There are many reasons that people skate. One of them is the fact that you can get such a sense of accomplishment from basically a piece of wood, wheels and a turning system. Also its fun, skating at skate parks and street spots with friends for hours on end will keep any true skater happy. The actual feeling of skating, rolling down the sidewalk,  and hearing the wheels roll over the cracks or rolling away clean after doing a backside flip down an 8 stair. However there are people that don’t skate for these reasons. For example if you go to a skate park half the kids you’ll see are there with $250 worth of clothes and a $200 board and also don’t know how to ollie. These are the kids that see other skaters and think they look cool and have lots of friends because they skate. They have their parents go out and buy them a pair of $70 pants because they think people with think they’re cool. Well just because you wear skate clothes doesn’t make you cool. You can where a shirt with big bird on it and a pair of Levi’s and if you skate good you’ll have friends that skate too. That’s the nice thing about skating, nobody cares what you look like or how old you are, you’re only judged on how good you skate.