A Beginner’s Guide to Skateboarding Safety Gear
Skateboarding is a form of recreation, or a sport, where a person stands, rides and balances on a board with wheels. It’s categorised as an extreme sport, but it gains more and more popularity, especially among young people. According to the current ranking, skateboarding is the 6th most popular sport in the world. But its name wasn’t always skateboarding. People called it “sidewalk surfing” because they were mimicking the techniques of surfers on land. Today, we have around 20 million skateboarders all over the world, and this is a number that increases each day. Even though we have more than 100,000 skateboarding injuries every year, skateboarders are passionate and don’t give up so easily. The most important thing is to wear your safety gear because it lowers the chances of getting injured to 40%.
