skate. Anyone else see this? I like progressing and learning new tricks but its not as important as feeling good about skating and lacing just one or two tricks that felt solid. My two-cents
    peace
    
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- fiziks
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2008-07-30 11:03:08
  
  I'm actually the only person in my town who rollerblades anymore, two years ago we were almost 20 strong, however if you peep Rollingedits.com, they have a pretty huge fanbase.
  
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- CzechSkates
  
  Re: Age and Time for skating
  
  Posted: 2008-08-10 05:04:05
  
  It's good to see there are more of us out there than just me, although at 33 I hardly think you mid-20's kids are old or old school! I've been skating on and off since '93. I love the sport so much but I don't get to do it as often as I'd like. It seems really hard these days to find and have skate buds that aren't in there early teens or younger. You'd think in Orlando Florida there'd be a much bigger scene here, but if there is I haven't found it yet. I'm not a dependent person, but skating for me is much better with someone else, or a group than it is to go out alone.
  
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- - buckupprincess
    
    Re: Age and Time for skating
    
    Posted: 2008-08-26 20:35:22
    
    Hey now, even though us mid-20s guys may not seem old school, we are definitely there with you. I've been skating pretty constantly (barring injuries) for 12 years. I missed a couple of the formative years but images of John Starr, Louie Zamora, Mike Opalek and even the legendary Chris Edwards are burned into my head. I have the same issue as the rest of the gang here in that I'm the only one in my small town who happens to skate and have no real park to speak of within 30 miles. Although it is hard to find a crew, just being able to roll really is wonderful. The biggest help (at least for me) is that the scene out here (when located) is based solely on having a good time. When you run into another rollerblader, better than you or not, there isn't that feeling of competition that seems rampant in other scenes. But believe me, I feel all of your pain. Solo sessions do not have the same magical feel of when we all started and at any given spot you'd be 20 kids deep and really pushing not only yourself but the sport.
    
    If anyone ever happens across northern Illinois, please feel free to hit me up. Having a skate buddy always helps.
    
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