Street Skateboarding Argumentative Essay

“You might make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more not happiness there than being rich or famous.” - Tony Hawk. Skateboarding is a really fun sport, but it happens to be very hard but like Tony Hawk said You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness. In my case I feel like the one who is having the most fun is the best skateboarder. Street Skateboarding is hard, Vert Skateboarding is dangerous, and longboarding is fun. Street Skateboarding is hard because you have to to do specific hard motions with your front foot while doing a ollie to do a flat trick. Next in Street Skateboarding you can jump down stairs. Depending on how big the stairs get, the difficulty gets harder. The world record for how many stairs where ever jumped was 20 stairs at a famous place called El Torro.

Finally in Street skateboarding you can grind rails and this is difficult because it takes a lot of guts and the reason for that is you have to worry about falling on the rail on your back or anything like that. As you can see Street Skateboarding is pretty difficult.

First Vert Skateboarding is dangerous because you always have to worry about falling and my reason for that is because how would you like to drop onto a 20 foot vert ramp on a skateboard and fall. My second reason Vert Skateboarding is dangerous is because you can get seriously injured. For example, Jake brown, a pro vert skateboarder went up a vert ramp, went 20 feet in the air plus the ramp so he went 50 feet in the air and fell on the floor. My final reason why Vert Skateboarding is dangerous is because if you take a hard enough fall you might not walk again for example, again when Jake brown did that 50 foot drop he got paralyzed. This shows that Vert Skateboarding is