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It's been awhile since I've written any content, due to the fact I've been stuck in a hellish winter for the past few months. But as the days turn warmer and friends pull out their boards once again, skating has once again became my life. I've been skating for a good 3 years now, everyday I possibly can for as long as I can. Of course, the many friends I used to have skating have grown away from the hobby which once occupied our entire summers. With a small group of close friends, we keep our love for just cruising kindled. Which brings me to my point.
Modern day skating is somewhat rediculous to me. Either throw yourself down the biggest shit possible over and over or hit the rail going down that insanely massive spot. Many kids believe that this is what skating should be. Do that set or quit skating. Now I had a revelation a few days ago while attempting to simply ollie a 6 set by my house. This just isn't for me, as I fell over and over. The love for skating is represented in many ways, whether you enjoy massive sets or just riding around. Don't let the mainstream pros get to you and do something you don't even enjoy. Keep the spirit of skating alive and do with that piece of wood whatever would make you happiest and fuck whoever opposes it. Skating was once about individualism, self-representation, passion and diversity. Now, over time, it seems that skating is slowly turning from a passion to a scene. A stereotype people try to fit by either dressing a certain way or simply skating a certain way. It seems wrong to me. People like Ryan Sheckler or Bam Margera seem to have given many skaters the mentality that they have to fit this defintion of either a total badass, HxC sk8er boi or preppy kid decked out in Volcom and Etnies. People that serve no role in the skate community. Mindless drones created by the media, skating whatever their TV idols skate. It seems so wrong to me.
So I ask anyone reading to listen to me and stop trying to do something doesn't make you happy. If you don't like stairs, don't skate stairs. If you don't like banks, don't skate banks. Find what you love in skating and stick to it. Find the thing that you could skate day after day, week after week and stay with it. Find your skating passion. If you seem unable to find one, maybe skateboarding isn't for you. But just be determined to be do what skatings meant for. Get the most joy you can out of it, not the most attention you can.
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but you're right..i suck at skating so much but i like doing slides so i do slides. actually all i can do is slides, but i like doing them.