old v new

Where I skate, in parks, things are a little weird.

I go to this place where there are old guys. They come out on Sundays to the skatepark and carve. There's not too many kickflips going on, but they can skate pretty good. Not that I would really know, but they look pretty good to me.

The younger guys are even pretty nice, mostly. The worst things get is that they ignore me, which is ok.

Mostly people are pretty friendly, to me at least. I'm old, big and can't really skate. There's nothing like a big guy falling hard. You can feel it in the guts just watching. I fall a lot.

For me skating is about facing your fears. Its about doing things that are probably going to end up in pain of some kind but doing it anyway.

Of course some guys don't fall at all, but I personally don't rate that.

I'm still learning to drop in without killing myself. I can do it pretty good on a mini ramp, but the bigger ramps are still a big challenge. I dropped into the bowl at Maroubra (the little part) easily enough. Now I want to go back and try and carve around the big bowl (there's a little bowl attached to a bigger bowl).

Yeah, I'll probably fall. So?