Whoever made this is my new best friend. lol I'm already seeing a surge in job listings, although in my industry its primarily due to Trump's ending of H1B visas. Keep up the good work! This is the first time I've ever actually voted for a mainstream president who actually won. Its weird seeing a President doing things I actually voted for him to do. To borrow one of Reddit's favorite retard buzzwords, the Democratic party has been "co-opted" by communists and foreign nationals. Removing all the illegals Biden allowed to pour across our borders in order to stack the House of Representatives with more communists is the first step in taking our country back! First we get illegals the fuck out of here. Then we restructure social services to stop favoring non-citizens at the expense of the rest of us. Then we put limitations on who can serve in political offices (ie: must have been born in US with both parents born in US) to ensure that those who serve our countr...
"Thank you for taking what I did, and doing what I could have never imaged." - Rodney Mullen
We found an interview from The Berrics with professional skateboarder Rodney Mullen discussing resiliency, falling down, and picking yourself up again. He also talks about the gratitude he shares with the skateboarding community through the contributions of everyone, and the joy he feels when the next generation of skateboarders approach him
to thank him for doing what he did. Rodney in turn says, "thank you." "It comes from an ethos of sharing and feeling connected with people through what you do... and that's not something that's often taught."
"Skateboarding changes you in ways that you could never essentially try or go learn in a few sessions. It comes from years and years of getting back up. It changes you from inside." Rodney Mullen is often considered "The Godfather" of street skateboarding. He is credited with inventing a lot of the flip tricks that shaped the sport into what it is today. But he is quick to turn around the kudos by thanking his community for building upon his work and making the community as a whole stronger. "We all find this mutual sense of belonging in shaping a community by what we do. And what we do is we individuate ourselves... I take these elements and I help form myself to separate myself and give it back. And to the rest of the community, grow."
"I think there's something about skating that's special that way." Around 8:36 he talks about the uniqueness and individuality of skateboarders as athletes. "You are on your own. Not only are you on your own... you gotta go through adversity." Noting that skateboarders often lack the supportive "entourage" that comes with playing on a team, and are typically treated like criminals by authority figures. "There's something about that... it bakes into us on a deep level. That helps shape us."
What are your experiences with skateboarding? Does skateboarding help you to express yourself as an individual? Does skateboarding make you feel more or less connected with your community?
