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": "I've always wanted to learn how to skateboard. There are about 11 million active skateboarders in the world"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I never learned how to skateboard either."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "All you have to do is push with one foot while the other is on the board. It seems simple enough."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, but it may be harder to master."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "True. In fact, in 2020 skateboarding will be represented at the Olympic Games. So it has to take a lot of talent."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That will be cool to see in the Olympics."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think so too. The sport has been shaped and influenced by many people over the years. It'll we be interesting to see the different styles."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes. Tony Hawk was my favorite skater."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Mine too! He is considered one of the most successful skateboarders."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes and I loved his video games."}]