Skateboarding culture

To me, skateboarding is the thing you do when you don’t care about the rules anymore. All the rules that my parents have. It’s when I don’t want to listen to my parents because they don’t really know me. It’s where I can roll down the street on the concrete and not think about anything. It’s the place where there’s no rules, where you don’t care about the street being used by people or cars. Rules are this hard thing that everyone has to follow, and when you skate, you just glide around on top of the hard thing, the rules, the concrete. The concrete symbolizes the rules everyone follows, the things people are scared to question. You don’t have to think about anything, except when you fall. Because everybody falls, sometimes. And you get hit with the consequences of not listening to the rules. Even if those rules are wrong, and you don’t agree with them, society still decided that it should hurt if you don’t listen to it. Because they believe in rules for the sake of rules. But if you get good, you can just keep gliding around forever. I don’t know how long I want to escape. It’s good to escape sometimes. But sometimes I feel like I can do more. That maybe I’m meant for something else. That maybe I can shape the concrete. Maybe I can shape the rules. That I can do more than glide around on them. But I visit to remember what it’s like, to ignore the rules. It’s a type of freedom, not the only type. But a good one.

It’s a sport that specifically tries to stay away from that world of rules. it will never say you have to be one way or another, and it’s underrated how important it is to ignore rules like that. Skaters don’t really have a sense of importance, they don’t need one. Ego is just another rule that someone else invented, that you should be, the reward for following everyone else’s rules so well. Surfers think they know more about life and death than you, they do have a rule, and it’s about not being afraid of death. You win at surfing by fearing death the least. There’s nothing like that in skateboarding. They just don’t care. But it’s not like a caring where you care about nothing at all. It’s like this never ending search of finding the other thing to care about. About finding some new rule that hasn’t been found before. Some new way of feeling or being.