I've been a lifelong skater since I was 4yrs old. At 34yrs old now, I still remember the feeling of my dad giving me my first board and teaching me the basics as he was a skater in the 70s but was himself a lifelong surfer. Skating has more or less been a constant in my life, whether visually (only seeing things in the physical world as potentially skateable) or physically by skating as much as I can given my life as a father myself now. I've always felt skating keeps you tethered to childhood in the healthiest way possible while utilizing your breadth of life experience and the transmutable attributions of getting older as traceable markers in time. The purity that is skating gets you out of your head and has the benefits of being a solidarity activity or a communal one. Either way, it's a once bitten, forever infected kind of deal. The day my legs no longer work I will still see the world through a skater's eyes and that's a singularly unique and initiated perspective only those who've rolled down a driveway, pumped a bowl, flipped through a magazine or expressed themselves through our vernacular would understand. Ted talk over.
Well said Sir. I hope your kids fall in love with it as you did. My kids did not. I wanted to share it with them but they have different paths. Why are you no longer able to skate? I hope my little videos are a small supplement keeping you tied to skating. I don't know what I will do when I can no longer skate. Until then I am going to keep pushing it. Thanks for your words. And stay Rad.
🙏 appreciate you Sir. Agree, no matter where you go in the world no matter the culture skaters share the same love and appreciation. Stay Rad and get healthy. Lots of skating to be had in 2023.
Great video man!! 🤘 As a 36 (almost 37) year old man with 2 kids under 3 I always ask myself the same questions and can honestly say if it wasnt for skateboarding in my life I wouldnt be the man I am today. Cool to see all those people whos lives are so impacted by a stupid kids toy with 4 wheels and a bunch of random piles of concrete!!! 🤘
Absolutely. I always tell people, "skateboarding is the best thing I have done for myself and others as an adult." I think we are better for the people around us when we make time for ourselves.
Feel the same way about my local. Brings people together of all walks of life, doesn't matter your race, age, gender, background or skill level. They're my people and I go there to see them, as much as I do to skate.
The local is everything to everyone no matter where it is in the world it is someone's home park. The home park is where all the magic happens. Then we get to travel and experience other people's local. It really is awesome
Our skateparks and skate spots are so important for so many reasons. Everybody might have a different reason but that's a good thing. Keep up the great skating and content. 👊
We have good people here Sir. Thrasher man is Thadius. He is great. I definitely want to do more videos with our community. They are a big part of this adventure.
In a world that can really grind a person down, a plank of wood and our wheels remind us of the simple joy of playing. Happy New Year! I’m grateful I get to start skating again, it’s been over for months!
Absolutely love this, you’re out there asking the important questions n it makes us viewers ask those same questions, also love the variety of skating going on here, plus your heelflips n fakie bigs are looking beautiful!!
🙏 thanks for checking it out and connecting with it. Really I just asked myself the question and then decided to bring in some of the others that are always there. Something keeps pulling us there. We could skateboard anywhere, you prove that, but what brings us there? A community like minded people putting in work. Although different styles, different levels of skill, and different goals there is just a common respect for the journey and the work being out it. 🙏
I really liked the way you filmed the intro. It was something a little new and I really liked it that way. I love how you and the other people at the skatepark got into it and all explained why you love the park so much. Even the unfiltered parts were great too. 🤟
Appreciate you Sir. I wanted to do a video that shows our community and share our park. We are grateful for it. We all go for many different reasons but the feeling it brings, the outlet it provides, and the support provides the best behavioral health any of us could ask for. Like Mike said there is nothing to worry about when we are skating even if just for a little bit.
It definitely takes a little more. Having a good fitness plan really helps. I run about 15miles a week and hit the gym with deadlifts and squats about 2 days a week. I definitely skate better the lighter I get. I need to cut about 10pounds of this winter weight. Christmas cookies got me. Also just getting into the board more.offtem really helps. Stay Rad
As I have traveled the world, I have seen the skate culture is universal. I am grateful for it. Stay Rad Sir and thanks for checking out our community.
💯 I think it is important that our Cities know that and see how we can help the cities and towns that haven't invested in their skate community. It really is important. 🙏
Rowan park is so sick. I bumped into you in 2021 one morning. Love this video man. The same guys who made that park made one in my childhood neighborhood back in Virginia Beach (WOODSTOCK PARK 🔥)
I need to check out the new Virginia Beach park. Thanks for being a part of the adventure and appreciate your feedback on the video. Stay Rad and have an awesome 2023.
