So, this is my second blog. This time I thought a bit about what I could write about and eventually decided to write about my favourite past time, Skateboarding.
I started skateboarding when I was around 13, and stopped when I was around 17. Initially, I started skateboarding because my cousin's had skateboards and had friends that also skateboarded. The first skatboard I got was given to me by my friends older brother.
When I went to high school I met alot of other people who skateboarded, and I became friends with basically everyone who did, I spent countless hours with my friends skateboarding.
All my memories of skateboarding are happy, so many day's spent with my friends enjoying Canberra. I remember every significant event on a skateboard. First ollie, first stairs, first mini skated, first kickflip.
Every one of the those events was significant and each alone was motivation to continue to progress. there are three reasons why I continued to skateboard for so long, 1. The satisaction of being scared of something but doing it anyway, 2. practicing something for weeks and weeks and evenutally learning how to do it and 3. probobly the most important. The community of it. Skateboard
ing actually has no real communal structure, yet everyone has a mutual respect and admiration for each other.The skateboarding community was the best part of skateboarding. A large community of skateboards would be guaranteed for either a competition, a professional demo or a movie premiere. The most exciting movie of the time was an american movie called "yeah right" it had the best skateboarding and filming, but most importantly it captured the essence of the sport. Here is a preview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8sTKcBItyk
