By Evan Ameen
Skateboarding and biking are two competitive sports. Both are very difficult and humbling sports. You must learn physical discipline knowing what tricks to try and when you are ready to step it up a level. The reason for this is that these two sports are not like traditional pastime sports such as baseball or football. You are not working as a team. They’re working individually. There are no set limits or rules you are allowed to take it as far as you want to go. Twenty one year old Justin Davidson from Gardner Massachusetts has taken part of biking for the past year. Davidson stated, “I am a dirt bike racer and the roots of dirt biking is biking. I chose to bike so now I know where dirt biking came from and how the tricks were originally done”. He started biking a year ago and has stuck with it through out the year because it’s an adrenaline rush every time he rides. Justin is different than most bikers because his group of friends are all skateboarders. He’s the only biker in the group. He finds motivation while watching his friends do better tricks on their skateboards. He tries to do the same on his bike. Twenty one year old John Larson from Hubbardston Massachusetts has been skateboarding for seven years. John explained why he chose to be a skateboarder, “When I lived in Templeton my friends and I all started skating together. It’s what we did for fun.” Larson started skating when he was eleven then quit at thirteen because his family moved to Hubbardston and he had no one to skate with. Then he started skating again when he was sixteen. There was a skate scene finally in Hubbardston and Barre had built a small skate park in 1996. |