Come to Atlanta! I’d hang out with ya brother. I’m 51 , 2 months back from a 13 year hiatus. Love to have you guys down. DUNCAN PARK is a good one. I’m there every day n Sunday if I can. lol. Stay young boyz. Stay rad.
I go to Savannah a lot because my daughter goes to school there. Kona is only 2 hours from there. I need to make an ATL trip to skate with my friend AAron that just moved there and Elder Skates who lives down there. If you watch my Apex Bowl video, that is Elder Skates. Always down for a skate trip. However the job keeps me on a 2 hr our recall most of my life. 2 years to first retirement.
🙏🤣. He has the spirit of Lance. It is Journey Sir. We have to enjoy every moment because there is no destination, just the here and now. Thanks for checking it out.
I think the city, community leaders, local clubs, whoever is in charge of putting parks together, really understand the importance of these parks. Not only does it bring the community together but it is an outlet in so many ways. Always great to hear of parks being built. Happy New Year!
💯% We need to help maintain the parks so they can see how important it is to us. Additionally, we need to help communities that don't have a park get one. Currently our local shop owner is working to get a park build in Southern Pines and it is an hour away from here.
I really felt this video! And I really, really felt the part about doing the same 5 tricks over and over! Anyway, my fat butt got back to it yesterday after 6 months and 40 pounds gained. I lost so much, but I'm going to get it back!
Welcome back. The 40 will be gone before you know it. I am glade you like the video. I try and keep it real here. Thanks for being a part of the Adventure. Let me know when you post your next video, "The Journey Back"
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding will do. I didn't film anything yesterday, because it was ugly. Super ugly. For the first hour I felt like I had never skated before. Just getting my center of gravity reestablished with 40 extra pounds hanging on my gut took a little bit. LOL
This video is great. All skateparks are important to the people who use them I just wish the councils of the world could see this too. The skatepark is a getaway from the troubles of life for some and is a real savour. #moreskateparks
💯🙏 agree. You and I have skated a lot of parks and they all provide something. I hope to get involved helping communities build more or better parks. Definitely a pair retirement project. Stay Rad Sir.
That is a great idea. I have been in contact with my local council over the past few months trying to get a park built over here. My dream is a real street plaza integrated with the surroundings. It is nothing like we have here and I feel would bring people in. They are already building a new park in the centre of town I'm just trying to get them to add a skate area to this park. Failing that I will try and get them to upgrade the skatepark near me. I don't call it my local because I hardly ever go to it and if I do i normally just skate the flat ground. Anyway, I feel this video could be a good defence for getting the park build. If it is ok with you I would like to send them this way to see what skateparks do for the community.
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Happy New Year. Thanks for spending 5 minutes of it with me and some of our locals.
Happy new Year, all the best of skate in 2023
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I've been a lifelong skater since I was 4yrs old. At 34yrs old now, I still remember the feeling of my dad giving me my first board and teaching me the basics as he was a skater in the 70s but was himself a lifelong surfer. Skating has more or less been a constant in my life, whether visually (only seeing things in the physical world as potentially skateable) or physically by skating as much as I can given my life as a father myself now. I've always felt skating keeps you tethered to childhood in the healthiest way possible while utilizing your breadth of life experience and the transmutable attributions of getting older as traceable markers in time. The purity that is skating gets you out of your head and has the benefits of being a solidarity activity or a communal one. Either way, it's a once bitten, forever infected kind of deal. The day my legs no longer work I will still see the world through a skater's eyes and that's a singularly unique and initiated perspective only those who've rolled down a driveway, pumped a bowl, flipped through a magazine or expressed themselves through our vernacular would understand.
Ted talk over.
Well said Sir.
I hope your kids fall in love with it as you did.
My kids did not. I wanted to share it with them but they have different paths.
Why are you no longer able to skate?
I hope my little videos are a small supplement keeping you tied to skating. I don't know what I will do when I can no longer skate. Until then I am going to keep pushing it.
Thanks for your words. And stay Rad.
Yes, our skateboarding facility is very important for our community.
Oh YEAH!
Hopefully when the video goes live you will like the way it was put together and the thoughts and opinions of some of our local skaters.
Amazing
Appreciate you
I love Rowan park and everyone that comes through 😊
💯 my friend. I will be there shortly
Our skateparks and spots are sacred. Videos like this will be watched in thousands of years and people will understand why. Keep killing it dude 👊🔥
🙏 appreciate you Sir.
Agree, no matter where you go in the world no matter the culture skaters share the same love and appreciation. Stay Rad and get healthy. Lots of skating to be had in 2023.
