I wish I’d have known this at a younger age

Рет қаралды 4,821

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер: 87

@dalekay9ine 4 ай бұрын

Hey Dale, Dale here- you're absolutely right about everyone feeling the way you do about your passion, they feel extremely similar if not exactly the same about their own passion. I'm a drummer / musician of 25+ years and recently I've realized that doing OTHER things outside of music brings a deeper appreciation for when I do jump back into getting behind the kit. Other interests have also sparked creativity for my music as well, which is very exciting. Love your videos bro! Keep doing what makes YOU happy Dale!

@tadotto 4 ай бұрын

As another drummer of almost 25 years, I second this message!

@miked.7245 4 ай бұрын

I remember Joe Rogan talking about his passion of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Everything he said about it applied to my passion of skateboarding. Then Joe Rogan had Tony Hawk on his podcast and didn’t take anything he was saying seriously at all. He looks at skateboarding the same way most non-skaters do. They will never understand and that’s okay.

@SS-mk2zi 4 ай бұрын

Man you are making a lot of sense. I’ve felt that way with skating, how you go back and forth with perfecting the craft and doing it just for fun. I always go back to the that aspect and try to remember to smile and enjoy every moment I can on the board, since who knows how long we got .

@austinarias2864 4 ай бұрын

Love these new videos bro keep being real and expressing your feelings, very informative and comforting learning different peoples inside perspectives on things

@JoshuaMutant 4 ай бұрын

Love ya Dale!!! Keep skating, keep not skating, be a well rounded human and experience the world!!!

@jacobjanikowski 4 ай бұрын

I love that he does cuts but kept the sneeze in anyway

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

The sneeze was personality

@PumpkinPieces33 4 ай бұрын

I feel this. The hyperfocus grind on being a creative musician, similar to how one might grind on pushing themselves to progress with skating... it gets to a point where it feels limiting. It takes a lot of practice to not be mean to ourselves when we stop going hard at something we love and have thrived in. Also relate in that sometimes at gigs I'm bored as hell and not feeling it, and it's okay to not push myself to move/dance/socialize. Next set, next gig, next weekend might inspire/move me more. Making room for mediocre experiences lol. Good to hear these thoughts as someone moving into skateboarding as a break from being so headstrong into music making. I think there's a strongly implied "stick to the thing you're best at" energy in our current brand/content culture when really there's a broad set of experiences we can explore and enjoy. Thanks for sharing

@mattstanbridge 4 ай бұрын

I hated small talk most of my life, 20s and 30s, and thought no conversation is worth it unless it's meaningful, until I realised, I needed it. Little interactions about the weather or what you did at the weekend are little package sized connections to others, sometimes they go deeper, but mostly they don't or even need to. They're especially essential as you get older and have kids, which is the point of your life where most of your time is spent with family, and those little chats at the gym for example are necessary moments of sharing.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m learning to enjoy it and slow things down. Death has been happening a lot around me recently and it really makes you think about those things

@mattstanbridge 4 ай бұрын

@daledecker Yep, life is short. Well, we should treat as though. If someone wants to say hello, lean into it.

@matthewbrown770 4 ай бұрын

Deep my brother. Somw people never find shovels big enough to dig their heads out of their asses. Congrats and i would listen to any of your ponderings. The tunnel vision and one track minds is the people that try to put us in boxes with labels. Im a human. Nice to see the moments of you being human too

@SillyShenanagensThe3rd 4 ай бұрын

dale you dont know how much these videos help me, im still at the point where im coming up in skating and you say alot of the stuff i need to hear, thank you so much man

@harleyjepson5809 4 ай бұрын

I really like the way you’re thinking buddy. It’s REAL !!!! Love the videos and wanna see what else you get into. I fully resonate with what you’re talking about. I skate, boulder, love motor bike trips and surf. Mix it all together and you get such a blend in our lives. Keep being you brah

@jean3671 4 ай бұрын

keep being yourself bro, been following you for years and the content has always been great and inspiring, much love.

@Unlockingparadoxes 4 ай бұрын

I hope that everyone has an amazing 2024 and safe travels and skateboarding throughout the years. 🍀♾️❤️‍🔥

@Unlockingparadoxes 4 ай бұрын

I hope that everyone has an amazing and memorable summer 🌞🏝️

@darkadore 4 ай бұрын

I've been feeling similar but for making music. Been doing it for years now and been finding new interests that i havent yet found a balance for. Hope you continue to find joy in the things you do!

@Jay-wk9xj 4 ай бұрын

For those of us that are a little bit older,. you're at the point right now.Where a lot of your childhood / taught beliefs are being challenged by the reality of the real world... It's a dangerous place to be and why some people fall into xonservative cult like behavior because the get desperate to find a new Ideology to replace the old one.... That's when you gotta make sure you're staying rational, kind ...and keep your hands on your wallet cause plenty of folks will try to sell you a new panacea.... (there Isnt one tho ..)

