4. Walking Around And Spotting Things That Youd Love To Skate
The streets are your canvas. As you walk the city streets you might gaze upon a perfect marble ledge, or perhaps youll spy a stair set that is just begging to be leapt down. Ordinary people walk past these things without a care in the world. Skaters are different. They have a creative flair which leads them to see the world slightly differently. Just look at the Southbank Undercroft in London. It wasnt designed as a skate park, but skaters have made it their own. Skaters have used it and shaped it in a way that no other group of people could. They have used the space for decades, and the vehement opposition against plans to remove the space led to an amazing organised protest, lasting months and finally winning, ensuring that the space will be preserved. Skaters dont need skate parks and obstacles to be built for them; they make ordinary things extraordinary by using them in unique ways. Whether its jumping down stairs, grinding a ledge or trying to clear a gap, skaters will always find some way to skate things which were not designed to be skated.
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