Free your soul: spread your wings and grind

I just don’t understand how people can go through life without a passion. Something that burns inside of them, something that they can’t get off of their mind. I believe to get through this game we call life that you need something that consumes you. For me that passion is skateboarding. Skateboarding has been in my life since I was 6 years old when I got my first skateboard. It was a Brent Atchley Element pro model. I remember that board so much. I used to ride around my driveway on it because that’s pretty much all I could even do.

Over the years after getting that first skateboard I got more and more as I went through them. I had found a passion, something that I just loved so much that I couldn’t get it off of my mind. Fast forward to 2016 and here I am still skateboarding with the same guys that I have since 6th grade. Our skate crew consists of about 10 guys that we skate with all the time. We have become life long friends through something as simple as riding a piece of wood with wheels. When we aren’t laughing during a session, we are filming for our next YouTube video.

Skateboarding in my mind is good for the soul and can change peoples lives. I have seen skateboarding raise money for charity’s, get people motivated for life and even help people stop using drugs. When you have a passion like skateboarding it consumes you. Every skateboard shares a common bond. When you walk past someone with shoe with holes in it you just know that they skate. Skateboarders know the battles that you have to go through to get your trick. How it can take hours on end just to land a single trick on film. Being a skateboarder is a life style.

Without skateboarding I don’t know where I would be today. I could be into drugs and have nothing to do with my time. I think skateboarding has steered my life in a good direction and helped me create life long friends that I will never lose. Skateboarding is my passion.

Advocate Staff