simply ridin'

When I think of who I am and what makes me, me, I think of all the things I’ve ever done growing up, everything that has made me get through good and bad days and basically what would ever make my day go by. I would always look at skateboarding as a passion, but yet always as a stress relieve, well at least for the most part. The four trucks and two-wheel board riding all began back in 7th grade. The neighborhood park district was adding in a skate park to keep the local riders active and involved with park stuff activities.
Day in and day out, me and my friends would hang out, claim our territory with the park and work on our tricks with one another, to help each other improve our skills at riding. It’s been beyond interesting because skateboarding has just had a major impact in my life; it’s pretty much grown up with me, and taught me a whole different lifestyle. At the time, gangs were up and coming; life was basically being spent on the streets, sun up till sunset, leaving the majority of the kids in the area to either be apart or to skate. I felt like life was more interesting to take risks and ride. So later that summer me and my friends made a team, basically consisting of everyone that we skated with and still to this day skateboarding is fun and live, all my friends that I used to skate with back then I still skate with now. We’ve come a very long and have many different memories from skating and we still plan on taking skateboarding to the next level, this summer we plan on taking a road trip through the states to skate, it’s seems like a far way from now, but it’ll all be worth the wait.