Skateboarding alters your perceptions of urban space forever. Bland s architectural eyesores become a creative challenge awaiting skate exploration.
With the streets as your playground, loyal friendships are formed — a wolf pack of sorts — with whom you roam, hunting out new challenges and opportunities. And as my skateboarding years rolled by, my friends and I journeyed further into the unknown, to infamous and sometimes untouched architectural skate spots around the globe. From the rolling hills of San Francisco, to the clickety clackety bricks of the Brooklyn Banks. The smooth architectural skate mecca of Barcelona, to the forever grinding granite slab benches of Prague and the transitions of the Ukraine.
Relationships with fellow skateboarders traverse international borders because the sport brings with it a global bond of sincerity. As a creative subculture, skateboarding is big business for sure; marketed and sold to the masses, but, the ability to flow confidently on a skateboard is no easy feat.
There are no easy downloads or cheats into this brotherhood. To succeed at anything of worth, you need patience and dedication - skateboarding is no different. After all, skateboarding is an extension of play and of that, I shall never tire.
Enjoy skateboarding, or still hanker after giving it a go? Let us know your thoughts below. Skateboarding is in fact, experiencing a renaissance since its inclusion into The Olympics. More than any other action sport or extreme sport, there are more skateboarders, more skateparks, and more skaters enjoying street skating and competition skating for the first time.
Skateboarding has been proven to be one of the most accessible sports since its conception, but today, skateboarding is more accessible than ever. Street skaters can be found in empty swimming pools across the world, hoping to achieve their dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder.
There are more skater girls than ever before and the pandemic opened up skateboarding to a lot of new people. The Olympic Debut of skateboarding will also undoubtedly open the door for more people to the wonderful world of skateboarding. We get this question a lot from parents. Is skateboarding more dangerous?
The truth of the matter is, skateboarding is dangerous. But with the right equipment and skate instructor, you can dramatically decrease the danger. Some quick stats on skateboarding injuries according to skateboardsaftey. So please, please, consider having a skate instructor to dramatically decrease these statistics. As the majority of these statistics happen not to the average learning how to skate, skater. Here are some tips to stay extra safe when learning how to skateboard:.
In the last 5 years or so, more women have been skateboarding than ever before. As of , it is projected that The pandemic brought a host of negative aspects to our lives, for most of us, our driveway became our world.
Naturally, a lot of people picked up skateboarding for the first time. Everyone from everyday people to some of the biggest celebrities were picking up a skateboard for the first time. As it was proven during the pandemic to be one of the safest sports out there.
While it took a long and sometimes polarizing road to get to The Olympic games , skateboarding is now an official Olympic Sport. This means more people than ever will turn on their televisions and see skateboarding at the highest level. This includes young kids, adults and their parents. We invite you to read our full Skateboarding Olympics Full Review here.
The best way of answering this question used to be by taking a look at skateboard parks. As the most knowledgeable, friendly, trained and vetted skateboard instructors in the world, GOSKATE has been doing our part to make sure the next generation of skateboards are well-mentored. We pride ourselves on one day training an Olympic Skateboarder. Skateboarding is actually maturing : as of , only However, this is also due to more young people becoming skaters before their teens, hoping to become the next Nyjah Huston or Sky Brown.
Because while we see the popularity of skateboarding increasing even with the factors that affect its popularity being in a state of flux, there is still the largest prevailing factor left to be discussed when it comes to the future of skateboarding — Love. So long as skateboarders love skateboarding, no force outside of our passion will determine its future.
We as a community and an industry are held together by our love for skateboarding and will continue to foster that passion regardless of if skateboarding is mainstream or not. Whether skateboarding is a unique subculture or a mainstream Olympic sport, those people who love skateboarding will continue to GOSKATE no matter what people think.
Not only is skateboarding one of the healthiest activities for physical and mental health, it promotes community, friendships, self awareness and creativity on infinite levels. Even with the ups and the downs of the industry at large, skaters are forever going to be empowered and inspired to keep skating with their friends. If you sign up for our skate lessons, our instructors will be there with open arms to catch you if you fall. Zane is an avid skateboarder and Los Angeles native.
Follow him on Instagram for links to his other published works. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Why we love skateboarding! Popularity since the skateboard was invented. Factors affecting skateboarding's popularity. Little side note about spare time: most diehard skaters seem to enjoy the extra time they have on their hands and most of them take advantage of it to log in extra hours on their boards.
Many others picked up their old board or just bought a new one. Spare time is precious! A skateboard is not considered as an expensive equipment. With the Canada Emergency Response Benefit CERB , it motivated people to start skateboarding and make their first purchase have just recently reopened and summer sales are at a good start due to an increase of skateboard sales online..
Kids buy their first boards, teenagers get set for a summer at the skatepark, adults get back to their first love and families are getting equipment, rails and quarter pipes for the yard.
The summer vacation budget gets reinvested in skateboard gear! Not everyone became a corona jogger. After the first two weeks of confinement indoors, the weather became warmer and most people yearned to exercise outdoors. Learning how to kickflip again or simply how to roll and ollie became the new fitness training. Skateparks located outside of Montreal were still open and very popular and some even built ramps in their backyards. Long before the Olympic committee was ever interested by skateboarding, believe it or not, it was not considered a cool discipline.
One could argue it was always cool because of the unique way it allows us to interact with urban space, feel the sense of speed and balance as well as a way to express oneself.
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