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Archive Home > 2005 > March > 23 > sk8erboiz(andgirl)a

sk8erboiz(andgirl)a

In which our 26-year-old sportswriter joins a beginners' camp and learns how to fall off a skateboard


March 23, 2005

fter watching me fall on my rear end for the third consecutive time, one overly perceptive youngster approached me.

"Is this your first time skating here?" he asked.

Indeed it was. And why my first time in a skatepark was spent with a camp of first- through fifth-graders is beyond me.....

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