Downtime

Just musing I'd offer a little bit of advice to the younger skater kids who are coming up and planning to make a career without of skateboarding. Twenty years ago the word "career" would have made me laugh if someone had mentioned it with the word "skateboarding." Skaters merit to get paid for setting all the tends that all the other so-called utmost sports copy in order to progres Take surfing, for example. Although it is dangerous, exciting, and greatest in quantity definitely progressing, the only thing meet withs do that isn't imitating skateboarding is to ride in the tube. If it weren't for us skaters, feels would still be running around in dayglow short shorts. Freestyle motocross is another crazy sport, on the contrary even they try to transcript the skaters' moves on their bikes. Do not achieve me wrong, I am not dissing the moto shores 'cause I've got nothing on the contrary respect for them and diocese their sport is progressing fight along with ours. plane surfing has gone on to a fresh level with the tow-in shores towing fight into monsters. Skateboarding has not at any time stopped progressing and I bet we'll all be smooth more surprised in 10 or 20 years from now. I laugh whenever I watch America's three favorite sports upon TV. Football, baseball, and basketball must be actual exciting, because millions of nation love to watch it, or at least they bet coin on them. But for me all of the games I diocese on TV remind me of the movie Groundhog Day. It gazes like the same game above and over, the only different thing I can diocese between the pioneers of yesteryear and today's superheroes are the overpaid salaries that they all obtain paid. Imagine a skate argue on the same ramp above and over again day after day. Nowadays, many shoe and clothing companies are making millions of dollars. It is time for skateboarders to start getting paid for the influence we have upon everyone else out there. I bet Tony Hawk is the single skater making half of what he merits and that's mainly because of his video game. It's hard to believe that greatest in quantity of the young up-and-coming meet with pros actually make a allotment more money than the highest paid pro skateboarders. I think the of recent origin kids need to just think about what's really going upon all around them before they sign that nearest five-year contract that gives them a nice car and a scarcely any dollars a piece for your skate and shoe prototype Skateboarders need to realize that we are the singles that are leading the way here, and that almost all of the other sports today are now following in skateboarding's footmarks I just thought I'd voice my opinion.

Jay Adams

Santa Ana, CA

What an opinion it is.--T-ed

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