Great video man!! 🤘 As a 36 (almost 37) year old man with 2 kids under 3 I always ask myself the same questions and can honestly say if it wasnt for skateboarding in my life I wouldnt be the man I am today. Cool to see all those people whos lives are so impacted by a stupid kids toy with 4 wheels and a bunch of random piles of concrete!!! 🤘
Absolutely. I always tell people, "skateboarding is the best thing I have done for myself and others as an adult." I think we are better for the people around us when we make time for ourselves.
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding totally agree 🤘
Feel the same way about my local. Brings people together of all walks of life, doesn't matter your race, age, gender, background or skill level. They're my people and I go there to see them, as much as I do to skate.
🙏💯 Sir.
They are the park family. And grateful for them.
Love this! It matters because it helps the self push forward ❤️
As you feel about your local I feel the same for my local it’s home 🙏🏻
The local is everything to everyone no matter where it is in the world it is someone's home park. The home park is where all the magic happens. Then we get to travel and experience other people's local. It really is awesome
Aye it’s the boi mogely 😂
Our skateparks and skate spots are so important for so many reasons. Everybody might have a different reason but that's a good thing. Keep up the great skating and content. 👊
Agree, and all the reasons are valid. It is awesome how it brings so many different people together. The wild needs more parks.
Love the audience participation! I want to party with my man in the Thrasher shirt, great answer from him - he’s got it figured out!🚫☠️
We have good people here Sir. Thrasher man is Thadius. He is great.
I definitely want to do more videos with our community. They are a big part of this adventure.
In a world that can really grind a person down, a plank of wood and our wheels remind us of the simple joy of playing. Happy New Year! I’m grateful I get to start skating again, it’s been over for months!
It will be good to have you back Sir. 💯% the joys of a useless wooden toy makes everything else manageable.
Absolutely love this, you’re out there asking the important questions n it makes us viewers ask those same questions, also love the variety of skating going on here, plus your heelflips n fakie bigs are looking beautiful!!
🙏 thanks for checking it out and connecting with it.
Really I just asked myself the question and then decided to bring in some of the others that are always there. Something keeps pulling us there. We could skateboard anywhere, you prove that, but what brings us there? A community like minded people putting in work. Although different styles, different levels of skill, and different goals there is just a common respect for the journey and the work being out it.
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I really liked the way you filmed the intro. It was something a little new and I really liked it that way. I love how you and the other people at the skatepark got into it and all explained why you love the park so much. Even the unfiltered parts were great too. 🤟
Appreciate you Sir. I wanted to do a video that shows our community and share our park. We are grateful for it. We all go for many different reasons but the feeling it brings, the outlet it provides, and the support provides the best behavioral health any of us could ask for.
Like Mike said there is nothing to worry about when we are skating even if just for a little bit.
now that I'm 40 it takes a lot more effort to jump lol it feels like gravity pulls me back to the ground quicker
It definitely takes a little more. Having a good fitness plan really helps. I run about 15miles a week and hit the gym with deadlifts and squats about 2 days a week. I definitely skate better the lighter I get. I need to cut about 10pounds of this winter weight. Christmas cookies got me.
Also just getting into the board more.offtem really helps.
Stay Rad
Nice video. That park looks good. Nice to see the skate communities over there are just like here in the UK.
As I have traveled the world, I have seen the skate culture is universal. I am grateful for it.
Stay Rad Sir and thanks for checking out our community.
Wow good skate park and cool the tricks
We are blessed to have the park and the right community of skaters. 🙏
Happy new year, dude. Got to say, every skateparks are important
💯 I think it is important that our Cities know that and see how we can help the cities and towns that haven't invested in their skate community. It really is important. 🙏
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding completely got what you mean dude
I hope they keep making parks and I hope people keep finding the level of satisfaction that you do.
Absolutely. I think it will grow for years. We just need to take care of our parks and the cities will keep supporting them.
Rowan park is so sick. I bumped into you in 2021 one morning. Love this video man. The same guys who made that park made one in my childhood neighborhood back in Virginia Beach (WOODSTOCK PARK 🔥)
I need to check out the new Virginia Beach park.
Thanks for being a part of the adventure and appreciate your feedback on the video. Stay Rad and have an awesome 2023.
Come to Atlanta! I’d hang out with ya brother. I’m 51 , 2 months back from a 13 year hiatus.
Love to have you guys down. DUNCAN PARK is a good one. I’m there every day n Sunday if I can. lol. Stay young boyz. Stay rad.
I go to Savannah a lot because my daughter goes to school there. Kona is only 2 hours from there.
I need to make an ATL trip to skate with my friend AAron that just moved there and Elder Skates who lives down there. If you watch my Apex Bowl video, that is Elder Skates.
