Skateboarding is a very difficult sport that has changed peoples lives for the better around the entire world, Skating teaches perseverance, commitment, and most of all brings people together, skating changed my life when I was 12 or 13 years old, my dad introduced me to it and we would just go skate in a church parking lot when he went on his break for work. I started going to the skatepark and it allowed me to meet new people that shared this same passion with me, I started to get better at skating as I started to surround myself with people who were better than me and it caused me to aspire to be as good as them. I have now been skating for 4 years and can most definitely see the improvement. I used to barely be able to kickflip and now I am able to do much more difficult tricks such as hardflips, ghettobirds, and treflips. I think I have surpassed my dad in skating at this point in my life and I love to skate whenever I get the chance to. I don’t skate as much anymore because I have other responsibilities such as work, my girlfriend, and my family. I hope one day I can skate as much as I used to and I hope that I can get even better.