Why Skateboarders Are Criminals

Video games have been around for many years and so has competitive gaming. The first video game was created around 1970 and was Pong. Pong required one or two players to play. The players would play next to each other and the game required both players to move the courser to the ball and knock in to the other player’s side. Pong was the first competitive video game because you could play with another person. The video game industry now is a very big market and is suspected to be an 86 billion dollar industry in 2016 (A Classification Of Business Models In Video Game Industry). For the past couple of years video competitions have gotten really popular and now there is a franchise called eSports that hosts gaming competitions in big areas. “The past several year’s eSports have seen meteoric growth in dozens of markets, attracting tens of millions of viewers each year in the United States, alone” (Hollist). Esports is made up of many different games and each game has different teams that specialize in the game that they are competing in. E-Sports 89 million viewers in 2014 and is suspected to grow to 145 million in 2017. ("Red Bull Media Readies ESports Studio for Prime Time."). Competitive gaming should be recognized as a sport because each team has a sponsor. The sponsors pay for all associated costs of the player’s gaming including, but not limited to, plane tickets, hotel rooms, and food. In return the teams have to wear the

Now before I jump into this essay, I will first give you a background on the history of the sport. The original concept that the snowboard is based upon is the “snurfer”. Developed on Christmas Day, 1965 by Sherman Poppen in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1968, Tom Sims furthered the sport by developing the very first snowboard. Then in 1977 Jake Burton Carpenter developed the first bindings and changed the sport forever.

While every gaming company is drowning in the money their violent video games bring in, there's people and or kids who are doing or are at risk of doing the violent actions in video games. Violent video games have extremely improved in how they look in the past years, like if people look at the graphics of an old PlayStation 2 system and compare it to a PlayStation 4 systems graphics there's a huge difference. With that big difference we got the new generation of gaming looking as it would in real life so people or kids in a matter of fact that are looking at this and thinking, “ dang this is cool I wonder if I could do this outside”. The reason for this is because the amount of gore or violent acts that people have at their disposal in the game such as Grand Theft Auto 5, where the character

Skateboarding has been around since 1944. Initially, created as a crate with wheels and a bar used as a handle bar, the idea was slowly being more refined. Woman’s Army Corps Betty Magnuson, reported seeing French children riding on wooden boards with rollerblade wheels attached to them which would imply that the idea has been played around with but never capitalized upon. From crate boxes with handle bars, to popsicle shaped boards with specialty made wheels backed with a massive culture, skateboarding has become a popular industry.

Snowboarding has an amazing background and explanation of how it came to be. It all started with the people who surfed and skateboarded. They wanted something similar to do in the winter. Sherman Poppen was the creator of the snurfer (an early snowboard) in 1965. Sherman was one of the skateboarders who wanted to surf but lived in Michigan. One day he nailed two skis together and attached a rope with a handle to the front thus creating the snurfer. Sherman then called his friends, who were engineers for the Brunswick Corporation and asked them to make some of the snurfers. The Brunswick Corporation made skis, bowling balls, bowling alleys, and bowling pins. The snurfer took the world by storm, but people wanted a safe way to ride. Eventually Jake Burton Carpenter started making a new model called the ski board and this was the first company for snowboards. Jake Burton was a Stockbroker who fell in love with snowboarding and decided to take the risk and start making them. He became the founder of the

When Black Soberanis from the Robert Morris University eSports varsity team first heard that he could go to college and get a scholarship for playing video games, he said he thought it was a scam. It was hard to believe that he could join an eSports team, and get a scholarship for it. Video games being considered sports was only a fairly new thing going on, and getting a scholarship for it didn’t seem real. When Rachel Zurawski heard from her father the same news Soberanis had heard, she didn’t know what to think either. They both joined the team and was a part of the first Varsity eSports team, and they soon began to be considered real athletes while on the team. You would think that being a video game team is easy, but Alex Chapman, another

Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater. Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. Skateboarding is relatively modern.

As the hockey skate market matures and becomes more concentrated with a few large competitors (Exhibit 6),

Young kids will be encouraged like other kids in other sports to play lacrosse. The reason most kids are wanting to play popular sports is because they can see people and be encouraged by them. People who are young lacrosse players want to go to a game but they never know where to find one because people don’t know where they are played. Lacrosse should be a professional sport because it is dominating with popularity and the population is increasing fast. Many quotes are stated to build up the encouragement like “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to achieve uncommon results.” this quote tells young players that they can be better than they ever thought they could be. This proves young kids in the world will

Youth sports are popular activities for American children and their parents. They give the kids an outlet for restless energy, and parents somewhere to send restless kids: outside. These activities are so popular, in fact, that according to Jay Atkinson in an article for the Boston Globe, “a total of about 45 million [American] kids” play at least one organized sport each year, mostly at the behest of their parents (“How Parents Are Ruining Youth Sports”). Those of us who are thirty and older may have memories of long, summer days spent at local parks, fields, pools, and courts where we enjoyed the freedoms of child’s play without much parental involvement. Youngsters today are not nearly as free to play as past generations were because parents

Bored Americans who had way too much time on their hands created snowboarding. In the decade of the ‘60s, snowboarding was born, getting more interesting as skateboarders and surfers joined the early developers of the sport. As the sport gained popularity, it also gained it’s haters- mainly skiers.

Learning to skateboard was never easy for me. I’ve never been a real balanced or coordinated person so skateboarding was like trying to learn the meaning to the film “Inception”. Even though I was never delighted to hop back on a piece of wood on wheels called a “skateboard” I was determined to learn; time and time again I fell but getting back up is what mattered. Now I’m like a surfer hitting that wave he’s been waiting for his whole life. Now if I’m not on my board I’m on my bike. Skating is now one of the easiest things I do nowadays. I’ve been skating for almost 6 years now and will continue to skate until I simply

Due to negative connotations, Skateboarders are looked upon as lawbreakers and trespassers. Police officers do not show the least amount of remorse to this lifestyle. Skate parks in towns and cities are scarce. This enables skaters to find other spots due to the lack of effort shown to have made more skate parks. Skateboarders are often categorized and labeled as reckless vandals. This accusation must be reconsidered because statistics show officers use excessive force, Injury Surveillance Systems show eye-opening results of skateboarding injuries compared to other sports, and how skate laws desperately need revisions due to the vagueness of the rules we need to stand by. Now, skaters stand up to defend their lifestyle, hobby, addiction and

One day i was late to school and the only option was my brothers skateboard. At the time I didn’t know how to ride a skateboard or let alone know how to do tricks on it. I ended up skating to school. I fell a couple of times but I made it to school with some scrapes and bruises. After that i skated everyday just to make sure i wouldn't fall like the last time. After a couple of weeks I got the hang of it and started doing tricks on it. Unfortunately, the first have my skateboard there so i can skate to school and not be late. Even though I fell and it may have seemed bad that I fell off the skateboard, I learned how to skate which was a ¨blessing in disguise¨. Another quote that can be related to this scenario is ¨Learn from your mistakes¨.

The video game industry is a multibillion dollar a year industry, so it isn't hard to understand why they go through great strides to protect their image. They provide entertainment to all ages, genders, nationalities, and ethnicities. Contrary to the opinions of the industries opponents, video games are not destroying our youth, they challenge, educate, and provide an escape from an oppressive world.