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09-02-2008, 10:25 AM
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Helium.com is a website that teaches you to ''Learn what you need, share what you know". Well recently, 4 members of this website wrote some amazing articles on Skateboarding! Inspiring really! 4 articles from several fellow skateboarders who have a great outlook on the ''lifestyle'' of skateboarding and what it has done for themselves and 1 for their kids! They do a great job explaining the ''adrenaline'' you get from skateboarding as well (expecially Article number 4 below). If you get a chance, it is a must read, definitly worth the time it takes to read thru articles! Great job article writers, a job well done!
Taken from Helium.com (http://www.helium.com/items/162617-skateboarding-for-adrenaline)
1st Article:
Skateboarding is becoming a vast sport which is 'sweeping' youths up and sending them into a world which consists of adrenalin and a feeling which is indescribable.
Around streets you will spot numerous amounts off board riding skaters which in some areas dominate the land and control the streets.
These may be commonly misconceived to be trouble making teenagers which bring havoc where ever they go, but this isn't true, their sport is actually pretty competitive and is extremely skilled and requires skill, control and focus to be able to control how they skate and what they do.
It can range to skating in a street or car park to skating at a massive indoor skate park or outdoor skate parks which contain ramps and rails and much more.
Skating is a sport which comes along better the longer you stay with it. You don't get onto a skateboard and become great in a week or two, it takes a while to learn the basics from stabilizing on the board to jumping steps, stairs and curbs.
As a skater myself, I've came to realize that you have to start off small, and eventually work your way up to the larger things as well as training your self for falls and injuries which the sport brings to the rider.
The rider starts by adjusting to the new feel of riding and may often fall or hurt themselves as they become better. You find that the longer you have been riding and skating, the less injuries you will get, (unless you try more dangerous techniques and moves later on).
After a while you begin to take it to a higher level and try new things, like and 'ollie' for example, (the motion of jumping with your board in the air), and this builds up to going off objects, going onto objects, and even over objects (for example, a curb or sidewalk).
There is a sense of satisfaction as you gradually learn new techniques and master them after trying for so long to perfect them/it. After you have learned something and have been doing it for so long, you look back on when you were trying to perfect it and get it right, and you think to yourself "how come it took that long?"
Skaters range from the 'Ramp Skaters' (skaters who generally consist of riding on ramps and learn techniques on them), and 'Street Skaters' (people who can take their board anywhere and practice tricks, do them, and land them).
It doesn't come straight away, and it's not easy. It requires immense skill and commitment to get good at this particular sport, but at the end it's always been worth it. If anyone reads this article and chooses to start skateboarding or has just started it, I would say to stick at it, and even when you think that you can't do it, and admittedly - it will get frustrating at parts, but keep doing it and you will soon realize that the more you do it, the better you get. Don't try and go in for big moves straight away, start off small and work your way up...
...and you will feel the adrenalin pumping through your body and will have a 'rush' of excitement and personal satisfaction, as well as confidence to try harder challenges, even if it isn't to do with skateboarding.
Article 2:
Skateboarding is an extreme sport but not difficult to learn. It is an adrenaline rush but sometimes people seem to ignore the sport altogether. There are various parks that have been built for skateboarders which people need to be familiar with. They need to know their child is spending the majority of his/her time skating and not just disappearing. Skateboarding offers a child a chance to get away from the real world which offers discord. Skateboarding offers them a chance to get away from all the violence, mayhem, street gangs, and the general violence most people assume others are doing, or that they would encounter if they just sat at home. The typical student learner should not spend most of his time sitting at home studying their school homework but discovering and relaxing by being outside. Depending how you are going to skate, some people like to go 360's in the air. I went and did some 360's in a pool that was drained of water. The curb of the pool was a 270 and an Ollie, a jump in midair off the board, made a 360. Of course, i made people go out of their way with my antics and got into trouble when someone got hurt skating with me. People didn't have health insurance. That is not my problem because good skaters learn nurse their injuries. When i visited rest areas with a lot of sidewalks in California, i did a lot of grinding of my skateboard. A grind usually involves doing a lot of stops while jumping on my board then back onto it. I believe i really messed myself up doing these grindings.
The school should not take not and reprimand a student for not studying all the time. He/She is already an avid learner and a role model for all other children. He/She knows the back flips, heel flips, Ollie's, and Nollies. People admire a person's abilities riding on a skateboard and challenging other skaters with these terms and resulting air adrenaline rushes. The psychiatric world should not worry about head injuries, because these skaters know these aerial moves by heart. They know their board.
