extreme sport

[Pedro Gallego]

I know many other extreme sports such as surfing, kite surfing, canoening, working in a school (joke), windsurfing, snowboarding, parasailing, rock climbing and many others. Except working in a school, none of them I consider them dangerous. It all depends on the awareness of your own limitations and knowledge of the sport in question. I have practiced skate since I was 8 years old and although it is true that I have broken three bones, I don´t consider it dangerous as I said before. Everything is quite relative. There are many reasons why I started skating but perhaps the most important is the feeling of freedom that it gives you. It seems that you are in a separate world where, there are no rules, there are no limitations of space or time. On the other hand, he taught me great values ​​such as perseverance, effort and the understanding that failure (when a trick does not come out) is not a bad thing but the means to improve continuously. He taught me the value of friendship because the skating community always integrates you whoever you are, wherever you come from and has allowed me to discover other places (with the excuse of skating) and learning from the culture of other people and environments. The skating allows you to vent your furies, your frustrations, also your joys, establishing a dialogue with yourself and with the world that really allows you to know yourself better as a human being. In short, it allows you to express yourself as a musician would do with his piano, a writer with his poem or a dancer with his dance. A art and a way of living.