Skater’s Strife
By EVAN GLOGOWSKI
5.8 million children younger than 19 have taken up skateboarding, far more than participate in sports like tackle football and ice hockey. Skateboarding is more mainstream than you think, it's no longer the outcast sport that it used to be. With skateboarding rising in popularity at Animas, the more the skateboarders need a better place to skate on campus.
With the massive growth of skateboarding more schools and locations around the world have started supporting it. The New York Times has noticed how skateboarding has changed, “Instead of mere transportation, skateboarding has become more of a sport, particularly in the wake of X-Games sponsored by ESPN and advocacy by Tony Hawk, the skateboard trickster from California.” -NY Times.
The skateboarding community at Animas High School has grown with this new school year, freshmen to seniors have started skating. This huge growth of skateboarding isn't just local to Animas or the U.S, Japan is seeing just as much growth in the sport following the official announcement of the 2020 Tokyo skateboarding olympics. The Japan News has reported on this, “More and more people are taking up skateboarding, which was added to the list of new sports for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Skateboarding parks, exclusively for that purpose have been built in many parts of the nation, and they are full of people including women and families. They have flat floors made of concrete, crooked slopes, uneven floor spaces and other features”.
Japan has started building skateparks around the nation for their growing skate community, Animas should look into finding a space for skateboarders to skate safely. A spot that is not in the middle of a busy drop-off and pick-up zone.
The idea I propose is to clear more of the gravel near the senior parking area and turn it into a place where Animas skateboarders can skate. The biggest concern to skateboarders would be traffic or damage to vehicles from skateboarding, but if the gravel is cleared further back then the those risks can be avoided.
The majority of skateboarding injuries occur on the arms or limbs, particularly when you fall on an out stretched limb, but most Skateboarding fatalities occur on a busy road when there's traffic. With a proposed new skate area at animas with necessary support from the school, the school won't look bad from a skateboarding-traffic related injury, and the students will have a better and safer place to practice skateboarding.
By EVAN GLOGOWSKI
5.8 million children younger than 19 have taken up skateboarding, far more than participate in sports like tackle football and ice hockey. Skateboarding is more mainstream than you think, it's no longer the outcast sport that it used to be. With skateboarding rising in popularity at Animas, the more the skateboarders need a better place to skate on campus.
With the massive growth of skateboarding more schools and locations around the world have started supporting it. The New York Times has noticed how skateboarding has changed, “Instead of mere transportation, skateboarding has become more of a sport, particularly in the wake of X-Games sponsored by ESPN and advocacy by Tony Hawk, the skateboard trickster from California.” -NY Times.
The skateboarding community at Animas High School has grown with this new school year, freshmen to seniors have started skating. This huge growth of skateboarding isn't just local to Animas or the U.S, Japan is seeing just as much growth in the sport following the official announcement of the 2020 Tokyo skateboarding olympics. The Japan News has reported on this, “More and more people are taking up skateboarding, which was added to the list of new sports for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Skateboarding parks, exclusively for that purpose have been built in many parts of the nation, and they are full of people including women and families. They have flat floors made of concrete, crooked slopes, uneven floor spaces and other features”.
Japan has started building skateparks around the nation for their growing skate community, Animas should look into finding a space for skateboarders to skate safely. A spot that is not in the middle of a busy drop-off and pick-up zone.
The idea I propose is to clear more of the gravel near the senior parking area and turn it into a place where Animas skateboarders can skate. The biggest concern to skateboarders would be traffic or damage to vehicles from skateboarding, but if the gravel is cleared further back then the those risks can be avoided.
The majority of skateboarding injuries occur on the arms or limbs, particularly when you fall on an out stretched limb, but most Skateboarding fatalities occur on a busy road when there's traffic. With a proposed new skate area at animas with necessary support from the school, the school won't look bad from a skateboarding-traffic related injury, and the students will have a better and safer place to practice skateboarding.