There is nothing that is more ultimate then the sport of skateboarding. Skateboarding started out by naturally nailing rolling skate wheels to a plank of wood and has since evolved into a worldwide phenomenon and recognized ultimate sport. Skateboarding has gone through a lot to get to the point it is at now but that conference is for a distinct article. Here I want to talk about why skateboarding is so ultimate and so popular. Skateboarding takes a kind of athlete that very few sports require. Balance, strength, intuition, guts, skill and a natural potential are just a small sample of what a someone needs to come to be a great skateboarder. The skateboarders of today are quite perhaps the most talented athletes in the world. When you collate the difficulty, danger, skill level, range and competition of the sport it is actually not hard to see why. There are also a estimate of avenues that the sport of skateboarding has been down that solidified it as an ultimate sport, avenues like the X Games and the Gravity Games.
When you think of an athlete you ordinarily think of a football, baseball or basketball player. perhaps you think of a track and field athlete, swimmer or tap dancer (kidding). Before the up-to-date skateboard revolution in the 90's and today not many people would have lumped skateboarders into the class of athlete; thug, trouble maker, talented or maybe skilled, but not athlete. But now when you collate the types of tricks skateboarders are doing, and the improbable things they get their bodies to do when they are 15 feet in the air and then land smooth just to hit other huge air seconds later to the things "typical" athletes do, people are actually beginning to say that skateboarders are arguably More athletic then a what we know as a "typical" athlete. After watching competitions like the X Games I am not one to argue that point. What professional skateboarders are able to do with a chunk of wood on wheels is uncanny.
Simply the danger and strangeness of skateboarding are enough to steer thousands of hopeful professional skaters away from the scene, but those that press through know what it took to get there. There are not too many other sports that draw comparisons of strangeness to skateboarding. Take this for example you take off going very fast kick off into the air, while your in the air you flip your body, rotate the board under your feet, catch the board with your hand, put the board back under your feet, land on the board and keep riding... Oh and do it all with style. It is pretty fantastic what skateboarders are able to do these days and very fun to watch. Luckily the main stream has caught on to this improbable sport and competitions like x games and gravity games now feature skateboarding as one of their main events. This gets the word out and shows the world that these guys are in the most ultimate sport and deserve to be called world class athletes.
Skateboarding - The Most extreme Sport
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