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Falls down eleven times, calls it a session, lands it once, calls it a career.
means A person who rides a board or blades on wheels, treating pavement, rails, and stairs as a single obstacle course of their own invention.
from Straightforward stuff: 'skate' traces back through French 'eschasse' (a stilt) to a Germanic root for a stick or shin-bone support, picked up as skating on ice blades spread from the Low Countries into English. Add the agent suffix '-er' for 'one who does it,' and you get 'skater' — a word that's been quietly rolling (and falling) forward ever since, long before skateboards borrowed the name for their own kind of gravity experiments.
- origin
- predates skateboarding by a century, ice came first
- stance check
- goofy or regular, decided by instinct not choice
- gear tell
- grip tape scars say more than words
- economy
- turns parking lots and stairs into rent-free gyms