Im hoping to make this the first in many of a series called why we skateboard, explaining our means and motives of skateboarding. So I'm going to start off with the word control. Have you ever just stopped to actually think about what your doing when your doing tricks on a skateboard?
I happened to be skating down the street the other day and ran into a kid of about 11 or 12 years old on a Bam board. I stopped and started talking to him and asked him how long he's been skating. "About two years", he said. So we ended up in a game of skate and I was shocked. Two years and the kid could barely ollie. I've noticed a trend happening that kids are not progressing at all in skating. A semi-friend of mine has also been skating for around three years, longer than me, and can barely pop-shove. He skates more than me, also.
