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Offline Flatism®

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2012, 02:27:42 PM »
can't remember...it was that long ago..
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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2012, 02:30:40 PM »
started riding bmx when i was 9, small jumps and things...then Flatland when i got 13.  I'm 40.
 
But the age does not mean anything, some have been riding 2 years and are incredibly good, others like me have been riding all their life and are just barely ok...


When we started riding it was a totally different scene. Like me you probably spent your first couple of years learning Miami Hoppers, Lawnmowers, Cherrypickers, Bar Rides... then rolling tricks and scuffing tricks came in. For awhile it was all scuffing... and these tricks are hard. It is progression, it is also fashion or trends of tricks. If your scene was like mine we also didn't ride exclusively flatland, we rode everything. A flat session, then some street and then hang out at a friends half pipe, probably dirt jumping too. Today kids immediately start learning brakeless rolling exclusively, which is cool. What I'm trying to say is that you are not necessarily "barely okay" it probably depends on your definition. Besides being 40 and still riding is not "barely okay". I've gotta say that as I turn 40 this year.


I'm sure there have beens similar discussions here on the forum before.

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2012, 05:10:54 PM »
About 51 or 52 - come and see me at the Worlds in Cologne next summer...
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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2012, 05:13:11 PM »
Started riding flatland when I was about 14, but didn`t stop riding street, dirt or park. Was still racing at also.
Now I am 37 and teaching my kids to do flatland, they are 7 and 12
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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2012, 05:25:19 PM »
twelve
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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2012, 02:42:30 AM »
rode at 16 for 2 years, stopped, and started back a month ago.

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2012, 04:41:54 AM »
started at 23 i think then quit for almost 4 years now im 33

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2012, 07:13:28 AM »
15, and I'm still 15.

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2012, 09:18:19 AM »
I dont ride...I just hang out

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Re: What age did you start riding flatland ?
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2012, 07:03:31 PM »
^ Chills Not Skills ^