skateboarding
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This Month, I’m Getting Fit Like It’s 1991
Has anything once cool ever so quickly become less cool than inline skating? Back in the early 1990s, in the wake of the fitness boom of the ‘80s, Americans were still desperate to glom onto any fitness craze that came along, spurred on by those twin pillars of capitalism — consumerism and feeling like something…
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Can I Learn to Skateboard in My 30s?
The first time I stood on a skateboard, I was in high school. I was transferred from an all-Black school in Detroit to a predominately White one, and learning to navigate a new cultural landscape — hacky sack, field hockey, acoustic guitars — led me to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and, later, a group…
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Get Over Yourself And Skateboard With Your Kid
1Dexter, my ten year-old, recently blew the dust off an old skateboard he found in our garage and started taking tentative runs down the driveway that reminded me of his wobbling first steps.