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

For sure! People search for shit like q anon to give their lives meaning because I think deep down they and maybe all of us feel that existential dread that it all might be meaningless. But I’m kind of okay with that honestly. I hope I dont give off any sort of conservative cult vibes. My belief systems haven’t changed.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

I also wanted to add to this I think as you get older the naivety of the way you see the world starts to fade away and you can see things for what they are, it can be a little devastating but I’m also glad I’m able to see it for what it is cuz I was that guy that was “allergic to not skating”. I shed to thinking working out was so wack and how could anybody be into something that’s so lame.

@westwoodcam 4 ай бұрын

this is some sauce right here thank you, im only 20 tho so im prob receiving it in a different way than u intended

@JustGiverEHD1 4 ай бұрын

This is the way, as we get older and have more life experience and confidence in who we are, we become more aware of what makes us happy and helps us grow as a person. Too many people get stuck and stagnant. Keep making moves bro

@BudetSvobodnoy 4 ай бұрын

I can relate to that. Always had this idea of going to skate to be "good" and to keep consistency, even when I didn't have any energy to skate. But at some point I realized that I am not going pro anyway (I started skating when I was 20+ so that was obvious from the beginning) and I just have to skate when I WANT to, so I can actually enjoy it. I also have this new thing that I am doing for the last year, that I am focusing on and I plan to actually make a career from this one. But I gotta remember that if it gets boring at some point in the next 5 years, I shouldn't just keep doing it, I can use that knowledge and go into something else. Just like how I used skateboarding mentality in my life (Which is: you can learn anything if you try 1000 times and failure means that you just got better)

@TomLemmns 4 ай бұрын

Glad you're keeping the videos going. I like to hear your point on these things!

@NoxiousPond 4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad I got back into skateboarding at 35 because like you said it's not necessarily the tre flip down the 5 stair I landed (just an example I can't do that at all) it's the community and people I'm meeting along the way that's keeping me coming back to it. Being in my thirties has allowed me to truly appreciate skateboarding in ways I couldn't have at a younger age. The only con to it is I need time to warm up before I skate well and it is harder to learn these things because of my age.

@willmax95 4 ай бұрын

You are one of my favorites to watch. Lately i’ve been watching you, bryan and garrett and as far as your videos, I feel like I connect to the chatty videos a lot, keep posting them or post more non skating stuff, kinda the way Garrett is

@georgeaura 4 ай бұрын

I did the same thing from flying drones for about 7 yrs to trying out 3gun competitions for people in wheelchairs I just recently tried flying to get my little nephew into drones and after not flying for about a year or more I was amazing I still had the knowledge and capability and dexterity to still do it now I won't be leaving my new hobby and training for skills I now know with three gun but I am glad it was my little nephew that brought me back to a hobby I loved and can now teach him so we can do it together atleast until he is old enough to do 3gun with me lol.

@tadotto 4 ай бұрын

Love the real talk! If your having fun skating, Great. If your feeling called to focus on something ells, Thats cool too.

@jetvong 4 ай бұрын

Well said, Dale. Do the things that make you happy. Hoping that you figure out the next phase of your channel. It would be interesting to see how weight training and jui jitsu has helped your skating.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Thank you and yeah I made a video about that last summer

@freddiegarner2581 4 ай бұрын

9:07 had the exact same feeling with jazz music. I know it sounds really irrelevant to the vid but I studied jazz drums for a long time throughout childhood and I recently dropped out of music college mostly because of a similar thing to what you say about skating. Feels so relatable. The whole depiction of jazz music is that there are no rules and that everything's cool and 'we're all here to have a good time!' but in reality there is SO much elitism and it's pathetic like if you said like oh I love like Charlie Puth, you could physically feel the judgement lol.

@DarkoNomad 4 ай бұрын

Well, I've never though that skateboarding is the only thing in my life but when I look back it had always been the one of the best things in my life. I've just got distracted with so many things in life that I didn't have time to enjoy skateboarding enough.

@Nopaleeto 4 ай бұрын

I like that he left the sneeze in the video instead of cutting it

@turbocateyeS475 4 ай бұрын

The one thing I wish Id known at a younger age is... If youre going through hell, just keep on going...

@fakiewilly 4 ай бұрын

Time for class and im stoked for some knowledge baby.

@allankhorsheed 4 ай бұрын

"skating with arjun" dale's personal hell

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Lmfaooooo

@kristicheese7391 4 ай бұрын

Don’t feel the need to justify yourself, and don’t reminisce too much on the past. I wouldn’t have found you if it wasn’t for the skating, but I’m still here even though you’re not skating as much. Keep doing you :) P.S. Try rock climbing, the community it great!

@condor5150 4 ай бұрын

I discovered scuba in the tropics at age 30. It changed my life after skating since I was 8 years old. Wait until you travel overseas Dale, it will change you.

@Dubleduhtch 4 ай бұрын

This is why I love rollerblading; mostly totally inclusive. We are the most core of all the action sports. Constantly exiled.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Dude! I completely agree! Rollerbladers are always so nice and so welcoming to new comers. It’s so sick and literally all types of people do it

@georgecuhh 4 ай бұрын

If you’re ever in LA on Sundays come over to our open mat brotha!

