Skate Park gets plenty of use
It’s a game most men and boys have played at some time in their
lives. One part machissmo, one part dumb luck, and varying degrees
of skill. It’s called
”
Look at me, I’m better than you,
”
a game in which males risk their lives to one-up the guy next to
them, sometimes for the girl but more often just for the glory.
Skate Park gets plenty of use
It’s a game most men and boys have played at some time in their lives. One part machissmo, one part dumb luck, and varying degrees of skill. It’s called “Look at me, I’m better than you,” a game in which males risk their lives to one-up the guy next to them, sometimes for the girl but more often just for the glory.
They race each other in cars, bash each other on the football field, but the game is no better played than while riding concrete waves at a local skate park.
Kids and teens – mostly boys – gather on an almost daily basis at the Hollister Skate Park at Veterans Memorial Park. Here they can soar, flip and speed in ways the human body is not meant to with the help of wheels – and in ways that would make their mothers cringe as signs of safety gear are few and far between.
On a recent afternoon, a group of boys gathered at the park after school. Paul Rodriguez leaped into the air on his skateboard while Aaron Fernandez defied the laws of gravity while getting his bicycle airborne. The boys, and others rode circles around the concrete slabs and metal rails, few of them smiling. The seriousness came from the concentration necessary to keep from crashing down.
It’s a risky game and the challenge comes in doing the next trick, and looking good while you do it. But for every trick that falls short, there is always one more chance tomorrow at the skate park.
