The Alchemy Indoor Skate Park and Education Center team frequently holds conversations about the benefits of skateboarding for youth and adults in the Tacoma area. Here are 5 good reasons to invest in an Indoor Skate Park & Education Center in Tacoma.
1. Work Ethic
Skate boarding naturally encourages a strong work ethic. A skate boarder will try time and time again until they can finally get the trick right. It could take 10 tries; it could take 100 tries of crashing and failing. Children are practicing again and again, falling down; failing, picking themselves back up and doing it again until they have mastered the trick. They gain new skills and achieve their goals by learning from their repeated failures: a vital process in learning.
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Jerry Seinfield and Chris Rock, in Cars Getting Coffee, said it right “One of the great activities is skateboarding, to learn to do a skateboarding trick. How many times do you have to do something wrong before you get it right. You keep falling and get up........you learn a skateboard trick, now you have a life lesson. When ever I see a skateboard kid, I think to myself, those kids will be alright.” (http://www.crackle.com/c/comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee, 11:20).
2. Education
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The activity of skateboarding teaches several lessons. The sport involves architecture, mathematics, and physics. For example, skateboarders benefit from an understanding of the physics of skateboarding when they execute tricks and jumps. It allows them to identify those key physics principles enabling them to properly execute certain moves, which is useful from a performance point of view (real-world-physics-problems.com). To learn more watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfo17ikSpY
3. Physical Fitness
The physical activity skateboarding entails makes it a moderately intense aerobic activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether you're performing daring tricks or cruising down the sidewalk, skateboarding burns calories improving your health and balance. If you're interested in incorporating skateboarding into your exercise regimen, choose the type of board that works best for your fitness goals. For example, some people might require a trick skateboard in order to perform freestyle moves, while others might prefer a skateboard designed for coasting (www.livestrong.com).
4. Urban Development
The skateboard culture has a unique ability to re-use the un-used urban spaces in a creative and innovative way. By finding a use for abandoned or out of the way, un-used space or objects is an incredibly creative way to bring life into a city. These are untapped resources just waiting to be recycled. Skateboarders by their very nature are Urban Developers. The ability to adapt any concrete area into a thriving skate spot is impressive from an urban development point of view Edmond Bacon, Urban Planner, Freedom of space, Fuel TV).
Skateboarders can recycle and breathe life into every day, useless artifacts and can be a vital element in developing a thriving community – cementing the bridge between youth and community. They can learn through acceptance and guidance, how to employ the handiwork of the corporate structure in a multitude of ways that the original architects could never have dreamed possible. (Craig Stecyk, Lords of Dog Town Documentary 2001)
5. Rain
While Tacoma has skate parks available for skateboarders to cultivate their craft, not one of these parks is covered. This means that when it rains, which it does approximately 155 days out of the year[1], there is nowhere for them to go. This also means that on those rare sunny days, skaters tend to prioritize the chance to skate over other responsibilities, such as going to class.
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[1] According to: http://www.clrsearch.com/Tacoma-Demographics/WA/98403/Weather-Forecast-Temperature-Precipitation