Surfing To Skateboarding
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Surfing To Skateboarding
Tony Alva (Pro Skateboarder) gives expert video advice on: How do skateboarding and surfing relate to each other?; What type of skateboarding is most like surfing?; How many pro surfers turn into pro skateboarders?
How do skateboarding and surfing relate to each other?
Usually because it's a board sport, first and foremost, but the thing is with surfing is that there's a certain style that comes from surfing that looks beautiful when you incorporate it into skateboarding too. You know because it just has that smooth like, you make things, its grace under pressure. It's like where you're in an intense situation and you make it look easy. So that's the thing that crosses over from surfing. The thing about surfing is though, that, you've got to be in better shape, you got to be, there's conditioning in surfing that skateboarders don't have, they just don't have it.
What type of skateboarding is most like surfing?
Skating in pools and stuff is the most like surfing, by far. Now days, with the skateparks and everything that's happening, skateparks are a lot like surfing too.
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