How skateboarding change your city
- Kai Bonsaksen
- 11. mars 2018
- 3 min lesing
Oppdatert: 21. des. 2018
How skateboarding changes cities Skaters usually skate because it helps them use their bodies and they have a way to make beautiful things real. Everyone has their reason and it is usually linked to their self-interest. If we go deep into anything it can be because your self-interest will increase by it. Then how does the outside environment benefit from skaters there taking up space?

It gives people something to look at. Usually, in city streets, a stair is for walking and a handrail is for old people. For skaters, it is to do tricks and to perform. People appreciate this. It is outstanding to the environment and looks interesting because it is beautiful. People like beauty sometimes. Other people get a show in the street from people who are not doing it for the money like and street artist would. They skate for the sake of skateboarding, for the sake of beauty. The point of skating might be to make things beautiful because the skaters want good and interesting tricks performed in a clean way as they would put it. You have some skaters who can do handbags when they land or skate while looking uncomfortable on the board which could be a pathway to show your persona. In China you see people stand in the streets in huge crowds to watch skateboard tricks like a theatre almost. In Europe, there are fewer crowds although it happens to be some random people interested in a live show sometimes.
You like my thoughts?
The homeless aren't the main attraction anymore. To see a homeless makes people decrease the value of a place. On Macba Barcelona there are homeless. Although people now think of Macba as the skate place where athletes and performers meet. The main spot in the world for skateboarders to meet actually. The homeless are still there and the skaters talk to them and know things about them. The difference now is that the reputation is about skateboarders and not the homeless. In Southbank London, there are drug dealers who meet their customers. The skaters are mixed with them and the place doesn't look sad for the bypassers because there are skaters trying to make something beautiful there. The drug dealers are a problem and the place is not turned into a shopping centre with cafes because the skateboarders keep the beauty alive. The skateboarder's fashion The skaters are wearing hoodies and special beanies and pants that make them look like skaters. If you go to Sweden, you'll see this style on so many people while the fewest of them skate. In south Europe and the East, the people wearing this style are skaters. An acceptability to sit on street curbs and on the ground is created because you're not homeless, you're a skater, and maybe homeless...

Secound point is that skaters sometimes dress like a homeless. The skateboarder's focus is to skate, not on fashion dominantly at least. Maybe not auxiliary or teritray even. They can look like young homeless people. That's why nobody raises an eye if they carry a skateboard. They are making the city move around Gymnastics go to their facility. So does the football players, the tennis players, the rallycross drivers, the badminton folks, the swimmers and most of the sports. I'm talking about the serious players, there are kids in the streets with a football, which is great for having a fun city. The skaters do this, too, the serious professional skaters, too. If you are going to make a video part you will film in the streets because a common perception is that Park videos suck. Here's how they make the city move: If a street artist gathers 10 people to watch him it is way easier to increase that amount than if he only has 2 people watching him. This is the Pareto distribution. The ones who get popular has an easier time getting more popular. In skateboarding, if you have in the city streets the initial part of people hanging around doing something it is going to be easier to get even more people to do the same. Maybe because hanging out is more acceptable, maybe because things are more interesting when you see someone who's already doing it. You'll have to ask the Pareto guy for that answer.
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