When do we lose the ability to skip?

I’m pushing 70 and I still can. Why don’t I do it more often? Darn good question that I don’t have a good answer to, so I think I will skip right over it. :-)

Can you skip to it instead? Let me know how it feels. You have a few more years on you than I do but I would like to think that it is still possible at 69!

I am a 70 year old grandma and I haven’t lost my ability to do it. Just last weekend my grandsons and I were skipping all over our garage pretending to be horses.

Yep, just skipped in to get a glass of wine. And that’s after having a micro-brewery beer. My son picked up a 12 pack for me while vacationing in Bar Harbor, and dropped the booty by this evening. Life is good.

@ETpro you do realize there is a difference between skipping and stumbling right?

just checkin’

@rojo The fact that my nearby sleeping mate was undisturbed in her notoriously light sleep (she wakes up when noises even think about happening—“What was that!?”) testifies to the fact that even with faculties thus impaired, I can still ’‘Skip to My Lou’’.

I can still skip, but I’m more likely to run; but not a long or as far as I once did.

I have to settle for skipping in spirit rather than body since I have no cartilage in my knees.

Were it not for this, I would skip and did so fairly often as an adult.

But then sourpuss type of people have described me as “immature”. But I don’t care :)

Skipping I can do, but trying to teach my son how to do the running man is just not possible for me, not anymore, it’s weird, I could do it as a kid, but now there is a big mental block keeping my brain from processing how to do that move. lol. Try it, it’s pretty hard.

My buddies and I skipped during our travels this summer. I think it might be more mental than physical.

Funnily enough @ETpro those aforementioned travels were in Bar Harbor. Maybe Bar Harbor holds the secrets to skipping.

One needs a good bra to skip.

@LornaLove gave my answer! I would pretty much need my chest bound with a whole lot of Ace bandages before I would be comfortable skipping.

I can skip still, but it is less effort when you are younger and weigh less I think. When I was youngg I had incredible strength and was thin, so I could lift myself in pull ups and chin ups and full sit ups and climb a rope and do a backflip. Even if I had the same strength now it’s harder to get me off the ground or pick myself up because I am taller and heavier.

I don’t think I have lost the ability to do so, but perhaps my friends would think it a bit weird for a 50+ year old guy to be skipping down to the mailbox.

I see no reason why as adults we shouldn’t be able to skip unless we’re physically unable. Likely the main reason we stop skipping is because, as we grew older, we became increasingly conscious of how we appear to others.

I never thought about the bra problem. Another advantage to being under endowed. I can skip!

I’m 34, and I still occasionally skip when I’m feeling particularly light hearted or silly. I embarrassed my 12 year old a few weeks ago when I skipped from our car to the front door of Target, while joyfully hooting, “Come on, skip with your Mommy!” :D

@WillWorkForChocolate I think I love you

D’awww!

Haha, I was just telling @chyna that it was so beautiful out today that I felt like skipping down the sidewalk! I, um, didn’t though.

I think the last time I skipped was when I first fell in love with my husband (I was in my late 30s at the time). We were our walking around downtown, holding hands, and I spontaneously skipped across a street. It was silly and fun! We should do it more often. But it hurts. :(

We did the crosslegged thing like Peter Tork and friends:

“Here we come
walking down the street
we get the funniest looks from
everyone we meet…......”