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    Skateboards are a great form of transportation for students who live near the campus and for students to travel in between classes. Skateboards are light objects to carry around, and it does not take a lot of space when placing it on the floor. Many students prefer to use skateboards over bicycles, because it is more convenient to ride and less expensive to replace. Skateboard does not have many mechanical issues unlike bicycles. However, some students do not understand the danger they can promote

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    Skateboarding Memoir

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    I’m in the library so I’m sure they won’t care too much that I’m reading instead of doing actual work. Aside from music, skateboarding is the other half of my life. I’ve probable written more stories about it than music. I don’t have an end goal in it, I just love it. It’s fun weather I’m progressing or not ; chilling or trying some banger. But just as music goes, it takes up

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    Kickflips

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    Skateboarding - How to do a 360 Flip So you recently got your kickflips and maybe your varial kickflips on lock, and you want to learn some more tricks. Well, if you're up for a more difficult trick, let's try the 360 flip. The 360 flip is a kickflip that rotates three-hundred and sixty degrees underneath the skater's feet. It sounds difficult, but it's well worth the work. Before you start, you definitely want to have your kickflips down. It's definitely helpful if you can also bigspin (360 pop-shuv

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    Paint this, it’s the late 90’s in Highland Park, L.A. County. An oriental looking boy is sitting on a wobbly wooden stool about 3 feet away watching PBS Kids in a black and white picture on 10” screen. I can still recall the flickering picture and the pixel barred pallet, also in black and white. I’m not stating I grew up misfortuned but this is one of my earliest memories, in-fact my grandmother did have a colored picture t.v. It’s the setting as the focal point, especially if some are familiar

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    Florida can be a strange and scary place sometimes, and anyone who lives there understands the truth of that statement. Bizarre stories show up on the local news every day that leave the public questioning, “What could have possibly been the cause of that?” I can recall one of these abnormal and somewhat surreal situations that happened not too long ago. It was later in the evening, and I was driving down a quiet street in order to get to friend’s birthday party. Out of the corner of eye, I saw only

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    A Dream : Having A Dream

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    Tony Hawk has been a professional skateboarder for over 24 years. However, he did not receive that title overnight; Tony got his first skateboard when he was only 9 years old. Since then, Tony worked extremely hard and put a lot of his focus on skateboarding. He did it because that was his Dream. Tony’s Dream was frowned upon by many of his teachers and adults alike. One of his teachers even told him that he “would never make it in the workplace if he didn’t follow directions exactly” (Hawk), but he

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    In the article “The First Ice Skates Helped People Travel in the Winter” by Smithsonian.com, adapted by Newsela staff, the main idea is the evolution of ice skates. For example, in the section “New And Improved” Smithsonian.com states, “Today's skates are four times faster than the original bone skates. Still, bone skates served people well for thousands of years.” By saying this, Smithsonian is explaining how one way the skates have evolved, they are now faster. Another example of how ice skated

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    Hockey Hockey is a sport that has evolved for generations into the American culture. There is evidence that the first skates are from around 3,000 BC and were made of animal bone. A more complicated version of the skates was engineered by the Dutch to solve the problem of the skates falling off. These were the first wooden skates. Unfortunately, the wooden skates did not glide well on the ice and soaked up the water (Ice Hockey). Iron blades were invented in the 1800s and called ¨stock skates¨.

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    Introduction: -The athlete sits on their board, arms dangling in the cold water . Anxiously waiting for the thrilling sound of the horn to signal the start of the competition . Although I have never actually surfed , I still enjoy watching it and hope that I will be able to have the experience one day. -My interest in surfing began right after I watched the movie soul surfer . I loved the movie and to this day, I still find the sport very interesting and enjoy watching it. Paragraph One:When/where

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    something similar as they did in the water. Skateboarding history still has a mysterious origin. No one to this day knows who actually invented the skate board. Several people have claimed to have made the skateboard but nothing has been proven. In 1965 skate boarding’s popularity began to reach its’s top. First skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Skateboards first

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