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gravity's a tax, and the skater's whole life is sweet, defiant evasion
means To glide smoothly over a surface on blades or wheels strapped to your feet — or, figuratively, to slide past difficulty with effortless, sometimes lucky, ease.
from From the Dutch 'schaats,' meaning a skate or stilt, which itself came from Old North French 'escache' (a stilt or trestle) — likely a cousin of words for 'leg' and 'support.' Dutch settlers and traders brought both the contraption and the word to English speakers, and curiously the Dutch 'schaats' was already a singular form that English ears mistook for a plural, then trimmed back to a single 'skate.' The slippery fish called a skate is unrelated, arriving instead from the Old Norse 'skata.'
- flightless winged fish
- the skate is also a flat ocean ray
- ollie origin
- Alan Gelfand invented it in 1978 pools
- egg purses
- skate eggs wash ashore as mermaid's purses
- olympic late bloomer
- skateboarding debuted only at Tokyo 2020
- failure economy
- mastery means falling thousands of times first
tony hawk's 900 — first aerial trick landing, 1999, x games best trick
street league skateboarding — professional competition series founded 2010, $13m prize pool
love park philadelphia — iconic concrete plaza, hosted legendary contests before 2006 renovation
rodney mullen kickflip — invented the trick in 1982, transformed modern skateboarding