Love Of Skateboarding Research Paper

Sergio Sigala
Period 7
14 October 2013
For the Love of Skateboarding
I believe that the thing about skateboarding is that it is such a creative sport. Skating does not have a time limit, no scores, no referees. I do not owe my coach a certain performance, I do not owe my team a certain performance, and there is no pressure when I skate. That's why I love to skateboard as much as I do. There is no one telling me what to do or when. I just skate when I feel like it. I can go pick up my board and just flow the streets or go to the park. Skating means so much to me, and I feel I try so hard to improve quickly, that it has become no fun. It felt like pure business to me at the beginning. But as time passed I did not care about trying to be the best. I was never really the best skater to begin with and I really started doing it for just the love of skateboarding. I started doing tricks I thought would look cool and feel cool. That is when I discovered that it isn’t really about how good I am. It is about the fun and good times I get out of
When I’m upset, I just get on my skateboard and skate and all my problems disappear. It relieves me of all the pain and anger. I don’t know what I’d do without it, I’d be so depressed. When you land a new trick, you get the best feeling in the world. I couldn’t imagine looking at skateboarding from an outsider’s point of view because they don’t and never will know what it’s like to skate. Skating has made me who I am. Skateboarding saved me. If it weren’t for skateboarding I would be worse off. There’s just something, a specific personality that skaters have. It's the ability to stand up after many, many slams and then get up and try it again and again, no matter how painful the fall was. To endure so much pain while falling off a stair set or slamming face first on the floor, I just keep going because I would do anything else than skateboarding. It's the danger versus the