Skateboarding: Universal Stereotypes

Skateboarding is beautiful. Skateboarding is a universal symbol.

Synonymous with love, happiness and ultimately freedom, one could call it sacred. We worship it.

We inflict horrendous pain on ourselves for it. One could compare skateboarding to satanic cults or even the world’s most prestigious religions.

In that fashion, Skateboarding has become commercial, gaining a sense of mass appeal over time. However, we all have our own experience with it, our own journey.

Whether you wore Pentagram wristbands and all black Etnies or you were New Era fitted with Nike Dunks, we all share our struggles in this realm. We all share our pain.

From small pebbles in the street to lifelong scars, from blood shed to broken bones, from aggressive authorities to the diversity we

We feel proud.

That is the nucleus of skateboarding, nothing else matters.

That is why I first fell in love. I didn't want to conform to any stereotypes, dogmas, or rules. I didn't care if I was an outcast.

All I knew is I wanted to be original, independent, and above all free. Skating was the channel to manifest these ideals.

It is free from boundaries that sports or education place on an individual. Race, age, income, these statistics aren't relevant here. There were absolutely no restrictions, rules or roles to play.

I was free to express myself to the fullest extent, utilizing my entire being to do so. Using pure imagination to visualize and create the tricks I want to perform and then physically executing the tricks and bring them to action.

Combined, we develop our own style and technique, producing an individuality and uniqueness with our skating.

Simply put, Skateboarding is visualizing an individual goal and teaching your self to manifest it.

Skateboarding is pure creation.

Skateboarding is Magic.

Do not take this Power for