Being a skateboarder in this day and age is an amazing thing . Seriously, you can travel anywhere in the world and have something in common with people in foreign lands. It doesn’t matter where he/she is from or what his/her beliefs are, a kickflip is still a kickflip. It’s the coolest thing in the world to be able to connect with others like that. I have played games of “skate” with skateboarders that I can’t even have a conversation with due to the language barrier. But we still understand each other through our skateboarding. When one of us would miss or land a trick we knew exactly what was up despite those barriers that would otherwise keep us from communicating.

Of course, there is always the outer society that surrounds us and despises the fact that we skateboard. Not everyone of course, but there are some individuals in the world that think of skateboarding as a complete waste of time. This leads me to the sub topic of “hate”. We have enough to deal with individuals crashing our skateboard sessions and kicking us out of everywhere we try to skate. But to have to deal with hate from within our own kind is even worse.

The dreaded “haters” within our skateboard community are what I am talking about. So what if little Timmy can’t land his heelflips yet? Who cares if Bobby Anderson pushes mongo? I know that no matter what I say and feel there will always be skateboarders hating on other skateboarders. It really bothers me to know that instead of us all sticking together and pushing each other, we have to constantly hear haters talk crap about others, or sometimes even ourselves. For all of you that read this that have hated on another boarder, remember this – you skateboard. He skateboards. We skateboard. No joke, we all have this in common. we should stick together and enjoy what we love doing most. In that way alone we are brothers.. Skateboarding is our lifestyle, it is our art-form, it is our universal language.

Posted by Ruben 'Studdard' Najera on Monday, March 24th, 2008 in Skateboarding.

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