Paul Rodriguez

But once you get in the streets, you have to adapt with the way it was built.

yeah so i'm sure you got the building owners mad at you sometimes too right yeah that happens quite often yeah because they don't want an injury and then they get sued yeah they i wonder how often that actually happens i really don't think that happens often i don't know anybody who's gotten hurt out in the streets and sued anybody that i know of well i'm sure it's happened but i don't know on the sidewalk it's probably not even their property right

No, on the sidewalk is not their property.

And I don't know if it's true, but I remember a long time ago hearing that California passed a law that skateboarding was an inherently dangerous sport.

And so you can't really sue people if you get hurt doing it anywhere, public property or their property.

But I don't know if that's fact or not.

That was just like –

wouldn't surprise me but you guys you guys know the risk it's not like you're just yeah yeah so i think it's mainly like property owners getting mad feeling like maybe we might damage their property or we're just like if it's like at a business like we're interrupting business that makes sense we learn to kind of

like either go after hours or on the weekends or find when places are closed i think skateboarders would uh by default be decent burglars that's a take right there i love that yeah i love that yeah it's it's interesting man i i don't mind them to be honest but i know growing up there where i lived at least there was like a negative stigma

yeah it happened i think nowadays it's probably a little less like it used to be the big thing like skateboarding is not a crime we used to like you know that used to be our mantra but i feel like now it's like a lot more accepted with things like the olympics and the x games and stuff like that so i don't feel like it's as bad and i think you know

it's much more common for a kid to start skateboarding these days as opposed to like when I was growing up, it was way more common a kid goes into like little league baseball or plays basketball or traditional sports.

But I feel like skateboarding now, especially at least in California –

it's just as common as a kid might pick up a skateboard instead of a basketball or a baseball.

I feel like it's just as much in the mix.

So it's widely accepted because guys who grew up skating who are my age are now old enough where they have families, they have kids, and they have fond memories of skateboarding.

And so if they have a son or even a daughter, they probably introduced them to a skateboard early on.

Yeah.

So I'm seeing a lot of that kind of happening now.

It's a good skill to have, to have that balance and that body awareness.

It's really good balance.