Skateboarding Is Forever

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard... Skateboarding is way more than that, it's not just a sport it's a way of life and I will tell you that from my personal experience.

Everyday I wake up all I think about is skateboarding with my buddies. It's like something you need to do, only thing I can compare it to is food and water I bet you wonder why?

I would put skateboarding for me personally in existential needs. All people have to eat and drink to survive, same with me I have to skate to survive. If I didn't found out about skateboarding, my life would be total mess. People around me are doing all kinds of stuff, they ruin their families because of drugs. Mostly teenagers like I used to be. They would throw their parents money on that crap just because they are bored and don't know what to do with their lives. Parents would do everything to make their kids happy you know... I remember my friends back in the day would do that with their parents and I was feeling kinda sorry for them. They used to be my best friends from childhood, we would spend every damn day outside doing non sense in a good way. All that stupid things that make me think now where are that good old days? Suddenly our ways got separated, if I went with them I would be going wrong way. Every parent goes through blood, tears and sweat just to make money so they could make life better for their kids, but kids don't respect that today... Skateboarding put me on the right way and taught me lots of things, best thing is I would always look from different perspective. I would put myself as a parent and imagined that I had kids, I would just try to recognize the feelings what would my mom have if I went same direction as my childhood friends did. She would be disappointed and at the same time she would blame herself because she didn't dedicate more time to me. People around me ask me how can I skate? What do I see in that? I don't know how to describe them that... I was going through lots of sports but none of those sports was like skateboarding! In football if you did something wrong everyone would lose their freaking minds, they just command you what to do and how to do... but in skateboarding there is only you and your skateboard just express yourself the way you want! Gives such positive vibrations and such peacefulness from a simple piece of wood with wheels. Skateboarding is such a powerful word. I've met bunch of new friends just because of skateboarding, that went through all the same stuff I did! Weird feeling but people I've met through skateboarding are the only people I am going to continue to be friends with. I've met more new interesting people from skateboarding then from social networks like facebook and twitter. Funny, because I've exchanged more words in 1 hour talk with someone who skates, then with a person from high school I was in same class for 4 years! Freaky feeling, when I was on excursion in Spain I met skateboarder there I've never seen before in my life but as soon as we started talking it felt like we knew each other for years. That's why I love skateboarding so much it gives instant connection with people that have same desire as I do! I feel like skateboarding can heal racism, for example imagine two persons in small village that are only skaters there and one of them is racist but if his love for skateboarding is bigger then hate for racially different people from him, he will accept that person and gonna start skateboarding with him. Over time his racism will just disappear forever!
Skateboarding changed my life, my life could go wrong in so many ways but because of skateboarding everything is perfectly fine and I've never felt so happy in my life as I am now.

That's what it means to be a skateboarder! In skateboarding you will fall lots of times trying to learn a new trick but it will make you stronger for future life decisions, even when your life once becomes hard you will go through it without depression and without any suicidal thoughts just because skateboarding shaped you that way. It's not physical sport as much as it is mental, matter of fact it's not even a sport it's way of life!