Skateboarding is a sport that many teens and adults love to do and watch all across America. Many people give skateboarders a bad reputation. They assume that skateboarders are rebellious, troublemakers, and don’t care about anything but skateboarding. I’m here to tell you that that simply isn’t the case. I myself used to skateboard and never caused any trouble or rebelled against authority, neither did any of my friends. Most of my friends were good kids who got A’s in school, participated in after school activities, and had jobs. We had a lot more on our mind than just skateboarding.
What the city of Jerrytown is proposing to do to Hollyfield Park isn’t a very good idea. Now that people are not allowed to skateboard in the park they will be forced to find other places to skateboard. These places could parking-lots, streets, alleys, or even businesses. Banning people from skateboarding in the park is just asking for trouble and people could possibly get injured without a safe place to skateboard. The second reason banning skateboarding from the park is a bad idea is because people come
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I’m pretty sure accidents have not only happened when people are riding a skateboard. People ride bicycles, rollerblades, and scooters and accidents happen. Is the city willing to ban all of these activities? If so the park really wouldn’t be much of a park. They would most likely lose the youth who come to the park to do these things. Accidents came simply be avoided by using commonsense (unfortunately there are some who don’t have any) and following the rules of the park. Perhaps the city should create new rules for these activities, or set aside a specific time for skateboarders, bikers, rollerbladers, etc.. when there are less people at the park, maybe even designate a portion of the park for these activities so that the park isn’t
The sun beaming down, burning his skin. Sweat pours down his face like a bucket of water. At this moment he knew… his journey to hole eighteen had begun. Step after step and swing after swing he is getting closer and closer. His opponent is close behind him in points and hole 18 is approaching. Swinging and missing and hitting the ball in the wrong direction sets him back. After finally making it in hole 17, he realizes it is going to take a miracle to win this match. He sets his feet shoulder width apart, he looks down at the ball and centers his body. The man takes one deep breath in and on the exhale, he swings with maximum force. Quickly he finds the ball flying in the air, approaching the pin with a bright red flag. The ball hits the green and rolls toward the hole. Within a matter of seconds, the ball disappears. It had made it in the hole. It was
Today I am taking a break from the series of articles I usually write, to bring you a subject I have thought about for a long time. I only started paying attention to wrestling in my teen years, so the "Attitude Era" was what I considered wrestling. I won't go into what made the era special, because that would be insulting to your intelligence, everyone knows what made the era successful, and why some fans still pine for it. Needless to say, it was "cool", it suited the times, and it broke the mold formed over the previous decades.
Cheerleading isn’t a sport. Loads of cheerleaders have faced this controversial statement. An image of peppy girls, twirling in short skirts for the football team fills most people’s minds when considering the topic of cheerleading. The truth is, we are a strong team that works together to lift each other up, literally. Although we work day in and day out to perfect our stunts, tumbling, and routines, our talent still goes unnoticed by our peers. Negative stereotypes often surround cheerleaders. In my high school, we constantly battle to gain the respect of our classmates not just as athletes, but even simply as people. Some of the most involved and highest ranked students in our school make up our cheerleading squad, but those traits are forgotten
As skateboarding evolved, it was once something kids do in their free time, later became a prospering sport. This started many new changes to our local cities. “No skateboarding” signs are being posted places that skateboarders would go to practice. Architects are finding new ways to redesign structures like benches and handrails in the city, in order to lower the abundance of skateboarder in an area. All these changes have resulted in a good amount of money spent redoing everything to prevent skateboarding, but nothing is being done to give skateboarders a safe place to skate.
Skateboarding Is Not A Crime Each year hundreds of thousands of skateboarders get arrested each year for just skateboarding and about 5/6 of them didn’t commit a hurtful crime. Every day, at least one skateboarder gets arrested. Skateboarders don’t just get arrested but also get tickets, and there are a lot more tickets than there are arrests. If skateboarding was looked upon as a sport this many arrests and tickets would not occur. A group of teenagers could go out, get drunk then go rob stores and beat up people for no reason but a group of skateboarders are considered criminals.
