Last Saturday I took Nate and a friend to Skateboard Park of Greenville, SPOG for short. It was the third time Nate had been to such a place. I was really impressed with how well Nate can actually skate. All I had ever seem him do was ride in the driveway but when he had ramps and flat spaces and lots of room, he really did well.
Spartanburg is about to open it's first park which will be outdoors. That will be a lot different from the indoor park but that will still give Nate a close place to practice. He really wants to learn to do a lot of tricks. I think his problem right now is not staying with a particular trick long enough. When he doesn't get it after 10 or 15 tries, he starts on another one. Some of the tricks are really hard. At the park we watched some of the big guys try the rails or jumping steps over and over and still not accomplishing it so I think that helped Nate see that everyone has to really work at what they are doing.
I talked to one mom who had brought her son up from Canton GA for the competition they were having. He was 15 and started skating when he was 10. It took him 5 years to get good enough to be sponsored by his skatepark. I think that encouraged Nate too...to know it might take a long time to accomplish his goals.
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