The SFGate (part of the San Francisco Chronicle) has a great story on the resurgence of “older” skaters. While it is definitely written by someone outside of skateboarding, it is still interesting to read. We have the same thing going on here in Spartanburg at the Hot Spot Skate Park. And by that I mean, old guys getting schooled by a 6 year old.
Here is an excerpt:
“Gardali is a member of skateboarding’s newest legion: men in their 30s, 40s or even 50s, married or unmarried, with or without kids, from every type of professional background, who grew up in skateboarding’s early days and now find themselves, besides aging fast, in hog heaven: a time, unimaginable in the ’70s or ’80s, when new, government-sponsored valleys of carveable cement transitions topped with slick metal coping open every week. What else to do but take it up again?”
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