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Gosh this makes me want to buy a skateboard but I feel like I'd look like such a manchild / dweeb trying it out.
by isuckatcoding 10y ago
Gosh this makes me want to buy a skateboard but I feel like I'd look like such a manchild / dweeb trying it out.
- SyneRyder 10y agoThat's part of the process :) I'm 35 and recently learned to rollerskate. I avoided it for almost a year despite my friend encouraging/nagging me, precisely because I didn't want to look like a manchild in front of them. (Even worse when you wear the full derby padding & helmet.) Half a dozen sessions later, pushing through "this is humiliating but I'm gonna do it anyway" was probably even more rewarding than learning to skate. I found Erin Ptacek's blog post "Be Coachable" about learning to skate resonated with me too: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/21/be-coachable/ https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/08/21/be-coachable/ You could see if you have a skate rink/park nearby with times when hardly anyone is there. The rink near me is almost empty during the daytime, except for a handful of hardcore geeks in their 30s - 50s who would probably fit into the HN crowd anyway.
- oarsinsync 10y agoI can further this. I was in my 30s before I finally learnt how to skate. Kids dancing around me while I struggled just to stay upright and move, but I didn't care because I was actually learning to do something I'd wanted to do for a long time. I'm still not particularly graceful but at least I can do it and really enjoy the experience!