To skateboard is to see the world as a challenge, a series of obstacles to overcome, a new terrain to master. You read curbs as a dare. A staircase? A hill? Let's go. You fall and you get up and you fall again, an endless loop of pain and frustration until, finally, elation. You miss and you miss and you miss until at long last you hit the landing and that feeling—that feeling of beating the odds—will have you chasing it all over again no matter how many times you go down in the process.
