I\u2019m going through the entire Epicly Later\u2019d playlist, watching those legendary skaters talk about their careers. it gives me a lot of perspective and teenage-me was right to think that there might be a lot of smoke and screen in that industry. The Ed Templeton story is quite amazing.<\/p>\n
There was something that I didn\u2019t understand growing up looking at magazines and watching 411 videos. I didn\u2019t understand the need<\/em> to try so hard something crazy like crooked grind over a 10 stairs handrail. I couldn\u2019t believe that those teenagers or kids were so good on a skateboard. They couldn\u2019t possibly go to school and do chores and skate like that. Something had to give. Europe is different.<\/p>\n After living for years in America, I certainly get it now.<\/p>\n I get the hunger. The anger. The violence. The brutality of the environment. The \u201cfuck it, let\u2019s try this\u201d<\/em>. The absence of parents or their encouragement (I had neither). The desperation. The No Future looming. The Now being everything. Let\u2019s skate. Let\u2019s push. Let\u2019s push harder. Faster. Imma land this. I might bust my ass multiple times, but I\u2019m going to do this and it\u2019s going to be dope.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been cruising the street I live on everyday in the past month. I feel good. Things are horribly wrong around but I keep pushing. We\u2019ll pass a million dead from covid-19 in a few. I want to go faster. I push more. Sometimes it\u2019s scary. My wheel hits a rock, I go flying and realize that I was going pretty fast because I\u2019m running hard to not slam the ground. I go back at it.<\/p>\n Somehow I\u2019m way less afraid than I was before. I tried or landed things I wouldn\u2019t have at 19 and living in suburban Paris. America and its flat concrete sidewalks are trying me and I accept the challenge.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve magically made some weird body, ankle stiffness slowly go away the more I ride. I want to skate more. I need to skate more. It just feels right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m going through the entire Epicly Later\u2019d playlist, watching those legendary skaters talk about their careers. it gives me a lot of perspective and teenage-me was right to think that there might be a lot of smoke and screen in that industry. The Ed Templeton story is quite amazing. There was something that I didn\u2019t […]<\/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\/3128"}],"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=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}