Funny you mention this. I skated in HS and college and while I have always owned a skateboard, I tend to go longer and longer between sessions as a 40-something. For me it's the decline in my explosiveness, some weight gain, and now chronic injuries that hold me back. I mean, if I throw myself off of 10 stairs today, I expect to be hospitalized. I have priorities in my life that don't allow me to sacrifice my physical wellbeing with the insouciance that I used to.

So I wonder if starting in your 40s is better because you never knew what your body was capable of in your teens and early 20s, so that depression doesn't kick in.