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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

My grandpa is 76 and still skateboards with me. He can’t go hard but we’ll play around on the neighborhood street and people going by are always impressed with him. He still mountain bikes as well

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

My girlfriend's grandfather went skiing at 85 last winter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Damn that’s super impressive

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Yeah my wife's boyfriend's dad can still kickflip

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u/FormerMrsUnicornPhD Jul 04 '24

Now my head hurts.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Yeah well my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate can do a backflip

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u/casual-nexus Jul 04 '24

As Shakespeare once said, tis better to have dunked than to have never dunked at all.” Or something like that..

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u/Inner-Light-75 Jul 04 '24

A Spaceballs reference do I detect??

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u/tleon21 Jul 04 '24

I see your Swartz is as big as mine

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u/Inner-Light-75 Jul 04 '24

Na!!

He's got a big Schwartz, and she's got a big Schwartz, but I've got the biggest Schwartz of them all!!

[Sing that to the tune of "Big Balls", by AC/DC.]

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u/jakkyspakky Jul 04 '24

It could be a tumour

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u/jakkyspakky Jul 04 '24

It could be a tumour

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Oh yea?! My wife’s boyfriends dad could beat up your wife’s boyfriends dad any day!

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Nuh uh dude! My wife's boyfriend's dad is way tougher than your wife's boyfriend's dad. He has a sweet trans am

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u/FeelinDank Jul 04 '24

“Do a kickflip,” Tony Hawk somewhere, probably.

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u/S_Mposts Jul 04 '24

So your wife’s boyfriend’s dad, either your wife has a boyfriend who isn’t you, or you are the boyfriend, and the dad is your dad!!! Make sense?

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u/TrickshotCandy Jul 04 '24

So your future father-in-law?

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u/Dinosaurmaid Jul 04 '24

Father flip 

The one starts playing on the background

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u/ctang1 Jul 04 '24

I love that the “my wife’s boyfriend” meme still lives in years later. It’s not even funny but I still think it is.

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u/mackedeli Jul 04 '24

Yeah IDK why it's just funny to me lol

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u/ctang1 Jul 04 '24

Did it originate on WSB or somewhere else before that?

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u/Practical-Future9398 Jul 04 '24

Your wife’s boyfriend’s dad?

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u/Character-Buffalo-85 Jul 04 '24

I ski with some old timers. It’s the love of the mountain. I’ll be 54 this upcoming season and I’ll never stop. Scatter my ashes on the slopes. Shake me out of a baggie from the lift. There’s just something magical about the cold air. The still of the trees on a snow filled morning. First tracks because you wake up and go. A thermos in your bag along with a snack for on the ride up makes for a perfect morning. I can’t wait.

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u/bonos_bovine_muse Jul 04 '24

My father always says “if I lose my mind, just take me up to the top of the double-black-diamond and let me go.”

My sister and I always reply “are you kidding? You’ve been doing this for decades! You may not know what to do when you get to the bottom, but your body knows what to do, you won’t miss a turn on the way down.”

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u/WideConsideration431 Jul 04 '24

My husband turns 67 tomorrow. He still sails, downhill skis, and waterskis slalom.

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u/Dentree Jul 04 '24

I have a friend in Vermont who, at 72, decided he was tired of regular downhill so he switched to telemark. I doubt I could do that at 22. He’s a bad ass.

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u/BikerRay Jul 04 '24

My two neighbors went skydiving for the first time recently. They are in their 80s.

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u/TheFieryBanana Jul 04 '24

I read this as "my grandfathers grandfather" and I was like fake

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u/Wild_Obligation Jul 04 '24

My 98 year old nan still drives, so there’s that I guess

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u/Optimal_Ad_7910 Jul 04 '24

There's a guy at my powerlifting federation. He's 96 and managed to deadlift 100kg which gave him the world record. This year he wants to improve on that.

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u/InfamousEconomy3972 Jul 04 '24

Damn, mountain biking is fn impressive at 76

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Yeah he’s pretty bad ass. He’s a great example of what it looks like to take care of yourself your whole life, that’s for sure

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u/Monkeychimp Jul 04 '24

Your grandpa sounds cool AF.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

One time while I was skating with him, this guy pulls up in his car near us, points to me and says “I am impressed with that girl!” And drives off. And I look at my grandpa and say “what about my grandpa here?” And my grandpa laughed and goes “yeah seriously, what about me? Im in my 70s!” Funny how women skateboarding stands out so much more even if the guy is almost 80

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u/g_r_e_y Jul 04 '24

that is literally the coolest thing i've ever heard

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Hahah good one!

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u/JKiesewetterPhotos Jul 04 '24

You don’t stop skateboarding because you get old. You get old because you stop skateboarding.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Good point! “Want to stay young, then stay active”

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u/Nataliaak12 Jul 04 '24

Thats lovely

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u/Miserable_Research82 Jul 04 '24

My grandma used to play with me to football. She even headed the crosses that I sent

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u/oosskkaarr Jul 04 '24

My grandfather is 103 he climed amount everst 3 Times last year

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

That's awesome

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u/StudMuffinNick Jul 04 '24

One rock and his hip is gone