skateboarding is a hobby of mine.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. Skateboarding can also be considered a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world. In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding will be represented at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. Since the 1970s, skateparks have been constructed specifically for use by skateboarders, Freestyle BMXers, aggressive skaters, and very recently, scooters. However, skateboarding has become controversial in areas in which the activity, although illegal, has damaged curbs, stoneworks, steps, benches, plazas and parks. The first skateboards started with wooden boxes, or boards, with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Crate scooters preceded skateboards, having a wooden crate attached to the nose (front of the board), which formed rudimentary handlebars. The boxes turned into planks, similar to the skateboard decks of today.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ireally into skateboarding when I was young. I used to love the action sport and performing tricks on my skateboard."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I tried skateboarding once.  I broke my arm."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh no. I can be pretty harsh when you fall. Some people are skateboarding for transportation, a job, or just recreational. Its a hard sport to master. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats cool that it serves multiple purposes.  After that, I just stuck to skateboarding video games"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Some are so much fun. I wish we would get EA Skate 4. They announced in 2014 that skateboarding will be present in the Olympics. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I used to play Tony Hawk Pro Skater.  That would make sense to have skateboarding in the olympics, since snowboarding is there"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh that is true. There are over 11 million people skateboarding actively in the world now. The market is worth around $4.8 billion a year. Makes sense that it should be in the Olympics."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Imagine how much more money it could make on a grand stage like the olympics"}]