You may have heard the skater phrase “skate or die” from a skate fan close to you or even on television or a skate movie. For many hardcore skater fans, these are words to live by or die by. Skating is so much a way of life for them that to be denied the opportunity would be a fate worse…
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Fashions Heating Up The Beach
It is not just clothing for an outdoor lifestyle, skating and surfing apparel is a way of life, especially for those looking to dress for the southern California style. Skating, surfing, and motocross require participants and spectators to look their best and those who take the sports seriously know that dressing the part is an important part of the whole…
Skateboarding In The Park
Skateboard parks are cropping up everywhere in major metropolitan areas. Like the roller rinks of yesteryear, skateboard parks are the rage with kids these days. It provides children a supervised area in which to practice their skateboarding and even do tricks as they would like under the guidance and supervision of the staff. Often there is music playing and there…
Skateboards Skills And Riders
A skate park is nothing neither more nor less than an athletic facility specifically for skateboarders, in-line skaters, and freestyle BMX riders. There are at least 533 in the US. California, with sixty-eight, has more than any other state; Colorado comes in as second with twenty-six, and Florida with twenty-five. So what does a skatepark offer? Most importantly, it offers…
The World Of Skate Parks
Many things are a mystery to me. Actually, anything that I am not familiar with seems mysterious to me. I don’t really understand the world of race car driving, for example, because it is totally foreign to me. I definitely do not understand people who spend hours each day doing crossword puzzles. I can never sit still long enough to…
We Need More Skate Parks
Do you have skate parks in your city? Are you aware of the significant impact skate parks can have on a city or town? Most skateboarders are all too familiar with the “No Skateboarding” signs that are posted in many desirable skating locations. Providing towns with skate parks gives the skaters a safe, designated place to skate and it benefits…