A General Article on Skateboarding

Starting to skate

Whether you are considering to start, you want to teach your kids to start or you just wanna learn a little more about skateboarding you have come to the right place. Firstly I will tell you what this article is about and some questions I will cover. This article is mostly about starting skateboarding, what you need and just some other general information about skateboarding. At the end i will share some tips with you from my personal skateboarding experiences. Some question I will cover are, What is skateboarding? What do you need to start? what requirements are there? and why skate?

what is skateboarding?

Well the Wikipedia definition of skating is here: “Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skates is often referred to as a skateboarder, or just skater…” well yes that basically true. A skateboard consists of a board (many layers of treated wood compressed to form a board) The trucks (axels) Wheels and ball bearings and of course all the screws.

what do i need to start?

To skate you really don’t need anything, except of course the actual skate board and somewhere to ride it (anywhere) and maybe even some safety equipment. Skateboarding is for anyone and everyone big or small young or old it can be used as a hobby, recreational sport, exercise, job or just transportation. Skateboards have even been used in the army. The marine corps used skateboards in a program called urban warrior ‘99 for maneuverability, which is pretty cool.

Requirements

Really, there aren’t really any requirements to skate if you are a child or teaching a child they should have supervision. If you are in bad physical condition then seeing a doctor before even considering starting is not a bad idea.

why skate?

well i might ask, why not? Its healthy, its environment friendly, its “cool” there are countless reasons to why you should skate or why you shouldn’t (not) skate. I personally started skateboarding skateboarding when I was 12 when someone brought a cheap wall mart skateboard into this Saturday sports club i used to go to, and i tried it, i fell over twice and then i got back on, kicked a couple times and refused to get of for 15 minutes and about a month later i had gotten my own new skateboard after some easy convincing of the parents.

So now dear reader i will tell you 2 famous quotes of skateboarding both include making a choice so make it

“To skate or not to skate?” and my favorite one “skate or die”