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A few months ago I bought a new skateboard. To be more exact, it is a longboard and I have begun getting back into skating. This was something I did a lot when I was growing up in Massachusetts but after moving south I pretty much gave it up. The kids in my neighborhood only were interested in basketball or baseball so my skateboard just disappeared at some point. It was always something I loved to do, and watching professional skateboarding now is simply amazing. It is completely mind blowing at this point where skateboarding is now, compared to how it was when I was a young kid growing up. I see skateboarders almost anywhere I go now, which is in complete contrast to what it was like as a kid. Skateboarding was looked down upon, it was for the rejects and the misfits. Now you can go to the mall find a skate shop.

I have spent my nights when I have nothing to do learning to push properly again and learning to keep my balance and prevent speed wobble when flying down hills. My board is pretty fast, and I have definitely been scared a few times. I've been teaching myself how to slide to a stop, and learned how to foot brake.

The most interesting thing to me is how different everything is when you travel on a board. You have a totally different sensation of your town when you feel it beneath your feet. Sometimes it's awesome just to absorb the scenery around you when carving down a hill, or just pushing across an open smooth street. You look at the roads differently. There has been multiple times I have wanted to stop driving my car and and pull off onto a side road and bomb a hill. This definitely makes things feel completely new and different.

I'm going to try and push farther and farther away from my house each weekend and see how far I can get just on my board. This weekend my goal is ride downtown and learn the streets either on foot or on my board. I hope that maybe at some point I'll get to travel and explore new places on my board. Maybe even at some point I'll cross an entire state or country at some point. I can't wait to push to new places I have never been before.

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