Instead of fishing, boating, going on trips, these boarders find time to stay busy by entertaining people with all the right moves
Article 3:
Skateboarding saved my youngest son. He had been a victim of molestation by an older student at his elementary school and became suicidal as a result. When spring came and the snow melted off of the skateboard parks I bought him and his older brother cheap skateboards that today they wouldn't be caught dead with and we headed over to the skate parks. They quickly adapted to the environment and before long they were grinding and doing flip tricks and pop-shovits. We spent most of our Summer and Fall in and out of various skateboard shops and parks upgrading and buying new decks and bearings and skateboarding clothes. Our conversations revolved around Bam Margera, Tony Hawk, Ryan Sheckler, and Bob Burnquest, the Xgames and the Dew Tour. Our world had evolved.
The excitement in skateboarding comes from a pure rush of adrenaline as you atempt to drop in for the first time or when you can master a kick flip over a three set of stairs. It's being able to conquer and master skills and overcome your fears.
Skateboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world right now and new concrete parks are springing up all over the globe. You can skate in Bondi Beach, Australia, Moscow, Russia and even in South Africa!
The identity of my children changed. They became skaters and that's who they are now. It's a lifestyle that they love. The adrenaline that pumped through them as they mastered drop-ins off of the eight footer and as they made new friends around the state at the various skate parks changed them for the better. My youngest was able to work through his trauma by skateboarding and he is now in a healthy place again.
Article 4:
As a skateboarder myself I would like to inform you of its golden rule, it's not just a sport. No, besides your beliefs and perceptions it much more. It's a culture, a rebellion, an escape and best of all a life, socially skateboarding is amazing. There a whole heap of people out there I have befriended through skateboarding, without it I never would have met them. All of my friends who skate are totally different and all lead different lives, they aspire to be different and controversial repenting authority at any chance. Therefore I disagree with skateboarding for adrenaline but skateboarding for life. If you want adrenaline I would go for parachuting or bungee jumping.
Skateboarding is all about three things, effort, reward and triumph. The feeling of being completely exhausted from trying a trick twenty times and landing it is priceless and irreplaceable, similar to Christmas morning as a young child.
Helium.com is a website that teaches you to ''Learn what you need, share what you know". Well recently, 4 members of this website wrote some amazing articles on Skateboarding! Inspiring really! 4 articles from several fellow skateboarders who have a great outlook on the ''lifestyle'' of skateboarding and what it has done for themselves and 1 for their kids! They do a great job explaining the ''adrenaline'' you get from skateboarding as well (expecially Article number 4 below). If you get a chance, it is a must read, definitly worth the time it takes to read thru articles! Great job article writers, a job well done!
Taken from Helium.com (http://www.helium.com/items/162617-skateboarding-for-adrenaline)
1st Article:
Skateboarding is becoming a vast sport which is 'sweeping' youths up and sending them into a world which consists of adrenalin and a feeling which is indescribable.
Around streets you will spot numerous amounts off board riding skaters which in some areas dominate the land and control the streets.
These may be commonly misconceived to be trouble making teenagers which bring havoc where ever they go, but this isn't true, their sport is actually pretty competitive and is extremely skilled and requires skill, control and focus to be able to control how they skate and what they do.
It can range to skating in a street or car park to skating at a massive indoor skate park or outdoor skate parks which contain ramps and rails and much more.
Skating is a sport which comes along better the longer you stay with it. You don't get onto a skateboard and become great in a week or two, it takes a while to learn the basics from stabilizing on the board to jumping steps, stairs and curbs.
As a skater myself, I've came to realize that you have to start off small, and eventually work your way up to the larger things as well as training your self for falls and injuries which the sport brings to the rider.
The rider starts by adjusting to the new feel of riding and may often fall or hurt themselves as they become better. You find that the longer you have been riding and skating, the less injuries you will get, (unless you try more dangerous techniques and moves later on).
After a while you begin to take it to a higher level and try new things, like and 'ollie' for example, (the motion of jumping with your board in the air), and this builds up to going off objects, going onto objects, and even over objects (for example, a curb or sidewalk).
There is a sense of satisfaction as you gradually learn new techniques and master them after trying for so long to perfect them/it. After you have learned something and have been doing it for so long, you look back on when you were trying to perfect it and get it right, and you think to yourself "how come it took that long?"
