Stereotypes Of Skateboarding

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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

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