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Week 1 - Sore

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Well, after 1 week of skateboarding, I only fell one time, surprisingly. The first 2 nights that I went out to the vacant basketball court to skate, only my kids and my wife were present. The third night, 2 of the neighborhood girls were playing on the court. They started throwing rocks on the court. I spent most of the rest of that night after they went inside, gathering up the rocks and putting them back on the road. I did ask them to stop because someone could get hurt if they tripped on them but was ignored. Pretty typical for them and wasn't surprised. On Thursday, I decided to go out to ride my board on my lunch break because earlier that morning, I received my elbow and knee pads. I noticed a little bit of an improvement in my confidence level with getting my back foot on the board after pushing a few times with my left foot and also, I started to make turns! I was pretty excited about that. I'm working from the ground level here people! Later that afternoon, I had to ge...
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I bought a skateboard at age 43

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Hello everyone! My name is Bryan. I’m 43 years old and I just bought a skateboard! I guess since I’m not really a car guy that this would be my mid-life crisis. My family thinks I’m crazy, but it’s something I really have always wanted to do. Sure, I had a skateboard when I was 15 and I screwed around on it in my parent’s garage, but I never really took it outside or learned how to properly skate with my friends in my neighborhood. Thank goodness for the internet.  I was on YouTube one day watching a few skateboarders just do some freestyle runs (like I normally do on a weekly basis), and I finally decided that it was time to actually buy a board. My current hobby of collecting sports cards and occasionally blogging about it hasn’t really been fun (well the blogging part is, but the collecting part sucks). The enjoyment just isn’t there for me like it used to be. So, at 8:41PM on Friday August 8th, I pulled the trigger on a beginner board. It’s a Positiv Andy MacDonald board with P...
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