Skating the Olympics

Let me tell you about one event that helped skateboarding as a discipline to be more considered in society and erase the prejudgment of it as a “crime”: When skateboarding was introduced into the Olympics. I got informed when I read it on http://www.elpatin.com/confirmado-el-skate-sera-olimpico-en-tokyo-2020/ and I think this event and news tried to change the vision of the non-skaters toward us, the skaters: Now skateboarding will no longer be considered as a game nor, on the other side, as vandalism, now that it is the Olympics is and “official” sport. I know it is a little bit bitter that this is a good fact because our roots are on the streets skating the spots, but it is impossible to deny that this are good news for skateboarding. In a way we are permitted to skate in the streets as it is permitted to jog or ride a bike, and even better and as an official sport it gets more promoted and popular, and popularity results in more investment in it which helps to construct good skateparks. This give us more places to do what we love and more importantly incentive me through the career I’m studying to specialize in architecture for skaters, by master the designing and planning of skateparks and big open parks with ledges and rails; this is for skaters to relate with the city and the society. So, this event benefits skateboarding and help it to be more recognized as a discipline and opens an area to be explored in aquiculture.

Professional skateboarder

Everyone has wishes, that through life may come true, but let not get confuse between dreams as aims and goals with dreams as caprices. Well since I was a kid I have aimed to become a professional skater but since life is life I have no more the opportunity to achieve that goal at my age even though I’m still young and got skills, so this goal has turned into a caprice in the good sense. Almost every day I imagine myself as a professional skateboarder doing what I love for a living, meeting different skaters and people, traveling through the world in order to go visit different spots to skate and having fun. If I was a professional skateboarder, I imagine myself hanging out in the streets with the homies drinking beers and skating together till I can’t stand. It would be a perfect life waking up in the morning with no other labor responsibilities than go to skate with the people that enjoy it as much as you, sponsor by skateboard companies which provides you the latest products and also getting paid for doing this. I wouldn’t like to be someone else I would have liked to have the right opportunities in the right moment in order to be now in the present a professional skateboarder. That is why it is only a caprice disguised as a dream which doesn’t affect me so much because skateboarding is to have fun.

Here I live you some links of what professional skateboarders are able to do. It´s amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QytESxGgyWs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYLJwt1-H_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8TygCBZy1U

Dreaming awaken

I think is early to talk about what I’m going to do after I finish studying Architecture, if I´m able to do it, but I’ll admit I have thought about it several times. Nobody knows what will happen in the future days but is fun to try to imagine yourself in different contexts and/or situations that could happen. That is why I´m aiming that when I finally graduate from the university as an Architect, I’ll be able to dedicate myself to work freely on my workshop experimenting, constructing, and creating. I don’t imagine myself as a sculptor, I’ll rather call it as an inventor. I don´t know what specifically I would like to do in that utopian work, that is why it is only a thought also a very hard and difficult goal to reach and several years of experience is needed. I´m not still certain about my future and what I would like to do and also be able to do in those future days, I’m not interested at the moment about any other career and I think I’ll not be interested either in the future, but like I said nobody is able to know what will or what will not happen in life, it is uncertain, but it is a fun exercise to think of you in the future.

Close your eyes and think, but don't fall asleep.

Plans?

Since when I was eleven years’ old my dream has been becoming a professional skateboarder, but due to many factors in my life I know it is only a dream. That is not a bad thing, in fact it makes me work harder to become a better skater, but I´m realistic. This is why I´m studying a career in order to be able to live a comfortable life in the future. Although this is my first year I´m getting very sure that Architecture is the career where I fit in the most, and until know I am enjoying it very much beside not sleeping and redoing works every time. I´m not still very informed on what specializations can I develop on this career, but through time I will get familiar with one, I hope. But there is one thing I would like to do as an Architect that I’m sure right now and it corresponds on designing skateparks. Through the relation I have with both I think I could do very interesting and fun stuff for skaters in Chile and hopefully in other countries. That is how I plan to be my work in the future among obviously other projects, but mainly working on things I like, that seems to be a recipe for prosperity.

Here I leave you some interesting skateparks worldwide for you to check their plans and structure.

https://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/category/skatepark