#boarding

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. ↗

— Shaun White

#before #beginning #closer #dad #even

All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me. ↗

— Craig Kelly

#clarity #done #feeling #lot #me

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#even #grew #i #skateboarding #up

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. ↗

— Lily James

#boarding #boarding school #bubble #burst #drama

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#been #besides #boarding #boarding school #both

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. ↗

— John McCarthy

#although #boarding #courses #different #forbid

Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off. ↗

— Michael Grant

#humor #safety #skateboarding #humor

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. ↗

— Bam Margera

#fall #getting #how #hurt #just