Is skateboarding a sport?

Chase Seliger
10/11/2011
“Skateboarding is a sport?”
“This is an essay that informs and persuades people into believing skateboarding is a sport”

Is skateboarding a sport some people may ask, some people say yes and some people say no? Well in fact it is, there are many reasons why it is considered a sport not just a hobby. Although many people do not consider skateboarding a sport I think it is a sport just as thousands of people in the world.
First of all, Skateboarding has teams just as any other professional sports team out in the world for example football, soccer, and basket ball. There are many skateboarding teams; actually too many to list, but here are some examples of skate teams; for example there is the team Baker, Plan B, Alien Workshop, and DC. Many people know a lot of these brands because they are popular in schools and just in the regular teenage society. Also teams go to skate parks and they have competitions for either money or other prizes, just like other sports like football where they compete against other teams. There is one of the reasons why skateboarding is considered a sport.
Second of all, Professional and Amateur or Am for short, skateboarders get paid exactly the same way as professional players, the better they are the more they get paid. If you’re sponsored by really good brands you will make around $120,000 a year but if you’re not sponsored by amazingly good brands you should make around $50 to $80,000 a year which is still pretty good. So if you invest in that money you can have $600,000 in about five years which is more money than some professional players make.
Lastly, you need to have tons of skills to be good you can’t just stand on a skateboard and be good unless you’re born with it; it takes a lot of hard work and time to become good. It takes about 3 years on the average person to get good at skateboarding plus a few broken bones, there are actually less injuries in skateboarding than baseball, and football. They have camps for skateboarding just like other camps for sports, there are hundreds of them. You can’t just go out on any field, rink, or court without practicing first; it’s the same with skateboarding, once you work on it, you’ll get better and better.
Many people always say skateboarding is not a sport when you know what it is, and thousands of people can agree with me also, it’s no different to any other sport in the world, well except you don’t have to wear all this gear and you don’t have to use a type of ball to use. Some people skateboard every day of their lives, and they always will they find skateboarding as their sport and their lifestyle. Skateboarding will always be a part of my life as one of my favorite sports.