Why We Should Kickflip Stereotypes Out of Skateboarding All skaters do drugs, are thieves, and are delinquents. These are a few stereotypes skateboarders are given just for doing something they love. How would you like being stereotyped for hanging out with your friends or for doing something you are very passionate about? “The $5 billion skateboard industry is turning to the very youngest skaters, some just 7, to promote its products. Almost half of the United States' estimated 11 million skateboarders - 43 percent - are between 6 and 11, according to the market research company Board-Trac." (Quora.com). This quote is saying that if skateboarders are anti social how would the skateboarding industry make five billion dollars. Some kids getting …show more content…
Depending on how much you skate and how intense you are skating you could burn anywhere from one hundred fifty to five hundred calories (Health Fitness Revolution). Skateboarding can also help your legs, ankles, and feet become more flexible in your joints (Health Fitness Revolution). Also skateboarding helps you learn how to “bail” or “roll out” of a sketchy situation while skating, this helps you learn to fall without getting seriously injured (Health Fitness Revolution). Skateboarding also can help you build up your endurance because the longer you skate the longer you can actually handle skating no one is done in a couple minutes (Health Fitness Revolution). Overall skateboarding helps with most physical activity and exercise, also skateboarding decreases the chance of high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity (Health Fitness …show more content…
If you are a teenager it is very likely you have stood on a skateboard in the last year or know someone who skates. This is because skateboarding is growing rapidly in today's society (Public Skatepark Development Guide). “It is surprising to learn that many cities and towns in the United States don’t have a single skatepark.” (Public Skatepark Development Guide). A man said this because he uses skateboarding as a way to bond with his son. When it comes to skateboarding in places where you do not have a skate park your places to skate are very slim. You have to skate on school campuses, parking lots, gas stations, etc… basically all places people would have a problem with. This is where skaters get the delinquent stereotype from (Public Skatepark Development Guide). When a community treats its skateboarders as outcasts or delinquents this is telling skaters they are not welcome there this is when skaters start to act out (Public Skatepark Development Guide). Newspapers have said for years that is your city does not have a skate park, your city becomes the skatepark (Public Skatepark Development
The first skateboards were made in the 1950’s being used as an exciting activity to take part in when the waves were down. From then and now the sport has changed tremendously, thanks to a group of young skaters from a slum area of Venice Beach or Dog-town, as the locals called it, known as the z-boys in the 1970’s. Even though skateboarding was already known and invented, the z-boys are the ones who made skating famous and took it to new heights in popularity. But how did they do this? The Z-boys made this sport what it is today, and played a very important part in the history and evolution of skateboard style and quality.
Everyone has heard the saying don’t judge a book by a cover. Sadly every minute of the day someone gets judged because of assumptions that are not correct. These assumptions overtime eventually lead to stereotypes. A stereotype is an image or idea of a particular type of person. Stereotyping a person is seen in many differents aspects such as race, groups, beliefs, appearance, etc. An individual may ask why people are stereotyped or stereotype. In reality stereotyping helps people categorize the different type of people. It narrows down the options of who one might want to associate with. Stereotyping can have its negatives, it makes people ignore how others really are. It may lead to a person not wanting to hang out with another person because of the stereotype that persons group has. Everyday the general public use cars for the means of transportation. But what about when people use their car for more than transportation, car enthusiasts often modify their cars to their likings. Enthusiasts often join car clubs to share their common interests with other car enthusiasts. Often the people in car clubs have a stereotype of being juvenile, racing a lot, low-life bums, and ghetto when actually most do not have those characteristics.
The article titled Sisterhood of the Skateboard, is piece written from the New York Times. It was featured in both the online website and in the paper copy of the New York Times. With the online articles, there is a video and a slideshow featured in the article. However, in the paper copy, there is no forms of multimedia. Articles that utilize various forms of media to enhance the reader’s experience of the article possess both the positive and the negative effects that affected the quality of the article
Skateboarders strive to find those skatespots because they are the best way of learning harder tricks, without driving miles to a visit a skatepark outside their city. That 's why skateboarders have a tendency to put themselves in risk of prosecution by the police just to be able to reach their goals of becoming sponsored one day. A sponsorship is when a company wants to pay you to represent their product. This isn’t an easy thing to earn, but with a lot of dedication anything can happen. A skatepark nearby will allow kids to start practicing at a young age, so one day they hav... ...
