Old dogs can learn new tricks, it just hurts more
I learned to snowboard at 50, kids split buying me a snowboard, boots/bindings. Hurt like f*k for the first few times out while I was learning but damn it's fun and faster than skiing which I was getting bored with. It's a risk/reward thing you have to judge for yourself. I'll be damned if age is going to slow me down, until it does - lol
Edit: That year was the year I had gone through chemo and radiation. It knocked the crap out of me but I was hell bent on getting back to normal. You need some normal in your life when it's been turned upside down. That's why Evil went out and did what he did, and probably felt great, fall/pain and all!