Skills you never lose ?

[fishinwrench]

There's riding a bike. 

Throwing a frisbee.

Operating a clutch on a manual tranny.

Shooting a slingshot.

And others, I'm sure....

But the one that surprised me last night....My kid was cleaning out her book bag from school and pulled out WHAT???   A Duncan Yo-Yo 🤓  Now there's a blast from the past.  I said "Gimme that thing".   I flat blew their minds, you'd have thought I had been doing it everyday for years......but it's been over 40 since I even touched one. 

Walk the dog, Rock the cradle, Roundy-Round, Wrap the waist, Flying Nunchuck........ It's still there, baby !   👍

I had forgotten how lethal they could be😁   Who needs the hassles of a CCW when a Duncan Imperial is in your pocket?   Bust their face wide open and then strangle them to death in a hot-second !    😉

 

[FishnDave]

[Johnsfolly]

49 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Where does one even find yo-yo memes?🤔

[FishnDave]

2 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Where does one even find yo-yo memes?🤔

[MOPanfisher]

You don't lose them but it takes a bit sometimes to get them back to near previous skills.  Riding a bike for example, I can still ride one but I guarantee that I can't do the crap I used to and survive.  Might have more to do with being able to crash and just get back up and go again.

I never mastered a yo-yo but break out a carom board and it's game ON.

[tjm]

Falling down, learned as a toddler and  I get better at it, I've fallen from bikes, wild horses, trees, house roofs, ladders, skate boards, ice skates, back of a moving truck, scaffolds, canoes,  boulders, tame horses, level ground, rough ground, ice,   and a few others and this is just the sober list, I don't recall the drinking stuff. but the falling down skill is easy when compared to the getting up skill. The other day a Crane I nearly fell twice, but I was afraid I couldn't get up after so I didn't.

String tops, I can still spin one, cause I showed a grandkid how a year or two ago, but I can't spike one like I could in the early '60s.

[Terrierman]

I can't throw a curve ball anymore.  And I never could hit one.  Which was the end of an otherwise promising career as a baseball player.  At the tender age of 14.

At my age, it's a lot more convenient to talk about the things I can't do anymore than the things I still can.

[Greasy B]

For a couple of decades I had an uncanny ability to run a Jon Boat through boulder gardens and shoals with half the depth really needed, that’s gone. I’m probably going to suffer a similar fate finding fish if I can ever get back on the water. I hope I never lose my love for rivers and gravel bar camping.  

[oneshot]

My kids are like you know stuff? No I was always old and didn’t know anything.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

36 minutes ago, oneshot said:

My kids are like you know stuff? No I was always old and didn’t know anything.

oneshot

Sticking to things where age and experience is a benefit will keep those kids respecting you.  

I took a group of six 19-24 year olds for 476.80 in a poker game last night.

Hey, it is was THEIR idea!   😉