Papi cool skateboard

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Renald St-Germain rides on his skateboard in the streets of Saint-Hyacinthe several hours per day.

Magalie Lapointe

Friday, 20 October 2017 21:30

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A man, Saint-Hyacinthe, may be the sexagenarian the coolest of Quebec while he is wandering around in skateboarding for 12 months per year.

Renald St-Germain, 60 years old, been skateboarding for about three years. Since then, the part-time worker practice his sport at a rate of about 20 hours per week in the streets and on bike paths, Saint-Hyacinthe.

He manufactures his own boards with aluminum, wood or plastic so that they are curved and wide as he wants.

It rolls in its housing 2 1/2. As soon as he has his ” withdrawal symptoms “, he rolls with his board between his living room and his kitchen over a distance of 25 feet.

Dream

As far back as he remembers, Mr. St Germain has always dreamed of embarking on a skateboard, but he lacked confidence in him.

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Renald St-Germain

In old age, he looked younger and said that he would not be able to do like them. It was when he saw on television a man of 84 years of age, attached to a biplane and fly that he has changed his opinion. “I said to myself, “if he stands on a plane, me, I’ll be able to keep me standing up to six inches of earth'”, said the passionate.

So he bought a board at a cost of $ 60, as well as walking sticks to help him keep his balance.

“The first time I made them, I ran down a hill and I fell. I picked up the chin and both elbows to the ground. I told myself that I would roll my whole life with walking sticks “, recalled the sixties.

After several meetings with the chiropractor, he quickly started again, but this time with a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads.

Since then, when he goes to watch the youth at the skate park, they do not cease to tell him how much they find it ” cool “.

Build

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his invention for practicing the plank on the ice. This board is mounted on a blade of a skate.

The rider who has always enjoyed tinkering has made the plates from aluminium, wood planks, stairs, and today he manufactures using plastic pipes.

“I like best the ones that I make, because they are made to my liking,” explained the athlete.

It has even pushed the audacity so far as to manufacture a board with blades on and skate for the winter to be able to practice his sport, even at -20 ºCelsius.

Only

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Mr. St-Germain has two dreams : to find a local so that he could ride them all day, even in winter, and teach, his passion to seniors over the age of 50.

“It would be fun, a gang of persons aged 60-70 years, because, for the moment, I am not wrong only one of my gang “, concluded the bite of the skateboard.