Skateboarding into the Olympics, but these kids are worried about “losing their freedom.”

Skateboarding has been officially recognized as one of the five new sports at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which means that skateboarding, traditionally seen as entertainment, now has an Olympic aura.

The title “professional skateboarder” is still a bit of a foreign concept in the UK. Unlike other mainstream sports, most skateboarders play mostly on their own, with no specific coach and no national team as a career goal.

There’s no doubt that skateboarding has brought more resources to the program, but Jacob Steadman, 15-years-old, says many people don’t want to be professional, which goes against the sense of freedom of skateboarding itself. He said:

“We just do it by ourselves, and we don’t have a professional coach for skateboarding. “

He practices by himself every day after class at the Skate Park, which is where most of the skateboarding takes place. He said:

“It’s just playing by yourself and then playing with other skateboarders. If you see something that you can’t do, you can imitate it or learn it by watching computer videos.”

In fact, there are countless people across the country who like or can skateboard, but not many who have the courage to make a living out of it.

Social and cultural misunderstanding of skateboarding is one of the reasons why skateboarding has not been popularized in the world for a long time.

Compared with many traditional sports, this kind of sports is really something else. Some parents may wonder why you can’t study, or why you can’t play sports like basketball and soccer.

Josh Wales, 15, said that when he first learned to Skateboard as a child, adults were often heard saying this is too dangerous a sport for a child to play.

Skateboarding into the Olympics is actually a kind of recognition of the sport, but also hope that it gradually accepted by the public.

However, many skateboarders are a little worried about their skateboarding going into the Olympics. Josh says:

“I was really worried about what it would be like once skateboarding entered the system: to be sent to a training center by my parents as a child? Developing dangerous new moves in preparation for the Olympics? I don’t like being told what to practice every day in order to win gold medals.”

In fact, many people do not want to be so-called professional athletes, feel that this is contrary to the skateboard itself that sense of freedom.