Rollerblading is one of those things where age doesn't matter. Unless you're looking at it from the perspective of people that have had several injuries and banged up their body to the point that they aren't able to skate as much.
I'm talking about how people in general stay within their age groups because people are at similar points of their life and are able to do the same things. Rollerbladers vary so much in age and a tight crew can consist of people from 15 to mid 30's. People outside of the rollerblading culture sometimes think why the hell is this 30 year old hanging out with a child. The answer for a rollerblader is simple, they love to skate and it brings them happiness or they are amazing and they have fun skating together.
I remember being in and then later out of college and going with my rollerblader to pick up some kids that were really nice, fun people that shared a love of rollerblading. That's all it takes. We would go meet their parents, they would see that we were responsible people and would take care of their kids, and they'd send us on our way.
The two drawbacks were when we'd all go to a skate spot that had rails and they were too short to jump on the rail and all attempts to help them launch onto it failed and they'd get pissed and not want to talk to anyone until we went to a spot that they could skate. The second drawback is when you had to have them home by 10:00 so they could go to school in the morning, they'd all get sucked into a time warp and you return them home by 2:00 am and you felt like you were in as much trouble as they were.
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