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The show that started it all which is called: "Sk8 The Infinity". This started my journey with skateboarding by seeing how dynamic this sport is. This made me wonder what things I could personally accomplish by taking this on

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By discussing the topic of skateboarding with my friends, I was able to learn a lot about the sport and even started to gain new friends from taking this on. This ended up making my covid years a lot more tolerable because I not only had people by my side, but also a hobby that brought us all together

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Going downtown for the first time in the summer of 2021 to acquire my first skateboard (which I actually have til this day). This whole shop was intimidating with how many choices there were and what boards were used for what

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Once I actually got the board, I was terrified of falling and later hurting myself, but with enough time and patience I was able to really start to regain my balance. This balance was not only for skateboarding, but also allowing balance in my social and academic life

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For the longest time, I was holding on to a fence to maintain my balance and decided to let go. Shockingly enough, I did not fall and the euphoria I felt in that moment I knew I wanted to continue this for awhile

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Every single day during the summer, I would be outside practicing and trying to harness this skill

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From the knowledge I acquired earlier on, I now was able to practice a few tricks and feel comfortable doing so. Some of these tricks included: strawberry milkshake, tic tac and even an olly (which I am still trying to master)

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One of the major benefits throughout this whole journey was growing closer to my childhood best friend, Bia, who is in the photo above. We decided to go to a local park together and I was teaching her the basics of skating.

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Now, I am expanding where I skate and it is in the neighboorhood of my beach house in the Outer Banks. The roads there were pretty smooth and was the perfect summer activity

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Now, me currently, even though I do not skateboard as much as I used to, the impact of skateboarding made me form new and stronger bonds with people I already knew and taught me a bunch of new skills one of them being: to never give up no matter how impossible it may seem