Skateboarding is a Community

For people with broken families, for teenagers being bullied frequently, and for youths finding acceptance, they easily fit in subcultures and find the belongingness that they need there. I am not saying that subcultures are made of unstable people with poor relational backgrounds. I am just trying to show how loving and accommodating a subculture can be. Of course some groups may have their own vices and notorious civil behaviors (which gives subcultures like skateboarders a bad image), but come to think of it, any social group has a potential to be a scum of society.

The good thing about skateboarding as being “Wow!” and extreme is that it is getting good publicity lately. From subculture to popculture like the Hip Hop Culture. Skateboarding is now regarded as a sport. It is a sport that requires too much discipline to master the moves, tricks, and to propel yourself with the board faster, more agile, and higher up the ground (when jumping).

Even though skateboarding culture has always a rebel image, it is no doubt the main reason why teenagers would always want to try it, especially the daredevil types, because teenagers go through a rebellious phase in their lives at one point or another. For the skateboarders, as long as they are doing it, they feel young. Well some of them grow out of the Peter Pan Syndrome and shifts to Surfing (for them, this is a more mature activity, it is where skateboarding originated in the first place, so it just makes sense). What matters most is that they have found, at one point in their lives, a sense of belongingness in the community of skateboarders.