I keep hearing kids saying "I'm just skating, I'm not hurting anything". I absolutely hate this phrase because what people do skating does hurt things. Just skating from point A to point B doesn't hurt anything, but when people do their double 735 front olly kick flip grind (I'm not a skater, don't judge), it hurts what every you do it on. Grinding in particular.

When you grind on say a hand rail down stars you are stripping the clear coat, paint, and what ever else they put on the rail. This isn't just for them to look good, it's to protect them from rusting out. When the outside of a business is unsightly then some people won't want to shop there. Now the business has to pay to get it repainted (which is expensive) if they don't have to replace the whole hand rail.

Then I see these kids grinding on the cement garden wall things at businesses and what that is doing is taking off concrete. It won't be anything serious as far as structure goes, but again it will start to look bad and they will had to get it repaired or replaced.

In todays day and age people are "sue happy". Meaning they will jump out in front of you on your skate board so you hurt them so they can sue you. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you get hurt on private property (may be different in other areas, it may extend to anywhere) then you can legally sue the person who owns the property for your personal and / or property damage. The company can also sue you for doing your double 735 front olly kick flip grind on their hand rails.

If you want to do all these tricks and stuff, go to a skate park. If you want to just ride to work every day, just do that. DON"T DAMAGE OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY.

Now you can thumbs down this and tell me just how wrong I am and how skateboarding does nothing bad to the area.