Descriptive Essay: The American Dream

The American Dream Anyone who has ever been to a skate park knows that there’s never a quiet moment. It’s a constant combination of the sound of wheels turning, skateboards hitting the concrete, and wood grinding on metal. Usually in larger skate parks, the way skaters congratulate each other for landing a difficult trick is by smacking the nose or tail of their skateboards on the concrete, creating a very loud, echoing noise. As anyone would expect, the smell of a skate park isn’t too pleasant. Since it’s generally teenage boys skating in the heat of Florida, sweat is all that anyone can smell. The view is just a mass of skateboarders, ramps, pipes, ledges, and other obstacles for the skaters to perform tricks on. When congratulating each

This is because, as a friend of mine explained it, “they pay so much money for boards just to cruise around and try to look cool, when they could just pick up a skateboard and actually do tricks instead of just cruising.” Paraphrasing from what the boys are the skate park told me, skateboarders and longboarders are significantly different in the fact that longboarders usually hold themselves higher above others and want people to know that they skate, while skateboarders don’t try to make it known that they skate, not caring what anyone thinks, only skating for the

Success presents itself to any skater who is dedicated enough to work hard. They have to film many video clips of their tricks, enter in competitions, and be themselves. If they’re lucky, all the hard work will pay off with a company sponsorship. If a skater is sponsored, they are required to provide their sponsors with about 3 minutes of video a month; this may not sound like much, but it presents a difficulty since they can’t just keep doing the same tricks. The point of skating a being sponsored is to better themselves, showing growth and progression, along with devotion to the company. “You just always wanna one-up yourself,” said