defending skateboarding (Score 1)

I'm replyin to myself to further expand on my post. Skateboarding is an amazing sport, and always gets the bad rap. Why? Because people, people who do not skateboard look down on it as some meaningless pastime for delinquents. Not true. If half the people who criticized it could even stand on a skateboard they'd know how hard it is... let alone do the types of stunts professional skateboarders do these days. I'm not talking about the X-games allright. I've been skateboarding for many years, and i've seen it evolve into an incredible spectacle of artistry and talent that it is... only to be too often defiled by the average ignoramus would-be-not, can't-comprehend-so-automatically-discredit-for-th e-sake-of-looking-upper-class people. Truth is, skateboarding has deep roots in punk rock music and anti-establishmentary politics. Voicing dissention, freedom, social-reform, and continues to be a vehicle for youths to express themselves physically. When i was skateboarding in high school, we had no freedom. We had no place to go. Nowadays there are parks all over the place for kids to go and skate w/o law enforcement constantly harassing them. Good article but it just bugs me when people assume skateboarding is a delinquent acitivity. If skateboards could contribute to human convenience like computers do, they'd be much better off. Besides, I would think computer geeks could use some time off the computer and get some excercise. I know i could.