Sport, progress, well-being. Your regular meeting point beyond skateboarding.
We are launching a podcast (see below). But before introducing it, it is important to tell you why.
We all agree that skateboarding is a more difficult sport than average, physically and mentally. It's a sport, an art, a way of life, a fashion... It's very hard to put it in one box.
We’ve been teaching skateboarding since over 17 years and have supported several thousand people through skateboarding. We work with children, adults, girls and boys, professionals and beginners. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about life throughteaching and practicing it.
Skateboarding is for us a school of life
On the one hand, it teaches us to fall, get back up, persevere and enjoy the process.
On the other hand, it teaches us to head out freely and simply enjoy a relaxed session with friends and a little beer in the sun.
Skateboarding teaches us balance, both literally and in a broader sense. Balance in life, a little like yin and yang, left and right, big and small, black and white, good and bad… An important balance for anyone who wants to live a successful, balanced, peaceful and happy life.
Skateboarding vs sport
I hear you: you're probably thinking that all sports teach life lessons, and you're right! But skateboarding probably has something extra to teach, because it's a very difficult sport, both when you start and as you continue.
It takes plenty of falls, failed attempts, impacts and knocks to land your first tricks. And that is only the beginning.
Do you know many sports where you fail and fall more often than you succeed? Where those falls often hurt and happen on hard ground? That difficulty comes with an exceptional need to coordinate your body in space. Your legs have to control an object to perform complex, risky movements. The object isn't attached to you and it isn't magic: the skater has to work out for themselves how to make the board jump and do those incredible things. Who's crazy enough to keep pursuing a discipline like this?
And that’s normal: it’s hard, and it separates those who stick with it from those who don’t.
That is probably why 90% of people on this planet have had a skateboard within reach, but only a tiny percentage kept at it. Skateboarding quickly shows which personalities stick with it. And those personalities are not teenagers who smoke. Skateboarding attracts determined, creative, athletic people who like to push themselves and take risks in the hope of achieving what they imagine. You find these personality traits in elite athletes across all sports, major business leaders, prominent figures in our societies and people who constantly push the limits of what is possible.
And skateboarding teaches us all these values from the first day of practice! It's quite unique.
Beyond skateboarding: Episode 1
Through our work, and more recently this podcast, we want to share some of what we’ve learned, our reflections and the lessons that skateboarding’s values have taught us.
The podcast is called beyond skateboarding and it's a natural format.
We won't necessarily be talking about skateboarding in it. Above all, we'll explore topics that lead to wellbeing and personal growth.
Find the first episodes below: raw, spontaneous and simple. Max Cherarak, a coach, talks about how understanding and applying certain concepts could help people who want to progress in any area: sport, personal life, work…
From first experiences to high-level training, Old Skullz Skateboard brings more than 17 years of experience teaching skateboarding.
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SKATE CLUB / SKATEBOARD SCHOOL 2.0
“To learn skateboarding easily and quickly”
Old Skullz is a national skateboarding school on a mission to inspire the next generation of riders. The club is the ideal place to ignite passions, encourage personal growth and improve skateboarding skills while having fun—and much more
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