Skateboarding and Mental Health – Red Bull Skateboarding

Skateboarding has amazing physical and mental health benefits – but we too often like to pretend skateboarding is all we need. However, as we get older and life creates new challenges, skateboarders are not impervious to life’s obstacles. Every now and then, just like rehabbing a skate injury, skaters need help getting back to full mental strength.

Collectively as a community, skateboarding, with the help of some amazing individuals and organizations, is pushing the mental health conversation forward. The community is removing the stigma of asking for help in order to better understand how skateboarding can be used as an auxiliary to mental health therapy, positive psychology, and even as a form of rehab.

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Sewa Kroetkov | The Nine Club With Chris Roberts – Episode 274

Sewa Kroetkov discusses growing up in Holland, quitting school to work & save money to go to the USA, winning the eS Game Of Skate, staying with Chris Chann during his first visit to the USA, getting on Blind Skateboards, calling himself for a redo on a toe drag thus losing BATB, what are some dirty tricks in a game of skate, starting a griptape company “Alveer”, and much more!

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