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PART ONE
A Skategeezer Ruminates on Death & Dying
Introduction By Michael Brooke
Millions of articles, books, videos, podcasts and pieces of art are ded- icated to the ideas surrounding death and dying. But I’d wager a large fortune that very few of them give a perspective of death and dying through the lens of a skateboarder. This book aims to do just that — or at least start a conversation or two.
Firstly, I am not an expert in skateboarding, but I enjoy it immensely. I’ve been joyfully riding since 1975 and pride myself on riding all types of terrain with all types of boards. I enjoy street, vert, transition, longboarding, and freestyle and I’ll even run slalom cones. My journey writing about skateboarding started in 1995 with this article: www.dansworld.com/michael.html
Dansworld was one of the first websites on skateboarding and I was fortunate to be able to write about my experiences. Full disclosure: I got the date wrong (I started riding in 1975, not 1976), but everything else is spot on. The site in- spired me to create my own website. I called it The SkateGeezer Homepage. It aimed to publicize older skateboarders and get them thinking about the nos- talgic side of riding. Visit the page, if you dare, but I warn you, the graphics are pretty brutal. Then again what do you expect, it was created over 25 years ago! www.interlog.com/~mbrooke/skategeezer.html
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