Skate Boarding - More Respect for Skater Freaks Essay

More Respect for Skater Freaks nbsp; The wheels of the board grind across the asphalt pavement, carrying its rider across the parking lot. His loose clothes rustle in the breeze, and his hair flies around his face until he puts on his baseball cap to control it. In one fluid movement, he pushes on the back of his board, curls his front foot, and leaps into the air. But the board seems to have a mind of its own and tangles itself in his feet. SMACK!! The skaters arm rakes across the pavement as he hits the ground-road rash. The boy gets back up, returns his cap to his head, and continues to skate with hardly any hesitation. Skating is not a safe and sheltered hobby like collecting stamps or baseball cards; it requires†¦show more content†¦Lee answers most of my questions since Eric is constantly distracted, between cleaning up and goofing around with fellow employees. When it comes to his priorities, skating comes before his health, but school comes before skating. When he falls and gets a cut or the dreaded road rash-like carpet burn only on asphalt-he doesnt stop to get a Band-Aid or some peroxide for it. Instead, he gets back up and continues skating. Pain seems to mean little to him and other skaters. Both he and Eric insist that they would break something before seeing a doctor about it. However, when it comes to school, that takes priority over skateboarding. Because skating isnt going to take me anywhere, its just a hobby. It isnt like a career or anything. And even if it was, Im not that good. Although Lee firmly insists that he does have some sort of future plans, he refuses to share them with the rest of us sitting around. nbsp; As for short-term goals, that is to say, what are Lees goals as a skater? To learn as many tricks as possible. To learn something new every time, so long as it looks good! A trick (a skating move) doesnt have to be all that difficult to perfect; it just has to look good. And just exactly what does he, or any other skater for that matter, do when he pulls off a great-looking trick on his board? Hope the hell I can do it again so someone will see me! Cause no matter what anybody says, thats what every skater wants to