For more than 10 years, primary school teacher David Ng watched inline skaters speed past him in East Coast Park, wishing he could skate too.
But he held back. “It’s the Asian mentality that after you hit 40, you are over the hill,” the inline skating instructor, now 71, said with a laugh.
On the cusp of his 59th birthday, Mr Ng finally decided to change things and after 21/2 years of skating, Mr Ng reached an advanced level and became an instructor himself.
“People think that when you are old, you should just stick to taiji,” he quipped. “My family told me to do something more sedate, but this inline skating is so exhilarating. It makes me feel young again.”
He has even inspired some older people to take up inline skating lessons. “People tell me they are too old to start skating, but then they see me and they think they can give it a try too.”
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Source: The Straits Times, 3 September 2017