{"id":22,"date":"2017-08-10T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/?p=22"},"modified":"2017-08-10T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:17:59","slug":"skateboarding-from-a-chinese-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/2017\/08\/10\/skateboarding-from-a-chinese-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding: From a Chinese view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Yingyin Jade Chen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tr06N7iMRS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In the eyes of a visiting student from southern China, skateboarding culture in New York City is a completely novel thing. It reveals a new world with skateboarders and skate parks all around. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> For New Yorkers, skateboarding is not only for recreation, but also for transportation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cFor me it\u2019s a transportation method, because of its ease of use and quick movement it can bring,\u201d wrote Krishan Patel, a visiting student at New York University who skateboards everyday, in a survey. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Besides movement, skateboarders also use their boards to do tricks and even dance, which<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>form elements of the street culture in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In contrast, skateboarding is not so popular in the Eastern world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Johnny Tang is a skateboarder from Toronto and longed to skateboard in China. However, Tang\u2019s mom told him not to bring his skateboard to China. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201c She said there were only \u2018dirt roads and horses\u2019 since she was really embarrassed that have a 17-year-old skateboarder kid in front of her traditional family,\u201d said Tang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cI just rarely see people play skateboarding [in China] ,\u201d said Jenny Wang, a Chinese visiting student who showed interest in skateboarding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cComparing to the skateboarders in New York City, who usually skateboard on the road as transportation, people consider the ones in China as trouble makers on the road,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Skateboarding has been slow to develop in China because of the lack of a strong preexisting street culture and of a skating infrastructure, according to Wikipedia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cIt\u2019s hard for Chinese culture to accept this kind of exotic pastime. On one hand is Chinese conservative thoughts; one the other hand is the stereotype in their mind, which depicts skateboarders as bullies,\u201d said Zhiqiang Xu on Zhihu, a Chinese website. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cAlso, skateboarding needs economic base to support. Some families in China have difficulties to afford skateboards,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75\" style=\"width: 1084px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1084\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg 1084w, http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/FullSizeRender-2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/FullSizeRender-2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/FullSizeRender-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A skateboarder was doing a trick in Hudson River Park&#8217;s Pier 62 Skatepark. Photos by Yingyin Jade Chen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Keep optimistic and go skateboarding<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On a sunny Saturday afternoon, skateboarders clustered in the Lower East Side\u2019s Coleman Park chatting and practicing. Pat Shields, who began to skateboard at seven and has been skateboarding for 20 years, was joking and laughing with his friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> According to a survey conducted by an New York University Precollege journalism student, most of the skateboarders interviewed in New York City said that they have optimistic opinions toward life. And most of them said they have changed since skateboarding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In the survey, the average optimism rating toward life given by skateboarders interviewed in New York City was 4.5 out of 5. More than a half of the interviewees gave a full score about how optimistic they think they are. All of them gave no less than 3 for the rating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Also, 12 out of 13 responses said that skateboarding changed them in a positive way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cIt taught me to never give up,\u201d said Robbie Berg, who has been skateboarding for 27 years since after 12. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cI think it makes anyone stronger; mostly it just makes people have a respect for certain things,\u201d said Andrew Gelles, a professional skateboarding coach who started skateboarding in childhood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cAs you rarely see a skateboarder get frustrated easily cuz they have been meeting [obstacles] for so many times,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Several responses also said that skateboarding shaped them as a person.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> What people do strongly affects who they are, according to a psychological study of the connection between hobbies and personalities by M.Farouk Radwan M.S., who has studied psychology<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>for 11 years and holds several related degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cThere is no separation between me and skateboarding. It built me. It\u2019s essential and it\u2019s my existence,\u201d said Pat Shields, a skateboarder who has been skateboarding for 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_89\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-89\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2017-08-10-\u4e0a\u534811.46.39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2017-08-10-\u4e0a\u534811.46.39.png 880w, http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2017-08-10-\u4e0a\u534811.46.39-300x206.png 300w, http:\/\/projects.nyujournalism.org\/10amnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/08\/\u5c4f\u5e55\u5feb\u7167-2017-08-10-\u4e0a\u534811.46.39-768x528.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skateboarders were chatting and watching a player skateboard during the rest in Hudson River Park&#8217;s Pier 62 Skatepark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>China: The world\u2019s next skate park<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Though the Chinese visiting student Jenny Wang rarely sees people skateboarding at home, skateboarding is in fact becoming more and more popular in big cities in China, especially in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen where a lot of skate parks have popped up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cChina is probably the most amazing place in the world to skate right now,\u201d wrote a veteran skateboarder Tommy Zhao in Huck, a bi-monthly magazine about subcultures. \u201cYou get to be one of the first dudes to skate these places, and everyone wants to leave their mark.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cIt\u2019s becoming harder and harder back home [in the US]. There\u2019s so much security, people are always kicking you out, yelling at you and giving you tickets,\u201d said Zhao.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Located on the outskirts of Shanghai, Shanghai Multimedia Park is now formally the largest skatepark in the world at 12,300 square feet, according to Skateboarding Magazine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Beijing International Fashion Sports Park has became one of the largest indoor skate parks in the world, according to Wikipedia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> In addition, Shenzhen is featured by Wikipedia as the most popular destination for visiting pros because of its smooth black marble ledges and\u00a0security guards who are indifferent to skateboarding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Yingyin Jade Chen is a Chinese senior student in Jiangsu Tianyi High School who went to New York University Precollege Journalism School.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yingyin Jade Chen In the eyes of a visiting student from southern China, skateboarding culture in New York City is a completely novel thing. 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