These guys always watch with extreme sports.
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OOTL, who are these guys? I think I'm missing the joke
Heyyyy I learned skydiving in my forties. It's 2026. 40 is the new 20. You can choose to be a couch potato or you can choose to stay active & healthy.
I think you are right. Most of my friends and acquaintances are in their 30-40s (as I am) and if there's a difference between some of us in the group is that whlie some of us feel like we're still young, some feel like they are already old. And the difference is about the movement each of us get. I walk to go everywhere, try to go to the gym 3-4 times a week and feel generally great; same that the othere feeling they are young.
If there is something that all those feeling old share is being a couch potato. Keep moving people, activity makes the body feel good and keeps you from decaying!
I am thinking about taking up macramé in my forties and these guys are watching.
Just like brass, as it is worked and repeatedly stressed over time, the human body becomes hard and brittle.
During Covid one of my friends was like "you get a skateboard and I'll get a BMX bike and it'll be like we're teenagers again!"
And I'm like, what orthopedic surgeon is paying you to propose this exactly?
Hell I'm a part-time father in my 40s and that's an extreme sport at this point.
Swear to god buying a skateboard right now would totally help me stay in shape. Ok maybe roller blades?
Never mind that I just broke my big toe. As a totally sober adult.
Yeah I was recently discouraged from roller blading and was told that it's a broken hip waiting to happen. It was the first time anyone had told me something like that.
I skated nearly everyday from age 12-15, then sporadically after that. At around age 30 I was feeling the urge and got a new board. I was at the skatepark wondering if I'm getting too old until I met this guy in his late 40s who had just started a year earlier. Dude had a helmet, knee pads, and shorts with padding on his ass, but had gotten decent at carving the bowl and was trying new shit all the time. He definitely kept me skating longer than I would have otherwise. Though injuries take so long to heal now and being older than a scooter kid's parent is weird.
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