Hello! NOVA立川校です！
今世の中はオリンピックで大盛り上がりですね🔥
日本はメダルラッシュとなっており、先日スケートボードでも日本選手が金メダル獲得となりました！
今日はその今熱いスケートボードについて、経験のある立川校のJames先生にインタビューをしました！
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics being the first Olympics to hold a skateboarding event, I thought it might be interesting to write something about my personal skateboarding experiences.
It is also incredible that, at the first Olympics skateboarding event, Japan have won both of the first two events (at the time of writing this).
I certainly didn’t know that Japan had enough of a skateboarding community that they could produce both the men’s and women’s `street` winners.
Is skateboarding really popular amongst the younger generation in Japan?
Is the skateboarding community in Japan thriving?
My personal experiences of skateboarding are not so exciting.
It is common to have small skatepark areas at local parks in the UK and often children play on them.
However, in my area at least, it was very rarely serious skateboarders using the skateparks, usually just kids messing around on the ramps.
A couple of my friends were more interested in skateboarding than me so I joined them in visiting a local indoor skatepark.
That place was full of serious skaters. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do any more than an `olly` – the simplest trick of all, a simple jump.
Since skateboarding is such a difficult sport though, amongst my friends most people were not much better than me.
Some schoolkids managed to do a `kickflip` once or twice but they never improved beyond that.
Skateboarding is really hard!
Skateboarding was further popularised in Western countries by the popular video game “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” and various other “Tony Hawk” games that came after.
Because of that game, skateboarding became popular with people that had never tried real-life skateboarding.
Now, it is common that ordinary people of my generation, that may be terrible at skating, know a lot about trick names and such.
I wonder if these video games were popular in Japan too, or if there was a similar popular skateboarding video game series.
I wonder if the success of Japanese skateboarders at the olympics will make the skateboarding community in Japan even bigger.
I wonder how many NOVA students only learned how to `olly` and then gave up skateboarding, like me.
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