Skateboarding...

Its about opportunity. It is about creativity. It is about being creative enough to take your opportunities and make the best of them. Create fun. Create havoc. Create something new and original. Skateboarding is about looking at an object and seeing it in a completely different light than 99% of the people on this planet. Its about taking that object and adapting to it; applying a brand new technique to it. Skateboarding is about grabbing those opportunities; about skating that bank thats usually a bust except for the 15 minutes between 5:30pm and 5:45pm when the guards change shifts. Its about seeing opportunities where none had existed before. It's about creating those opportunities when none are apparent.

Skateboarding can be about pain. Skateboarding can invariably be about joy... all kinds of successes and achieving goals. It's what sets you apart from the peck down the street or the jock in English class that runs A&F gear. But you get out of it what you put into it. You'll find your skills improve with practice; your techniques improve over time. Your judgement even improves along with all of that eventually.

Skateboarding is about frustration The inability to land that trick. The inability for your parents or teachers to understand your obsession with a "useless piece of wood." Skateboarding mirrors real life like a charm. Success, setbacks, downfalls, disappointments, victories, defeats, slams, lands, learning and forgetting. This month, let's consider that. Around the next corner could be a COP or a brand new slick ledge you've never seen before. You may get harassed or assaulted; you may get sponsored; but there's only one way to find out. Don't be afraid, give it a good push and see what happens next. If you're scared, push a little harder. This isn't about skateboarding anymore this is about life, but for you, it may be one in the same.