Skateboard Is ...

Skateboarding is something you love, isn’t something you do just to show off your friends. You know it because it clicks in you. When you can just feel the ground running away under your feet, and believe it is the best feeling in the world, you know you are going to love skating for life.

This page is about a passion, and about hard work. Is about having your feet and leg burn after the thousandth heelflip and still believe you can do another thousand. It is about getting up after a bad fall, watch your escoriated legs and just think “Let’s try again”.

This is not a sport for quitters.

This is not a sport for some kids that want to look like cool guys. This is a sport for those of us who are passionate about skating, that just cannot live without putting their feet on that boarad at least once a day, and that would go througha million wounds just to feel the wind whistling in their ears while running down a hill at maximum speed.

I am a skater and I love it.

We skaters all know that learning skate isn’t simple.

From one side, it’s a good thing. Its difficulty can divide the people that only want to show off with friends from the ones that REALLY love this sport.

But, from another point of view, its punishing difficulty can be pretty discouraging at first.

I remember the first skating months very clearly.I have always been curious about skating. I began skating more out of curiosity than anything else. I’ve always loved “Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3″ (probably the best and most entertaining skate game ever made), and I wanted to give it a try.

So I went to a local store and bought a cheap skate. Coming back home I was thrilled. I was about to compete with grandmasters of skate like Tony Hawk or Eric Koston! I went in a park with my brand new skate, excited like never before in my life.

I put the skate on the floor. I jumped on it.

I still remember painfully the seconds after that jump. My bottom is aching as I remember it. I probably stayed on the floor massaging my buttocks for 10 minutes before getting up and going back home. My first skating day ended there.

I am not a quitter, so there was no way I would quit for a simple bad fall. But I needed some support. But from whw? In the small town where I live skaters are inexistent, so no  “skate guru” to follow. Well, not bad. I always had internet.

Well, internet, as I found out in a few moments, was a pretty crappy instructor. The videos I found all over the internet were just saying the same thing over and over. Not meaning they were bad, they just didn’t help me more than what I actually knew. They were just  “look how it should be done” videos to me.

This is why the first months were so difficult to me. I had to do a lot of trial and error to find out the correct way each trick worked out well for me. It was a REALLY long process and frustrating most of the time. I even thought about quitting a time or two after some bad falls. But eventually, I started building up my skating knowledge and in the end I became pretty good at it.

After about a year and a half I could do most of the basic tricks (ollie, kickflip, pop shove it, ollie 180 ecc…) and some grinding and slides. I passed through a LOT of work and pain (and when I mean a LOT I mean REALLY a lot), but the results were acceptable. And, most importantly, I found out my love for this wonderful sport. I even found a friend of mine who also got into skating and became my disciple.

And this is where my skating life changed.

One day, this friend of mine sent me an email. He was talking about a fantastic skating tutorial he found. I said, well let’s see it. What I found out is that he BOUGHT it. I said WHAT? My friend should have become mad. Buying some skating tutorial on internet… But oh well, he did it, so let’s at least have a look at it.

Well, after following the program with my friend, I could say that this program wasn’t good.

Good isn’t enough. That program was FANTASTIC.

I remember the same evening I bought another copy of that one for me, only to thank the author for it (me buying something on internet? this was pretty absurd, after I think of it )

I cannot go into details for respect of the author, but all I can say is that this program is the guide I’ve always wished to have in the first place. If I knew about this guide at the beginning of my skating journey, I would  have learned all the stuff I knew in half the time, maybe even less. And all the tricks I was studying at the time looked just like a cakewalk with this material.

Now about six months have passed. My skills in skating have simply skyrocketed. I can’t explain it in better words. I’ve learned so much from that program and have still to learn, and I’m perfectioning every day my skills. It doesn’t feel like a pian anymore, just pure enjoyment. My skating style has become more clean, more efficient, more fun in many ways.

Now, what I want to say to you is: if you love skating, and want to improve your skills in a simple and effective way, do your self a favor and buy it. I know that maybe 30 bucks may seem a lot at first, but believe me, it’s the best investment you can do in your skating life. Instead of spending them on a crappy videogame that will only kill your eyes for a few days, invest them on this program and go out apply it.