{"id":2830,"date":"2019-05-22T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:52:23","slug":"skating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2019\/05\/skating\/","title":{"rendered":"Skating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skateboard pull has never stop since I was ten.<\/p>\n<p>I just watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fd-wbQJZs5w\">documentary on Daewon Song<\/a>, a legendary skateboarder. It sent me back.<\/p>\n<p>Daewon at his peak was incredible. Doing things at a speed and a level of mastery that was so far out that we couldn\u2019t even dream of doing half of that. He was that <em>bad<\/em>. 3 flip to nose manual on a steep ass, rough bank, like it\u2019s nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I was skating Paris and Daewon was skating LA. Now I\u2019m in LA and I know where Gardena is. I know the triple-digit street LA a bit. But more than that, I understand the paradigm. Parents working constantly. Hot days. Perfect evenings. The brutality of that economic system that pushes you to want to try some stuff like jumping on a board and slide on a handrail because <em>fuck it, let\u2019s try.<\/em> The urgency. The desperation. The creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Hardcore capitalism created street skateboarding. Car culture \u2013parking lots, ability to go anywhere- fed it.<\/p>\n<p>All I could see from 10,000 miles away was teenagers with freedom to spare while wondering how this was possible.<\/p>\n<p>It seems wrong how Daewon is known across the world in one community and still had to live in his car for a while, not so long ago. Hardcore capitalism is some serious shit.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a kind soul, like most skaters I\u2019ve skated with or skaters I heard in interviews.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me want to drive around, find a parking lot lit with soft orange lights and practice my manuals. Just skating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skateboard pull has never stop since I was ten. I just watched a documentary on Daewon Song, a legendary skateboarder. It sent me back. Daewon at his peak was incredible. Doing things at a speed and a level of mastery that was so far out that we couldn\u2019t even dream of doing half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2831,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}