RaStereotyping is a way of thinking about groups of people. It ignores the differences of the group, while emphasizing its similarity. One belief, that is a stereotype, is that red-haired people are hot tempered. Another belief is that Scottish people are stingy. Such thinking ignores many even-tempered redheads and generous Scottish people. Stereotyping emphasizes many differences between groups while ignoring their similarities to other people. It ignores that many blond and brown-haired people also lose their tempers. Stereotyping overlooks the fact that many American, Brazilians and French people are stingy.
All skateboarders are not lazy stoners that don’t have a job, they also have other useful talents. People also find skateboarders looking like a group of kids that they should stay away from. Another skateboarder that believes skateboarding is not a crime states, “What is it about a skateboarder that people find so threatening? Is it because we hang out in big groups wherever we go, and the threat we give because of they way we look or the size of the group we have. People paint a stereotype for a skateboarder to be a destructive outlaw, whose intention is to run around causing trouble and threatening old people walking down the street.”
A race issue that occurs within the rap and hip-hop musical genre is the racial stereotypes associated with the musical form. According to Brandt, and Viki rap music and hip- hop music are known for fomenting crime violence, and the continuing formation of negative perceptions revolving around the African-American race (p.362). Many individuals believe that rap and hip-hop music and the culture that forms it is the particular reason for the degradation of the African-American community and the stereotypes that surround that specific ethnic group. An example is a two thousand and seven song produced by artist Nas entitled the N-word. The particular title of the song sparked major debates within not only the African-American community thus the Caucasian communities as well. Debates included topics such as the significance and worth of freedom of speech compared with the need to take a stand against messages that denigrate African-Americans. This specific label turned into an outrage and came to the point where conservative white individuals stood in front of the record label expressing their feelings. These individuals made a point that it is because artists like Nas that there is an increase in gang and street violence within communities. Rap and hip-hop music only depicts a simple-minded image of black men as sex crazed, criminals, or “gangsters”. As said above, community concerns have arisen over time over the use of the N-word, or the fact that many rappers vocalize about white superiority and privilege. Of course rap music did not develop these specific stereotypes, however these stereotypes are being used; and quite successfully in rap and hip-hop which spreads them and keeps the idea that people of color are lazy, all crimin...
“All gymnasts are tall and skinny, they only care about winning, and they are all perfectionists”, is what I hear when people talk about gymnastics. When I tell people I’m a gymnast they always say “You’re too short to be a gymnast” or “How can you get yourself to flip when you are so close to the ground?” Also they always just assume I am very competitive or all I care about is winning. They also assume that I am a perfectionist. These are common stereotypes I hear the most about gymnastics.
“This is for grown looking girls who's only ten/ The ones who watch videos and do what they see, as cute as can be, up in the club with fake ID /Careful, 'fore you meet a man with HIV / You can host the TV like Oprah Winfrey / Whatever you decide, be careful, some men be rapists / So act your age, don't pretend to be older than you are, give yourself time to grow” (I Can).
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, stereotype is defined as, “something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially: a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.” With any community stereotypes is sure to follow. Undoubtedly, snowboarding is no different, the stereotypes that snowboarders are recognized by are, we are all rich, we are all stoners, and we are all reckless skiing down the mountain. As far as stereotypes are received, there is some truth but not the whole truth.
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
The concept of stereotypes is what we have been created in our presumptions of a person without even having an idea of how they are. It is a common thing in our society on which sometimes it can create tolerance or intolerance toward other groups because of different ideas or traditions. The film by Gregory Nava My Family and the book by Victor Martinez Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida are clear examples of the concept of stereotypes. In addition, the film Real Women Have Curves by Patricia Cardoso demonstrates some of the ways stereotypes can affect one’s own ethnic group. Racial stereotypes can be good or bad creating influences toward a group. In this case, stereotypes can create bad influences causing misperceptions, confusion within the same
Skates used to be more like skis. Players glided on the ice rather than actually skated. Artifacts also show the use of animal bones as skate blades as well. Currently, steal blades are used. There is a small arc groove on the blade that provides the friction needed to counteract the slipperiness of the ice (Haché 37). The boot of the skate is hard enough to protect the foot from puck impact but also flexible enough “to allow the calf muscle to push forward and to ease knee bending when the player crouches” (Haché 35).
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 today's society, our natural reaction is to put people into a specific class that we feel they fit into upon our first impression. When we were in high school, they were called clicks. There were your jocks and your cheerleaders, who were usually the most popular students. Along with stoners, nerds, and then the people who really didn't fit into any crowd, they were just there. When we were in high school, all of us wanted to be in the "cool crowd". As described in When I was growing Up by Nellie Wong, "I discovered the rich white girls...imported cotton dresses...and thought that I too should have what these lucky girls had..." In stereotyping people, we perhaps have ruined some great minds.