I'm 37 now and it's funny to me that I still ride a skateboard. Not so much because I'm Old Mc Olderman, no, but mostly because I'm still able to enjoy it as such a radical experience. The idea is that if you keep trying new things, there is no limit to your growth on a skateboard. You can switch front heelflip off a quadruple set, you can skate across the continent of Africa with only a backpack and a camera, you can fakie to fakie 900 on a mega-ramp, and you can speed down mountain roads at up to 60mph plus. the combinations are limitless. It's fucking crazy because there is really no other time than right now that skateboarding has been so diverse and exploratory. It's wild to see the activity I've dedicated most of my life to morph into so many previously unimaginable directions. Please make note that I'm not trying to be all mushy and sentimental about skateboarding here. No, my intent is to share my stoke with you in hopes that you'll either get hyped to shred yourselves, or if you already do skate, that you think about skateboarding in a broader context and open your mind to otherwise hidden gems.
I guess the point is that I've recently been exposed to something I did not even know existed, which is downhill skateboarding, and through this exposure, I've met so many badass people that I otherwise may have never had the chance to meet—I am having a master-blaster of a time, and have found in it an even deeper love for the Ride. Thank you skateboarding!
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