My Love For Skateboarding Research Paper

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Never give up on what you love to do I have been skateboarding for over 3 years now. Believe it or not, it has really taught me alot. I was around 11 years old when I had decided to start taking skateboarding seriously. This is when my passion for it had started growing and when I had began learning tricks and progressing. The idea of skateboarding didn't look easy to me at all until the first time I had visited my local skatepark. When I had first arrived at the skatepark, I had saw many people there. Some just began starting skateboarding and were having a rough …show more content…
Those bruises and other injuries did not make me want to give up. About a couple of months later, I started to get better as time had gone on. I was now able to keep my balance and maintain control of what direction I had wanted to go without manually turning. My passion and love for skateboarding had then just began. It was around my twelfth birthday when my parents had asked me what I wanted, all that I had wanted was a brand new skateboard for my birthday and I got it. That day when I had arrived to the skatepark with it, I had eagerly began to skate. After that day, I had realized how much I had love skateboarding and the happiness it had brought me. After I had began to become known as “the skater” people had started to think differently of me and stereotyping me. For instance my peers such as some of the teachers and other staff at my school had looked at me as I was one of those kids who choose drugs over my

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