Skateboarding

What is skateboarding to you?  Is It ohh!!! I need to get sponsored?  Or yea this is tight I get to chill with my friends and have fun?

I remember when I first started skaten.  I didnt even know what sponsored was.  And now that I know what it is I wouldve never imagined getting good and sponsored.  When I first started skaten I got a Varflex Skateboard and I tried to skate regular because I thought goofy was the wrong way to push.  Then I met my friend and he told me to try to push goofy and, I said no I dont want to learn like that its, wrong.  He just laughed and said its not the wrong way.  I didnt know any better I had just started to skate.  But, I didnt care because, I was learning and I was happy that I was learning having fun and, I actually knew how to push on a skateboard the right way.  Its like learning how to walk for the first time and your happy you learned how to walk even though you mad mistakes.  All that matters is your having fun knowing your learning. 

Then when I started getting better and getting accepted as a skater I had fun skaten with all my homies all the time.  I still never thought or even dreamt about getting sponsored or anything.  Its like I would go out skate with the homies and do all these tricks that I was so happy for and though were good without a camera.

Now-A-Days when you go skate its always about filming a trick.  It shouldnt be this way.  Some things do need to be filmed on a videocamera or shot with a camera.  Even if people dont believe you did the trick you know you did it and thats all that matters.  So, If they dont believe you then so be it.  Then you can ask yourself, what a friend you are.

          Then here it goes, I discover this fat guy named Teddy!  Wish I wouldve never met him.  Because, now my whole perspective of skaten had changed.  Everything always had to be filmed, filmed, filmed, filmed.  Couldnt leave the door without the camera or without calling up teddy to go out and film with my homies.  Instead of skate to spots having fun and not having a care in the world if you land a trick or not.  See, when you film a trick you get stressed out and nervous and, if you dont land ithe trick your trying the filmer always gets mad.  But, when you go out and skate with your friends and actually skate to the spots thats, where the heart of skaten is.  And you dont have you land the trick, if you at least tried the trick you got respect or was happy.  As when you go out and film if you dont land the trick or try it you get mad at yourself.  So I would have to say filming and trying to get sponsored is just a waste of time.  Your only hurting yourself.  Just try to go out and session a spot without a camera for once.  See what its like.  See if you skate better or if your happier.  If not forgive me for even tryen. 

For all the people who know what im trying to say and what message im trying to get out youre the people that are understanding me now.  If your not one of those people then you can learn from this.  Dont go out and film just stay the way you are. If anyone asks you to go out and film just say naw im good or no whatever.  See what it does for you if, it doesnt work out then just go out and film.  Who knows maybe im wrongIm just saying what happened to me and what I wish wouldve never happened in the first place.  Because, if it hadnt I would be more happy when I skate.  I would also be more confident.  This is my advice to you its all I got just trying to help.  So skate and believe in something with faith,  not by sight.