How Skateboarding Saved My Life

David gonzalez how skateboarding saved my life rolling stone magazine speaks to david gonzalez.

How skateboarding saved my life. I tried so many other sports tennis basketball dance gymnastics and i had always been told that i couldn t keep up or make it in other sports and hobbies. I don t want anyone to come and tell me how i should skate or what to do with my life. Meet kyle ruerat a positive skateboarder out of michigan who shares his story about his battle with mental illnesses and how skateboarding helped him get through it. No style that had to be measured.

When i asked casey to do this project with me i thought for sure he d turn me down. Skateboarding saved my life because it is the only thing i have fully enjoyed and have gave my all. Skateboarding is set to debut in the olympics in 2020 but for many around cardiff it is more than a sport it is a way of life. How skateboarding saved david gonzalez.

It was completely opposite of what i saw in so many sports. This is my story of how i got into skateboarding how it changed my perspective on things and how it literally saved my life. Any canadians remember that what s your. It almost added a different element to my life and made it make a little more sense and made it almost easier to go through what i went through.

Casey let the skidmark c. He takes one glance on the curb and goes back to when he was 14 and homeless skating his way through teenage. I occasionally stop to walk circles around my board alternating my gaze from the board to the pavement ahead of me as i try to push my thoughts away. For more follow.

I feel like if i didn t have skateboarding it would ve been a very unpleasant which it was but a little less off the shoulders for me. Four wheels on a wooden board three puffs down his two legs jostle to make this one grown man stand upright. By michael loranger 05 august 2015 2 30 pm i fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual. Interesting interview with flip skateboard s own david gonzalez courtesy of rolling stone magazine.

2013 marked many big moments in my life the end of a nearly 5 year relationship the beginning of dealing with my anxiety and taking medication to curb it and finally realizing what i really want in life. It keeps me active and challenges my mind and my body. Skateboarding saved my life. Skateboarding was a tool in it.

They saved my life.