Skaters range from the 'Ramp Skaters' (skaters who generally consist of riding on ramps and learn techniques on them), and 'Street Skaters' (people who can take their board anywhere and practice tricks, do them, and land them).
It doesn't come straight away, and it's not easy. It requires immense skill and commitment to get good at this particular sport, but at the end it's always been worth it. If anyone reads this article and chooses to start skateboarding or has just started it, I would say to stick at it, and even when you think that you can't do it, and admittedly - it will get frustrating at parts, but keep doing it and you will soon realize that the more you do it, the better you get. Don't try and go in for big moves straight away, start off small and work your way up...
...and you will feel the adrenalin pumping through your body and will have a 'rush' of excitement and personal satisfaction, as well as confidence to try harder challenges, even if it isn't to do with skateboarding.
Article 2:
Skateboarding is an extreme sport but not difficult to learn. It is an adrenaline rush but sometimes people seem to ignore the sport altogether. There are various parks that have been built for skateboarders which people need to be familiar with. They need to know their child is spending the majority of his/her time skating and not just disappearing. Skateboarding offers a child a chance to get away from the real world which offers discord. Skateboarding offers them a chance to get away from all the violence, mayhem, street gangs, and the general violence most people assume others are doing, or that they would encounter if they just sat at home. The typical student learner should not spend most of his time sitting at home studying their school homework but discovering and relaxing by being outside. Depending how you are going to skate, some people like to go 360's in the air. I went and did some 360's in a pool that was drained of water. The curb of the pool was a 270 and an Ollie, a jump in midair off the board, made a 360. Of course, i made people go out of their way with my antics and got into trouble when someone got hurt skating with me. People didn't have health insurance. That is not my problem because good skaters learn nurse their injuries. When i visited rest areas with a lot of sidewalks in California, i did a lot of grinding of my skateboard. A grind usually involves doing a lot of stops while jumping on my board then back onto it. I believe i really messed myself up doing these grindings.
The school should not take not and reprimand a student for not studying all the time. He/She is already an avid learner and a role model for all other children. He/She knows the back flips, heel flips, Ollie's, and Nollies. People admire a person's abilities riding on a skateboard and challenging other skaters with these terms and resulting air adrenaline rushes. The psychiatric world should not worry about head injuries, because these skaters know these aerial moves by heart. They know their board.
Instead of fishing, boating, going on trips, these boarders find time to stay busy by entertaining people with all the right moves
Article 3:
Skateboarding saved my youngest son. He had been a victim of molestation by an older student at his elementary school and became suicidal as a result. When spring came and the snow melted off of the skateboard parks I bought him and his older brother cheap skateboards that today they wouldn't be caught dead with and we headed over to the skate parks. They quickly adapted to the environment and before long they were grinding and doing flip tricks and pop-shovits. We spent most of our Summer and Fall in and out of various skateboard shops and parks upgrading and buying new decks and bearings and skateboarding clothes. Our conversations revolved around Bam Margera, Tony Hawk, Ryan Sheckler, and Bob Burnquest, the Xgames and the Dew Tour. Our world had evolved.
The excitement in skateboarding comes from a pure rush of adrenaline as you atempt to drop in for the first time or when you can master a kick flip over a three set of stairs. It's being able to conquer and master skills and overcome your fears.
Skateboarding is one of the fastest growing sports in the world right now and new concrete parks are springing up all over the globe. You can skate in Bondi Beach, Australia, Moscow, Russia and even in South Africa!
The identity of my children changed. They became skaters and that's who they are now. It's a lifestyle that they love. The adrenaline that pumped through them as they mastered drop-ins off of the eight footer and as they made new friends around the state at the various skate parks changed them for the better. My youngest was able to work through his trauma by skateboarding and he is now in a healthy place again.
Article 4:
As a skateboarder myself I would like to inform you of its golden rule, it's not just a sport. No, besides your beliefs and perceptions it much more. It's a culture, a rebellion, an escape and best of all a life, socially skateboarding is amazing. There a whole heap of people out there I have befriended through skateboarding, without it I never would have met them. All of my friends who skate are totally different and all lead different lives, they aspire to be different and controversial repenting authority at any chance. Therefore I disagree with skateboarding for adrenaline but skateboarding for life. If you want adrenaline I would go for parachuting or bungee jumping.
Skateboarding is all about three things, effort, reward and triumph. The feeling of being completely exhausted from trying a trick twenty times and landing it is priceless and irreplaceable, similar to Christmas morning as a young child.