Learn to Skateboard
My Diary - A Beginner's Perspective
"Learn to skateboard? Me? You're kidding, right?
Skateboarding's for mega-flexible young people with a
sense of balance. People who can actually jump and have no fear
of making face-first contact with concrete!"
When my friend Gary first asked me to help him out with a
website I thought he meant writing the occasional article, so I
said yes. When he told me the site was about skateboarding I
was a bit surprised. "But I don't know anything about it!" I
said.
"That's the point." was the reply. Gary's idea was to do a
website on skateboarding for beginners and he wanted to do it
with complete newbies in mind.
So why get a newbie to write it? Because it's all too easy
for someone with experience to forget the difficulties
beginners face.
Gary chose me to do this for several reasons. Firstly, I'm
female and he wants to dispel the myth that skating is for guys
only.
Secondly, at 42, I'm not exactly a spring chicken. Gary
wants to show that anyone, at any age, can learn to skateboard
and can enjoy it too.
And finally, I'm about the only person he knows who's
actually crazy enough to say yes.
So I agreed to learn and to pass on my skateboarding tips
for beginners from a beginner's perspective.
Now, I will admit to having surfed before so some of the
terminology is familiar, as is the sensation of standing on a
moving object. However, the idea of falling onto concrete,
rather than into water, feels quite intimidating.
My first stop will be a skate shop to be fitted out with the
safety gear and a
board. I'll let you know how that goes in my next diary
entry.
Until then, happy skating and have fun.
Karen
More Diary Entries
The links below are to my other diary entries. I will be
updating the links as I write the entries.
Buying the skateboard
safety gear was fun. Let's hope actually riding the board
will be too.
My first skating
experience taught me a lot. It was heaps of fun
too.
My first real fall knocked
my confidence a bit but it's taught me the value of wearing
safety gear and practising proper falling
techniques.
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