English
Autobiography
October 3, 2012
I was with my cousin one day because my grandparents were at a dance for our church. They had to let me stay with someone so they chose my cousin Jason, the best cousin in the world. When my cousin and I were talking about the approaching summer and what we would do, Jason came over to me and said, ‘ I have a surprise for you about what we would do this summer .’
Right after he finished sentence he ran to the garage and pulled out the one object that changed all my video, hobby, and picture search ideas. For the next year all I watched, searched and did was a very long skateboard with big wheels, ( a.k.a ) the one and only longboard. Every day I would go outside and longboard, doing my tricks and slides. I would get hurt often and get scabs, scars, rips and tears on my clothing and skin, while also getting blisters, cut up brusied hands, but I did it for the love of longboarding.
Most people have their own hobbies like fishing, chess, basket ball, baseball or soccer, but I have my very own unique one. I like to make own longboards so I can put my own curve and flex. Every longboarder has their own preference.
The reason I make longboards is because when I was ten I wasn’t aloud to get one. My grandpa thought they were dangerous because I was riding a skate board one day and I fell while doing a trick and broke my foot. That happened on my grandpas birthday well, you are probably thinking that It was a broken foot, but it wasn’t. When I broke that foot I snapped and splintered three bones, also putting then out of alignment. There was a solution for this, but I didn’t like it. I had to have surgery to put the bones back so they would heel right. If it didn’t I would I would be crippled. I was out of school for three months and I lost a lot of education. Because of this horrible accident my grandpa never bought me a longboard, but he said I could make one. He did this because he thought that I