Re: Too freakin old for this shit
That was a cool video! When I was in my tweens and early teens, I wanted to be like Mat Hoffman --dude was catching 30'+ air on these huge ramps. Got freestyle BMX going. But the wrecks are way worse than with skateboards. Mat went on to break almost every bone in his body, while I went on to mountain bikes.
I've done a lot of the crazy shit they were doing, but without the ramps and that one crazy HUGE staircase. I used to love stairs and 4-5' drops, but not like those. Most universities in the US are GREAT mountain bike freestyle courses, full of stairs and drops and hills, and they don't care that you use them that way (in Seattle at UW anyway). Skateboards either, hell, they sell the helmets and pads there!
But I'm too damaged myself to risk ANY of that today! Sure miss those days when I was invincible like superman though...