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": "user", "content": "I love skateboarding, do you know much about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah I do! It's an action sport that involves riding a skateboard and performing tricks."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's a lot of fun to watch, but hard to do. Tony Hawk is my favorite pro skater."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "He's my favorite too. It is considered many things, like an art form and a recreational activity too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It certainly has an aesthetic component to it for sure. I think it'll be at the 2020 Olympics."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I heard that too! It's weird to think that a method of transportation like that is now an Olympic sport."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Haha I guess it is technically a method of transportation. I think the 2020 Olympics will be exciting, Tokyo is an interesting place."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It really is. Also at this point, skateboarding itself has really been shaped and influenced by skateboarders throughout the years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "For sure, I'm sure the style has changed since it first became popular."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It really has, especially with the creation of skate parks for BMX and skateboarders to express themselves."}]