SKATEBOARDING is about opportunity. It is about creativity. It is about being creative enough to
take your opportunities and make the best of them. Create fun. Create havoc. Create something
new and original. Skateboarding is about looking at an object and seeing it in a completely different
light than 99% of the people on this planet. It's about taking that object and adapting to it; applying
a brand new technique to it. Skateboarding is about grabbing those opportunities. About skating that
bank that's usually a bust except for the 15 minutes between 5:30pm and 5:45pm when the
guards change shifts. It's about seeing opportunities where none had exsisted before. It's about
creating those opportunities where none are apparent.
Skateboarding can be about pain. Skateboarding can invariably be about joy...all kind of successes
and achieving goals. It's what sets you apart from the peck down the street or the jock in English
class that runs A&F gear. But you get out of it what you put into it.
You'll find your skills improve with practice; your techniques improve over time. Your judgement
even improves along with all of that eventually.
SKATEBOARDING is about frustration. The inability to land that trick. The inability for your
parents or teachers to understand your obsession with a "useless piece of wood."
SKATEBOARDING mirrors real life like charm. Success, setbacks, downfalls, disappointments,
victories, defeats, slams, lands, learning and forgetting. This month, let's consider that.
Around the next corner could be a COP or a brand new slick ledge you've never seen before.
You may get harassed or assaulted; you may get sponsored.
But there's only one way to find out. Don't be afraid. Give it a good push and see what happens
next.
If you're scared, push a little harder.
Oh yeah, I'm not talking about skateboarding anymore. I'm talking about life.
But for you...maybe it's the same thing.

p.s. watch out for small brown spiders with fiddles on their backs...they're poisonous