Middle Age Shred

I’m sure a lot of the people who visit my website skateboardsofchoice.co.uk already know of Middle Age Shred. If not, go here now: http://www.middle-age-shred.com/. It’s a forum for older skaters based in the North of England set up by Carl Arnfield and Tim Walker.

It’s a perfect example of what the web does best – putting like-minded people in touch with eachother. Anybody who witnessed the fall of skateboarding in the late seventies will appreciate how important it is to be able to stay in touch with fellow skaters. MAS is an excellent place to hook up with fellow skaters and arrange skate safaris to many of the excellent concrete parks that are springing up all over the place.

What’s also fun about it is seeing grown men finally getting to fulfill childhood fantasies: your mum wouldn’t let you build a ramp in the back garden? No worries; now you’re grown up you can build your very own half-pipe in the garage. Middle Age Shred is a goldmine of useful info on ramp building and trick mastering. And the great thing is that everyone is supportive of everyone else – a truly web-based utopia. Oh, and you don’t have to be too old to visit – many of the Shredders are only in their twenties.

Go there now and realize what it was that you liked about skateboarding in the first place.