We Choose This Life

I remember the first time I heard someone say "I used to skate". Id say I was around 14 or 15, it was outside a gas station and we were skating those rounded off metal curbs on the side of the building while waiting for the lucky random person that would buy us cigarettes to show up.

Up walks random metal dude, probably about 19, sweet we ask him to buy us smokes.. He says "sure man no prob, but you gotta lemme see your board" Hesitantly one of my friends kicks their board over to him. The guy stands on it, feels the trucks out and looks at us and says "man its been a while, I used to skate back in the day". Were not believing him at all until he snaps a double kickflip about thigh high ugly as shit. He barely lands it and chuckles to himself as he kicks the board back over to us. We all cough up the 2 bucks it cost for smokes back then (yeah thats the buying a minor cigarettes price too) and go on our way to skate.

We get to the spot to meet up with the 2 other skateboarders that lived in the town. We start talking about the dude we ran into. We start telling our friends about this random metal dude that could double kickflip waist high (you know what im talking about haha) At this point were all wondering why a dude that could randomly bust out a trick like that would ever quit skateboarding. We came to the conclusion, he gave up so FUCK HIM. I vowed to myself that day that I would never be THAT guy, I would never say "I used to skate"

Some of us have known that from the first time on a board that this was it. I knew that whatever I did in life would be in some way shape or form a means to keep skating. Some of us did whatever we had to do to keep skating, a job was a job, school was pointless, careers were for grown ups, screw it lets go skate. Our paths led us wherever our board took us, because we chose to let it. Every day were thinking of where to skate next, every day we send out the call to meet up at the spot, every day we work a shitty job just so we can have money to buy another board. Every day we make a choice.

Poverty Skateboards is dedicated to just that.

We Choose This Life.