ALL ABOUT ME

I first fell in love with skateboarding when I was very little probably the age of 3 years old i would sit on it and ride it down the sidewalk. When I would do this I would be at my grandfathers apartment. My aunt would teach me different things to do on the skateboard and how to ride it on the weekends when I would go to visit. The first time I had ever experienced skateboarding was when I saw these older kids skateboarding around my paps neighborhood and it looked like they were having so much fun trying to jump off this ramp they build and I just kept thinking that it was so cool to fly off that ramp and one day I myself could do that. My Aunt had a skateboard that she got when she was little and decided that it was time to teach me how to have fun and ride a skateboard. After watching those kids on there boards my life evolved around skateboarding its all I could think of in school and now even to this day I think of skateboarding everyday. If I see a set of stairs I think about what trick I might be able to do down them or if I see a curb how inivative can I become with a trick sliding or grinding across the curb. I find myself now taking classes so that I may have a job that has something to do with skateboarding. I have a job where I work with skateboards and help kids who were once like me pick out their first skateboards and help them to have fun. I work at a skateboard shop in white Oak Pennsylvania. Who would have thought just seeing older kids who seemed so cool when I was little would change my life forever. Since I Started to get better and better at skateboarding I entered contests some of them I would loose but some of them I would place in. The one contest was in september of 2004 it was the last contest held at PA Cheap Skates I felt I had to do good all my friends were there and I was having so much fun and once i Realized what tricks I was doing in my runs It was the perfect day I placed 2nd and at the end of the day it wouldnt have mattered if I had placed last.