There has never been any attempt, whatsoever to get a skate park here in Nacogdoches. This is the reason why there are so many skaters out at night skateboarding on the public sidewalks. This is also presents a problem for the police because there are many places that are great for skating, but are restricted by city ordinances. However, there is always some zealous skater who will brave it and end up getting hurt, or worst end up in jail. Most police put skater under a stereotype, where they assume all skaters are punks. Needless to say this is wrong, there are many skaters who may not have done anything wrong, but because there a skater the police force their authoritarian will upon them. To people who skate it’s just as much a sport to them as football, basketball or basket ball is to others. ...
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Docheff, Dennis M., and James H. Conn. "It's No Longer a Spectator Sport." Parks & Recreation 39.3 (2004): 62-70. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 13 June 2011.
Skate parks in communities are an asset that reduces the number of skateboarders in inconvenient places. This domino effect reduces the number of complaints to police officers of the nuisance caused by skateboarders. One officer in Maine said, “The skaters are very respectful, and the skate park has cut down on the youth crime, especially vandalism and kids skating on the sidewalks. The park gives the kids something to do (“Cops Love Skateparks”). This officer’s words reflect how 90 percent of 92 officers felt about how skate parks are an asset to the community. Skate parks serve as an asset to the community because skaters do not have to trespass in order to practice their sport, and it keeps youths out of trouble. Another officer in Massachusetts said, “I can honestly say that, based on my 27 years of police work, if you can keep kids busy like the skate park has done, you have completely prevented a future adult offender (“Cops Love Skateparks”).” An asset like this for nearly 10 million skaters is priceless and every town should have one. In a literal sense skate parks get kids off the streets because it gives skaters a place to practice and perfect the sport they
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Is dance a sport or not? Some people in our world today consider dance just to be all frilly and fragile. Dance takes time, effort, determination and impeccable strength. I believe that dance is a sport because it has the same components as any other sport. In any other sport you need to work hard with a lot of effort, and that is exactly what dancers do. For example, most beginning dancers practice between five to ten hours a week. Although most people in our world today look at dancing as nothing more than tutus and twirling, a good dancer must have a mind mentally engaged, a body able to endure physical challenges, and toned dedication and skill.
All moderately sized towns should have a skatepark for three main reasons: it will make the town look like a nice place to live, the kids in the town won’t be getting into trouble for skating around town, and it is a lot safer than skating in the streets. In countless cities around the world, well-built skateparks have also been proven to be valuable community assets with tremendous benefits. Instead of viewing skateboarding as a negative problem that needs to be solved, these forward-thinking communities have found ways to embrace these sports while showcasing their artistic and acrobatic spirit(“The Benefits”).
In 2010, there were 308,747,508 people in the United States. Of that 308,747,508 people, only 2.9% of all those United States citizens had at least once stepped on a skateboard that year. For as small as a percentage, they are disliked and hated by many. Skateboarding is looked down on because it is seen as a way to destroy property, introduce kids to drugs, and create bad habits, and it is seen as a way to be loud. Most people who hate skaters are business owners because skaters are “destroying” their property and being so noisy that they scare customers off.
In rural communities, however, recreational facilities tend not to be as available as is preferred by most of the kids and teens living there. Of course, there are others who prefer these communities how they are, without facilities. These people may even argue that a building dedicated to recreation is useless and/or too expensive, but perhaps they just do not realize that the benefits of these facilities outweigh the costs. Many of the people who would argue against the creation of recreational facilities in rural communities also tend to be a part of an older generation who did not necessarily need recreation centers when they were growing up. This is because the lack of recreational facilities/activities have not always been a problem in rural communities across the
The first reason why hoverboards should be banned in public is because of risk of injury. In the article The Buzz on the Board they say, “As of August 2015, there have over 70 emergency room visit related to hoverboard accidents and the number is projected to rise.” This shows just how dangerous hoverboards can be. And what’s the cause of these accidents, you ask? GRAVITY! Gravity is the cause of most of the accidents reported. The boards require