Skateboarding Informative Speech

Whether you were traveling past your local skatepark or even around town, you have probably seen an individual or group skateboarding. They may catch your eye when they’re preparing for a trick, while in your mind you think “ Don’t hurt yourself kid.” As a skateboarder for seven long years full of time and effort put into the activity, I have witnessed many first hand experiences of the way non-skaters may feel negative about and/or stereotype members of the skateboarding community. It is not necessarily that these individuals’ are wrong for thinking this way, however, they most likely are not informed about the history of skateboarding along with the many possible benefits of skateboarding. Skateboarding is an inexpensive, entertaining, and safe way to have fun and build friendships amongst a community. Understanding the history of skateboarding can be more difficult than you might assume, this is primarily because people have claimed to be the first
Yes, I said sport. Some people do not recognize skateboarding as a sport, however it has been stated that skateboarding will be in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Tokyo 2020 President Yoshiro Mori said, “The inclusion of the package of new sports will afford young athletes the chance of a lifetime to realise their dreams of competing in the Olympic Games – the world's greatest sporting stage – and inspire them to achieve their best, both in sport and in life.” (Olympic.org) With that being said, I feel it is safe to say skateboarding may have a bigger future than most people expect. What else could come with the future of skateboarding? We live in an age where technology has developed incredibly, with this development we have the chance to use Virtual Reality equipments. In 2015 The Discovery Network announced that they were launching Discovery VR, one of the videos they uploaded being “Freeboarding: San