School Board

A class on skateboarding? Srsly? It's oxymoronic. And yet, you knew it had to happen sooner or later. "Want to keep up with your kids at the skate park?" asks one ad geared toward adults learning, or relearning, the once-alternative method of transportation-turned-sport-turned extreme moneymaker. And all of a sudden, something that, aside from courage, gracefulness, and a sense of balance, takes only practice on a safe street or empty parking lot (or, later in the game, swimming pool!) is turned into a methodical course of study. Never has the phrase "just do it" made more sense (story, video): http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/16/skateboarding-adults-classes-surge-popularity-brooklyn?CMP=ema_565
   Here's a trailer for the very fine documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys, which is definitely worth renting if you're at all interested in the history and/or sociology of the sport ~ or just in good docs in general (video): https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=dogtown+and+z+boys&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001