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Skateboarding as social practice

by Taryn Allen

An average spectator might observe a skateboarder as nothing but a person on wheels; they see an athlete"or a delinquent, maybe"pushing and coasting and jumping ("How does the board stick to the bottom of their feet?"), there one minute and gone the next. But from the rider's perspective, the world is transforming around them. Minute […] The post Skateboarding as social practice appeared first on Chicago Reader.

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:52pm on June 1, 2022