How Can Skateboarding Help You?
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2023
- Skateboarding has many amazing body and mind benefits - but we too often like to pretend skateboarding is all we need.
However, as we get older and life creates new challenges, skateboarders are not impervious to life’s obstacles. Every now and then, just like rehabbing a skate injury, skaters need help getting back to full mental strength.
Collectively as a community, skateboarding, with the help of some amazing individuals and organizations, is pushing the benefits of skateboarding forward. The community is removing the stigma of asking for help in order to better understand how skateboarding can be used as an auxiliary to strengthen the mind and even as a form of rehab.
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I’m 52. I’m a skater, former skate park owner, and former president of a nonprofit organization to build skate parks I just stopped to say that this is probably one of the best things I’ve seen in a longtime. Epic.
My name is Dylan and I’m a skateboarder, and a recovering heroin addict. My sobriety date is December 13th, 2016. Skateboarding is a form of recovery. We learn from people who do know that they’re talking about and have been doing it forever, we all learn together too. Thrasher Mag and all our videos are like or Big book or basic text. A skatepark session is like a meeting, and street skating is like doing our book work and step work. We take what we learn at the park and bring it to the street. We take what we learn at the meetings and literature and apply it to our life. We fall on our face and get back up, with the support of our peers. I can go on and on. I’m proud to be in recovery and I’m proud to be a skateboarder
Shout out Chad Caruso skating across america and posting daily vlogs RIGHT NOW (summer 2023)!
Struggled with depression for several years. I stopped skating when I got into high school. Picked up skating again at 27, now 30 and it was the best decision of my life. I have made so many friends, so much progress during this time. It was hard getting back to it. Definitely humbling & painful at times but worth every second. ❤ skating
I still cannot believe Ben did it. He was such a happy goofy dude, always smiling… that just shows that even the happiest people have their struggles…
We needed this! I’m about to go to jail for six months and months. Mom can’t figure out why all I wanna do when I get out skateboard and I’m gonna have to be sober as well as I’m so grateful this film is put together and I could find it and show it to her and now she has a totally different mindset of the culture that she’s had since she was young. Thanks y’all!
Without sharing too much detail on the Internet, I’ll just say that I totally identify with this piece. At the very beginning of my 2nd half-century on this planet, I gave myself a mid-life challenge of learning to do something on a skateboard. In a few weeks I celebrate my 4th anniversary of that first skate. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. I had just quit alcohol before that first skate, and I am still alcohol free. I quit the weed about 6 months ago after struggling to quit for many years. I would never put skateboarding above my wife and daughters, but it’s no joke that skateboarding has helped put me above my own struggles and made me available to my family and others in ways that benefit all of us.
I am a 52-year-old skater (yes I can still flip my board) and have been in ACT therapy for 2 years now. I have been working through the trauma of my childhood and have really grown to love how the biggest constant in my life has been skateboarding. I am thankful for this video contributing to the normalization of therapy as a resource for health and well-being. When you buy a car or a motorcycle, learn to fly a plane, or become a doctor, they give you a manual and ask you to read it and learn it. The most complex tool that wrote that material is our brain and we have no manual for it. Every day we work on ourselves through health, mental well-being, exercise, and life focus, we get a little closer to completing a manual for our brains that could make life even better than yesterday. Thank you for this video!
R.I.P Henry Gartland and Ben Raemers, those are the ones i remember, gone too soon due to mental health issues
I'm 30 years old and I can reflect on my time skateboarding in my late teens to mid-twenties as a very beneficial practice for me. I'm compelled to buy a skateboard simply to cruise around in the mornings as part of my morning routine. Be well, everyone! 🛹 ☀️
Started skating 40 years ago.
No matter how bad my problems in life get, for the duration of that skate session, it's all good.
Chad Caruso is currently skating across America for addiction awareness. He's in day like 45 or something. Search his name and follow the journey.
I’m 36 and have only been skating for a couple years, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so free in my life; I’m 3 days sober and I’m trying really hard.
Skateboarding builds an incredible amount of character in everyone who picks up a board
51 years old. I mountain bike. Play Ice Hockey. Climb and Ski mountains...tennis...paddleboard...People only question and confront me when I skateboard. Why would I stop....Thanks for sharing this.
47 and been skating for 35 years (that’s a lot of boards) and loving it exactly like the first day. Nothing else gives that sense of freedom and mental respite. Nothing else.
Awesome! Skateboarding has saved my life on multiple occasions.
I'm a bmx/mtb person at the core. Last year I picked up skating and I'm still learning the fundamentals. But this video brought me to tears. But I recently figured out how to "ollie proper". When the tail snapped off the ground and the wheels had a touch-down landing. I couldn't believe It. was such a euphoric feeling. This video literally brought me to tears. Thank you redbull for creating this. We need more of this.