Always down for a skate trip. However the job keeps me on a 2 hr our recall most of my life.
2 years to first retirement.
Hell Yeah it matters, I'll be 46 in Feb. Roll 4 Ever and Happy New Year Bro!
Club 46‼️
It definitely matters 🙏.
Happy New Year have an awesome one. Stay Rad.
That's not Lance Mountain! 😁 This is the spirit of skateboarding, the people and places you enjoy along the way.
🙏🤣. He has the spirit of Lance.
It is Journey Sir. We have to enjoy every moment because there is no destination, just the here and now. Thanks for checking it out.
I think the city, community leaders, local clubs, whoever is in charge of putting parks together, really understand the importance of these parks. Not only does it bring the community together but it is an outlet in so many ways. Always great to hear of parks being built. Happy New Year!
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We need to help maintain the parks so they can see how important it is to us. Additionally, we need to help communities that don't have a park get one. Currently our local shop owner is working to get a park build in Southern Pines and it is an hour away from here.
That's an awesome video man... great community and what an amazing skatepark you guys have there.
🙏 Thanks brother. We are blessed with an amazing skate community. A great park and amazing humans.
Nice park…one day I’ll come skate with you…love that sweatshirt…made me feel good because some times I think I’m too old to skate
The sweatshirt is from Skate Crisis. He has a brand. I got his a few years back. Love it.
Definitely come down skate. It will be rad.
That hip looks so good for learning! 💯
It is however, I wish it wasn't as rounded on top. But definitely good for learning.
Love this video man. Great idea, and great intro music too!
Thanks for checking it out Sir. Trying to change the style up a little. More community.
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding I thought it was excellent. I know you're working on a new format. Is this the new style? Or just a one off?
I don't think there will be one style video, just not the same old style for the most part.
Great video!
🙏 appreciate you checking it out.
Great video! Happy New Year.
Happy New Year Kevin. Thanks for being a part of this and always supporting the adventure. You are Rad Sir.
Happy new year dude. You should skate the hip more often, you’re killing it
Thanks for checking it out Nessa. I like the hip, definitely need more work on it. Have a great 2023. Stay Rad 💯
Excellent video Sir! I love the concept! A very good start for 2023!!! Wish you all the best!
And you're 2OL2SK8! ❤️❤️❤️
Love the hoodie 🙏
Thank you for checking it out. I want to make better videos in 2023. This is the start. Have a great New year.
I just found a red board online that says make America skate again with the maga font it's priceless
Skate it‼️
I really felt this video! And I really, really felt the part about doing the same 5 tricks over and over! Anyway, my fat butt got back to it yesterday after 6 months and 40 pounds gained. I lost so much, but I'm going to get it back!
Welcome back. The 40 will be gone before you know it.
I am glade you like the video. I try and keep it real here. Thanks for being a part of the Adventure. Let me know when you post your next video, "The Journey Back"
@@AdventuresInSkateboarding will do. I didn't film anything yesterday, because it was ugly. Super ugly. For the first hour I felt like I had never skated before. Just getting my center of gravity reestablished with 40 extra pounds hanging on my gut took a little bit. LOL
Film everything because you never know.
This video is great. All skateparks are important to the people who use them I just wish the councils of the world could see this too. The skatepark is a getaway from the troubles of life for some and is a real savour. #moreskateparks
💯🙏 agree.
You and I have skated a lot of parks and they all provide something.
I hope to get involved helping communities build more or better parks. Definitely a pair retirement project.
Stay Rad Sir.
That is a great idea. I have been in contact with my local council over the past few months trying to get a park built over here. My dream is a real street plaza integrated with the surroundings. It is nothing like we have here and I feel would bring people in. They are already building a new park in the centre of town I'm just trying to get them to add a skate area to this park. Failing that I will try and get them to upgrade the skatepark near me. I don't call it my local because I hardly ever go to it and if I do i normally just skate the flat ground.
Anyway, I feel this video could be a good defence for getting the park build. If it is ok with you I would like to send them this way to see what skateparks do for the community.
@@amskateboards feel free Sir if you think it will help.
Rowan Skatepark? Sounds Like my kinda place. My last name is Rowan. I also wear Vans Rowan pro skate kicks.
I love this. Swing on by.
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Thanks Sir
michael said it the best!
He is the park Philosopher 💯
I guess I’m a man with many names
@@michaelrobert4482 🤣🤣🤣
I doubt they will keep building them, theres no real profit in skateboarding and we live in a capitalist world
Which means its a miracle when we do get em
I think if the land is already available, already a park or city land, we will see them grow and be maintained. The cities see how much use they get.
Lots of fund raisers made ours happen.