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I don't consider skateboarding a sport.

I don't consider skateboarding a sport.

It's another path of life. A way up to live.

You end up doing it. There's no reason you're not after something tangible in the sense of like a trophy or monetary gain or anything.

That's not why most skateboard has ever skated to begin with.

It's not any of that.

There's some sort of self-fulfillment that you get from it and a sense of peace. It's not like a sport. There's not these

rules and regulations. You don't need a number, you don't need a team, you don't need other people

to do it. You don't need a coach, you don't need anything. It's none of that. It's something very different.

It stops the gears from grinding, the constant thought, or even, you know, the daily

stresses of life. It truly is therapeutic in that way completely. I'm trying to keep my

sanity is what it really comes down to. When you're skating you're not necessarily

aware or conscious of what it is in that moment exactly that you're doing.

It's not like you're thinking when you're skateboarding.

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