So, this is my second blog. I thought a bit about what I could write about and eventually decided to write about my favourite past time, which is 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 liked to skateboard. When I went to high school I met alot of other people who skateboarded and its the reason I still have those friends to this day.
I have such fond memories of skateboarding, 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 a force that enabled me to skateboard for so long. Skateboarding was such a great part of my life for three reasons, 1. It was so satisfying to do something that I was scared to do and achieving it, 2. practicing something for weeks and weeks and evenutally learning how to do it and probobly most importantly the community of it. Skateboarding has no real communal structure but every shares a mutual love of skateboarding and everyone has a mutual respect for someone who skateboards.
The skateboarding community would be guaranteed to be out in full force for either a competition, a professional demo or a movie premiere. The best 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.
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