I’m Elizabeth I’m 66 I’m Keith I’m 54 I’m Sabina I’m 56 and together they are the very old skateboarders the group will feature in Facebook’s first-ever exhibition on at the South Bank Centre from Thursday which celebrates our diverse passions it’s made them realize that their four-wheeled enthusiasm is not so
Strange it was the thought are we on our own and actually realizing we’re not we are so we are not leash at all there are so many age hit hit skateboarders all across the world nobody you know if you get into skating you very rarely get out
Of it Sabina took it up at the age of 51 Elizabeth though has been skating on and off since she was in her 20s along the Thames path or down to the marshes or anywhere there’s a beautiful path I just that’s part of it for me he’s been in
Beautiful places an escape new people are coming along and they say they’re from the 56th years and there’s somebody just joined up in their 70s she says I want to learn to skate Keith just back on his board after a shoulder op escapes related commutes on his January people
Are a bit confused I suppose it depends partly what I’m wearing as well there was one time when I was wearing sort full dinner suit on the way to an event skating through London Bridge and to get some interesting looks and comment It’s an inclusive group you don’t have to be at the more mature end of the scale then here is 23 the exhilaration the adrenaline that near-death experience makes you feel so alive and we call it stoke is when you when you it’s just that incredible stoke that’s
The lingo is it this yes yes yes well you’re there you’re there with me skate slang memorized I get on board let’s see if they can teach this young ish pup new tricks it’ll be a while before I match the skills of my teachers Wendy Herold BBC London News
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