@Zephyrian1st 4 ай бұрын

you are not a slave to your environment your analytics and twitter and etc will bounce they always do you are who you are express that we are here for you not the skateboard, the skateboard was the invitation 9:54 litterally why i started the WithLove. Mini project i got going on, its a anti sports superiority concept, gonna try and direct lines and flows with mix sports, even some snow shit, but my life is chaos, and it will probably be a while.

@floater1063 4 ай бұрын

Good job Dale.

@benzopaint 4 ай бұрын

Dude those videos u been doing with Keen Ramps have bee really good u don’t need to skate all the time but I’d like to see u skate when u have time

@willmax95 4 ай бұрын

The whole “were creative we think outside the box” mentality in skating is so toxic. The very second you even talk to someone about something that is outside of skating or even skating tricks in it of themself, like you said everyones super judgemental. Especially with content + then they go “nah wont watch” or “you fell off” etc etc. totally with ya

@UE2012 4 ай бұрын

Fast track to happiness 🤙🏼

@MARCONIPUMA 4 ай бұрын

Well put

@Mcfishsandwhichandfries 4 ай бұрын

ive been saying this for years thanks for articulating it

@himebaughchris4026 4 ай бұрын

Dialogues are good.

@donnytucker 4 ай бұрын

Daledo, the way you look at skateboards is the same way you should also look at oreos....I'm not sure what i'm talking about. 😂 It's good to have hobbies and try other things. Listen to new music, painting art, thrifting, hiking, and some much more.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Haha I agree! I’m hyped you’re still here man! Thanks for watching :)

@donnytucker 4 ай бұрын

@@daledecker I'll be here until you stop vlogging my dude!

@thecoolwhipkid2026 4 ай бұрын

I knew this guy who would not shut up about skating and he would bring his board everywhere, I know what you’re talking about man 😂

@Geektak 4 ай бұрын

Dale my guy as a creator from 2014 - 2018 ishhhh I went from 222k to 175k, with the recent purge of 12k. I went through a similar hiatus of no content, now I just kind of post random shit because of bonuses. lol

@angusgray7424 4 ай бұрын

love the yap

@modahl1737 4 ай бұрын

dayum ur cauliflower ears are starting to grow

@frostshock13 4 ай бұрын

Oreo Zip Hoodie.. ya know on this day that I celebrate the earth orbiting the sun again from my birth. I am with you I was fortunate to always willing to try things and kinda dive head first if it was interesting. In the end I have a lot of hobbies that I am average at and that's ok. I always come back around to them and if I get burned out I just shift to another.

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Hey happy birthday!

@BudetSvobodnoy 4 ай бұрын

Keep this type of videos up my man, we need those opinions of normal people. There are too many paid opinions or just bullshit from idiots on youtube

@BecketSolis 4 ай бұрын

Word

@datnotme9921 4 ай бұрын

Dale, I started in '83-84. 50 and still like to fall on my face. Lol jk. Skateboarders or as a skateboarder, most are very energetic, fast learners can mingle into any other types of groups. It's rad man that you're into jujitsu, skateboarding.. whatever makes ya happy ⚡👍⚡

@c-fink 4 ай бұрын

Is Garrett inspiring you to upload again? He’s been killing it with the new house videos

@daledecker 4 ай бұрын

Dude yeah actually! It got me motivated to try again. We’ve been talking to one another through the whole process and like the last couple years about wtf we’re gonna do haha

@c-fink 4 ай бұрын

Please go skate at his new house. I need to see you Dan and garret skate together again. That shit was hilarious

@advaitawho 4 ай бұрын

Here’s something new for you… non duality from Jim Newman ☯😁 goosey gander it

@MrMugampi 4 ай бұрын

For me skating is a hobby. I don't take it too seriously anymore.

@johnm8378 4 ай бұрын

I really thought this was a coming out video

@degerdi 4 ай бұрын

Madrids putting out a video!

@degerdi 4 ай бұрын

You’re getting older. You’re also becoming more wise

@degerdi 4 ай бұрын

I’m invested in seeing what you do with your life and this channel

@mytorment 3 ай бұрын

Dale found sleeping Charlie Blair

@mytorment 3 ай бұрын

That's just a reference to sleeping on skateparks 🙏😇🫒

@RidgedVector 4 ай бұрын

cool video but i passed your guard bro 😎

@bitesize_85 4 ай бұрын

ive been learning to skate recently and it is great but i also want to go fishing a bunch this year and other things. its a nice feeling to have a good balance of multiple hobbies but can sometimes be a little overwhelming wanting to do everything at once

@DanielIvan707 4 ай бұрын

This sounds awful! I guess I’m lucky I grew up skating and in the early 90’s we didn’t have all that bullshit. It was just pure fun and self expression. Skateboarding means you don’t give a fuck what others think. Most skaters are good at lot of different things. Its always there for you, you put in the work. BJJ, music, art is the natural progression as you age out of everyday skating. Whatever you do it’s from a skateboarding perspective.