skateboarding

Skating is what you make it, I think it is one of the hardest things I have ever tried to do and I am still doing it. If you skate for a week straight, then miss one day and go out the next day you will feel a bit shitter. However, what I have noticed over the years is, if I go out skating and then don't out for couple of days, then when I do go out I feel good still, if not better. This doesn't work all the time, but I noticed it nevertheless. I think that skating is different from BMXing, rollerblading etc. because it has a history. In the 60's surfers in California didn't get waves all the time, so a couple of them put roller skates on the bottom of planks of wood and rode the wood like a surfboard. they began riding wave-like things, such as tarmac banks in schools and drainage ditches etc. Obviously it got more popular amongst the surfers and more and more people started doing it. Then it must have became a thing of it's own, were you didn't need to have to be a surfer to do it, you just skate-boarded. I've only just realised that's why it's called skateboarding, because of the skates and the board of wood. After 6 years of skating - now I notice it. And as it became more popular it became it's own thing where people stopped surfing on these skateboards but started skateboarding on them, inventing new tricks and styles.

Now, I haven't looked into it, but I'm sure BMXing doesn't have such a story, nor does rollerblading. I have no problem with either of those two activites. Jus' sayin'