Skate Pictures
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Flack
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Took these earlier today at the local skate park. They were having a local/regional contest so I took Mason down to watch them. He said he didn't want to go, that skateboarding was lame, and that he had no interest. Now, three hours later, he's practicing on my old skateboard out in the street, "getting ready for next year's tournament."
"I failed a savings throw and now I am back."
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I'm glad to see this is here
Too many places, fearing liability or whatever reason, have closed down, restricted or gotten rid of places for kids to do things like skateboard or rollerskate or otherwise have fun with small wheeled devices.
Hell, if these kids have helmets and padding, and there are both easy and much harder places, there is room for kids who don't know how to learn in an environment where there's little risk of injury - even something as simple as learning to ride a bicycle carries a risk of injury - while giving the experienced skater a chance to practice on much more difficult environments.
I noticed a couple of ones you posted were real 'hard core' skaters, old school no helmet, and no padding style. Way to go, guys! I learned to ride a bike that way, got on and just kept trying.
I had to, my mother had just bought it and the way I learned how to ride was to walk it home and keep trying until I learned to balance. No training wheels, no helmet - who ever heard of such a thing back then? - no padding, just me, the bicycle and 5 miles to travel from the store in the 8000 block on Long Beach Blvd and my house at about 22nd street and one block over. I walked the bicycle while on the seat, making mistakes as I learned while my mother walked along. We got home about three hours later, but I wasn't walking the bicycle any more, I was riding it.
Coddling kids means they're not going to have any fun and part of the process of being a kid means you fall down, sometimes you make a mistake and you fall down really bad.
I mean, if an experienced skater misses on riding a rail - or whatever they call it when you use a skateboard on the equivalent of a handrail - and breaks his arm, it's not the end of the world, they're young and limber and it'll heal in a few weeks.
Seriously, I was just walking down some stairs in Century City near the middle of Los Angeles to go to a job interview and broke my ankle. I ended up having to be in a cast for six weeks. And I was a fat guy of 23 at the time, and I got over it. I'm sure if my foot was x-rayed even now I probably have a scar from that incident over 25 years ago.
Hell, if these kids have helmets and padding, and there are both easy and much harder places, there is room for kids who don't know how to learn in an environment where there's little risk of injury - even something as simple as learning to ride a bicycle carries a risk of injury - while giving the experienced skater a chance to practice on much more difficult environments.
I noticed a couple of ones you posted were real 'hard core' skaters, old school no helmet, and no padding style. Way to go, guys! I learned to ride a bike that way, got on and just kept trying.
I had to, my mother had just bought it and the way I learned how to ride was to walk it home and keep trying until I learned to balance. No training wheels, no helmet - who ever heard of such a thing back then? - no padding, just me, the bicycle and 5 miles to travel from the store in the 8000 block on Long Beach Blvd and my house at about 22nd street and one block over. I walked the bicycle while on the seat, making mistakes as I learned while my mother walked along. We got home about three hours later, but I wasn't walking the bicycle any more, I was riding it.
Coddling kids means they're not going to have any fun and part of the process of being a kid means you fall down, sometimes you make a mistake and you fall down really bad.
I mean, if an experienced skater misses on riding a rail - or whatever they call it when you use a skateboard on the equivalent of a handrail - and breaks his arm, it's not the end of the world, they're young and limber and it'll heal in a few weeks.
Seriously, I was just walking down some stairs in Century City near the middle of Los Angeles to go to a job interview and broke my ankle. I ended up having to be in a cast for six weeks. And I was a fat guy of 23 at the time, and I got over it. I'm sure if my foot was x-rayed even now I probably have a scar from that incident over 25 years ago.
Given the general rise in expenses and fall in the typical standard of living, the future ain't what it used to be.
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