Now apply that to skating... add a little bit of competition... and a whole lot of coordination... and you get what skateboarding is today. As great as skating is, it is turning into a huge competition... hardly even fun...
You can roll into a park, which you have never been to before, just looking for a new park to skate and have fun, but as soon as you enter... all you get is a set of stair downs and evil looks. The pressure to be/get good in sports is almost insane when it comes to the amount of comitment needed. In skating I have friends that have skated for nine years... friends that have skated all there lives and done nothing in life, never gotten good, never been in the skating bussiness. Those people are just in it for fun, and the fruits of there labor paid off after a while...
These days if you arn't good at something you are made fun of just for trying, so it is that much harder to even have fun with simple tasks. Skating is just the same. Almost everyone that I run into, they all think they could pick up a board and go out and tear it up, yet when they try... they can't... like others I find this very amusing so I am also with guilt!!! But I also admire those who are willing to put them selves out there and try something new, whether they are good or not.
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